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Marriage vocabulary: SGI’s first wedding

Marriage vocabulary: SGI true love

Here’s a chance to increase your marriage vocabulary (just in time for the summer wedding season) with a true love story from within SGI.   Saturday 23rd June 2012 was a very special day. Two former SGI teachers got married to each other – thus, making it the first SGI wedding in all of its [...]

July 5th, 2012 | Posted in Vocabulary by | Read More »

Homophones: Kim’s Flour Power

Homophones: She wanted flowers, but got flour

Homophones are words with different meanings and spellings, but with the same pronunciation (in British English). Look out for the homophones in bold in the text and then check out the glossary to understand the difference between the homophones.   The American socialite, Kim Kardashian is probably used to receiving plenty of flowers and expensive [...]

March 26th, 2012 | Posted in Vocabulary by | Read More »

‘For’ meanings: The Bad News for Bear

What can I use this for?

‘For’ can be used lots of different ways in English. Look out for the different ‘for’ meanings in the text and then read the explanations below.   For those of you who don’t know, one of Britain’s best-loved exports of TV is the brilliantly named Bear Grylls. His show about survival in the wild, called [...]

March 20th, 2012 | Posted in Language Rules by | Read More »

Prepositions of Place: Into the Wild

It's bloody freezing here! Prepositions of place

Prepositions of place are highlighted in the article and then explained in the preposition list below the video.   If, like me, you like photography and wildlife, there is only one place to be this weekend – The Natural History Museum! It is one of the top 5 museums in London and even better, every [...]

March 7th, 2012 | Posted in Vocabulary by | Read More »

Animal Idioms: An Oscar’s best friend

Animal Idioms: Uggie has been working like a dog

A dark horse; top dog; having a whale of a time – What do these animal idioms mean? Find out in the article and vocabulary glossary

February 29th, 2012 | Posted in Vocabulary by | Read More »

Though Although Grammar: Interactive ads for women

Although it's for women, men can donate to charity too.

Though Although Despite In spite of…how do you use these words in English? Look at the text examples & then learn with the grammar section

February 24th, 2012 | Posted in Language Rules by | Read More »

Basic English – Past Simple: Whitney Houston’s funeral

Past Simple verbs. Affirmative, Negative, Interrogative. Elementary English

Irregular Verbs in Past Simple are difficult in English. You must learn the verbs because there are no rules. Included here is also a reference table of Preterite Irregular Verbs.

February 20th, 2012 | Posted in Language Rules by | Read More »

Cold Idioms & Snow vocabulary: A snow day at home

Don't get left out in the cold

Suggestions about what to do when the cold snap sets in. Plus lots of vocabulary about snow and interesting idioms about the ‘cold’.

February 7th, 2012 | Posted in Vocabulary by | Read More »

Whoever/Whenever Grammar: Nadal vs Djokovic – whoever lost, we won

This is SPARTA!

An awesome tennis match and an even more incredible explanation of whoever, wherever, whichever, whatever & however!

February 1st, 2012 | Posted in Language Rules by | Read More »

Character Adjectives: Enter the Dragon

Bruce Lee inside a dragon in London's Chinatown...I think.

Adjectives describing people’s character are used to help explain the meaning behind the Chinese animal of each calendar year.

January 24th, 2012 | Posted in Vocabulary by | Read More »

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