Teaching & Learning English
Summary of the movie Karate Kid (2010) By MUZHEN, Li The movie Karate Kid 2010 is a story of a kid called Dre, who endeavored to extricate from mediocrity in order to become a splendid Kung fu performer. Dre moved to Beijing due to his mother’s career transferred, he was bullied by Cheng and his … Read more
Copyright © Leo MUZHEN Li 2026 I. The man sitting in the life boat glanced at the pandemonium vacuously, this gigantic ship was sinking into the night ocean, nobody knew the exact time it would go down to the bottom of the gloomy sea, but this callous truth was inevitable. He turned to Edward, his … Read more
So, this post is about a project that I am going to do this semester, basically, I’m gonna write a story each week to improve my grammar skills, hopefully I can start next week, so I have a lot of time to think about it. See ya later
Welcome to the third issue of Mushroom’s E-Magazine. In this issue the students explore the popular festival of Halloween and consider its place in amongst the English-speaking community in China. We hope you enjoy reading their perspectives. Click on the cover below to open the pdf 😀
We have been lucky enough to have two successful student authors share their work on Mushroom. The two books below were winners in a school book writing competition. Read The Apocalypse here 🙂 Read A Rip in Mythology: Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5
I just came across this on WeChat: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/pGj9u7kmSKntcjr5DxNyTw It gives helpful examples of some useful phrases. There may be more useful tips from the same author (Weixin ID greatwritingtips), but I haven’t checked them out myself.
Creating your own content is a thing most people don’t often do. But you should. My Point is: 1. You Summarize Your knowledge when creating content. 2. Your search for information when you discover holes in your argument 3. You also hone your teaching, content creation skills 4. Makes our community more lively So go … Read more
OK guys, so it’s Andrew here and I’ve had an argument. A BIG one. The story goes like this: So in many contests you need teams and in the World Scholar’s Cup, you do. So there’s this person whose name starts with an “Sam” and ends with an “tha” and she is REALLY REALLY REALLY … Read more
My Grade 8 students were practising writing news reports about the battles in Animal Farm to explore how language choices create bias in news reporting, even when sticking to the facts. Unfortunately, the images of the first three pages lost quality during the transfer from camera to computer 🙁 but you can still appreciate the … Read more
This article presents a self-study strategy for students preparaing for the IELTS Writing test by reading about the common topics and studying the language typically used to discuss those subjects. Whilst I intend to do more research into this and publish the results to help my students, the recent advances in AI tools means this … Read more
One of the main things students have to do in academic writing is to make comparisons between different theories, methods and sources of data. In task 1 of the IELTS writing test, students need to compare the significant features of the visual provided. In both cases, it is clearly a big problem if students cannot … Read more
This page is set up to help students explore the use of the BAWE corpus as a tool for informing vocabulary choices in academic writing. The examples below come from either common errors in student writing or questions my students have asked about specific lexicogrammar features of English. If you search for words or phrases … Read more