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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 (KS3): How to discover your love of reading
One of your tasks for Key Stage 3 in English is to read independently. That means you need to peel your face off of Imposter or detach yourself from your bike for a few hours a week and stuff your head in a book.
Midweek Mini-lesson: What to do when you make a mistake speaking English
Have you made an embaressing mistake speaking English? Well join the club! We all make mistakes when we are learning skills. Here are some strategies to handle situations where you make a mistake.
Business Builder: Business Verbs #2
Welcome to Business Builder! I will help you increase your Business English vocabulary so that you can communicate with your colleagues more confidently and effectively. Let’s look at each of these verbs in a sentence, and with a definition:
Vocabulary Showcase: “Evil”
It is the season to decorate your home with the wicked, sinful, malicious monsters of Halloween. Let’s have a look at some synonyms for “evil” in use.
Sunday is Funday: Grammar Humour
Sunday is Funday! English Nerd Alert!
Saturday Supplement: A Wright English Halloween
As the church bell rings,
The lesson begins,
And the Team chat is filled,
With devilish things.
Gateway to Grammar: It’s or Its?
Are you having trouble remembering whether you should be using “It’s” or “Its”? Join the club. Native English speakers, and in this case at least one native English teacher, struggle with it too. It breaks the rules and confuses us all. Buckle up as we go through the gateway to Grammar Town!
Kids Corner: KS3 - Prose Pirate or Professional Proof-reader?
Welcome to years 7, 8 and 9 of Secondary School English in the UK. This is Keystage 3 chaps and chapettes, and this means we need to up our game! How you say? Stop being a Prose Pirate, and learn to proofread our work so we edit out all those little mistakes before we submit our work. This will make you a professional proof-reader.
Midweek Mini-lesson : Ranges of emotion
Describe how strong your emotions are without using modifiers like very or slightly.
Business Etiquette in the English-speaking world
You may find that working in the English-speaking world is a little different to your home country. There are social guidelines to follow to get along well with your English-speaking colleagues. These differ slightly from country to country, but for today’s examples I will be talking about British English working etiquette.
Vocabulary Showcase: “Spooky”
It is the season for the spooky things in the English speaking community. Things that go bump in the night, sounds that cause a fright, and haunted houses with pumpkin lights.
Saturday Supplement: Ye Olde Wright English prepares for Halloween
Kodi is practicing licking his lips after he eats any English learners who do not complete their assignments on time. Beware the vampire kitty.
Gateway to Grammar: They’re Their or There?
The English language is full of Homophones: Words which sound the same, but have a different spelling and meaning.
Midweek Mini-Lesson: The stages of learning a language + big announcement
Kids Corner KS2: How to join up your handwriting
Cursive (joined up) handwriting is something you need to learn in Year 4 in English schools. Everyone has their own method for teaching people how to join letters.
Business Builder: How to say no politely
The British have a special way of saying “no” extremely politely. One thing to remember when doing business in English, is to soften your “no’s” carefully.
Vocabulary Showcase: cute!
Let’s explore different ways to say something is “cute”. I would also like to add that this is absolutely NOT an excuse to post a cute pug pic. Every day is a good day to post a cute pug pic.
Sunday Funday: Eat your heart out rappers everywhere.
Eat your heart out rappers everywhere!
Saturday Supplement: Teacher Talks Interview
I am interviewed by Volkan Iner at @creativeenglish18 on Instagram about being a teacher. We discuss the future of teaching, what motivates us, our mottos for life and much more. click the video to watch Volkan’s Youtube video.
Gateway to Grammar: Modifiers - How to make a banana “slightly meaty”
Are you tired of saying “very” big, or “a little bit” small? Let’s get a little bit more creative with out modifiers. Modifiers are words that change the value or intensity of an adjective or adverb. Let’s expand our knowledge of modifiers.