Welcome to this month’s Real English video where I tell you about Edinburgh and Scotland’s history and culture, and you get a great English lesson looking at language in context! This month we are talking about Scottish Halloween traditions. Before you watch the video, have a look at our Quizlet set to help you follow …
Welcome to today’s Lunchtime Lesson. Today I have a very interesting lesson for you. We’re going to be looking at how we make comparisons and which vocabulary is useful for it. This is some really useful language which can be used in a lot of ways. It’s language that you’ll use in your everyday English …
Welcome to today’s Lunchtime Lesson. We’re going to be continuing with our conditionals block that we started a couple of weeks ago. Today we’re going to be focusing on how to use the second conditional. If you missed our previous session about the first conditional, you can find the blog post to it here. As …
What are Homophones? In case you have never heard of homophones before, let’s first think of what they are. Homophones are words which sound the same but have a different meaning and spelling. This is definitely a thing that makes learning English so tricky. As you might remember, a few weeks ago we did a lesson about …
Why and how do we use the first conditional? First of all, let’s think about why we use conditionals. What is the purpose of the conditional structure? I notice that students often get really obsessed with how to construct conditionals and lose the focus on what they actually mean and what they are used for. To …
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Welcome to today’s Lunchtime Lessons post. This week we are looking at functional language you can use to express your opinion, to agree and to disagree. Our Lunchtime Lessons are free Online English classes where we look at areas of English which are often difficult for students. If you didn’t manage to join us for …
Welcome to today’s Lunchtime Lessons post. This week we are looking at connected speech. Our Lunchtime Lessons are free Online English classes where we look at areas of English which are often difficult for students. If you didn’t manage to join us for our live session, you can catch up with the highlights of the …
Welcome to today’s Lunchtime Lessons post. This week we are looking at modals of deduction and language of speculation. Our Lunchtime Lessons are free Online English classes where we look at areas of English which are often difficult for students. If you didn’t manage to join us for our live session, you can catch up …
In our Real English video this month we are talking about Walter Scott, who he was, why he was so popular, and how he helped to shape Scottish identity Our language focus this month language you can use to help you build an argument. Watch the video and then look at our interactive blog …
