At the ABA Book Club, each month we review and recommend a great book for you to practice reading in English.

Today, the ABA Book Club will be reviewing comedian Tina Fey's book Bossypants. It is, as you would expect from a comedian, very funny. Also, insightful and full of lessons learnt.

Tina Fey is an American actress, comedian, writer and producer. She has received many, many awards, including seven Emmy Awards and three Golden Globe Awards.

With Halloween just around the corner it’s a great time to learn some vocabulary used during this fun day.

Imagine someone does something you do not like. Saying “I don’t like it” or “I don’t like this” can sound a little bit childish. So today we will learn a couple of ways to say ...

“We love you more than you know” Such a great, uplifting song by Awolnation. Do you know what uplifting means? If you think about it, it is made up of the word “up” and “lift”, ...

Are you currently a student? Do you have to do any revising? If you answered “yes!”, then this lesson is for you! Today we are going to learn 12 tips to make revision a time to ...

Hello! Remember we wrote a post about autumn vocabulary? Well, here is a post dedicated to the beauty of spring! Spring Vocabulary Awakening – an act or moment of becoming suddenly aware of something. Barefoot ...

Ready to learn some English and put your dancing shoes on? Excellent! Eliza Doolittle has been on the ABA Blog before, with her song Skinny Genes, remember? And today we will be learning with a different ...

160 years ago today, on the 16th of October 1854, Oscar Wilde was born. So… Happy birthday, Oscar! Wilde was a writer and poet from Ireland. He became one of London’s most popular playwrights in ...

This is such a bizarre expression, don’t you think? “Throwing the baby out with the bath water” is a very old idiomatic expression that is used to suggest avoiding the error of discarding everything when ...

Welcome back! Last week, we asked our Facebook friends to tell us what their favourite songs were to put on while they studied. We got great suggestions: Dire Straits, Il Divo, Eric Clapton’s “Lonely Stranger”and ...