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Weekly Series
Vocabulary Showcase - Mondays
Business Builder - Tuesdays
What The Fluff Wednesday - Wednesdays
GCSE and A-Level Goblin - Thursdays
Gateway to Grammar - Fridays
Blog Topics
Kids Corner: KS2 The Essay Burger
Organising an essay huh? Complicated isn’t it?! Even if you really know what you are talking about, somehow the information just seems more important than the structure right? I see what you mean but now it is time to become an essay master. It is time to be an essay burger slinger in the fast-food English lesson of life!
Midweek Mini-lesson: How to remember something for 21 years.
If you want to learn how to remember something for over 21 years, this is the memory technique for you! Sometimes I wish it didn’t work so well!
Business Builder: Work Life Balance
We have all been there. That place where you realise that you have to choose between your employers (people who pay you), and your health. It can be our mental health, or our physical health, or in my case, both.
Vocabulary Showcase: Peaceful
Sometimes you want to say something other than peaceful. Here are some ways to describe situations or places that are peaceful.
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.
Gateway to Grammar: He / She / It - Where does the ‘S’ fit?
There are many tenses (grammar for time) in English. I am going to teach you one phrase that will help you more than anything else when it comes to English grammar!
Kids Corner: Writing in the passive voice
So now at school you need to improve your writing for non-fiction. Fiction means written stories, non-fiction means written facts, or reference books. Dictionaries, textbooks, and books about real people like the Pope are non-fiction.
Wednesday Wildcard : Free Simple English Tenses Guide
Welcome to the first Wednesday Wildcard!
This week I am highlighting the free learning resources available to you on www.wrightenglish.com
Business Builder: Practice your listening skills with 5 Business English podcasts
If you want to improve your Business English, you will find that general conversation does not really help. This is because we use specific, and often advanced, vocabulary and grammar for business.
Vocabulary Showcase: “Fat”
Sometimes we need to describe a person or animal that is “fat”, but this is not a polite way to say it. It is important to think about the feelings of the person we describe. Let’s look at different ways to describe large people and animals, and how they are used
Sunday is Funday: Learning English is a serious Business!
Sometimes you just have to have a little fun learning English, but don’t test me. Teaching English is a serious business!
Saturday Suppliment: Meet the team - Me!
You’ve met Kodi and Nanook so now it’s time to meet the brains behind Wright English and meet me: Lana Betts
Gateway to Grammar: Articles in English
To stop the confusion at the start I don’t mean news or magazine articles, articles in English grammar are “a”, “an”, and “the”. There are some simple rules of what they are and when to use them.
Kids Corner: How to start a story
Creative writing can be difficult, and the most difficult part is the start. We can’t start with “Once upon a time” anymore.
Midweek mini-lesson: Pronunciation
I go through the most difficult to pronounce words in the English language in this educational and fun video.
Business Builder 02: Saying “Thank you”
It can help to build relationships in the work environment to thank those who help you in your business. Let’s look at some different ways to so this.
Vocabulary Showcase: Clothing
Sunday Funday: Listen to your English Teacher!
All English Teachers are guilty of this!
Saturday Supplement: Meet Nanook
Name: Nanook Betts
Company Role: I’m the CEO of Wright English, Head Cuddler and the Emergency Doorbell Monitor.
Gateway to Grammar: The Present Perfect Tense - A Presently Perfect Poem
This week we are looking at the present perfect tense. The present perfect is used to describe things that started in the past and are still happening now. For things that are finished we use the past simple. Times that started in the past and are still happening now: Today, This week, This year, “yet” etc. We also use the present perfect when something has just finished, but the effects are still active such as “I have been running all day, that’s why I am so tired”.