(Photo credit: http://bit.ly/1GGFUyD) A while ago I gave you the first 20 slang phrases from English that are worth looking at, now let’s check out another 20. There are even more too I will tell you about later! Quid – pound That shirt cost me 20 quid. Loo – toilet Excuse me, can you…
(Photo credit: http://bit.ly/1DMdcOW) Frankly there are thousands of movies to choose from both from the US and UK and I’m also going to say …India! (Yes there are many Indian films make with very good English too). But here I want to give you just a few so that you have somewhere to start.…
(Photo credit: http://bit.ly/1Bb8ybe) As mentioned in previous posts, in fact English was a language that simply evolved and grew over time, starting in the North east of Europe and eventually making its way down to the England that we know today, and of course the English we know today. Still English is changing and…
(Photo credit: http://bit.ly/1AroyVL) If we have the privilege of living in a country where the only thing we fear is the new sofa we bought won’t quite match the curtains we ordered, then we have very little to think about and do need to sit down and think about others. Our world is…
(Photo credit: http://bit.ly/1xPaelm) If you were brought up with great British television like myself (though I grew up in New Zealand not England!), these phrases will be no surprise to you, but if you are an ESL learner they can be really confusing. So I thought I would put them down and decipher them…
(Photo credit: http://bit.ly/1EYOYya) If you have traveled around the world, weather you are a student or a teacher, you will have been in a variety of classroom environments. Some are very different to others and some are more useful for creating language learner than others. To learn a language you need the classroom to have…
(Photo credit: http://bit.ly/15oMyws) Often when I think about introducing a poem into the ESL class setting with a view to perhaps learning new vocabulary etc, I find myself a little afraid of how the students will respond because poems may look short and simple, but often are very complex. But to my amazement often…
(Photo credit: http://bit.ly/1EUXIoP) Wow…this is a tough one. We have often seen amazing movies about people could in these kinds of positions and the whole thing leads to an amazing drama with often unexpected endings, sometimes good , sometime bad, but in reality these things do happen all the time. Now I suppose…
