Thursday, October 10, 2024

Listening in English problems and solutions

Listening is perhaps the most difficult of all the parts of English to improve, with the wrong kind of practice such as just watching subtitled videos having little effect. This article gives common-sense advice...

Drawing Up Definitions of What’s Standard, Non-standard, or Dialectal – English with Jennifer

Not for the first time, I published a YouTube lesson that turned out to be longer than anticipated. The topic? Reflexive pronouns. (Click to view.) It’s true that I could have made a very...

Fun Vocabulary Activities for End of the School Year

The easiest way to use the activities and games is simply as whole-class instruction, and to perhaps pick...

Daily Grammar Lessons Blog: Lesson 363 – Mechanics – Punctuation

View lesson on Daily Grammar Use commas to set off contrasted expressions.  Example: His mother, not his father, is in charge. Instructions: Place commas where they are needed. 1. Your car not your truck is the better vehicle to use. 2....

IELTS Speaking Explained: Fluency & Coherence

Cohesive devices are incredibly essential in your IELTS test preparation and refer to any word or phrase that connects ideas. To brush up on some cohesive devices, watch this video, and to take it...

Ielts material : Common vocabulary words

Ielts material : Common vocabulary words ...

Position of Adjectives And Adverbs

Fill in the blanks with an adjective or adverb. Answers Don’t take it so seriously. He ran incredibly fast. He is a reasonably good singer.… Continue reading

Subject of a Sentence

Finding the subject of a sentence can sometimes be difficult, but there are two tricks that can help.   By the way, do you remember that subjects tell us whom or what a sentence is...