This week we’re going to focus on a basic English task: talking about yourself. One of the first things you learn in English is to describe the way you look, or the way someone else looks. But can you describe your personality? Can you describe your work history? What are your interests?
How would you describe [...]
It’s a little bit late, but now that we know how popular Barack’s speeches were, I didn’t think you should have to buy a book to hear them. Here’s the official White House version of the new President’s speech. And, as always, I’ve included the text of the speech if you’d like to [...]
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To practice ‘pure’ English–English for English speakers–you can’t do much better than the news. Here, I’ve found an interesting story from Reuters titled “Japan learns English from Obama speech textbook” and, as listening practice, I’ve read [...]
My students know that one of the things I’m picky about is using verb tenses correctly. And, for my German students at least, the pasts seem to be among the most diffifcult things to master in English, because the grammar seems similar to German, but is different. Look at these two sentences:
I have eaten breakfast.
I [...]
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We are confronted primarily with a moral issue. It is as old as the scriptures and is as clear as the American Constitution.
The heart of the question [...]
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I don’t know where you live, but here in Germany it’s not really breaking news that Barack Obama was elected to be the forty-fourth President of the [...]
To practice your English nothing helps as much as finding people you can ask questions and get help from. Where can you find those people? Well, I like to think I’m one of them, but there are a lot more all across the internet.
In online forums, you can participate in conversations, find answers to your [...]
