Confusing Words
There, their and they're are homophones.
They cause lots of problems for students of English and for native English speakers, too.
This video has been made to put an end to such problems.
There is also a quiz to go with the lesson and extra materials to help you practice the use of these most confusing of homophones.
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Aesop's Fable
The Fisherman and the Little Fish tells the moral that it's better to accept what you have than to gamble on what you might not get.
I have rewritten the story using a range of phrasal verbs.
If you are interested in learning some new phrasal verbs, this video is not to be sniffed at. Don't let your interest fizzle out and see what phrasal verbs I have come up with. You won't have to cough up a cent to see them either.
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Present Simple - Grammar
This English lesson looks at the present simple tense using the theme of the Moon.
The lesson looks at when we use the present simple and introduces a lot of vocabulary. It also provides you with a lot of information about the Moon and NASA's Apollo project in the late 1960s.
It includes footage of the Saturn 5 Moon rocket lifting off and gives lots of information about the rocket. It shows footage of Neil Armstrong's first step on the Moon, and his immortal words, "That's one small step for man..." This video is one of the most interesting ways that you will find to help you learn how and when to use the present simple tense in English.
You might also be interested in: Present Simple Positive and Negative and An Introduction to the Present Simple
There is a short related video lesson here.
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Aesop's Fables
Have you ever heard of the expression, Don't count your chickens until they are hatched? This expression comes from the Ancient Greek writer, Aesop.
This video about The Maid and Her Pot of Milk tells the story in words and pictures to help you learn and remember vocabulary such as: allowing for, ball, daydreaming, farmhouse, fetch a price, maid, market, mishaps, pail, poultry, propose, toss of the head, and unison.
The story illustrates the moral that we should not consider anything as definite until we have done the necessary work to make it a reality.
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Airports and flight
This is a fast-paced English lesson that looks at the language we use at the airport.
You will find vocabulary about people and places at the airport, about the technical aspects of an airport and about the questions we often ask when flying.
You can find a series of exercises to go with the video at my website. These will help you to better understand the language in the video.
The video and exercises also contain phonetics practice.
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Health
Have you ever been to the dentist?
Have you ever had a filling?
This lesson looks at the vocabulary of caring for our teeth and the consequences of not looking after them.
Watch the video and then do a small, self-test exercise.
Conditional sentences and modal auxiliary verbs are the grammar focus of this lesson.
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Computing
Do you know your laptop from your palmtop computer?
Do you know the words for many other common pieces of technology?
This lesson looks at many pieces of computing equipment, and also looks at the verbs we use with them.
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Grammar
What are prepositions?
This lesson looks at prepositions of place. These are the prepositions that tell us where something is in relation to other things.
They include above, below, beside, between, in front of, in, inside, near, next to, on, opposite, outside, under.
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Grammar
What are prepositions?
This lesson looks at prepositions of movement. These are the prepositions that tell us how something is moving in relation to other things.
They include into, out of, over, under.
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Aesop's Fable
The lesson about THE GNAT AND THE BULL includes some listening exercises in English. The lesson includes some grammar and vocabulary exercise in English. The lesson includes some reading and some writing exercises.
All the listening material has been recorded by a native British English speaker without any strong regional accent.
It is based on the original text "The Aesop for Children" published by Rand McNally & Company of Chicago in 1919.
It includes illustrations from the original book, and also from other books.
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Aesop's Fable
The lesson includes
- listening exercises in English
- grammar and vocabulary exercises in English
- Some reading exercises
- Some writing exercises
All the listening material has been recorded by Richard, a native British English speaker without any strong regional accent.
It is based on the original text "The Aesop for Children" published by Rand McNally & Company of Chicago in 1919.
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Aesop's Fable
Aesop's fable - The Young Crab and His Mother.
It is based on the original text "The Aesop for Children" published by Rand McNally & Company of Chicago in 1919.
It includes illustrations from the original book, and also from other books.
It also includes listening material to help you with your listening skills and your pronunciation.
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Grammar
Prepositions of time tell us when something happened.
These prepositions include: at, by, for, in, on, before, after.
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Grammar
This is an English language lesson looking at how we compare things.
This language lesson examines the formation and use of comparative and superlative adjectives in English.
This is a better lesson about comparatives than you will find anywhere else.
This is the best lesson about superlatives.
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Vocabulary
A lesson that forms an introduction to or a revision of the language used to describe people's appearance.
Why do we say that someone is like someone else?
What's the difference between a full beard and a goatee?
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15 Lessons for Pre-Intermediate, A2 level students...
