Past Simple Irregular & Regular Verbs: Queen’s Xmas Speech 2012
The Queen's Xmas message was full of Past Simple Irregular & Regular verbs. There are other past tenses (present perfect & past perfect) as well as passive sentences, but here…
Verb Noun collocations: English Butlers are back
English Butlers are back in fashion. Read the text to learn more about this trend and study the verb noun collocations. Verb noun collocations Here are some of the collocations…
R&R 27: Irish accent – Irish New Year celebrations
Real & Relevant Podcast 27 Natural English Conversations between English teachers Dave O'Hanrahan is from Dublin in Ireland. He's an English teacher at SGI sister school, The British Centre in…
Financial Vocabulary: Is HMV finished?
Read the text about HMV and learn some language about Music, Business and Finance. Do you remember the days when we used to buy records, tapes and CDs from music…
Language focus: The Queen breaks her silence again over the crisis
The Queen of England caused a stir when she visited the Bank of England this month. Read the text to find out what happened then read the language focus to…
Musician vocabulary: Paul McCartney in Nirvana reunion
Read the text about Paul McCartney and learn some useful vocabulary about musicians. Sir Paul McCartney, or Macca as he is known, is one of Britain’s most famous musicians. He…
Phrasal Verbs English test
Phrasal verbs. Ah! those little annoying things that the English use to make it difficult to learn the language! :) But don't worry, here's an English test to confirm and/or…
Christmas songs to get in the festive spirit
Christmas is getting nearer and nearer!!! Here is a video playlist of the famous Xmas music that you can hear when you are doing last-minute Xmas shopping in ALL the…
£64 million lottery: Lottery Vocabulary
A British resident lost out on £64m this month. Yes, you read it right sixty four million pounds. The precise amount was actually £63,837,543.60. It was the prize from the…
R&R 26: Northern accent – Xmas day traditions
Real & Relevant Podcast 26 Natural English Conversation between English teachers Paul joins the pod today. He is the owner of an SGI sister school, The British Centre in San…