Pronunciation: Voiceless TH sound
If you do not know a sound, your brain filters it out when you hear someone using it. That is why it is crucial to teach sounds that do not …
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The Kiss story by Kate Chopin
Kate Chopin was an American author from the end of the 19th century and she wrote very interesting stories. I have taken one of the shorter ones and simplified it …
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Sports vocabulary
Some posts take quite a long time to produce, but this one was an extreme case. Four people participated on it and I think we have produced a great material …
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First news for learners of English
My students are online all the time. Through the internet they are flooded with information, but whenever I ask them about any current affairs they know nothing. They have no …
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Future – will or going to
There are many ways to speak about future in English. We have already dealt with two ways here. In the first blog we tried to distinguish between Will and MAY …
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Two Dates – Chapter 4
Here we go at last! This is the last chapter of the story Two Dates. Are you curious what will happen to Alan, Martha and Bruce. I hope that the …
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Two dates – chapter 2
The first chapter of the story Two Dates proved to be quite popular. The story will have 4 chapters in all. Here is the second one. Here is a mind …
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Two dates – a story about and for teenagers
I don’t know whether anyone will be interested in this mini series called Two Dates. However, as all the research shows that extensive reading helps students improve their English I …
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Battle of Hastings
This material is a demonstration of the approach called CLIL. In CLIL You learn the content and thus you learn the language. However, experimenting a bit with the approach I …
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Take a rain check – BBC programme
BBC site offers a lot of interesting and really useful materials for learners and teachers of English. However, they just present something and they do not give you much chance …
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Christmas – vocabulary and listening
Christmas is nearly over, but when the holiday ends I would like my students to tell me about their Christmas. To be able to do this properly they will need …
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