Today’s episode is about perfection and why being perfect isn’t always good when you’re studying English. 20140820_perfection.mp3 The podcast is also available in the iTunes Store by searching for Get Great English or clicking here. Also, you can stream it on Stitcher here or in the sidebar.
Sometimes when you are talking to someone you want to use a word that you have learnt and forgotten or there’s a perfect word in your first language that nobody else would understand. To deal with that you need to use simple language to describe unknown words. This is called circumlocution and it is the … [Read more…]
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.
Here are some posts you may have missed on Get Great English this week.
It can be easy to study too hard and feel like you’re tired of English. Don’t do it! You need to take a break and allow yourself to relax. There are still ways to do this and get English exposure.
In today’s post I’m going to teach you how to discuss risk and danger. It’s useful for business and also for general situations.
Today’s episode is about a way to help you read aloud more fluently. You’ll need this PDF file: podcast_chunks.pdf 20140813_chunking.mp3 The podcast is also available in the iTunes Store by searching for Get Great English or clicking here. Also, you can stream it on Stitcher here or in the sidebar.
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.
Everybody needs to change a time to meet sometimes. In this post, I’ll show you some formal and informal ways to reschedule your plans.
Here are some posts you might have missed on Get Great English this week. On Monday I put up an infographic about 3D shapes vocabulary. On Tuesday I wrote a post about apostrophe use. The podcast was about Summer. On Thursday I showed you how to use ‘would like’. On Friday I wrote about how … [Read more…]