Principal vs Principle - English Grammar - Teaching Tips

This video covers the difference between 'principal' and 'principle'. These two words often cause confusion for English learners due to their similar spelling. The word 'principal' can be used as a noun and as an adjective. As a noun, it refers to a person of authority, like a school principal, the head of a school. When used as an adjective, it means 'leading' or 'primary', like a principal cause or reason. The word 'principle', on the other hand, is only used as a noun and refers to a moral or standard, like the principle of free speech.

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The content of this unit (Unit 10: CD/Video Lessons) is very important part of what every ESL or on the other hand a regular teacher must expert in a classroom when dealing with student. However what I have learned in this lesson or both videos are the importance of lesson planning and knowing your students before starting your actual lessons.In this section, we have learned modals, different modal verbs convey different emotions, certainties and even meanings, sometimes student might find tricky. Also passive voice, the patern and changes, focuses differences between active voice. The last is verb phrases, which can only be understood by students by naturally usage and repetition.