Pages Home About Melanie English Books Pronunciation Listening (Podcasts) Canada Vocabulary Grammar Study Tips Thursday, January 26, 2012 American Slang: 5 Things You Can Say About Extreme Sports! Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook Big air. (Photo by Today is a Good Day) Slang isn’t really something you can teach or study. It usually just […]

Pages Home About Melanie English Books Pronunciation Listening (Podcasts) Reading Vocabulary Grammar Study Tips Monday, September 13, 2010 Listening Lesson – “53 Years!” Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook This is an English lesson designed to help you practice and improve your English listening and pronunciation skills. The listening lesson is a short story about […]

Pages Home Pronunciation Listening Reading Vocabulary Grammar Study Tips Connect with Melanie! Subscribe Twitter Facebook YouTube MyEC Thursday, February 23, 2012 And the Oscar Goes to … Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook (Photo by lincolnblues) Will you be watching the Academy Awards on Sunday night? Here are some posts on my blog about the […]

Pages Home Pronunciation Listening Reading Vocabulary Grammar Study Tips Connect with Melanie! Subscribe Twitter Facebook YouTube MyEC Monday, June 14, 2010 Listening Lesson – “Sex and the City 2!” Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook This is an English lesson designed to help you practice and improve your English listening and pronunciation skills. The listening […]

Pages Home About Melanie English Books Pronunciation Listening (Podcasts) Reading Vocabulary Grammar Study Tips Monday, October 18, 2010 Listening Lesson – “A Dilemma on Thanksgiving!” Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook This is an English lesson designed to help you improve your English listening and pronunciation. The listening lesson is a short story about something […]

Pages Home About Melanie English Books Pronunciation Listening (Podcasts) Canada Vocabulary Grammar Study Tips Private Lessons Monday, November 28, 2011 “The Chaos” (of English Pronunciation)! – A poem by Gerard N. Trenité (video) Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook This is a fun poem about the chaos of the English language, but you’ll want to […]

Pages Home About Melanie English Books Pronunciation Listening (Podcasts) Canada Vocabulary Grammar Study Tips Private Lessons Monday, December 20, 2010 Listening Lesson – “It’s Definitely Winter!” Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook Tweet This is an English lesson designed to help you practice and improve your English listening and pronunciation skills. The listening lesson is […]

Pages Home English Books Pronunciation Listening (Podcasts) Reading Vocabulary Grammar Study Tips Thursday, June 3, 2010 English Phrases & Expressions with ‘Dog’ Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook (Photo by Chris Pirillo) The listening lesson “Thor to the Rescue” is about a very smart dog in my neighbourhood. Many language learners are familiar with the […]

Pages Home Pronunciation Listening Reading Vocabulary Grammar Study Tips Connect with Melanie! Subscribe Twitter Facebook YouTube MyEC Grammar Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook The biggest mistake people make when learning a language is translating expressions or sentences directly from their own language into English. English grammar is completely different from your language. Here, I […]

Pages Home Pronunciation Listening Reading Vocabulary Grammar Study Tips Connect with Melanie! Subscribe Twitter Facebook YouTube MyEC Listening Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook Here you will find all my listening lessons! Each listening lesson includes: a short story about life in Canada discussion questions a short pronunciation lesson On each page here on my […]