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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
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.
Gateway to Grammar: Who, Whose, and who’s?
Who, who’s, and whose? Who’s asking? You? OK, that’s enough of that. These words all have different meanings but look very similar. Let’s have a look at what they mean.
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).
Midweek Mini-lesson: How to pronounce difficult English sounds
Some English sounds can be difficult to sound, and difficult to form with your mouth. Let’s look at a video of how to make these sounds, and when to use them.
Business Builder: English for Childcare
You are trusted with the most precious parts of people’s lives, and expected to watch over them, care for them, and communicate a lot of important information to their parents.
Vocabulary Showcase: Synonyms for “scientific”
In my quest to help you use different words and increase your vocabulary, I have prepared some synonyms for “scientific” for you. Let’s take a look together at these words in use!
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!
Saturday Supplement: Answers to your Questions
You lovely people ask me questions sometimes (which I love!) and sometimes you ask me the same questions. So, I thought, ‘why not give everyone the answers?’ So, I did. Simple as that. I’m so smart.
Gateway to Grammar: Useless English Grammar “rules”
If using a rule makes you sound like someone from 1652 it’s probably not a good rule anymore. Those rules belong in the bin (rubbish)!
Kids Corner - How I teach Sight Reading
Young people, and people of all ages with dyslexia find it difficult to sight read, and it can take a long time to learn in traditional ways.
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.
Business Builder: Business English for Real Estate
Succeeding in the Real Estate industry is all about smooth, respectful, and descriptive communication with your clients.
Vocabulary Showcase: Synonyms for “make”
I love making things, that doesn’t mean they are always brilliant works of art, but they are fun to try. Let’s have a look together at some other words that mean “make”, and expand our creative vocabularies.
Saturday Supplement: All learners get life-time free social events
Did you know that all past and current Wright English students can join exclusive social groups and events?
Sunday Funday: Learning English could be worse…
I’m just saying you could be learning German… that is like learning 16 different languages at the same time who all disagree with each other.
Gateway to Grammar: Easy Identifying English Tenses
Is it have had? Have have? Well, that’s confusing enough. Let’s identify the parts of a sentence that show you what tense it is in. For these examples we will use the phrasal verb “switch on”.
Kids Corner: A Game of Telephone for creative writing
What’s a game of Telephone? Well, you’ve come to the right place! Telephone is like the game “Chinese Whispers”.
Just a silly story
I was asked to write a modern Fairy Tale in the style of the brothers Grimm. What do you think?
Business Builder: Important Business English Idioms
No matter what area you work in, the English-speaking business world uses a lot of idioms (phrases with unclear meanings). You can choose to use them yourself or not, but the most important thing is to make sure you understand what they mean, because the people around you will use them every day.
Vocabulary Showcase: Synonyms for ‘oblivious’
Larry is going to have a very nasty surprise in a moment. For now though, he is totally ‘oblivious’ to the cat that is stalking him (he has no idea). Let’s take a look at other words which mean oblivious.