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Defuse vs Diffuse - English Grammar - Teaching Tips

 

This video covers the difference between 'defuse' and 'diffuse'. Their similar spelling and pronunciation make them a word pair that is often confused. The word 'defuse' refers to the action of making a situation less harmful or tense, whereas 'diffuse' means to spread over a wide area. Watch the video for detailed examples on the two words.


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A few techniques to help control the lessons and students. Establishing rapport is probably the safest bet in long-term control of students, though. If they respect you, they will listen. There are so many students, though, sometimes you don't have that kind of time. These tips are a good starting point and good ideas of what are good and bad.Past tenses is one of the main grammar topics for all the levels of English. Beginning with past simple student is able to give some more grammatically right information about him/herself in the past. Also these tenses allow to share with more detailed information to emphasize the periods when the action happened / was happening / had happened

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