By Vs Until

Here’s the basic rule to follow: You “finish by” or “continue until.” Whether to use “by” or “until” depends on the verb.

Extensive listening: Lionel Messi’s Biography

Extensive listening is when you listen to a lot of different recordings that are all about the same topic or idea. To do the extensive listening activity you first need to chose a topic that you are really interested in and that you can find a lot of listening materials about.

A song + grammar

Unreal condition Type II, Future Continuous-in-the-Past, have smth. done, should have done, used to.

Everyday conversations + will

Everyday Conversations

The word 'take'

The word 'take'
One way to think about English is to consider word patterns.
Given a certain word, what other words are likely to follow? If you know this, you can start to anticipate (guess) what someone is going to say next, before they say it.
For example, here are some of the most common patterns using the word "take":

• take place                 (Year Of English)

Going Downhill

If things are “Going Downhill” it means that they are getting worse and worse. Here are some examples: “I used to be good at basketball when I was in high school, but my abilities started going downhill after I turned 40″. “She was really attractive when she was young but her looks have been going downhill lately”. “I think I will need glasses soon.  My eyesight seems to be going downhill fast” So now you know how to use the popular term “going downhill“.  I’m sure you’ll start to notice it more and more.  It’s a great phrase so please remember to use it!

Past Tenses

Past Tenses to Talk About Vacation

August is a popular month for vacations, but now that the month is over, it’s useful to know how to tell people about what you did. This post will cover how to talk about your past summer plans with the Simple Present, the Past Continuous and the Past Perfect Continuous tenses.

Ew! I stepped in dog poop!

You smell a bad smell. You realize that the smell is coming from your shoe, so you look at it. It has some brown stuff stuck to the bottom of it.

Ew! 

Make this sound when you see, smell, or hear about something disgusting.

Is classical music boring?

Reproduce the dialogue, can you?

Music describes you

Write the script, could you?

No Pain, No Gain

This is an extremely useful and widely used phrase in spoken English. The phrase is “No pain, no gain“. “If something in life is too easy, then you won’t have any success”.

I think many cultures have the same idea.  It’s that life isn’t easy.  We need to work hard to get real results.  If you workout in a gym, your trainer might say to you, “no pain, no gain“.

All I want is...

You're single. You've been on a few dates with different men recently, but they all went badly. Now you're frustrated that you can't meet someone normal. You complain to your friend.

All I want is to meet a guy with a stable job and a good sense of humor. Is that too much to ask?

How To Use Get

Get has several meanings in English. For today’s English lesson, I am going to show you how to use get in a variety of situations.

1. We use get to mean receive something. When you get something in this meaning, it is

Solve the Mystery

The Mysterious Gift     Written by Moe Zilla

Suspect List:  Cindy,  Josie's mother,  Lester,  Lorraine

The engine roared on her pink Corvette, and Josie laughed insanely as its tires squealed up the highway ramp. “Catch us if you can!”she laughed.