Successful teachers should aim at, among other things, lowering their students’ inhibitions, encouraging them to take risks in learning, building their self-confidence, and helping them strengthen their intrinsic motivation.

Winter is the season homeless people don’t like very much because they don’t usually have good coats or blankets to protect them against the cold.

A lot of people’s favorite season is fall because that’s the time when all the gardens are full of flowers.

When a holiday falls on a Friday or a Monday, people usually try to travel to nearby cities.

Saturdays and Sundays are the days most people don’t have to go to work.

The phrase “almost always” is an adverb of place.

In Brazil, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday are usually considered to be workdays.

“after midday” can be replaced with after 12:00 p.m., without changing the meaning of the sentence.

The verb “have” is in the present continuous because it’s an action that is happening at the moment of speaking.

Come over here! Can you see these spots on my face? Don’t touch them, OK? The doctor said they have to be removed.