English Vocabulary: Idioms with “Baby”! October 8, 2010 by Melanie Leave a Comment to have a baby/to expect a baby When I talked about my friend in the listening lesson, I said… My oldest friend in the world just had her first baby! Did you notice I used the verb have? When a woman is […]
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English Vocabulary: Idioms with “Baby”! October 8, 2010 by Melanie Leave a Comment to have a baby/to expect a baby When I talked about my friend in the listening lesson, I said… My oldest friend in the world just had her first baby! Did you notice I used the verb have? When a woman is […]
Vocabulary – The Stages of Life!
Vocabulary – The Stages of Life! October 6, 2010 by Melanie Share WhatsApp Tweet +1 (Photo by daskar) a preemie = a preemie is baby that is born ‘prematurely’ – before it has completely developed in the mother’s womb. Generally it takes 37 weeks/9 months for a baby to fully develop, so if a […]
English Grammar: The Second 2nd Conditional
English Grammar: The Second 2nd Conditional October 3, 2010 by Melanie Conditional sentences in English are used to talk about events and their results. The second (2nd) conditional is the present hypothetical conditional. Hypothetical means imaginary or not real. Use the second conditional when you want to imagine that the present, right now, is different […]
Practice the English V and B Sounds! (video)
Pronunciation – Practice the V and B Sounds! (video) October 3, 2010 by Melanie 1 Comment This is a pronunciation practice lesson to help you improve your pronunciation of the English letter v. Do you say /b/ instead of /v/? This is a common English pronunciation mistake. This is a very common mistake for Spanish, […]
English Grammar: The 2nd Conditional
English Grammar: The 2nd (Second) Conditional English Sentence structure October 3, 2010 by Melanie 7 Comments Share WhatsApp Tweet +1 Grammar is the way that words are organized into sentences. In this lesson, I explain how words are organized in a sentence to form the 2nd conditional sentence structure. However, I don’t want you to […]
How to Talk about Shopping in English!
Vocabulary – How to Talk about Shopping! September 29, 2010 by Melanie (Photo by ellewoods) Do you like shopping? Let’s go shopping! (NOTE: it is not go to shopping.) Let’s take a look at some vocabulary related to shopping. Do you have money to spend on clothes? If you not, […]
September 2010
Archives for September 2010 English Grammar: Get Used To September 28, 2010 by Melanie get used to = to become more familiar with something or doing something = the act of becoming used to something (or doing something) = something is not as strange or unfamiliar as it used to be, you have gained more […]
English Grammar: Get Used To
English Grammar: Get Used To September 28, 2010 by Melanie get used to = to become more familiar with something or doing something = the act of becoming used to something (or doing something) = something is not as strange or unfamiliar as it used to be, you have gained more experience get used […]
English Grammar: The 3rd (Third) Conditional
English Grammar: The 3rd (Third) Conditional September 26, 2010 by Melanie Grammar is the way words are organized into sentences. It’s important to remember that not all English sentences follow grammar “rules.” However, there are sentence structures you can learn that make it easier for you to express your thoughts. A conditional sentence is used […]