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The Edinburgh Seven – Real English
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 to mark International Women’s Day, I am telling you the incredible story of the Edinburgh Seven, the first women to matriculate at a …
Mary Queen of Scots Part 2 – Real English
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 is the second part of Mary Queen of Scots’ story. Check out our video and read our interactive blog for some great English …
Mary Queen of Scots Part 1 – Real English
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 is the first part of Mary Queen of Scots’ story. Check out our video and read our interactive blog for some great English …
Scottish Halloween
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 …
6 great Linkers for Making Comparisons
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 …
How to use the second conditional
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
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 …
How to use the first conditional
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 …
Harry Potter in Edinburgh
Discover all the amazing Harry Potter locations in Edinburgh and get a great free English lesson at the same time!