It’s been a long time since I posted new material here – I have not been teaching for quite some time. However I heard today from a website called Lesson Corner and thought that my visitors here would like to know about the site which has some excellent resources – and lots of them. These…
I’ve not been making posts as frequently as usual recently as I have been very busy so here is a special edition to make up for it. Last night someone introduced me to NASA TV at the website of the US Space Exploration Program. Wow! You can watch a live webcam broadcast of astronauts aboard…
Here are the today’s words for vocabulary learners everywhere. Sorry if these posts are not that frequent at the moment, I haven’t been too well lately. However, I have found a new internet tool that will really help you to enjoy learning words and investigating their meaning. It is called Visuwords and is a perfect…
Hello to everyone who is working their way through my Daily Words posts. Here are the words for today: integrity n. quality of being honest and morally upright intervene v. (of time) come or be between mature adj. fully grown or developed mentally or physically; having achieved one’s full potential site n. place where a…
One of my more popular posts here was a mini-lesson, suitable for all English learners who need to write or speak about solutions for Environmental problems, featuring the work of two inspirational friends of mine, Stella and Tara Joy in India. They have been hard at work recently creating an online exhibition featuring words and…
Here are the words for today. This is the 17th Daily Words post. All the words are in these lists have been chosen because they are the ones that really do turn up regularly in advanced exams including CPE, ECPE, CAE, IELTS and TOEFL and are useful for FCE and ECCE. They are the kinds…
Most of my students have come to me hating Phrasal Verbs and I am not surprised. These wicked little English Language beasts could not be more confusing if a set of ingenious Ancient Britons had sat down with the deliberate intention of making life difficult for foreigners. Many of them mean several different things. If…
Hello again! Sorry there haven’t been any Daily Words for a while. I’ve been away on a working trip which went on a bit longer than I anticipated mostly because of the weather. You might have seen that we had heavy snow in Greece – that meant no boats so I got stuck on a…
Hello everyone, Here are today’s Daily Words for students preparing for all advanced and intermediate English exams. How are you doing? When you learn these words do you use your dictionary tools to discover the different forms of the words? What about synonyms? likewise adv. similarly parameter n. quantity that does not vary in a…
Ok, here are the essential CPE and IELTS words for today – I’ve missed a few days because I’ve been over working on my art blog at http://paintingsbygina.wordpress.com substitute n. ~ person or thing that replaces, acts for or serves as sb or sth else target n. object or mark that a person tries to…
Passing English 