🎭 Guess Who I Am! — Fun Descriptions with GIFs 🎬 Ready to play a game? In this activity, you’ll see a gallery of famous characters. Each one “speaks” and gives you a few clues about who they are.Your job is simple: listen, and guess! 🧩 How to Use This Activity Look at the GIFs.Each…… Continue reading A1/A2 Who am I?
Where do you live? 🏡In this post you’ll learn how to give your address in English — how to say the street, number, postcode and country.Download the cheat sheet, practise in class, and sound confident next time someone asks for your address! Happy learning!!! cheat sheet giving your addressDownload
Do you know how to say your phone number in English?It’s easy when you know the little tricks! In this short video, you’ll learn how to say numbers clearly — including what to do when you have double or triple digits. After watching, download the cheat sheet to help you remember and practise with your…… Continue reading A1/A2 Cheat Sheet: Phone Numbers in English
As I’m teaching A2 this year, I’ll be posting lots of useful content and cheat sheets to help my students along the way. In this post, you can download a cheat sheet and try a quick quiz to refresh your grammar. Happy learning! the indefinite articleDownload
A whimsical poem to practise pronunciation and intonation This sweet and rather silly poem has long been a favourite among English-speaking children, and for good reason — it’s musical, memorable, and packed with playful sounds. But beyond the fun, I truly believe that rhymes, tongue-twisters, and poetry are powerful tools to help learners improve both…… Continue reading Cultural Corner: The Owl and the Pussycat
If you have problems saying something like ‘Young rats in black hats’ or ‘The cat sat on my hat’ Then this video on phonetics will be handy as it will help you practise this open ‘a’ (ahhhhhhh!) sound. https://youtu.be/l3Y0jZY0d8g Serena’s blog
As a start for this year, here’s another video on English vowel sounds. This video is for short and long i sounds that are often confused by learners of English. At the end of the video you have a short listening activity to practise distinguishing the sound between two words that have a very similar…… Continue reading English vowel sounds short i /I/ & long I /i:/
Some years ago I devoted part of the blog to this area of language learning, but now that the plug-in is no longer available, I needed to refocus on a new tool. So why not Youtube? I’m going to gradually upgrade all the stuff I wrote on phonetics and here is the very first video.…… Continue reading What is phonetics and why should we learn it?
Hi there! Here’s a new video and some related activities for some extra practice. This video aims to help beginners to cope with talking about celebrations. To set an example this video is about Christmas Day, but the video is useful for almost any celebration as it deals with routines. The video has a short…… Continue reading A1/A2 How to speak about your Christmas Day
Here’s another How to video for beginners. This video deals with hair vocabulary and adjective word order, which are some of the typical problems that beginners have during the first two years of learning English. If you’re a beginner and want to gain confidence in speaking and learning vocabulary. This video is for you! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJssgNVq5j8…… Continue reading A1/A2 How to speak about your hair
