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
Hi! Here’s another How to video. This video is a very first class video that beginners can use at home to practice their first sentences in English and gain confidence. It’s also helpful for going over nationality adjectives as there is a list with words that belong to the A2 certificate exams. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B88BrET-bI Serena’s blog
It’s true that these names are very, very similar to Spanish. But I’ve had so many students from Venzuela, Peru, Ecuador, Argentina and other South American countries that worried about how they were pronouncing these names that I decided to make a video. It’s another of the series of How to… videos that aim to…… Continue reading A1/A2 How to say the names of American countries in English
Here’s another of the How to series of videos for beginners. This video deals with names of European countries. At the end of the video you have a quiz that will help you remember and go over some of the names of these countries. I know that there are many names and that it is…… Continue reading A1/A2 How to say names of European countries in English
As a teacher that has taught all levels of English (or almost all levels, anyway), I realised that teaching beginners can be as challenging as teaching C2s students. The first reason for this is that adult learners usually feel very shy and self-conscious about making mistakes in front of their classmates so they need to…… Continue reading A1- A2 How To Say and Understand Phone Numbers in English
What’s your favourite type of food? Do you like savoury dishes or do you have a sweet tooth? I particularly go for savoury, but I also sometimes crave for chocolate. Here’s another of my tacky videos (sorry, I don’t have a good video editor, but I’ll finally get round to it. Promise!). This video covers…… Continue reading B2 Flavour vocabulary
What is it, match or suit? How do you pronounce k-n-i-t? Is it nit, nait, kit or whatever? Here’s another video vocabulary activity with most of these verbs for intermediate students. You’ll also be able to hear the examples I recorded the examples. https://youtu.be/BN3u6JxwvC8 Serena’s blog
Here’s a short video explaining the use of ‘going to, the present continuous and will. https://youtu.be/e5_aDXUMTxA
Here’s yet another one of those kitsch videos that I have the awful habit of producing every now and then. This one’s for indirect questions. As a reminder, indrect questions are the type of questions we ask when we don’t want to be too direct; maybe because we don’t know the person very well, or…… Continue reading B2 Indirect questions
