Artículos escritos por profesores particulares de Inglés nativos

You might think that the photo above is just a common Art class and it has nothing to do with English. But you are totally wrong! These are my Spanish pupils posing in front of a camera after our English class. It was our first class and we really enjoyed doing these wonderful Chinese lanterns and talking in English, learnig new vocabulary (by the way, each of us knows how to explain in English step by step how to make the lantern) and...

Having been a teacher for almost 7 years I faced with different kind of students. And, to tell you the truth, lots of them really had in mind that they weren’t capable of learning English at all. As soon as they started dealing with some problems they blocked themselves and started to make excuses. Let’s see the most common excuses people use and debunk them. I will also give you some tips how to get over the different obstacles that you might f...

     Living in the modern digital world we constatly use social network almost every day.🙇 Want it or not throughout the time for simplicity, quickness and convenience we start employing acronyms. And now let’s imagine that you are chatting in English...Are you sure that you will get all what the native speaker writes you? And are you sure that you know how exactly put in place the textese ?        So in ...

I’ve always been learning English continuously, since I was six years old. I’ve never thought I would start learning a language other than English and Persian (my mother tongue), until I reached 17. I started learning Spanish at this age. However, it was not my last attempt for learning a new language. When I was seventeen, I decided to migrate to Spain, a country which my father knew well because of his business. That’s why I started learning S...

If Versus Whether     Although in informal writing and speech the two words are often used interchangeably, in formal writing, such as in technical writing at work, it's a good idea to make a distinction between them because the meaning can sometimes be different depending on which word you use. The formal rule is to use if when you have a conditional sentence and whether when you are showing that two alternatives are possible. Som...

ON TIME vs. IN TIME: What’s the DIFFERENCE between English prepositions? Telling time is one of the most important lessons you will need to learn in English. What’s the difference between “on time” and “in time,” two very common (and easily confused) prepositional phrases? Prepositions can be such a challenging topic when you start studying English. Check out Gabby’s lesson below to find out! PREPOSITIONS & TIME Being able to speak correct...

Hi buddies!! (buddy=colega). How is it going your summer holidays? Mine are going amazing, I am taking a lot of rest (take rest=descansar), and I am reloaded (recargada de energía), to begin a new course with you. I have being thinking about my way to teach english, and I really want to help people who (relative clause for people) want to improve their skills. I only ask for the commitment (compromiso, responsabilidad) o...

  We all have fears: fears of trying something new, fear of change, fear of the unknown. If you are starting your own ELT business, hopefully I can assuage some of these fears with a few tips. I decided to develop my own business as an English teacher because the freedom and independence was attractive to me. Now, I have over half of my students that are my own clients. Oxinity has helped me with this process; however, there are some addit...

“Germinal” in an epic film based on the novel by Emily Zola. It is a detailed, sweeping tale of French coal miners and their struggle against their exploitative owners, which resulted in catastrophe and hopelessness. The story is set in France, in the late 19th century. Emilie Zola, a French writer, decides to travel to a poor district of the country to observe the miner´s working conditions. On this trip, he details the experience that these br...

Play dough is a simple educational tool that promotes learning through hands-on playing. However, it is not very popular with teenagers and adults. In this post, I will describe five activities that you can implement with the grown-ups. Many of these tasks were originally used in Language or Arts classes, but you can definitely adapt them in any subject classroom with reading assignments or vocabulary that needs to be learnt. Playdoh Vocabu...

Last Saturday marked the celebration of La Noche de San Juan, the eve of Saint John the Baptist's Day, which also coincides with the shortest night of the year. The Summer Solstice (also known as Litha in many parts of Europe) is a pagan festival that celebrates the longest day of the year. Here in Spain, the Christian festival Saint John's Day and the Pagan Litha are combined to form the festivity La Noch...

Ahora que estamos en época de 'summer holidays', los siguientes 'grammar reminders' o recordatorios de gramática pueden resultarnos 'highly useful':   GO + VERB-ING (for activities or sports): - This summer we will go camping/sailing/snorkelling/hiking  - Let's go widsurfing/waterskiing today. - Shall we go scubadiving or sailing tomorrow? En español estas estructuras bien se pueden traducir por: "ir de" acampada, "ir a"...

As part of the learning process of becoming familiar with a language understanding the vocabulary is one of the most important points.  When I usually ask my students if they know the different types of vocabulary we have in English, they just think I'm talking about the specific vocab for a particular topic, but when I explain them that this is not enough....they look a little lost. The variety of vocabulary we can find in English are: Co...

Hi everybody ! My name is Monica and I am Italian ( I bet you can all guess that by my surname). Before I introduce myself properly allow me to answer the question I posed in the title. Not only do I think you can but I believe the more the better. I guess that having a few years of experience given also age, makes you wiser and more experienced in general but, depending on the life you live,  also a collector of new experiences.  How ...