written by Lilian Ndongmo. ESL Teacher You must have learned how to form adverbs from adjectives. If not, it’s quite easy. To change an adjective…
written by Lilian Ndongmo. ESL Teacher Our last post explained how to use the articles A, An and The. Today, we will look at the…
written by Lilian Ndongmo. ESL Teacher Using So There are at least seven different situations (functions) in which so can be used. Today, we will…
written by Lilian Ndongmo. ESL Teacher Today, we will look at two idioms: 1. To make faces (at someone) Meaning: make (usually silly) expressions with…
Written by Lilian Ndongmo. ESL Teacher When talking about animals and the meat of these animals, the names are not the same. Let’s look at…
written by Lilian Ndongmo. ESL Teacher The purpose of this article is to address the usage of course, class and lesson, which many of my…
written by Lilian Ndongmo. ESL Teacher The word “babymoon” is a fairly new word in English usage. It was coined in 1996 from “honeymoon’, which is…
written by Lilian Ndongmo. ESL Teacher Anymore Meaning 1: a definitive and permanent stop of an action, a thing or a person Synonym: any longer Example: …
written by Lilian Ndongmo. ESL Teacher Workafrolic was coined in 2005 by Richard St. John during a TED presentation. Definition Workafrolic is a combination of the…
written by Lilian Ndongmo. ESL Teacher What makes these words confusing? 1. Difference in spelling Complement is spelled with an ‘e’ in the third syllable, while…
written by Lilian Ndongmo. ESL Teacher For many learners, learning English is even more challenging when they come across certain words which make them feel confused…
written by Lilian Ndongmo. ESL Teacher You’re on a social network. You want to make friends, but somehow you’re not getting any. You browse thousands of…
written by Lilian Ndongmo. ESL Teacher Yesterday in class, I nearly got my head bitten off. I was telling Habiba, my student, about something I was…
written by Lilian Ndongmo. ESL Teacher Have you ever heard, seen or used this word before? Do you know what it means? This is one of…
written by Lilian Ndongmo. ESL Teacher Let’s look at three today. 1. Nothing to write home about Meaning: Something or someone is not as good as…
written by Lilian Ndongmo. ESL Teacher What’s the difference? Do you use them correctly? SOMETIMES This is an adverb of frequency. It means “from time to…
written by Lilian Ndongmo. ESL Teacher When and how to use “do” or “make” can be quite confusing. Using these verbs in other languages can be…
The correct pronunciation of PSY
written by Lilian Ndongmo. ESL Teacher Words that begin with PSY are often very troublesome for many English learners to pronounce. People whose first or native…
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