Academic English skills for international students
Patrick British sports fans will have been following the Wimbledon tennis championship over the past few days. It is a very ‘British’ event (with strawberries and cream) and it is traditional for a British player to do quite well and then get beaten. It was no different this year only our current best player is really … Read more
The weather in the UK has been extraordinarily good. The reason for this is that the Wimbledon tennis tournament in London is underway and they have spent millions on a roof over the main court. Of course, usually it pours down with rain and nobody can play but now that they have the roof – … Read more
A few readers have been asking about vocabulary learning. Expanding your vocabulary is essential to improving your English! But what words should you learn? You cannot just study the dictionary! The only way to learn new words is to get engaged in talking about some topics in English. What I mean by this is finding … Read more
Did you know that English now has a million words? A million! You’re probably thinking – well I am anyway – how on earth anyone has managed to count them all! A company in the USA which analyses words on the internet claims that a new word is created every 98 minutes and that means … Read more