The answer is there is no limit, and in the process, it can be a lot of fun! Why not set yourself a goal of learning two hundred new words a month which is only six words a day.? It may seem an uphill task, but you may be surprised by how easy it is. Use these tips to help you along the way.
What are adverbs of frequency?
These are ways of describing verbs and how often or how infrequently an action happens. Here are some of the basic adverbs of frequency that are commonly used in everyday English
The Oxford Languages Dictionary explanation of alliteration is using the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. Using alliteration in class is one of the challenges I give my advanced ESL students. I always find it to be a very effective way of extracting vocabulary
Watching series or films in English is an excellent audio-visual means of acquiring new vocabulary. but how much of it do you actually retain? A good memory test would be to ask yourself, how many new words did you learn from that series or film today? If your recall is poor you need to look at other ways of assimilating new lexis
So much has been written on this topic and for very good reason!
To construct a building, we need a sturdy foundation which will support the walls and roof. The same goes for learning a language. We need a structure to build phrases. This structure is comprised of verbs, nouns, adjectives, adverbs, and conjunctions. In linguistics this is known as metalanguage. The grammar of a language is its basic framework which allows you to combine a finite number of words in an infinite number of ways and still be understood immediately.
There is a lot of fuss made about phrasal verbs in the classroom. The little words that follow the verb can change its meaning altogether. This can be very frustrating and make students give up before they have even started. And really who can blame them!
The aim of this short lesson is to give 6-8-year-olds some picture visuals to match to the parts of the body. When talking about clothes, they use the verb “to wear”. For example “What clothes do you wear to school?”
There is no doubt that learning a new language has its complications. The main one being that we can never directly translate from our native language into the second language. For example, we say in English I am hungry but if we make a direct translation in Spanish Estoy hambre, it doesn´t make any sense as the verb they use is Tener (to have) not Estar (to be) = Tengo hambre.
Learning a second language can slow cognitive ageing (the speed at which the mental activity of the brain ages). Being bilingual could delay the onset of dementia for several years.
When we are suggesting something, we are endorsing it as a promising idea only. There is no obligation on the third party to follow through. When we are recommending something, we are advising what should be done in a particular situation which would benefit the third party. It holds more weight than suggest and makes the receiver sit up and take note.
We describe a trend as the way a situation develops or changes. Since COVID-19, Language Schools have had to adapt their styles of teaching. Classroom sizes have become smaller to allow for 2 metre distances between desks and students are obliged to wear masks and frequently wash their hands with hydroalcoholic gel.
Glued to our screens and using all the digital tools available to interact with our colleagues, virtual work is moving us more and more away from human contact.
We use the past simple for finished actions in the past e.g. We watched a good film on TV last night/I lived in Barcelona last summer.
Jordan Friedman, a prodigious Stress Coach from New York has been developing stress management programmes for over 20 years. Some of the main stressors his clients talk about are money, commuting, and too much to do in too little time. He believes that we are more stressed today than we were 20 years ago.
There is no question that working and learning from home is the new era we live in today. Covid-19 has caused us to close the doors to our businesses and schools and those of us who remain open are obliged to follow strict norms so as not to infect or be infected.
Are you someone who gets up in the morning with the intention of learning something new in your day? Or are you the opposite? You get up in the morning, immerse yourself in your job or studies without giving a single thought to learning something new?
To learn the student needs a teacher and to teach the teacher needs the student. One cannot exist without the other. It is a symbiotic relationship.
The Japanese zodiac calendar is an integral part of Japanese culture and is based on the interpretations derived from the 12 animals of the zodiac which include the rat, the tiger, the rabbit, the dragon, the snake, the horse, the sheep, the monkey, the rooster, the dog, the pig, and the cow.
We are coming to the end of 2020 and what a year it has been! There have been so many changes in our lives that it is hard to recognise the “real us” anymore. Not only are our masks protecting us, but they are hiding us as well
Past time phrases can be confusing for ESL learners as there are so many! We use them to say when something happened in the past and they are always used with the Past Simple. They include expressions such as in 2019, last week, one month ago, on Monday, etc.,