What the Fluff Wednesday: I think I live in Sleepy Hollow
“Booooooo” and other ghost noises. I love it when it gets really foggy (weather with low clouds making it difficult to see) in England. I feel like I am living in a spooky film.
GCSE and A-Level Goblin: There’s a New Infographic About Scrooge!
I’ve worked really hard, with a Wright English student I will call J, to create a helpful infographic (an educational picture) all about Marley’s intervention.
Vocabulary Showcase - Synonyms for ‘Sad’
Sometimes you just feel sad, and that’s normal. It’s important to explain how you feel. Let’s look at different words with the same meaning (synonyms) as sad.
Vocabulary Showcase: Atrocity vs. Tragedy and the Important Difference
Words change their meanings all the time, this is normal for a culture and a language. But, there are times when we need to think about the power that words have, and what the consequences of powerful words changing their meanings could be.
Gateway to Grammar: Prepositions of Place 3 - Inside, Outside, Through, and Around
Welcome to part 3 of the Gateway to Grammar series on Prepositions for Place (staying still - where is it?) and Movement (moving around - where is it going?).
Business Builder: Business English for Banking
Business English is a passport (travel document) to the English-speaking world, and each sector (job area you work in) has different vocabulary, skills, and grammar. Let’s take a look at Business English for Banking.
What The Fluff Wednesday: Weird but Educational
Welcome to What The Fluff Wednesday, the day of the week where I am the most serious version of myself with no humour or joy.
GCSE and A-Level Goblin: GCSE Poetry Analysis Table
So, today I want to introduce a neat way of analysing poetry for GCSE that makes sure you cover every topic you need to. Gareth! Draxos is tired now, stop kicking him!
Vocabulary Showcase: Synonyms for Integrity
Let’s talk about integrity: what it means, and other words that mean similar things (synonyms). Integrity means being honest in what you say and what you do. It also usually means having moral ideals and sticking to them (not going against your own ideals).
Gateway to Grammar: Prepositions of Place and Movement 2 - Above, Underneath, Over and Under.
Welcome to the second part of Prepositions of Place and Movement, and all the cat pictures that come with it. It’s my mission to include cat pictures whenever possible. We will be adding 2 more prepositions of place and 2 more prepositions of movement this week.
Business Builder: Supporting Your Customers and Sounding Like You Care
You might be thinking, “Sounding like we care? Of course we care about our customers!” Let me ask you, when you are on the phone to customer services, listening to someone read the same script for the 3000th time, do you feel like the representative cares? I’m going to guess the answer is “no”.
What The Fluff Wednesday: I’m a Cat With a Laptop Meme (and FAQ)
I’m a highly productive cat on a keyboard. Actually I’m a real human with thumbs and everything. Look this is me, a real human being (and that’s my old Wright English logo).
GCSE and A-Level Goblin: The Best Audiobook Version of Macbeth
GAG: “Hello everyone thanks for dragging yourself to my muddy forest hut and office. Today I’m gonna recommend a brilliant audiobook to help you revise Macbeth for GCSE English Literature, because I basically have to.”
Vocabulary Showcase: Synonyms for ‘Change‘
We are on the edge of 2024 and 2025, a time for change and new things. Let’s take a look at some synonyms (different words with the same meaning) for ‘change’.
Gateway to Grammar: How to Use ‘In’ and ‘On’ When Staying Still and Moving
‘In’ and ‘on’ are prepositions of place. Prepositions are words that describe a noun’s (in our example a cat’s) relationship with other people or things. Prepositions of place tell you where your noun is in relation to other things.
Business Builder: Making Christmas Time Office Greetings Easy
I’m extremely happy to tell you that the modern workplace is a multicultural environment, which means most people have colleagues from other cultures and parts of the world. Wonderful! The problem is, that when it comes to Christmas time in a traditionally Christian country, people are not sure what to say.
Happy Christmas and Thank You!
I’m happy and Merry, but I’m British English and we traditionally say Happy Christmas. It is more American to say Merry Christmas. In 2024 though, it’s so normal to say Merry Christmas that lots of English people don’t know about Happy Christmas. So, say whatever you like!
The GCSE and A-Level Goblin: New Christmas Carol Ghost Profiles
“This is more of an announcement than anything I suppose. I spent ages making one of those Infographic things that everyone likes. This one is all about the Ghosts in Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol.”
Vocabulary Showcase: Synonyms for ‘Celebrate’
It’s Vocabulary Showcase and Ginger might have lost a friend there, but at least he has some great photos of Gavin to laugh at for years to come. This week we are looking at synonyms (other words with the same meaning) for celebrate.
Gateway to Grammar: Question Tags - What Are They and How Do They Work?
I don’t know why I chose cheese guys, I just thought it was a silly enough example for you to remember it. We are looking at question tags today, the little confusing question bits at the end of a native English person’s sentence.