When you give presentations you might need to describe graphs. You also need to describe graphs in TOEFL and IELTS tests sometimes. Bar Charts Let’s look at bar charts first. This is the most common type of graph to appear on tests and in business or news media. It’s normal to compare the figures for … [Read more…]
This Monday there was a post about understanding difficult accents. I followed this up on Tuesday with an article about learning English and shortcuts. The podcast this week was about travel and summer holidays. On Thursday I wrote a post about using fillers. I capped it all off with a post about avoiding mistakes on … [Read more…]
Making mistakes is part of learning a language but you don’t want to make mistakes all the time, you want to be as accurate as possible as often as possible. Here are three steps to help you improve your accuracy.
Fillers are frequently used by native speakers yet students tend to leave them out. In today’s post I’ll tell you why you should use them.
This week’s podcast is all about travel. What are you doing for your summer holiday? Are you having a staycation or will you go to the beach? Maybe you plan on having a city break. Let me know in the comments. 20140702_travel.mp3 You might also find these posts about booking hotels and buying train tickets … [Read more…]
Students always want to know how to learn English quickly and effectively. There has to be some way of doing it, right? In this post I’ll let you know the four things you need to do to learn a language effectively and efficiently.
Understanding some native accents and dialects and also foreign accents takes effort and time. Find out how you can build up your skills to understand a wider range of people and their English.
Here are some interesting links for you. 7 tips for preparing for the IELTS Test from Yago.sg 20 Tips for Learning your First Second Language from ReturnofKings.com – I believe he means ‘first additional language’ but let’s not split hairs – via @SayHowDoYouDo How to read and understand a scientific paper for non-scientists from IFLScience.com … [Read more…]
On Monday there was a little bit of travel English with a guide to booking hotel rooms. On Tuesday there was vocabulary, with a post about describing solutions to problems. This week’s podcast was about crime. There was a post about being aware of common homophones on Thursday. Yesterday we topped off the week with … [Read more…]
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.