What’s up ABA friends! If you’re a workaholic or frequent business traveller who find that you don’t have a lot of time to fit any studying in, then today’s blog post is for you. We ...
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Introduction to Parallel Structure in English
Parallel structure in English refers to the use of similar grammar constructions within a sentence or clause. Understanding parallel structure in English can help your TOEFL score. Examples of parallel structure Parallel structure is a ...
Read More »Reported speech
Good day everybody! We hope you are all doing well! In today’s blog post we are going to be looking at reported speech in English and which tenses we need to use to report what ...
Read More »Bizarre British traditions
What’s going on ABA family? You know that way sometimes you see news from around the world and learn about some traditions and customs from other countries just by chance and think to yourself: “so ...
Read More »Repeating yourself in TOEFL speaking
Recently, I was reviewing a student’s recorded response to a TOEFL Independent Speaking task. The question prompt asked for a spoken opinion about cell phones. While talking about mobile technology, the student mispronounced the word ...
Read More »5 Foreign meals in British cuisine
For years, us Brits have gone all over Europe and even to the Caribbean and Mexico on our happy holidays and along the way have tried some incredible and some *cough* not incredible *cough* food. ...
Read More »How to give constructive feedback in English
Being human beings, it is only natural for us to look for feedback from our bosses when we give a talk or present ideas so that we can make them better for next time but ...
Read More »Present simple and continuous with future meaning
What’s new everyone? It’s that time of the day again where we start to focus on our English and what we can do to improve it. Today we are going to be looking at the ...
Read More »4 ways to say sorry
Most languages are usually rich in synonyms of certain words and English is no exception to that general idea. With the language having more than one million words, there are plenty of others ways to ...
Read More »The present continuous in English
ABA friends! How are you all? As you know, every tense like in every language has its own purpose and needs to be used in a specific way. Today we are going to focus on ...
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