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Being great at English: How bad do you want it?
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Not only English, being great at anything pretty much all comes down to how bad you want it. You’ve got to want it! You’ve got to want it so bad that you wouldn’t want to exist in this world without it. It’s the food you eat, the water you drink and the air your…
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Simple past “ed” speaking activity
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Listening & Speaking activity Level: Higher elementary, Pre-intermediate and Lower Intermediate. Length: 90-120 minutes. Created by: Patrick Hayeck You’re welcome to use this material in your classroom but it would be great it you could credit me for it and recommend this website to both students and teachers. PART A: Minimal pairs /t/ and…
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Bad pronunciation: 3 don’ts
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Bad pronunciation comes basically from 3 reasons that your pronunciation may not be good enough or clear enough. We’ll refer to these 3 reasons as the 3 don’ts. We’ll use the following sentence to demonstrate the 3 dont’s. I will get back to you as soon as possible (you often say or hear that…
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Sentence stress-intonation activity
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If you’re a teacher, don’t give your students a headache by talking too much about the jargon, just tell them that we usually choose a word or two in a sentence to put more stress on to help the listener understand the key point or idea of the sentence. If you get asked by…
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Teaching Conditionals 1 and 2 in context
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MEET TOMOHIRO MEET AYAKO He comes from a rich family. He has a job and work experience. He is going to do the TOEIC test 3 months later, so he has plenty of time to study for it. He lives in the US. He thinks his girlfriend might be cheating on him. She comes…
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Native English or Native American
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They’re not the same. You can be speaking native English without a purely American accent, British accent, Australian accent, Kiwi accent, Canadian accent, Irish accent, Scottish accent or South African accent. It can be a mix of all these accents. Your English could borrow different attributes or characteristics from each one of the accents…
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You’re done memorizing the dictionary, now what?
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Isn’t that what many learners do? Literally study and memorize the dictionary from cover to cover? And how many learners study every grammar rule in the textbook? Some learners seriously know about the structure of the language more than many teachers. I have also met so many of them who are extremely fluent, and…
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Putin’ up with Putin!
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Not that my website has anything to do with politics but when Mr. Putin decides to get himself into the kind of mess he’s gotten himself into, one’s got to pause and try to figure out why this man’s just lost all his marbles, invaded a country with thousands of troops and hundreds of…
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Get Your pronunciation corrected for FREE with FAFA.
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ATTENTION ENGLISH LEARNERS AND TEACHERS. Do you LEARNERS want to get some FREE PERSONAL feedback on your pronunciation and some FREE tips on how to correct them? Do you TEACHERS want your learners to find out what their INDIVIDUAL pronunciation problems are get some FREE advice on how to correct them? Well… FAFA IS…