Artículos escritos por profesores particulares de Inglés nativos

Have you ever asked yourself why native English speakers say fast food instead of, for example, quick food or fast meal? And why hard work and not arduous work? What about heavy rain, big fight and regular exercise? I’m sure we can all find at least one other way to say these things. And yet, natives always use the same combinations, over and over again. So why do you thi...

Well, don’t be alarmed. I’m not a nerd (1), just look like one. Actually, I was watching Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. By myself (=alone), with a huge mug of ice-cream - yeah, I eat ice-cream in a mug -, and a lot of nervous expectations. I just finished the fifth film and couldn’t be more excited. And to be honest, I am only writing this because a technologically challenged girl that I am, I couldn’t play th...

HI there everyone! have you ever wonder what defines us a citizens of a specific country? and do they actually define us? finally what are the typical stereotypes that usually and mostly certnaily annoy us? I'm Italian and I can tell you that we are all about stereotypes and generilization. We're defo famous for PIZZA (which is actually delicious especially in Naples!), pasta, in that we eat a lot of it...(generalization as not everybody ha...

Common mistakes made by Spanish learners of English. Ever wondered why speakers of a certain language tend to make the same grammar, pronunciation and vocabulary mistakes when learning a foreign language?  Well, linguists blame it on our natural instinct to translate from our mother tongue. For example,  speakers of romance languages like Italian or Spanish drop in too many articles and prepositions when translating literally from thei...

"The characters are like drawing to me!" I heard it many times from my foreign friends. Every time when I heard of it, I laughed. Actually, it is a very interesting comment. When I learn other languages I may also have the feeling that the some parts of a language is so difficult. For example, I am in deep struggling of the conjugations of the verbs in Spanish.  So one question brought about: in which part Mandarin is almost effortless to p...

I can't think of a nicer way to learn English than doing English speaking mountain walks! The other day, I was out a walk in the beautiful Picos de Europa, in Cantabria Spain and the idea came to me. In fact, I had been having similar ideas for a long time. Why not make English learning more hands on, exciting and further away from the boring old class room? Well I finally managed it!  I'm lucky that I currently live and work right in the h...

INTRODUCCIÓN Se tratan de varias sesiones de una hora cada una en las que los alumnos, a través de las diferentes actividades significativas propuestas, aprenderan el vocabulario de la ropa en inglés y pondran en práctica su expresión verbal. Se haran de manera grupal ( en la última sesión) y de manera individual y autónoma durante el proceso de creación del puppet.    BREV...

Many English, or in fact any foreign language learners, fall into the trap of thinking that they must learn the whole of the grammar book and at least half of the dictionary before they dare to venture into the speaking world.     Perhaps, some are simply lacking the platform or the place to practise their speaking skills, others just don't have the financial means. But more often than not too many are afraid of speaking for fear of ma...

There are four tones in Mandarin. The first flat one, high pitch, the second rising tone (like a question in English and Spanish), from lower to higher pitch, the third tone, falling rising, the forth one is the falling. It seems complicated when you read all this explanations, but it isn't when you try it. As to the Spanish students, due to the variety of Spanish pronunciation, it is much earlier to get the essence of the tones.  Does it m...

En las lenguas que conozco se usa diferente palabra para oír y escuchar. La diferencia está en la intención. No podemos evitar oír, pero debemos de poner voluntad para escuchar. En el programa “No es un día cualquiera” a los seguidores se les llama escuchantes porque estamos interesados en las historias que nos cuentan. Ahora yo me encuentro muchas veces que las personas ni me escuchan ni me oyen, piensan en lo que van a decir a continuación. Te...

Hi all of you, It's Maite Cirera. I've been teaching English for 4 years. Some of you may have learnt English in any time, some haven't. Anyway, the topic I wanted to start this blog is that "double eich" word that really matters: WHY. This is a simple but not-so-simple to answer question that I usually ask my students the first time I talk to them. Some tell me "For taking a job", fine, that's a usual and great objective. Because what's b...

English version Hello everybody! How is everything going? Personally, if we stop thinking about terrorist attacks, I am very happy because summer is coming, the sun is out the majority of days, my toes are out as well in my new sandals and also new ideas for my articles come out of my mind. For example, this week, I have planned to share with you some expressions and abbreviations/acronyms that I have learnt after spending a lot of ours reading ...

THE SELFIE CAT The aim of this lesson is to teach beginners to describe people and animals using adjectives. The material used is a funny video about a girl and her cat that doesn´t like to appear in pictures.    The students will learn about the structures like He/she has got and some basic adjectives that describe personality and physical appearance.    While making the descriptions, the children will also learn about some ...

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