Happy February! February is the one month that feels much longer than it's 28 days for me. Sometimes it feels like time has slowed to a crawl but I think I mainly blame that on the weather. Photo by Alissa Nabiullina on Pexels.com Short cold days and long cold nights have me hankering for a… Continue reading Phrasal Verb and Idiom Friday!
The passive is something that is used when we want to take away the emphasis from who does the action within your sentence. Let's have a look. An active sentence clearly shows the subject or the doer of the sentence: I marked the papers last night. = our verb here is marked, and the person… Continue reading When and how to use the passive
I've been thinking about what we post online, and how sometimes what we've written when we were younger can make us cringe. I have some pretty terrible old posts, and some pretty terrible old photos that I thought were hilarious at that point in time. Photo by Nirav Shah on Pexels.com There's no use in… Continue reading Phrasal Verb and Idiom Friday!
This one may seem obvious, but it's really important to make sure you take a few minutes to read through your answers at the end of your exam, to make sure you haven't made any silly mistakes. Spelling, punctuation, and grammar are important in your writing. When it comes to high-stakes exams like the IELTS,… Continue reading Exam tips: Check your work!
Today I wanted to give you some food for thought. When it comes to learning a new language, what's the most important thing for you to learn? Vocabulary? Grammar? Speaking skills? Many students have different opinions about this, and often their opinions are formed by the education they received. Often I find students need to… Continue reading Phrasal Verb and Idiom Friday!
If you're studying for higher-level English exams, it's really important to know which prepositions go with which verbs, nouns and phrases. On exams like the Cambridge Advanced Exam, this knowledge is explicitly tested. In other situations, it can be something that makes you sound more advanced, refined and knowledgeable in English. Prepositions are words like… Continue reading Progression Practice: Notice the Prepositions!
Sometimes things don't work out how we expected them to. Maybe you bought a lemon, and now you have a massive repair bill on your hands. Photo by Kha Ruxury on Pexels.com Maybe you and a good friend got into a heated argument and now you're not sure how to make it up to them.… Continue reading Phrasal Verb and Idiom Friday!
You may have heard of used to when talking about the past, but have you also learned how to use would? Let's look at the rules. Used to can be used to talk about something that happened (usually multiple times, or often) in the past, that has now changed. For example: I used to smoke,… Continue reading Used to and Would for Past Experiences
We're one week into 2023! How's it going? Have you stuck to those resolutions you made last week? After a few weeks of indulging in all of your favourite foods, you may be thinking of eating a bit more healthily, so I thought some food idioms might be quite fun for this week! Now, maybe… Continue reading Phrasal Verb and Idiom Friday!
Sometimes it can be a little tricky to use for and since with present perfect, so let's have a look at how it can be done! Photo by fauxels on Pexels.com First, let's talk about the present perfect. To make it, we need: subject + have/has + past particle. Our subject could be a person… Continue reading Present Perfect: for and since
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