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Kids Corner: English battle with your kids!
Put your hands down! This war is fought with words! English battle is a very silly, very effective, and fun way to learn and practice English.
Kids Corner: Practice English Geocaching
Do you want a fun way to enjoy the weather, get some adventure, and practice your English? What about Geocaching?
Kids Corner: Madlibs - Fun English games for kids
Madlibs are funny little improvised (not planned) stories where words are missing.
Kids Corner: Expanded Noun Phrases
Expanded Noun Phrases are little sentences that teach you an awful lot (a big amount) about how to make sentences in English.
Kids Corner: Prepare your kids for the 11+ Grammar School exam.
You know if you have a tiny genius walking around in your house. If your smart kid is still at junior school, you should think about helping your little genius prepare for the 11+ exam.
Kids Corner: Collective nouns are funny
So that is a “walk” of snails. It turns out that groups of animals have names. You might have heard of a pride of lions or a pack of dogs. Some of these names can be pretty funny.
Kids Corner: Fun ways to learn to read
Let’s face it, learning to read can be really boring and really difficult. I know a way you can learn that is a lot of fun!
Kids Corner: Writing for an audience
So, you are a smart kid. You can probably write stories already. You may have written many stories. Do you ever think about who you are writing for though? Who is your audience? What would they want?
Kids Corner: I will teach with puppets!
Yes, puppets! So far, I have taught lessons with Rambo the badger and Gordon the gofer but I assure there are more puppets waiting and ready if needed.
Kids Corner: Funny Poems for Kids
“Oh flowery fluffy love muffin, how doth thy……” *SNORE*. Don’t worry I find that kind of poetry really boring too. But I have good news!
Gateway to Grammar: Prepositions of place and movement
Yep (informal yes), I found a way to make more educational cat pictures. We are taking a look at prepositions of place (in and on) and movement (into and onto) and what the differences are.
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).
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.
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.
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”.
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.
Kids Corner: Exams, what to do in those “Oh Fluff” Moments
So, you get into your in-class test or your final exam, everything is going well, and then your mind goes blank. This is your “Oh Fluff” moment.
Midweek Mini-lesson: When Should I use English contractions?
Remember you can contract all the time when you are talking, but do not use contractions in formal writing like essays, reports and letters to high status people and companies.
Vocabulary Showcase: “love”
Maybe you are all loved out already, but let’s have a look at some other ways of saying love in English