To improve your pronunciation, you need to become aware of, and able to produce correctly, the English sounds, stress, rhythm and intonation.
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2017
“Wam!” “gtr, b4n!”
Do you understand the title of this post? Don’t worry if you don’t. You are not alone. Not many people understand all the intricacies of “textspeak”. Textspeak /ˈtɛkstspiːk/ is a style of writing which some people use in text messages. It consists of abbreviations, acronyms, initials, emoticons, and so on. Here is a page from … Continue Reading
What a pity!
Where is my English world? I miss it! It was my English parenthesis, my English bubble in my French life. My English is getting worse and worse! Please, let’s my English world come back!
The Mousetrap
A mousetrap is a small tool for catching and killing mice. It consists of five main pieces: the base or platform, the catch, the spring, the hammer and the holding bar. Of course, to attract mice, you also need some bait which is usually a piece of cheese. Here is a picture illustrating the different … Continue Reading
What is the ideal age gap between children?
A gap is a space or opening in the middle of something or between things, for example you may notice that someone has a small gap between their front teeth, or when you want to cross a busy street, you wait for a gap in the busy traffic to cross the road. A gap in … Continue Reading
Understanding “I wasn’t expecting that!”
Here is a romantic song that you may like. Let’s listen to it once just to enjoy it, and a second time, more carefully, to try and understand it better. You can then test your listening comprehension with the interactive quiz in the English Gym below.
What are the best social hacks you have learnt in your life?
A hack is a clever solution, strategy or technique for managing your time better, or doing some activities more efficiently, or getting better results. Social hacks are techniques that allow us to be more successful in a social context, communicate better with people, have a better relationship with them etc.
A fast and easy personality test
This is another post in the Russian Dolls format. In this post, we’re going to find out what sort of personality we have by answering a simple question…
What If Women Ruled The World?
What If Women Ruled The World? That’s the title of a show bringing together actresses and experts to explore whether women can come up with better solutions to the planet’s problems than men. I absolutely do think the world would be a better place if women ruled it. I absolutely do. I think there would … Continue Reading