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SDGs Open Lesson Plans

30 July 2022 by Marc

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.

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Understanding IELTS Free Courses

21 May 2020 by Marc

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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Posted in: Links, Listening, Reading, Speaking, Writing Tagged: course, free, ielts, links

Protected: Orthodontics – Extraction vocabulary quiz

30 March 2018 by Marc

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Posted in: Students, Vocabulary Tagged: extraction, orthodontics

Relaunching Soon

20 January 2017 by Marc

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…]

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TOEFL Challenge 1

4 December 2016 by Marc

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.

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Posted in: Listening, Reading Tagged: challenge, toefl

Express Sympathy 

19 October 2016 by Marc

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…]

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Posted in: Situation Tagged: bereavement, euphemism, indirect, notintextbooks, sorry, sympathy

Go to a Place But Don’t Go to an Action

18 April 2016 by Marc

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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Posted in: Grammar Tagged: gerund, go, to

Protected: Kawasaki Clinic – Class 2

30 November 2015 by Marc

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Posted in: Students Tagged: pronunciation, setphrases

Be Prepared For Meetings

17 November 2015 by Marc

Today’s post is a response to an email from a reader, Viettan, who is worried about their English when presenting in public. They are in charge. Agendas First, have a meeting agenda, which is a list of things to talk about. Try to keep to this.

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Posted in: Situation, Speaking Tagged: business, meetings

Led Zeppelin Are Really Heavy Rock n’ Roll

3 November 2015 by Marc

Something to practice /l/ and /r/ sounds.

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Posted in: Pronunciation, Video Tagged: /l/, /r/
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