Vocabulary
English Vocabulary: How to Talk About Transportation!
Every English learner knows how to talk about transportation using prepositions. It’s one of the first things taught in an English class,…
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Month: May 2010
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Pronunciation
English Teacher Melanie: Expressions: 5+ Creative Ways to Say That Someone is Not Very Smart!
In English, we have lots of creative and colourful ways of saying that someone is not very smart! It’s not very nice…
Vocabulary
5 Funny Phrases to Use When You Want to Say that Someone is Dumb!
In English, we have lots of creative and colourful ways of saying that someone is not very smart! It’s not very nice…
Podcast
English Teacher Melanie: Listening Lesson – “The Worst Bus Ride. Ever!”
This is an English lesson designed to help you improve your English listening and pronunciation. The listening lesson is a short story…
Podcast
002- “The Worst Bus Ride. Ever!” – Listening Lesson (podcast)
Story: I thought it would be more relaxing to take the bus downtown Toronto instead of driving, but I was wrong! Pronunciation…
Vocabulary
English Vocabulary: Play, Do, or Go? Verbs Used To Talk About Sports
There are three verbs you can use to talk about sports in English: play — do — go 1. Use PLAY for…
Vocabulary
Metaphor – “Kurt Browning is the Wayne Gretzky of Figure Skating”
In the listening lesson “Stars on Ice”, I used the metaphor “Kurt Browning is the Wayne Gretzky of figure skating.” This is…
Grammar
English Teacher Melanie: Grammar – When NOT to use ‘the’
Did you notice in the listening lesson “What Would We Do Without Mothers?” that I said ‘Mother’s Day’ … NOT ‘the Mother’s…
Vocabulary
English Teacher Melanie: Vocabulary – Using the Verb ‘Like’
In the listening lesson “What would we do without mothers?”, I talked about the present I got my mother for Mother’s Day:…
Vocabulary
English Vocabulary: How to Use the Verb “Like”
The verb like is one of the most commonly used verbs in English. However, it is also one of the most commonly…