Category: academia

Pronouncing -ed Endings

I’ve talked with some of you about pronouncing words that end with -ed. For another perspective, check out Rachel’s English. Here’s a video about -ed

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Starting Conversations

Since September, we’ve been exploring fun, different ways to listen to English with a native accent. Now, it’s your turn to do some listening on

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Creating Cultural Change

Often we talk about the difference between the north and south of Spain. Italy is another country with big perceived differences between north and south.

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Advertising

Look around you – do you see any advertising right now? Where? How has advertising changed in your lifetime? Here’s a video about advertising for

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Introducing Fluency

I always say that language is more than just grammar and vocabulary. We’ve already talked about confidence. Next week we’re going to talk about fluency, or

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Education

Last week our new teacher, Greg, showed me a YouTube channel with tons of good material called The School of Life. Here’s a video we can

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Is Cereal Soup?

A student sent me this great YouTube channel with lots of interesting videos. Here’s one about words and language. As always, use this technique to focus

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Trick or Treat!

Halloween is one of my favorite holidays for a number of reasons. Next week, we can talk about the origins and traditions of this holiday.

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