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Monthly Archives: March 2015

NEXT TOP 15 English SLANG you should start using now to sound like a real BRIT!

(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…

March 31, 2015 in English Interest, ESLTeaching, Speaking.

PRESENT CONTINUOUS with Mr Bean!

March 30, 2015 in Conversation Starters, ESLTeaching, Grammar, Listening, Speaking.

7 great MOVIES to ENJOY AND help YOUR ENGLISH learning too!

  (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.…

March 29, 2015 in Conversation Starters, ESLTeaching, Listening, Speaking.

How did ENGLISH ‘GRAMMAR’ come about?

  (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…

March 26, 2015 in English Interest, ESLTeaching, Grammar, Reading.

CONVERSATION STARTER: What is the one thing you’d most like to change about the world?

  (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…

March 25, 2015 in Conversation Starters, English Interest, ESLTeaching, Speaking.

Top 20 ENGLISH SLANG Phrases to start using NOW to sound like a real BRIT!

  (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…

March 24, 2015 in English Interest, ESLTeaching, Speaking.

ENGLISH CONVERSATION Question and Answers

March 23, 2015 in Conversation Starters, ESLTeaching, Grammar, IELTS, Listening, Speaking.

What is the BEST CLASSROOM environment for ENGLISH LANGUAGE learners?

(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…

March 22, 2015 in English Interest, ESLTeaching, General.

Why should we USE POETRY in the ESL classroom?

  (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…

March 20, 2015 in ESLTeaching, Grammar, Listening, Speaking, Writing.

CONVERSATION STARTER: Would you break the law to save a loved one?

(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…

March 19, 2015 in Conversation Starters, English Interest, ESLTeaching, Speaking.

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