What the Fluff Wednesday: English is “Easy”
I’m an English teacher, and many people have told me how “easy” English is to learn. I like to remind people that reading English and speaking English are two different things, and for many people, it’s a bit like roulette choosing the spelling and pronunciation.
Vocabulary Showcase: Synonyms for “fart”
Ladies and gentle people, today we are looking at new and exciting ways to say the word “fart”.
Vocabulary Showcase: “bad”
Exactly how “bad” do your socks smell? Are they only a little bit bad? Or are the extremely bad?
When even Google Search knows you are a weirdo
I swear I don’t….
Sunday Funday: I’m a sad owl
Is this what my future stress and anxiety nightmares will look like?
Sunday Funday: Teacher-Zilla
The truth is I just say “Yeah no worries. It’s up to you”.
Sunday Funday: The English Teaching Mafia
I post English teaching memes every Sunday. Have I gone too far?
Sunday Funday: Calculator Wizardry
Teach me how to English with a calculator!
Kids Corner: Madlibs - Fun English games for kids
Madlibs are funny little improvised (not planned) stories where words are missing.
Vocabulary Showcase: British insults without swearing
It is a bit of a British tradition to be gently mean to your friends. It is a strange way of showing you like them!
Sunday Funday: You don’t spellcheck your essays
I swear, if you don’t proofread your homework, I will dress like Austin Powers for our next private English lesson. You have been warned baby!
Sunday Funday: British and American English are 2 different languages
Sunday Funday: Don’t message me before coffee
What? And I suppose you wake up like an angelic teaching elf with all the patience of a friendly nurse on tranquilizers, do you? Well, I don’t! I run on coffee. If I haven’t had coffee either run, stay silent, or use full words in your emails.
Sunday Funday: When you run out of homework ideas
What is your essay going to say? “Today I only ate half of the fridge. Today was a good day”.
Saturday Supplement: A fed up working cat
“It’s a hard life being a working cat. There are so many sunbeams I can’t snooze in. Sometimes I get this itch under my chin, and the human just strokes the top of my head. What’s that about? That’s basically torture.
Sunday Funday: English Tattoo Fails
Maybe you are “Awsome” and you do regret “nohing”, but I would still check with your English teacher before you get that tattoo. That could be embarrassing. Oh boy!
Sunday Funday: English club has no rules
One does not simply learn English! (that’s a lord of the rings reference). Just when you think you have learned a rule, an irregular verb comes along and ruins all your fun. Cruel cruel English.
Sunday Funday: I have a cat problem
I don’t have a cat problem. YOU have a cat problem.
Sunday Funday: “I’ll Merry Christmas you!”
Not everyone in England is holly-jolly at Christmas time. This British bulldog is having none of your Christmas nonsense!
Sunday Funday: I began a sentence with ‘because’
Don’t test me. Don’t do it. Don’t try me……. Just don’t even. (Unless you want to know why and then you can ask!)