Say you want to describe an event of great significance in history.
Which one would you use?
HISTORIC or HISTORICAL?
10 Common Mistakes in English
Common mistake 1
Don’t say
I changed the train in Madrid.
Say
I changed trains in Madrid.
Learn some binomials with a story: The lost padlock key
On a warm December evening after a stunning day out and about in Abel Tasman, New Zealand, I was in my dormitory, searching for my key high and low. Pockets, rucksack, bum bag. It was nowhere to be found. I had been kayaking and hiking so that key could have ended up anywhere. Even deep down in the Tasman sea for all I knew. Inside the locker were my tablet, documents, valuables, and other bits and pieces I needed for travelling.
As it happens, this was terrible timing indeed. Shortly before Christmas Day, I was staying at a youth hostel in a little city on NZ’s south island. A bus taking me to the ferry terminal was due early in the morning and I needed to have everything packed to leave the hostel bright and early. Well, not ideal but then again, nothing a locksmith can’t fix, I told myself. However expensive the after-hours service may be.
I went down to the reception desk to explain the situation and inquire about locksmiths in Nelson. A young girl was in charge. The rest of the staff had left for the day. Continue reading “Learn some binomials with a story: The lost padlock key”
Timebox your self-learning
Do you sometimes feel time slips through your fingers when you are studying?
Perhaps you had an ambitious plan in your head but only managed to get through a tiny proportion of it and… oops! your time has run out. Continue reading “Timebox your self-learning”
At the end or In the end?
Do you know when to use the prepositions “in” or “at” before the words “end” and “beginning”. If you are not sure, have a look at these examples and then, write your own to make sure you personalise it and therefore, learn it.
Good timing!
Do you want to be the person who can confidently say this?
“I speak English”. No buts.
It all starts with a decision and most importantly, good timing. It is September now, a time for new ventures. The other January, as they say.
But ask yourself: is this the right moment for you or rather the time it is supposed to be right?
Pronunciation: 26 flowers 26 letters of the alphabet
Anemone /əˈnem.ə.ni/
Buttercup /ˈbʌt.ə.kʌp/
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The story of my dog
Once upon a time, in a small village in the south of Spain, a woman with a heart of gold came across a heavily pregnant abandoned dog. The woman took her home and soon enough she gave birth to a litter (1) of three adorable mix-breed puppies (2).
One day, her granddaughter (also an animal lover) drove down from the north to visit her granny and she gave the dogs a ride to the city that would become their new home. Mum and puppies were all adopted and that is where the story begins for me. Continue reading “The story of my dog”
Learn 10 prepositional phrases in context
STEP 1
Read the sentences containing the prepositional phrases in context.
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Learning vocabulary in context: A Puzzling Car Incident
In this text, you will learn vocabulary related to cars and driving in the context of a short story. Once you have read it, I encourage you to write your own car incident story and send it to me by email. I will correct and give feedback to the first ten stories that I receive.
In this text, you will learn vocabulary related to cars and driving in the context of a short story. Once you have read it, I encourage you to write your own car incident story and send it to me by email. I will correct and give feedback to the first ten stories that I receive.Continue reading “Learning vocabulary in context: A Puzzling Car Incident”