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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

How to Test Your Progress

3 February 2015 by Marc

There are so many different standardised tests available to test your English skills: the Cambridge certificates, TOEIC, TOEFL, IELTS, BULATS and, here in Japan, the Eiken/STEP test. For a lot of people, these tests are pointless. If you need the certificate to get a job or a college place, go for it. If not, read … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Listening, Reading, Speaking, Writing Tagged: reallife, test, tests

An Idea About Vocabulary Notes

26 September 2014 by Marc

Here is an idea about taking vocabulary notes. I am taking notes like this to study Japanese and I think it might be useful to some of you who read this blog.

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Posted in: Output, Vocabulary, Writing Tagged: bloomstaxonomy, learning, notes

How to Take Lecture Notes

26 August 2014 by Marc

This week it’s Campus Week at Get Great English. I know the term hasn’t started yet but think of it as a little time to prepare before packing bags, unpacking, moving into halls of residence or a flat. When you are at university you need to take lecture notes. This is something you can practise … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Input, Listening, Output, Situation, Writing Tagged: b1, b2, c1, campusweek, lecture, notes

Speculate About The Past

18 August 2014 by Marc

Sometimes you need to give ideas about what you think happened in a past event, including the reasons why. In this post, I’m going to give you some help to speculate about the past.

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Posted in: Output, Speaking, Writing Tagged: b1, hedging, opinion, opinions, past, presentperfect, speculation

Use question tags to check information

12 August 2014 by Marc

Question tags are a part of English that a lot of non-native speakers make mistakes with. Here’s a quick guide to some of the most common tag questions.

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Posted in: Grammar, Output, Speaking, Writing Tagged: b1, b2, questions, questiontags, tagquestions

Don’t Have an Apostrophe Catastrophe!

5 August 2014 by Marc

The apostrophe (‘) is one of the most difficult punctuation marks for native speakers to use correctly. Here is a simple guide to its use. You may also want to check out this punctuation guide, too.

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Posted in: Writing Tagged: apostrophe, punctuation

Basic Punctuation Guide

1 August 2014 by Marc

This is a very basic punctuation guide. It should help you with academic English and also English for general purposes.

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Posted in: Grammar, Writing Tagged: colon, comma, exclamationmark, fullstop, period, punctuation, questionmark, semicolon

An Easy Way to Vary Your Sentences

27 June 2014 by Marc

Whenever you write, it is advisable to vary your sentence structures in order to keep your readers’ interest. In this post, I’ll show you an easy way to do this using relative clauses.

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Posted in: Grammar, Writing Tagged: clauses, relativeclauses, sentences

Practise Grammar Using Your To-Do List

10 June 2014 by Marc

I have written before about using your to-do list as a way to practise English but why not use your to-do list for more repetitive grammar study? You could use this system for present perfect tense, modals and contrasting the simple future, present continuous and simple past tenses. Present Perfect Tense Simply add the item … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Grammar, Output, Writing Tagged: notes, postits, sentences, studyhacks, to-dolist
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