ESL Games: Talking Boards

Today's post is about one of my favourite ESL activities: talking board games.

Noun, Verb, Adverb, Adjective: Parts Of Speech & Suffixes

We briefly covered parts of speech last year during our series on the TOEIC test. Today, we're going to go into more detail. We'll look at a few helpful infographics,  and do a few exercises to practice.

Business Presentations - Part 4: Dealing With Difficult Questions

You've have reached the end of your presentation and are now going to take questions from your audience. This can be the most challenging, and  it's the most important part of your talk. People's final impression of you will likely be made at this point. 

In today's post we'll cover the following types of situations:

a) You Don't The Answer

b) Question Machine Guns

c) Emotional Questions

d)  Hijackers

A Brief Look At Idioms

Idioms are tough because they are from English pop culture, history, and folklore. It's hard to really get their meaning by just looking at them. The best way to get the meaning is to look at the situations they are used in, and the "image" they put in your mind.

Grammatical Correctness VS Conversational English

First, let's me just say: having good grammar is important, but, in the goal in learning and using any language is communication. So, today, we're going to look at examples of where conversational English isn't always grammatically correct but is still okay.