Category Archives: English vocabulary

Correcting Errors in Language Learning – Part 2

Hello there and welcome back to this week’s blogpost. One of the strangest things in my teaching career has been the request, ‘I’d like to learn English, but don’t want to do any grammar’. So, the students wanted to learn the language but not use it correctly. I would gently remind them that it wouldContinue reading “Correcting Errors in Language Learning – Part 2”

Vocabulary building

In the ‘Use of English’ section of the Cambridge First, Advanced and Proficiency exams, one of the tests involves ‘word building’. I always advise my English language students to develop and extend the vocabulary they record in their notebooks. This could be by making extensive notes, or drawing diagrams such as a ‘word web’. So,Continue reading “Vocabulary building”