When you are at university you need to take notes in lectures. This is something you can practise online with video lectures (about your field of study or some elective courses you might take) so you develop the skills you need before you start university. In this post, I explain how to take lecture notes, … [Read more…]
My fantastic students have added to the set of open-access SDGs Lesson Plans we are producing. At the moment, there are only 4 of the SDGs without lesson plans and this should be remedied by January, all being well. Feel free to download the plans. All are available as PDFs for your convenience, or as … [Read more…]
It has been a long time since I posted here. Apologies! I have put up some open lesson plans my students have made related to the United Nations’ SDGs here. They are probably most useful for high school or university-level English language classes. I hope that they are useful for you.
Hannah from the Futurelearn contacted me recently to let me know about courses that the British Council have free IELTS preparation courses available. It says that there is a price on the page BUT it’s free if you only want access to the course for 5 weeks. You only pay if you want to see … [Read more…]
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Hi everyone. Those who come here often will notice that the site has not been updated for a while. It is still here and will still be here. All the posts will still be here, but the focus will change. I am going to have help and the blog will be more about communication between … [Read more…]
Here is a TOEFL Challenge, where you can use real materials to try to do tasks based on the TOEFL test. Watch this TED talk and read this article from Quick and Dirty Tips. Summarise the differences and similarities between the talk and the article. Leave a comment below with your answer.
One of my students asked a question to me today about what to say if a friend or colleague’s relative has passed away. Useful Language I’d recommend the following in spoken English: I’m so sorry. If there’s anything I can do, please let me know. If you are writing, something like this is appropriate: My … [Read more…]
Hello, it has been a while. I am just adding this because some of my students have had problems with ‘ing’ actions and ‘go’ verbs. “He went to shopping.” MISTAKE. “He went shopping.” CORRECT. Go to a place but don’t go to an action. Use ‘go to’, ‘went to’ or ‘gone to’ with places. “I … [Read more…]
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