Artículos escritos por profesores particulares de Inglés nativos

As well as talking about the here and now, it's useful to be able to discuss future outcomes and to speak hypothetically in English. To do this, we need to look at the 4 conditionals, to which I've decided to give an Arthurian theme, since the King Arthur story is steeped in mystery and speculation.         King Arthur Statue, Tintagel, Cornwall (UK)   The Zero Conditional If + present simple + present simple If you pul...

With the Easter break just around the corner (and a 4-day weekend if you live in Spain!) you might need to know the difference between these words; especially if you're planning to go further afield. We'll look at each of them one-by-one. The first we'll study is 'trip'. This noun is countable and refers to the whole holiday (or business) experience which usually lasts a relatively short period of time. Eg. They went on an amazing two-week ...

Well....today is Valentine´s day and I have been given a task....to write about the time I fell in love with English...and I must confess that it is hard to know exactly when because I started studying English when I was like 8 :) But honestly i can remember when I decided to become an English teacher...well actually since I was a little girl I loved playing role games pretending I was a teacher...I also loved helping my little cousins to ...

Everything started when I was more or less 16. My mother used to tell me that I was gonna end up being a teacher, but at that time I wanted to be a scientist ,so I was just thinking about studying Chemistry, Biology and Physics . So at that time, when I was just 16, I used to spend the afternoons teaching to my classmates or friends any subject related to science, like Math. They even paid me with presents and candy. I didn´t ask them to p...

Publicidad de la presentación del curso en el Conservatorio profesional de música de Valencia:El batería de Jazz Igor Tavan junto a colaboradores como el trombonista Toni Belenguer actual profesor del conservatorio superior de jazz de Valencia y del Esmuc en Barcelona nos presenta su curso intensivo."INTENSIVE MUSICAL TRAINING WORKSHOP" - TALLER INTENSIVO DE DESARROLLO DE HABILIDADES PARA INSTRUMENTISTAS Y CANTANTESTodos los niveles y estilos mu...

For Neoclassical economics a firm faces technological change in terms that certain combinations of inputs produce a given amount of output. Examples of technology are defined according to relationships (or combination) between inputs such as fixed proportion and perfect substitution. Then, the idea of technology is a list of the feasible production plans resulting for combination of inputs. In this framework technology present two propertie...

The Spanish-speakers among you may have already read my article ¡Ssshhh! Las letras silenciosas en inglés. So now I'd like to look at a close relative of the silent letter, which is the silent syllable. Like the silent letter, the silent syllable also affects pronunciation and, when used correctly, separates the near-natives from the not-so-native speakers. Who new silence could actually make you sound more native? As I mentioned in my article a...

Cats are one of the most searched subjects on the Internet. So, for all those feline lovers out there, I thought we'd look at all the words and expressions related to cats. Here it goes! 1. Words which include CAT Okay, so these don't really have anything to do with the animal but it's simple way to start. CATastrophe       CATegory      CATering       CATalonia      &nbs...

Have a young learner that is shy? Will only use their L1? Then maybe it's time to bring in the puppets. In my first year of teaching, I was offered a class with 12 four-year-olds. Since I was a desperate and very new teacher, I immediately took the job. Armed with my knowledge of teaching fresh in my mind from the TEFL course I took a month eariler, I set off to face the army of children.  Of course, as all the teachers reading this now hav...

English has become a MUST & should be FUN.   Nowadays, you are required to have communication skills in English for many purposes and it is very important to be able to enjoy any kind of learning path. If you do not enjoy the classes or find these attractive enough to engage you, it is very likely that you will find it difficult to retain any knowledge. If you have had some negative experience in the past, whether it was during your sch...

My last article in English touched on some of the difficulties with spelling and pronunciation of the days of the week. Now I'd like to show you just how diverse English spelling is and how different spelling combinations can produce the same sounds. To do this, I'll be using the word 'fish'. By using English pronunciation logic (if we can call it that!) it's possible to spell 'fish' as "ghoti". I promise I'm not clowning around! .... Get it?......

My first article in Spanish talked about the coming of the New Year. For the first contribution in English, I'd like to talk about the days of the week. Of all the first words we learn in English, they're arguably the most difficult to spell and pronounce. Have you ever wondered why? Okay, let's start with the easier days, which have their roots in Ancient Greek and Roman culture: Sunday  (Sun's day) from the Old English sunn...

Last month, I tried a new experiment with my children which is very popular online nowadays, it is called “slime”. Before I took the decision to do this lesson I needed to know why everybody is obsessed with slime what it was.  WHAT IS SLIME? Slime magic starts when you add something called sodium borate to water. In laundry detergent, these are already mixed, but some slime makers do it themselves. Homemade slime is sticky, goo...

Did you know that 1,000 words can get you a long, long way in a foreign language? It might not seem that easy when you’re looking at the raw numbers. The Oxford English Dictionary includes more than 170,000 English word entries. The "Hanyu Da Cidian" dictionary  includes 370,000 Mandarin Chinese words, and the " Explanatory Dictionary of the living Great Russian" includes 200,000 Russian words. Most languages have similar num...