In this post, I'm offering a few tips on how you can discuss hobbies in English, and what kind of grammar structures you can use.
Graded readers: what are they and how to use them
During many years of teaching English, one thing Iโve consistently used with my students have been graded readers (you can see the ones I'm currently using in the cover photo at the top). There are different types of those - some are designed for native speaker children - but the ones Iโll be discussing here …
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Book review: “Hidden” by Paul Jaskunas
A young woman is brutally attacked in her rural Indiana home and almost left for dead. Her memory is patchy, evidence inconclusive, yet in court she insists that it was her extremely jealous husband who did the deed; of that she is absolutely certain. On the basis of her testimony, he gets convicted and ends …
The key vocabulary of Lent and Easter
In this post weโll get to learn a couple of key words connected with the major Christian holiday of Easter, as well as the days preceding it. Some of them have a really interesting origin, so weโll also take a quick look at their etymology and cultural background.
