Self study resources

Mastering the Future Tense: A Guide to Clear Communication

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Mastering the Future Tense: A Guide to Clear Communication

Week 7 is finally here! You did it! This week we'll be focusing on the future tense. It should be a nice relief after two weeks of the...

Mastering the Present Perfect Continuous: A Guide to Clear Communication

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2 min

Mastering the Present Perfect Continuous: A Guide to Clear Communication

Week 6 is here! Only one more week to go in this mini grammar revision course! If you've missed any of the previous posts in the course,...

Mastering the Present Perfect Simple: A Guide to Clear Communication

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2 min

Mastering the Present Perfect Simple: A Guide to Clear Communication

Good for you! You've made it halfway through your free Summer Grammar Revision Course! If you've missed any of the previous posts, check...

Mastering the Past Continuous: A Guide to Clear Communication

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3 min

Mastering the Past Continuous: A Guide to Clear Communication

Week 4 of your Summer Grammar Review is here! If you haven't been following, make sure to read these three posts so that you are up to...

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3 min

Mastering the Past Simple

Week 3 of your summer grammar tenses revision is all about the past. The past simple tense is one of the most fundamental tenses, because...

Mastering the Present Continuous: A Guide to Clear Communication

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3 min

Mastering the Present Continuous: A Guide to Clear Communication

This week in our 7 week review series, we're focusing on the present continuous, which has many other uses than just to talk about "right...

Mastering the Present Simple Tense: A Guide to Clear Communication

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2 min

Mastering the Present Simple Tense: A Guide to Clear Communication

Over the next 7 weeks, we'll be doing a bit of grammar review, think of it as your crash course for the summer. This week, we'll be...

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2 min

Talking about movement

Nope, not verbs. Prepositions, again! I could go on forever about them, there are so many things to explain, but today we're focusing...

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1 min

Where is...?

Prepositions are such lovely little words. So small yet so significant. So forgotten yet so important if you want to speak properly. So...

If only I had done something differently...

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1 min

If only I had done something differently...

If I had chosen a different university degree... What would your life look like? Can you finish the sentence? ...I would have studied to...

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1 min

If I had a million euros...

If I had a million euros, I would/wouldn't... Go ahead, finish the sentence, you can dream! ...I would take a year off to travel the...

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1 min

If it rains...

If it rains, I will/won't... Finish the sentence, the possibilities are endless! If it rains, I'll have a nap. If it rains, I won't go...

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1 min

It's funny...or it's fun?!

I had a really funny weekend! If I had a euro...even 50 cents...for every time I've heard this mistake, I would be a millionaire...or at...

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2 min

Love is a verb!

Love is in the air, it's Valentine's week! But this in an English language blog, so we won't be talking about any sappy stuff, instead,...

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2 min

Quality ESL resources

In the first two posts in this series, I talked about how to start studying English and study methods. Today I'm going to dive into the...

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2 min

Present Perfect Simple vs. Continuous

Oh. my. god. Claire. stop. Sorry everyone, but the problem with English isn't so much the singular tenses themselves, but the sometimes...

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1 min

The present perfect continuous

Have you been following my blog recently? If you have, you've already read this post on the present perfect simple, so now it's time to...

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2 min

Collocations...huh?

What is a collocation? Well, in grammar terms, it means two words that must go together, specifically a verb + a noun. Think of them like...

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2 min

The present perfect simple

IS MOST CERTAINLY NOT SIMPLE! Don't despair, I'll try to make it as simple as possible, even though the basic grammar rules cannot be...

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1 min

Do you use the future tense correctly?

I will. No, I won't! I'm going to. No, actually, I'm not going to... Do you really know the difference between the two future tenses?...