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 About Me Listening (Podcasts) Private Lessons English Books Pronunciation (Videos) Vocabulary Grammar Reading Study Tips Monday, September 26, 2011 Vocabulary – 34 Names of Fruit! (video) Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook In this English vocabulary and pronunciation lesson, you will learn how to say the names of 34 different types of fruit […]

Pages Home About Me Listening (Podcasts) Private Lessons English Books Pronunciation (Videos) Vocabulary Grammar Reading Study Tips Thursday, November 18, 2010 Expressions with ‘Book’! Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook (Photo by dolmansaxlil) The listening lesson “Library Books” is about my bad habit of never returning my library books on time. Let’s take a look […]

Pages Home About Me Listening (Podcasts) Private Lessons English Books Pronunciation (Videos) Vocabulary Grammar Reading Study Tips Sunday, September 12, 2010 Expressions with ‘Crazy’ Email This BlogThis! Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Tweet In the listening lesson “Let’s Go to The Ex!” I talked about the rides at the Canadian National Exhibition. I said… […]

Pages Home About Me Listening (Podcasts) Private Lessons English Books Pronunciation (Videos) Vocabulary Grammar Reading Study Tips Tuesday, October 4, 2011 Expressions with ‘Fruit’ and Fruit Names! Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook (Photo by Christine) If you have watched my video “34 Fruit Names in English,” you know that we have a wide variety […]

Pages Home About Me Listening (Podcasts) Private Lessons English Books Pronunciation (Videos) Vocabulary Grammar Reading Study Tips Thursday, December 2, 2010 Expressions with ‘Senior’ and ‘Age’ Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook Tweet (Photo by Sheilaz413) A senior citizen = a polite term used to refer to older people; usually it means anyone over the […]

Pages Home About Me Listening (Podcasts) Private Lessons English Books Pronunciation (Videos) Vocabulary Grammar Reading Study Tips Monday, March 1, 2010 February Recap Email This BlogThis! Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Google Buzz Blogging was light this month as I focused more on some other projects. I did not do a good […]

Pages Home About Melanie English Books Pronunciation Listening (Podcasts) Canada Vocabulary Grammar Study Tips Private Lessons Sunday, December 5, 2010 Give the Gift of English Lessons! Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook Are you looking for the perfect gift for your friend or family member? How about English lessons?! Give someone a gift certificate for […]

Pages Home About Me Listening (Podcasts) Private Lessons English Books Pronunciation (Videos) Vocabulary Grammar Reading Study Tips Monday, December 27, 2010 UPDATED! Grammar: Articles + One of Something Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook Tweet A lot of English learners struggle with articles. There’s a lot of confusion about when you should use a/an and […]

Pages Home About Me Listening (Podcasts) Private Lessons English Books Pronunciation (Videos) Vocabulary Grammar Reading Study Tips Tuesday, June 29, 2010 Grammar – 0 (Zero) Conditional Email This BlogThis! Share to Twitter Share to Facebook The 0 (zero) conditional is the easiest to understand! It is also called the real or factual conditional because it […]