Teaching & Learning English
The Dawn before the Storm I am Waiting for The meadows I left behind The defiles I gone through Tenebrous the sky was in my slumbers Perforce must the journey be grimly droll, And the Dawn before the Storm I am still waiting for. The Dawn before the Storm I am Waiting for The … Read more
Check out the Ducksters website for plenty of reading about different topics. This is a useful resource for ELA/ESL/EFL students to help build their English vocabulary range and learn basic knowledge about our world. https://www.ducksters.com/ Happy reading and vocabulary building!
This is a useful website for those of you who need to practise your grammar and vocabulary: Use of English – Test-English How to use the site Select your test (A1 is easiest, then A2, B1, B2 and C1 is the most difficult). After you select your answers, click the ‘Check Answers’ button and you’ll … Read more
I found a great account on WeChat that shares short Tintin comic strips teaching the meaning of common idioms in English. Hope this link works: Tintin teaches idioms on WeChat 😀
Here is a link to some useful IELTS advice regarding synonyms: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/JebH7ae94u24q2DjSv-QqA Note that the various words presented in the vocabulary list on the other end of that link aren’t necessarily better or worse than other words you might use. The point is that you should try to vary your language by learning how to … Read more
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.
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
Hello! 🙂 Many students learning English as a foreign language find it difficult to learn enough vocabulary to read and write effectively. So, here are some ideas to help you improve your vocabulary in an efficient way. READ A LOT: Reading English is by far the best way to improve your vocabulary range. Read whatever … Read more
The exercises below are intended to help students learn the words from the first four sublists of the AWL Choose the correct form of the word to complete the passage The gaps are all words from the AWL sublists 1-5; the words in blue bold are also from the AWL These exercises focus on the correct … Read more
Here is the eleventh set of 30 words from the AWL sublists. They are the first 30 words from AWL sublist 6. We are on 6/10 so well over half way now 🙂 You should try to learn these words in preparation for a test in class next week. In addition to learning the meaning … Read more
The exercises below are intended to help students learn the words from the first four sublists of the AWL Choose the correct form of the word to complete the passage The gaps are all words from the AWL sublists 1-4; the words in blue bold are also from the AWL These exercises focus on the correct … Read more