It’s August – and that means it’s summer holiday time for many people in the Northern Hemisphere! If you’re a smart traveller, you will have thought about many of the things you need to keep you safe or to make sure you don’t have problems when you go abroad. For example, spare cash or credit …
William Shakespeare is probably the most famous writer ever to have lived – and certainly the most famous playwright to have written in the English language. He’s famous for telling the stories of Romeo & Juliet, Hamlet, MacBeth, King Lear and many others. He’s also famous for inventing lots of new words in the English …
Newsflash: if you’re looking a perfect English-speaking city to live, work, study or simply visit to help you improve your English, you don’t have to stick to the obvious, expensive!) cities of London, New York, Sydney and so on. Here are 11 amazing locations where English is the main language spoken and which you might …
One of the trickiest words you are likely to come across when learning English is onomatopoeia. It’s hard to spell and hard to pronounce… but it has a very simple meaning! First of all, let’s get the pronunciation right: on-oh-mat-oh-pee-ah. Onomatopoeia is when a word sounds like the thing it describes. For example, in English …
English is a very strange language in many ways. It’s made up of lots of bits and pieces from all different countries, cultures and other languages from all over the world. Many of its spellings and grammar rules are confusing. It’s spoken with all kinds of accents and dialects, in the UK and across the …
Exam season is here! Are you feeling nervous? Everyone hates exams, but there are some simple things you can do to make the whole thing much less stressful. Here are 20 quick and easy tips… for the long and difficult IELTS exam. Wear comfortable clothes. It sounds like a small thing, but in a 2 …
Here you can read the stories of our very first ambassador, Marion! Chapter 4: Looking back… 6 weeks (after finishing school I stayed on to travel around Cali) is both long and short, especially when you live 4 weeks in a city like San Diego. When traveling, we visit a lot of places, and despite …
Here you can read the stories of our very first ambassador, Marion! Chapter 3: A typical day at school (ft. my favourite places in San Diego) 7:00 am The alarm clock goes off ! I get ready, have lunch with Beverly, my host mom, who cooks delicious breakfasts and prepare a coffee in a cup …
The Brits can seem very strange to outsiders. Their dry humour and sarcasm, their obsession with the weather, their weird levels of politeness… it can all be a bit confusing if you’re new to the UK! Here are six very funny TV shows that will really help you to get inside the heads of Brits, …
It’s SO frustrating when you know you are saying the correct words in conversation, but you are still struggling to make yourself understood! Don’t get upset, embarrassed or offended, though. Sometimes it just takes a few small changes to where you place stress or intonation in a sentence to help a native speaker understand what …
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