Pages Home About Melanie English Books Pronunciation Listening (Podcasts) Canada Vocabulary Grammar Study Tips Private Lessons Friday, October 15, 2010 Happy 1st Birthday to My Blog!!! Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook One year ago today – Oct 15th, 2009 – I posted my very first blog post! Thank you so much to everyone who […]
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English Teacher Melanie: Grammar
English Teacher Melanie: Grammar: Would = Used to
Pages Home About Me Listening (Podcasts) Private Lessons English Books Pronunciation (Videos) Vocabulary Grammar Reading Study Tips Tuesday, September 14, 2010 Grammar: Would = Used to Email This BlogThis! Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Tweet In a previous grammar post, I explained how to use used to to talk about things you did in […]
English Teacher Melanie: Grammar – Using The Present Simple To Talk About The Future
Pages Home About Me Listening (Podcasts) Private Lessons English Books Pronunciation (Videos) Vocabulary Grammar Reading Study Tips Thursday, January 14, 2010 Grammar – Using The Present Simple To Talk About The Future Email This BlogThis! Share to Twitter Share to Facebook *You can use the present simple to talk about talk about scheduled future events […]
English Teacher Melanie: Grammar – Using ‘Could’ to Guess Information
Pages Home About Me Listening (Podcasts) Private Lessons English Books Pronunciation (Videos) Vocabulary Grammar Reading Study Tips Tuesday, June 1, 2010 Grammar – Using ‘Could’ to Guess Information Email This BlogThis! Share to Twitter Share to Facebook In the listening lesson “Thor to the Rescue!”, I talked about a dog I encountered before I went […]
English Teacher Melanie: Grammar – Used to
Pages Home About Me Listening (Podcasts) Private Lessons English Books Pronunciation (Videos) Vocabulary Grammar Reading Study Tips Thursday, September 9, 2010 Grammar – Used to Email This BlogThis! Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Tweet In the listening lesson “Let’s Go to The Ex!”, I said… When I was a kid, I used to love […]
English Teacher Melanie: Grammar – 3rd (Third) Conditional
Pages Home About Me Canada Listening (Podcasts) Private Lessons English Books Pronunciation Vocabulary Grammar Study Tips Tuesday, August 17, 2010 Grammar – 3rd (Third) Conditional Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook In the listening lesson “The Chair!”, I talked about how I attempted to assemble an outdoor chair. I said: If I hadn’t been so overly […]
English Teacher Melanie: Grammar – So or Too?
Pages Home English Books Pronunciation Listening (Podcasts) Reading Vocabulary Grammar Study Tips Thursday, January 7, 2010 Grammar – So or Too? Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook This post is quite extensive and explains how to use so, such, so many, so much, too, too much and too many! There is a lot of information […]
English Teacher Melanie: Grammar: Present Perfect Self-Study Resources
Pages Home About Me Canada Listening (Podcasts) Private Lessons English Books Pronunciation Vocabulary Grammar Study Tips Friday, October 22, 2010 Grammar: Present Perfect Self-Study Resources Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook Tweet For many English learners, the present perfect is one of the most challenging verb tenses to use because it does not exist in […]
English Teacher Melanie: Grammar – Present Perfect II: Have you ever (done something)?
Pages Home About Me Listening (Podcasts) Private Lessons English Books Pronunciation (Videos) Vocabulary Grammar Reading Study Tips Friday, October 22, 2010 Grammar – Present Perfect II: Have you ever (done something)? Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook When I teach the present perfect tense, I find that students understand it better when it is explained […]