Well, hello! Let’s start today’s mini lesson. English people are famous for being polite. And one way of being polite is to always, always, always say “please” and “thank you”. In English, “thank you” derives ...
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Learn English with Songs: “Vincent”
Good morning and welcome to Wednesday! One of our students, Hildgund, sent us an email suggesting this beautiful song by Don McLean. This is the song we will be learning English with today. Ready? 1. Read ...
Read More »Learn English with the News: “The ultimate bottle of wine”
as-salām ‘alaykum! (that’s hello in Arabic). We chose Arabic today because this news story is from Dubai, where they just unveiled the most expensive bottle of wine in the world! 1. Read the text 2. ...
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Gandhi! Today, the 2nd of October, would have marked Gandhiji’s 144th birthday. Let’s remember his life with this short essay from preservearticles.com: Mahatma Gandhi Mahatma Gandhi is remembered in the world for four major virtues. ...
Read More »Learn English with the News: “Piano prodigy”
Welcome to Monday’s post! And it’s a musical Monday with the news today. Ready to start? Let’s go! 1. Read the text 2. Understand the vocabulary 3. Watch the news! Text Nine-year-old Curtis Elton is ...
Read More »Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!
Hello! 中秋節 in traditional Chinese. ABA English would like to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival with you! Remember the news article on Hong Kong’s recycled moon? Today hundreds of thousands will gather around it t to ...
Read More »Sneezes of the World
Good day to you all. An onomatopoeia is the creation of words that imitate natural sounds. For example, in English the sound snakes makes is called a “hiss”. Why? Because to us, that’s what it sounds ...
Read More »Learn English with the News: “Recycling in Hong Kong”
Néih hóu! (tha’ts hello in cantonese.) How are you today? It’s Monday today, we know, but we hope that in the world of Monday’s, this one is fabulous. From a young age we are taught ...
Read More »The longest words in English
In terms of languages, English has more words than any other by a long shot. Today we are going to focus on words in English which are longer and slightly more complicated than the norm ...
Read More »A joke!
Good morning! We hope you are having a lovely Thursday. Would you like to hear a (bad) joke? Teacher: Tell me a sentence that starts with an “I”. Student: I is the… Teacher: Stop! Never ...
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