Convenient, adj.

I love the convenience of living in the Big Apple, and this city has many conveniences like the transportation, and huge number of restaurants. How about your town?
Today, I want to teach you the difference between convenience and convenient. A lot of students have trouble with these words. How about you? Are you using them correctly? Have a look at the lessongraphic and find out!

Использование песенного материала на уроках ин. яз.:

Использование песенного материала на уроках иностранных языков

Поскольку целью обучения иностранным языкам является не только приобретение знаний, формирование у школьников навыков и умений, но и усвоение ими сведений страноведческого, лингвострановедческого и культурно-эстетического характера познание ценностей другой культуры, то при определении содержания обучения бесспорно встает вопрос о культурном компоненте.

It's you who should be worried, my friend.

“It's you who should be worried, my friend.”

You and a friend are about to play basketball against each other. Your friend asks if you're worried that you're going to lose. You want to tease your friend, so you threaten him.

It's you who should be worried, my friend.

Using Do For Emphasis

I do love pizza!

Hi English Language fans! I want you all to know that I really do appreciate your comments and emails. Did you notice that I used do in that sentence? Today I’m going to show you how to use do to emphasize the verb.

Dumb Ways To Die

an idiom

Tricky Modal Verbs

Modals "Need to" & "Had Better"

I need to quit smoking

Modal Verbs can be tricky, so I though I would help you guys understand them. Let’s look at need to and had better today!The other day, I showed you how to use must and have to. Today, I’d like to continue the conversation about models and look at need to and had better.Like must and have to, need to is also used

Using the Word “May”

To celebrate the first day of May, we’re going to share some uses of this versatile word with you. (May 1 is known as May Day. You can learn a bit more about May Day here!)

May, the month, was named after the Greek goddess Maia. In Ancient Greek, her name is related to the word for midwife. In the northern hemisphere, May is the month associated with warmer weather and blooming flowers. Did you know? No other month begins or ends on the same day of the week as May within a year. “May” is more than just the name of a month, however.

modal verbs map

modal verbs

Kinds of modals

1) Epistemic modals: may (He may be at home), might (It might get too hot),must (It must be your sister on the phone), ought to (They ought to have heard by now),

 stative verbs

Most verbs express an action: drink; laugh; allow...

Verbs like these are called "dynamic" verbs. However, there are some verbs which don't express an action. They express a state which is not changing. These are known as "stative verbs". Some examples of stative verbs are: be; seem; have; want; smell

Remember, Recall, Remind

Let, Make, Have & Get + Object

Welcome to simple English grammar! No complex explanations - just watch, understand and practice speaking the natural, English Anyone way.

Had Better

A lot of students have trouble with had better, so for today’s one point English lesson, I am going to show you how we use had  better. Take a look at the lesson graphic 

Animal Related Idioms

This time around, let’s learn some animal related English idiomatic expressions and conversational phrases.You’re more than welcome to watch the video where I’m doing a little role play portraying two people at the same time. And, in case you need it, here’s the video script in written format: