Articles with Geographical Names

We generally use either 'the' or 'no article' with geographical names in English. There isn't a lot of logic! We just need to learn if we need 'the' or 'no article' for each kind of place. We use 'no article' with:

• Lakes: We visited Lake Geneva.
• Mountains: I saw Mount Fuji from the aeroplane.
• Continents: She loves living in Asia.

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Phrasal Verb "Be"

"Fire" Idioms

Fire is pretty hot and dangerous, don’t you think? Well, in English we have a number of idioms that come from this idea about fire and use the word fire in them. For today’s English lesson, let’s take a look at five idioms that have word fire. I hope this lesson isn’t too hot to handle!

1 letter of the English alphabet

One may think it's so easy, but check out these words with the "o" letter combinations:

• spot
• collect
• corn
• coat

All 4 have different o-sounds.

This podcast is all about the letter "o" and how it is commonly mispronounced by non-native English speakers. There're a number of reasons why this sound isn't pronounced the way it's supposed to be, and mainly it's because of the non-native tendency to be "hyper" correct, which in this case works against us. Learn the 4 main ways this letter is mispronounced and practice different groups of words with this letter

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