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Weekly Series
Vocabulary Showcase - Mondays
Business Builder - Tuesdays
What The Fluff Wednesday - Wednesdays
GCSE and A-Level Goblin - Thursdays
Gateway to Grammar - Fridays
Blog Topics
Kids Corner: KS3 - Prose Pirate or Professional Proof-reader?
Welcome to years 7, 8 and 9 of Secondary School English in the UK. This is Keystage 3 chaps and chapettes, and this means we need to up our game! How you say? Stop being a Prose Pirate, and learn to proofread our work so we edit out all those little mistakes before we submit our work. This will make you a professional proof-reader.
Midweek Mini-lesson : Ranges of emotion
Describe how strong your emotions are without using modifiers like very or slightly.
Business Etiquette in the English-speaking world
You may find that working in the English-speaking world is a little different to your home country. There are social guidelines to follow to get along well with your English-speaking colleagues. These differ slightly from country to country, but for today’s examples I will be talking about British English working etiquette.
Vocabulary Showcase: “Spooky”
It is the season for the spooky things in the English speaking community. Things that go bump in the night, sounds that cause a fright, and haunted houses with pumpkin lights.
Saturday Supplement: Ye Olde Wright English prepares for Halloween
Kodi is practicing licking his lips after he eats any English learners who do not complete their assignments on time. Beware the vampire kitty.
Gateway to Grammar: They’re Their or There?
The English language is full of Homophones: Words which sound the same, but have a different spelling and meaning.
Midweek Mini-Lesson: The stages of learning a language + big announcement
Kids Corner KS2: How to join up your handwriting
Cursive (joined up) handwriting is something you need to learn in Year 4 in English schools. Everyone has their own method for teaching people how to join letters.
Business Builder: How to say no politely
The British have a special way of saying “no” extremely politely. One thing to remember when doing business in English, is to soften your “no’s” carefully.
Vocabulary Showcase: cute!
Let’s explore different ways to say something is “cute”. I would also like to add that this is absolutely NOT an excuse to post a cute pug pic. Every day is a good day to post a cute pug pic.
Sunday Funday: Eat your heart out rappers everywhere.
Eat your heart out rappers everywhere!
Saturday Supplement: Teacher Talks Interview
I am interviewed by Volkan Iner at @creativeenglish18 on Instagram about being a teacher. We discuss the future of teaching, what motivates us, our mottos for life and much more. click the video to watch Volkan’s Youtube video.
Gateway to Grammar: Modifiers - How to make a banana “slightly meaty”
Are you tired of saying “very” big, or “a little bit” small? Let’s get a little bit more creative with out modifiers. Modifiers are words that change the value or intensity of an adjective or adverb. Let’s expand our knowledge of modifiers.
Kids Corner: KS2 The Essay Burger
Organising an essay huh? Complicated isn’t it?! Even if you really know what you are talking about, somehow the information just seems more important than the structure right? I see what you mean but now it is time to become an essay master. It is time to be an essay burger slinger in the fast-food English lesson of life!
Midweek Mini-lesson: How to remember something for 21 years.
If you want to learn how to remember something for over 21 years, this is the memory technique for you! Sometimes I wish it didn’t work so well!
Business Builder: Work Life Balance
We have all been there. That place where you realise that you have to choose between your employers (people who pay you), and your health. It can be our mental health, or our physical health, or in my case, both.
Vocabulary Showcase: Peaceful
Sometimes you want to say something other than peaceful. Here are some ways to describe situations or places that are peaceful.
Saturday Supplement: Inhale Reading Exhale Writing
I was interviewed on Instagram by the lovely Olga Bond from Poland (tesol.in.poland) to talk about techniques for helping learners improve their creative writing.
Gateway to Grammar: He / She / It - Where does the ‘S’ fit?
There are many tenses (grammar for time) in English. I am going to teach you one phrase that will help you more than anything else when it comes to English grammar!
Kids Corner: Writing in the passive voice
So now at school you need to improve your writing for non-fiction. Fiction means written stories, non-fiction means written facts, or reference books. Dictionaries, textbooks, and books about real people like the Pope are non-fiction.