Hi. My name is Ola, and I “inherited” this blog from Toby, the one and only – Bite Sized English creator.
So… let me introduce myself: I have been teaching and studying English for quite some years now, and I’ve discovered that it can be very complex, and it can be very simple. It all depends [...]
This is an entry about a common English idiom. I hope to make more of these entries.
This entry is available as a Adobe Acrobat file for printing or use in a class. This entry includes a listening exercises. You can dowload the MP3 or play it using the button below. (MP3)
When [...]
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Do you believe in aliens? I don’t mean Hollywood aliens, like you see in “Independence Day” or other movies. I mean the ‘real’ aliens, extraterrestrials. I’m asking because CNN has a story about [...]
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 [...]
This entry is spoken, so that you can listen to it while you read.
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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 [...]
This entry is available as a Adobe Acrobat file for printing or use in a class.
This entry is spoken, so that you can listen to it while you read.
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 [...]
