Here’s a question someone sent me on Facebook:
And the answer is…
No.
From The Mailbag Friday – Here’s a student I can’t help
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I Would FAIL The iELTS Speaking Exam. Here’s why…
Many years ago I owned a few exam preparation books.
The FCE…the CAE…the iELTS…
If a student wanted to practise for the exam, and had cash, I was willing.
Then, one by one, as my students got their certificates, I noticed the same thing…
Darkness Falls on the River…
From the Mailbag Friday
Happy Friday!
(By the way, have you ever heard the expression”TGIF”? Do you know what it stands for? Keep reading and I’ll give you the answer. A lot of students get it wrong…)
Every Friday I answer a reader’s question.
This time however, I’d like to answer a question that was asked during yesterday’s live training.
How to remember – Three lessons from research
This week we’re looking for the most powerful aspirin to cure one of the biggest English headaches…
I’m talking about: How to remember English words.
Let’s begin with a quick tour through the research. Just follow the orange umbrella…
1. Ebbinghaus — “You must review.”
This is Hermann Ebbinghaus.
If “vocabulary” is on your list of English problems…
There are 195 countries in the world.
And today, 117 are “completely closed.”
This is according to the travel site kayak.com
So how to travel during The Summer of No Travel?
From the Mailbag Friday
What’s a mailbag?
Well, it’s a bag. And inside… there’s mail.
(See why people say I’m such an amazing teacher?)
And in the old days, when a writer would publish his opinion in a newspapers, some readers would send him a letter, usually because they agreed or disagreed.
You Can Choose The Best Time Of The Day For Your English
I just finished a big freelance writing project yesterday.
I don’t do those jobs anymore.
Now I’m focusing 100% on teaching.
But when I said “yes” to this project, it was last summer.
Why Your Friends Can Help – Or Hurt – Your English
Martina was a student who really felt bad about her English.
I could tell every time she opened her mouth, every time she made a sound… she wasn’t sure about her words, my words, even if she could finish the sentence she was trying to form…
Then one day, as we were sitting on my couch in my apartment, drinking coffee and talking about I don’t remember what, she told me none of her friends spoke English.
“Interesting,” I thought.
