Welcome reader, Every month we review and recommend a great book for you to practice reading in English. The language in these books is not complex from a literary point of view, but it will require ...

Welcome. Do you remember what “to kick the bucket” means? It is an expression that means “to die”. It is considered a euphemism, which is a polite way of saying something that is considered socially ...

Hi student! You don’t want to do it. But you can’t escape it. Every teacher, every course, every exam prep list will say the same thing: YOU HAVE TO STUDY! If you are currently studying and ...

Hi! Do you know who Rumi is? He is a a 13th-century Persian poet, theologian and Sufi mystic. Despite being Persian, he has been described as “America’s most popular poet” and his poems have been ...

Welcome to another vocabulary lesson! As you know by now, idioms are expressions that cannot be understood from the meanings of its separate words. Well, this English vocabulary class is all about idioms that are ...

สวัสดี! (that’s “How are you?” in Thai). Recently, the Huffington Post had an article on Nicholas Negroponte’s idea that one day, in the future, we could learn a language by taking a pill. How amazing ...

Hey! The word “vernacular” means the language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region. Today we will be looking at the origin of the verb “to bewilder”, with the ...

Hello everyone! It’s one of the questions our students ask us the most: “when do I use say and when do I use tell?” so we thought we’d remind you again of the differences between ...

Ready to sing? Have you heard about the series “Orange is the New Black”? It is about Piper Chapman, a woman living in New York City who is sentenced to 15 months in a women’s ...

Good day people, This week’s advanced grammar lesson is about the pronoun “one”. If you are not sure of your English level, take our test! This lesson can be found on the ABA English Course Unit ...