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Vocabulary Showcase: Synonyms for “family”
The Simpsons is 3 months older than I am! Let’s have a look together at some other ways of saying “family” so you can expand (increase) your vocabulary.
Saturday Supplement: Times are tough, can you help?
Times are tough for Wright English. They could definitely be worse, but my cat colleagues and I are struggling, and we need your help. Your help will not cost you a penny.
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.
Midweek Mini-lesson: How to practice speaking English in your country
It can be a challenge to find a good way to practice your English speaking if you do not live in an English-speaking country.
Vocabulary Showcase: Synonyms for “ignore”
So, how about the word “ignore”? Are there other ways to say that? This is English, of course there are hundreds of ways to say that!
Kids Corner: Intensity in adjectives
Ok kids, I need to know, how fat is your sandwich? You can say, slightly fat, pretty fat, very fat and extremely fat. That’s a bit basic though isn’t it? Let’s think about the intensity (strength) of our adjectives (describing words).
YOU ARE WANTED - Spaces for new English students!
Right now, I have some spaces for new English students! So, you are wanted! All levels welcome. All ages welcome.
Vocabulary Showcase: “Natural”
I listen to those around me in the winter, and they see it as cold, dark, sad, and depressing. When I look around in the winter, I see stunning natural beauty all around me.
Kids Corner: Sock Lobsters - Literature for Children
Introduce your children to the fun of excellent English stories for kids at a young age.
Vocabulary Showcase: “new”
It’s January 2021, and I don’t know about you, but I have been desperate to start this year and leave 2020 behind.
Sunday Funday: Typos that do not dissapoint
Sometimes you google something and get more than you bargained for.
Saturday Supplement: Teacher life in the holidays
On one hand I get a lot of time off at Christmas, on the other hand I get maybe a little too much time off at Christmas.
Happy New Year from Wright English!
Happy New Year to everyone! 2021 has many promises for us all of a better future.
Kids Corner: Understand your Author (GCSE)
If you want to give yourself a head start in your G.C.S.E English literature classes (or mixed English classes) I have a very useful tip for you: Understand your author!
Vocabulary Showcase: Describing Weather
Do you know how to describe the weather? The old joke is that the English only talk about the weather
Sunday Funday: The dog ate my homework
Just say you didn’t do it!
Kids Corner: Do you struggle with imagination? No problem!
Not everyone is a walking imagination machine. Some people are blessed with a lot of logic and technical ability. Unfortunately, you still need to practice creative writing at school because life is unfair.
Kids Corner KS2 : Using Similes to add flavour to descriptions
What is a simile? Basically it is when you compare something to something else (it comes from the word “similar”). Here is an example: “The dog puked like someone squeezing a tube of toothpaste”.
Saturday Supplement: Inhale Reading Exhale Writing
I was interviewed on Instagram by the lovely Olga Bond from Poland (tesol.in.poland) to talk about techniques for helping learners improve their creative writing.