Happy New Year! Apologies for the lack of posts of late- life has been a bit crazy! Now I find myself with some time on my hands, so I thought I would share a fun New Years' selection of language, appropriate for the 'New year, new me' crowd, and anyone who wants to talk about… Continue reading Phrasal verb and Idiom Friday!
This week I want to tell you about how I have felt 'stuck in a rut' lately and it's been hard to 'get out of my own way'. Sometimes it feels like I do the same thing every day, with no real excitement or change. Whenever I feel like I've been eating the same breakfast,… Continue reading Phrasal verb and Idiom Friday!
One easy way to practice your English is by watching videos, movies, or TV shows on streaming sites like Netflix, HBO Go or others like them. If you don't have a subscription to a streaming site, you can always try subscribing to YouTubers or Youtube channels that fit your interests. There are lots of different… Continue reading Progression Help: Learning through Netflix
Today's idiom is 'back on your feet', which is quite fitting considering the month I've had! The reason I've been so absent over the last 3 weeks was that I had emergency gallbladder surgery, which 'took a lot out of me'. I'm only just beginning to get 'back on my feet', which means feeling back… Continue reading Phrasal Verb and Idiom Friday
If you haven't read through the first two posts about gerunds and infinitives check out the first one here, and the second one here! Generally speaking, there are some verbs that generally go together (or collocate) with gerunds or infinitives. Here's a neat little list of verbs that come before a gerund: anticipate, appreciate, avoid,… Continue reading Gerunds and Infinitives Part 3: Verbs that use gerunds and verbs that use infinitives
If you haven't yet, check out the first post on gerunds versus infinitives. It gives some ground rules for when to use gerunds and what they are. 🙂 On to infinitives! An infinitive is usually made up of the verb with to- to go, to eat, to sleep, to wonder, etc. We can call the… Continue reading Grammar Help: Gerunds and Infinitives Part 2! Rules for Infinitives
Today's phrasal verb is clean up- it's a tricky one, with multiple meanings. Clean up can mean to do really well in something like gambling, sports or in business ventures: 'I cleaned up at our weekly poker game. I won over $150 bucks!' Clean up can mean dressing in a more professional or attractive way… Continue reading Phrasal Verb and Idiom Friday
A lot of my students lead really busy lives and they find it hard to keep up with their language learning goals. I think this can be broken down into a couple of different problems. Not seeing progress because you haven't accurately recorded your progress.Not seeing progress because you only learn 'in the classroom'.Not seeing… Continue reading Progression help: Making time to study
Gerunds, generally, can be confusing- let's look at what they are: A gerund is a verb in ing form (going, running, skiing, eating) but it's being used as a noun. This means it's not part of a continuous tense (I am going, I was going, etc) but rather it's a thing on its own. Compare… Continue reading Grammar Help: Gerunds Part 1: use with prepositions
It's my summer vacation, so I thought we could look at some summertime phrasal verbs and idioms! Let's look at 'kick back' and 'catch up'. Kick back means relaxing and not doing anything too difficult. 'This week I'm going to kick back on the sofa and watch some Netflix.' Catch up has two meanings. The… Continue reading Phrasal Verb and Idiom Friday
English Class with Heather 