Tag Archives: learning English

Extensive reading is one of the most useful language learning activities students can do. However, to be useful, the students have to know 95 per cent...

I have already published a post on numbers. However, there I expected that you know the basics and that you need to learn a bit more about them. This post...

This has been my third post on irregular verbs in a short time. In the first two posts I have tried the associative method, and MP3 drills. While the associative...

Recently I published a post on TV programmes vocabulary. In this post I would like to add a few activities to help the teachers prepare a great lesson...

To learn Passive voice it is necessary to know the past participles. If you do not know the past participles go to our post on Past participle and learn...

Last week I taught passive and present perfect tense. I thought that I was well prepared but in both cases we encountered one big problem. The students...

The word “HOW” is one of the most productive words in English. It helps us create meaningful questions and sentences. The word “HOW”...

I had been using these phrases long before I learnt that they were a grammar item. However, as I have to teach them to my students at school, I have created...

This will be quite a short post. But sometimes easy does it. So, I hope it will be the case. I would love to explain the usage and form of Used to here....

Many elementary students feel they cannot see the difference between these two tenses. To help them I have created a rap which explains the grammar and...