Hey ABA family! We know, you’ve always wondered about the origin of the English language. Well, wonder no more! Today we’re going to take a walk down memory lane and see what factors influenced the ...
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Help! How to book a hotel room in English?
It’s definitely very convenient and easy to book your next holiday at a travel agency without having to struggle with a different language. However, have you ever thought that you can find much better prices ...
Read More »The past simple vs the present perfect
Do you know how and when to use the past simple and the present perfect correctly in English? If not, don’t worry because we are here to show you exactly how! Need some help with ...
Read More »Things to Consider Before an IELTS Retake
This blog post originally appeared on the Magoosh IELTS blog. You took the IELTS exam and thought you did well. But when the scores came out 13 days after the exam, you found that you ...
Read More »10 Animal inspired English idioms
What’s new, everybody? At ABA we are all great and have been working hard to make sure you have as much material as you can to continuously improve your English. As we all know, the ...
Read More »Past simple of “to have to”
“Must” has no past form, so we generally use the past form of “to have to” to refer to past obligations or strong necessities. Let’s take a look at some examples, shall we? She had ...
Read More »Conditional sentences with modal verbs
We are going to look at conditional sentences using the modals “can”, “must”, “may” and “might”, instead of “will.” The conditional used with these modal verbs is usually the first conditional. Its purpose is to ...
Read More »American and Canadian English Differences
As we all know, English has an array of accents and dialects that make it a very rich language to learn. There are times however when accents can seem so similar to an untrained ear ...
Read More »Introduction to sentence connectors
Sentence Connectors are a great way of improving your English. Why? Well, we use them to express relationships between ideas and to combine sentences. Today we are going to look at coordinating conjunctions. I just ...
Read More »How to speak like a South African
Hello ABA friends! Have you heard about South Africa? No, not the south of Africa, South Africa, a country located at the very southern tip of the continent. Well, there are about 5 million people ...
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