Pronunciation, words we struggle with

Pronunciation with Emma has released this video. It is quite useful. Please, share the words you struggle with.

Phrasal Verbs

Speak up Magazine published this article to give you a hand with phrasal verbs.

Read the article and please share those phrasal verbs you have finally can use and those which are more challenging.

English Slang

Hot English Magazine lends you a hand with this challenging task.

Improving your compositions

BBC Learning English is an excellent source of material to improve your English. They have recently posted this video on Instagram about Critical Thinking. Enjoy it.

You can find out more with this post from Cork English Teacher

Personal profile

We have recently written a personal profile. This is the best job. I would like you to read it to check the good examples of vocabulary, structures and clarity.

I am Adriana and I was born in Granada, the place where I live now.

Although I am a Biologist, I have ended up working as a caretaker. Needless to say this is not my dream job, but there was point in my life where I simply wanted to leave behind all kind of precarious jobs I was used to having and find the one which allowed me to meet my needs. So, given the economical circumstances of Spain, I decided to get myself into the fascinating world of competitive exams and, thankfully, I succeeded. Now, I keep on studying to move forward and become a haematologist, my current goal.

Regarding to my interests, it may sound like a cliché but I am truly passionate about traveling, and I do believe that my trips have led me to turn into an open-minded and easy-going person. Besides traveling, if I had to choose another hobby, it would definitely be music. I am crazy about live music and festivals. In fact, I am thought to be a money-wasting person since I am prone to spending my wage on summer concerts rather than saving money to buy a flat.

Related to my skills, no way am I going to lie. I am not a skilful person at all, I wish I was! The only thing I consider myself good at is writing, at least in my language.

Finally, my family is a small, tight-knit one. We get along with each other and we all speak our minds. The thing I like the most about them is we don’t follow traditions or social rules: everyone is free to live according to his/her standards.

Remembrance Sunday 2019

I would suggest that you check the previous posts on this blog about this topic. Once you have done it you could have more information reading this.

picture taken from : Londonist

would

Let me introduce you. Emma is a teacher who is doing wonders for students of English around the world. She is passionate about languages. She will do her best to make it easier to cope with English for those who want to follow her on social media. 

Word pairs

Now that we are studying Vague Language or how to express our ideas in an inexact way, I thought these word pairs could come in handy. They are courtesy of Phrasal and Idiomatic English.

Getting on with pronunciation

Do you know that Cambridge dictionary has a blog? There are very interesting articles. In this spooky time of the year you may enjoy this article about the pronunciation of <gh>

Pronunciation: silent letters

from: www.englishstudyhere.com

Please share which one is the most challenging for you. I remember having a personal battle with salmon, why? simply because I refused to depend on my 'ears' instead of my 'eyes'.

Use the comment box to leave your answers.

Communication and the Media:Idiomatic expressions

Are you interested in learning some more idioms used in Media? Click on this link and enjoy it!

This is courtesy of ISLCOLLECTIVE

Fresh headlines about Brexit

Dear students,
As you know we have been attending an event of paramount importance in the last 32 -or so- months.
Since we have been studying the language of headlines and we are going to study politics in the next few weeks, you have an excellent oportunity to practise.

This is a link to the headlines published in the most important newspapers related to what happend at Westminster last Saturday. It was published in The Guardian by Graham Russell.

image from bbc.co.uk

Never ending Brexit

Speak up magazine on its last issue -number 403- has published an article about the current situation dealing with The United Kingdom leaving The European Union. You can either listen to it or read it.

Social Issues

Here you have the links to some social issues:

https://www.ranker.com/list/social-issues-in-america-that-you-care-about-most/mike-rothschild

https://www.isidewith.com/polls/social

Blend words

This is a link to some examples of portmanteau words courtesy of Vappingo,

Give it a look and choose your favourite.