At first glance, this might seem very simple. Then, in just a moment, you realize that you don’t know which to choose. Is it at or in? Don’t worry! With a little study and some ...
Read More »Differences Between American and British Spellings
How are y’all doing? (That’s American slang for “how are you?”) If you have read a lot in English, you will probably have noticed that there are many different variations of spellings depending on the ...
Read More »The Use of Gerunds after Prepositions
How is it going ABA friends? In general, gerunds are tricky to get the hang of, but how do we know if we need to use them after prepositions or if we need an infinitive ...
Read More »Attitude is Everything
What’s new ABA friends? Do you have an exam coming up that you need to study for? Do you feel like you just cannot get in the studying zone? Maybe you feel like you haven’t ...
Read More »New partners join ABA English to improve your learning experience
Things just keep going from strength to strength for ABA English and their quest to be the best online English course provider around! Yesterday it was announced that Kennet Partners have invested in the business so ...
Read More »Questions with “to be” in Present Simple
What’s up ABA friends! In today’s blog we are going to look at the most important verb in English- “to be”. We will look at the use of this verb in interrogative form in the ...
Read More »ABA English takes part in the International Language Fair 2016
What an incredible week it has been for ABA English! Between the 19th and 21st May, ABA’s Chief Learning Officer, Maria Perillo and ABA’s Communications and Partnerships Director, Sol Nuñez, took part in the International ...
Read More »Debate Vocabulary
What’s up guys! Do you ever find yourselves in situations where you have to debate a topic, or maybe situations where not everyone is going to agree with your opinion? Do you find that sometimes ...
Read More »Phrasal Verbs on the TOEFL
Learning phrasal verbs can be challenging. Luckily, phrasal verbs are used on the TOEFL in a limited, predictable way. Most phrasal verbs have multiple definitions, but the TOEFL will likely only use only the most ...
Read More »Personal Pronouns with “to be” in the Present Simple
Hey everybody! Personal pronouns are paramount in English so that we know who is talking if no name is mentioned. Today we are going to focus on their uses and in particular, with the verb ...
Read More »4 Tips to Improve your Listening Skills
Hey everybody, what’s up? Have you been studying English for a while and feel like your understanding of spoken English hasn’t improved? Don’t worry about it because you will be making improvements without even realising ...
Read More »How to Respond to Offers and Suggestions
What’s up everyone! The lesson we are going to focus on today is related to answering offers and suggestions that people might put to you. We’ll look at what the best ways to answer them ...
Read More »International Day of Families
Hey everybody! We’ve got a special blog post for you! Today is the official “International Day of Families” and we are going to be delving into when and why this special day to celebrate our ...
Read More »Top 5 ways to say “thank you” in English
As you probably all know by now, English is a language which is rich in vocabulary, meaning that we are never short of a word or synonym for how to describe something, which is ideal ...
Read More »ABA English-First Online Academy for Cambridge BULATS
What a week it’s been for ABA English! Last week the online English academy with more than 8 million students signed a deal with Cambridge University to become an official examiner of the Business Language ...
Read More »What to Do When Your TOEFL Scores Won’t Improve
It’s not that uncommon for a student’s TOEFL score to get “stuck.” By this, I mean that a student’s TOEFL performance can reach a certain score range, and then not really go above that score ...
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