Pages Home About Melanie English Books Pronunciation Listening (Podcasts) Canada Vocabulary Grammar Study Tips Private Lessons Thursday, September 30, 2010 Expressions – Shopping! Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook Tweet (Photo by ellewoods) The theme of the listening lesson “Shopping at the Mall!” was… shopping! In a previous vocabulary post I explained some vocabulary used […]

Pages Home About Me Private Lessons English Books Pronunciation Listening Vocabulary Grammar Reading Study Tips Newest Listening Lesson Newest listening lesson: “The Winter Blues!” (*For the rest of December and in January, the listening lesson will be posted every two weeks instead of once a week!) Thursday, July 8, 2010 Expressions with “Bake” and “Kitchen” […]

Pages Home Pronunciation Listening Reading Vocabulary Grammar Study Tips Connect with Melanie! Subscribe Twitter Facebook YouTube MyEC Thursday, September 16, 2010 Expressions – Marriage: Asking Someone to Marry You, Getting Married and Types of Marriages! Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook (Photo by fred the chicken) Here are some expressions you can use to talk […]

Pages Home Pronunciation Listening Reading Vocabulary Grammar Study Tips Thursday, June 17, 2010 Expressions – How to Say Something is Expensive! Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook (Photo by liuwencheng) In the listening lesson “Sex and the City 2!” I talked about buying snacks at the movie theatre. I think that paying $6.26 for a […]

Pages Home About Me Listening (Podcasts) Private Lessons English Books Pronunciation (Videos) Vocabulary Grammar Reading Study Tips Saturday, September 4, 2010 Expression – Not So Much! Email This BlogThis! Share to Twitter Share to Facebook In the listening lesson ‘The Bathroom!’ I said: Usually, companies want to do their best work in as little time […]

Listening Lesson #24 Here’s what’s inside lesson #24: • a list of all 78 core vocabulary words • a list of 20 collocations in the story + activities to practice and remember them • definitions of 3 phrases & 4 phrasal verbs + activities to practice and remember them • the idiom leave no stone […]

Reading Read about some interesting things that happen in Canada. There is no way around it – reading is essential for learning English. Reading authentic English sources (not something written by other people learning to speak English) helps you to learn new words and to learn correct English sentence structure. Repetition is also essential for […]