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

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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.

Adjectives and images

Dear students,

I would like you to listen to this song. She used to be mine, written and sung by Sara Barailles

Trust your ears, resist the temptation to check the lyrics. It will help you with adjectives to describe personality. It also has beautiful images.

I would like you to write a litle story telling what happened to make her write this song.

Thanksgiving day.

You know my intentions to make you aware of the culture of some of the countries where English is the official language. The fourthThursday of every November Thanksgiving Day is celebrated across the US. Here you have a video to find out more.

Idioms and autumn

This is a link to english_teacher_julia instagram post.

Can you think of any more idioms related to this time of the year?

English Idioms: Knowledge.

This link will take you to some Idioms about knowledge. This was published on Instagram  by learnenglishquickly

Do you know anymore that you could add??

Make use of personality adjectives.

We have been studying some vocabulary to talk about personality traits, it is time to put it into practice in a real situation.

I have come across this instagram post. I would like you to make use of what you have learned either by writing an answer to this post or by creating something similar about any other job.
Should you like to have it marked, please hand it to me in class.

Remember, remember....

... the 5th of November.


You can learn more about it if you  click here as well as this piece from Sky News

Pet hates

or pet peeves

I am going to give you some links to find out people's top pet hates. What about leaving yours on the comment box?

From The telegraph:  The 100 most annoying things: poll

From "the student room"

From "head rambles blog"

A hard-working ballerina.

We have seen how no matter how important you are or how far you reach, you need to keep practising and working. An example of that is Hayley Forskitt, as we have listened to in the interview published in Speak Up Magazine  370

If you want to know more about her click here

Indian English

In your process of learning English in a deeper way, there is something you cannot miss.
Here you have two videos to feel the experience.

Happy Women's Day

To celebrate this day, I'd like to attract your attention to a silent problem, mental loading as described by the French comic artist Emma, published in The Guardian last May. Click here to enjoy it.