When we learn a new language, there are usually different grammar points that we find tricky along the way and English falls into that category too. Do you know what intensive and extensive verbs are ...
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Advanced Grammar – Subordinating Conjunctions
When we learn a new language, we often find that structuring sentences so that they sound natural can be somewhat challenging, however, this can be overcome. Today we are going to take a look at ...
Read More »Learning English with Songs – “Friday I’m in Love”
Hi everyone! Ready to sing along with us? We chose a fantastic classic for today: It’s Friday I’m in Love! This song is by The Cure, a British rock band. It was supposed to be ...
Read More »Advanced Grammar – Correlative Conjunctions
We have already looked at Coordinating Conjunctions. Now we’ll continue with Correlative Conjunctions. These conjunctions connect equal sentence elements together (like two nouns) and are always composed by two words. Addition Alternative Cause-Effect Comparison Condition ...
Read More »Advanced Grammar – Coordinating Conjunctions
Remember our Introduction to Connectors? Let’s look deeper into the first category: Coordinating Conjunctions. These conjunctions connect words, phrases and clauses. They are usually found in the middle of a sentence with a comma (,) ...
Read More »Advanced Grammar – An Introduction to Sentence Connectors
Sentence Connectors are a great way of improving your English. Why? Because we use them to express relationships between ideas and to combine sentences. When we begin learning a language, we speak in very basic ...
Read More »Learn English with the News: “Happy Chinese New Year!”
Good morning! As you know, yesterday we celebrated the Chinese New Year (Kung Hei Fat Choi!). It’s the most important festivity in the Chinese calendar. Traditions vary from region to region, but decorations are put ...
Read More »Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day!
Today is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in the United States. To celebrate, let’s watch and understand his amazing speech “I have a dream”. Recognized as one of the best and most important speeches in ...
Read More »Learn English with the News: Try Something New for 30 Days
The following video is for intermediate and advanced students; the speed of the speaker and the vocabulary used is relatively harder than our usual videos. The video has subtitles to help you understand if you ...
Read More »Learning English with Stories: “Santa’s Christmas”
Today we are going to learn some English vocabulary by watching “Santa’s Christmas“, a story about what happened when Santa Claus became ill. It’s a great story to remind us of what matters during Christmas: ...
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