Daily Words 20 – Space Exploration Special

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 [...]

Oh Dear!

I’m embarrassed to say I appear to have annoyed someone with my post Cats Cant’ Spell and Have Terrible Grammar Enter the ICHC online Poker Cats Contest! So sorry! Do excuse me!

Writing about Youth Crime – a Success Story

Here is a really brilliant topic resource for any student who needs to write an essay about Youth problems. It is a news report from the UK’s Sky News about a highly successful scheme set up to offer young men who have been excluded from school for bad behaviour a new and different way to [...]

IELTS Listening Tests

Preparing for the IELTS Listening Test needs lots of practice. I had a pretty hard time finding enough for my students. In the end I found a brilliant set buried on ebay which was not the first place I would have looked for ESL materials. IELTS Tutorials have a great little ebay shop where you [...]

Daily Words 11

Here are today’s words. How are you doing? If you are do you go back and test yourself on what you have already learnt? How about writing some sentences – you can post them here in the comments below each Daily Words lesson. Wouldn’t it be great if people from around the world added good [...]

A Lesson about Rubbish

Yesterday I wrote about the great resources at the BBC Learning webpages. Here’s a good example to try today. It’s a news story about problems with rubbish in Italy which has been adapted for English learners. You get a vocabulary and idiom list, an audio version so you can listen to it as well as [...]

English for Beginners

If your English is not much better than the lolcats but you want to improve here  is a wonderful website with free online English lessons for beginners or people who need to revise very basic skills to help you reach your goal. http://www.learn-english-online.org/

“Quotation Marks”

I found a very useful resource on Quotation Marks (“” ”) this morning. It’s a good example though of a wonderful piece of information about English which is too long and complicated unless you already speak and read excellent English (it would put me to sleep if it was written in Greek!). I think this [...]

Hello world!

This blog is in development. If you find it you might find some useful stuff here if you look around but right now it isn’t ready!!! Leave a message here if you are looking for online English lessons. I can take some new students very soon. Come on over and visit my painting blog and [...]

Grammar Page – Coming soon

This page will concentrate on offering projects to improve the most common mistakes and bad habits students need to correct. Each section will be designed to give you a study unit to solve a problem that loses you marks. In my experience many students lose most marks through just a few bad problems. The only [...]