Today we are going to do something a little different. Take 3 minutes to read through what an EC student wrote about her time in Malta . When you have finished, answer the questions below. The student's name is Giulia Do . Click he ...
Multiple Choice Lesson - Chris McCarthy - 05/15/2012 - 09:02 - 7 comments
What's the meaning of "Thanks for giving me a ride"? (Reading) ...
Forum topic - EnglishLearner - 12/09/2008 - 20:34 - 6 comments
Read through the following ten sentences and choose the correct meaning for each key word: 1 - Excuse me, may I enquire what time your restaurant closes tonight? 2 - I'm happy to let you know that even though the top was loo ...
Multiple Choice Lesson - Chris McCarthy - 05/11/2012 - 06:55 - 14 comments
Leaving on a Jet Plane is one of the English language's great emotional love songs, originally sung by the late John Denver. Practice your listening and phrasal verb skills by completing this gap-fill! I suggest listening once first, then begin comp ...
Fill in the blanks lesson - Chris McCarthy - 05/15/2012 - 11:51 - 15 comments
So it seems that there is a little disapointment that yesterday's exercise on singing songs in English did not actually include a song for you to sing. Let's put that right. Here is a classic Beatles song, suggested to us by Grivna, a regular user o ...
Plain Lesson - Chris McCarthy - 05/15/2012 - 09:48 - 14 comments
So, way back in 250 BC, a very clever person invented the world's first ever computer. Some people believe that the name of this very clever person was Archimedes, purely because the design of this first computer very closely resembled some ...
Plain Lesson - Chris McCarthy - 01/09/2014 - 16:00 - 10 comments
Probably a non-academic word comes to mind when you see 'F' word. That one, of course, isn't on the Academic Word List. ;-) Nevertheless, there are a number of other useful 'F' words for the TOEFL or IELTS . In the next ...
Fill in the blanks lesson - Chris McCarthy - 05/15/2012 - 08:48 - 12 comments
... San Diego English language school IMPORTANT: Only type the letters in the spaces below. Do not type in the whole word e.g. ...
Fill in the blanks lesson - Chris McCarthy - 05/15/2012 - 09:56 - 7 comments
Santa Claus is Coming to Town is a classic Christmas song and to get you into the Christmas spirit why not practice your listening skills by filling in this gap-fill! I suggest listening once first, then begin completing the gap-fill while listening ...
Fill in the blanks lesson - Chris McCarthy - 05/15/2012 - 11:43 - 7 comments
'Look', 'see' and 'watch' can easily confuse students of English as they all relate to actions done with our eyes. The difference between the three verbs can be explained in the following way... see if you can undertand! & ...
Plain Lesson - Chris McCarthy - 02/01/2013 - 07:30 - 5 comments
