Dec 22, 2021
Have you ever missed your flight? (Remember that in English we say "I missed my flight" and not "I lost my flight")
Today we’ll learn some phrases you can use to talk about bad travel experiences and problems that can happen on a trip. I hope you don’t experience any of these things if you have a trip in the near...
Dec 8, 2021
Today’s lesson is on two phrasal verbs – take back and taken aback. These look quite similar, but they have very different meanings, and I’ll explain them with examples.
I think it’s helpful to learn phrasal verbs in context, inside sentences, in situations where we’d really use them.
That’s the strategy we...
Nov 24, 2021
In English, we use the word “please” to make requests and orders more polite – but have you ever considered where exactly to put the word “please” in your sentence?
In today’s lesson I’ll show you several correct places to put the word “please” as well as a couple that sound unnatural, which you...
Nov 17, 2021
No matter how much you like your job, there are always a few things to complain about. In today’s lesson we’ll use five sample sentences to learn phrases and expressions for talking about negative points at work.
Are any of these complaints true for you presently? Or maybe you’ve experienced these things in the...
Nov 10, 2021
Today’s lesson is going to be a challenge even for me... We’re working on 10 tongue twisters - short phrases that are very difficult to pronounce, even for native English speakers!
I like tongue twisters because they’re a fun way to train ourselves to develop very precise pronunciation, and if you can learn to...