English Language School Blog
Everyone can enjoy and benefit from a night out. It’s an opportunity to strike up conversation with new people, forget about the daily grind (chores) and present and be proud of your individuality. Congregating in a venue to be sociable is a pass time with a long history in many cultures and m … Read more
A recent study titled: “The Contribution of Multilingualism to Creativity,” has proven there are many benefits for the brain gained through learning an additional language. English Language Learners (ELL), as well as anyone engaging in obtaining multilingual abilities, were found to have eight ment … Read more
Below is a list of British slang and colloquial vernacular. You’ll find that many of them are negative exclamations, such as ‘Bloody Hell..’, either male-centric or misogynistic. While some are just plain funny. It’s definitely a reflection of British character, at least in p … Read more
At EC Brighton we like to give our students a warm and wholesome welcome. To do so we introduce new students to Brighton via a walking tour. The tour shows them around the key central locations of Brighton, including the pier, the Old Steine, North Street, the Clock Tower and Churchill Square, the L … Read more
Today is chocolate day at EC Brighton. We like to have a day of treating our students, this time it’s with chocolate. Who doesn’t like chocolate?! (Except for vegans, the lactose intolerant and allergic, those weight watchers, sugar addicts and many who just don’t lik … Read more
Preston Park is a Lovely Place to Spend Time in Brighton. Preston Park is just to the North of the town centre, above Preston Circus and the London Road shops. ‘Preston Park’ is also a ward of Brighton, just like Hove or Whitehawk. It is serviced by a name sake railway station. The park … Read more
Minimal pairs are two words distinguished by only one ‘phoneme’. The phoneme is a unit of sound in speech, so for example; the words Thumb and Dumb are separated only by one phoneme, Th – D. While Phonemes are the unit of sound, tonemes are the inflection and pitch an … Read more
Brits Drink 60,000,000,000 Cups of Tea a Year But this isn’t as long standing a tradition as you might think. While Chinese have been drinking tea since the third millennium B.C, Brits only heard of the drink in the 17th century, 4 and a half thousand years later. As tea first left it&# … Read more
Queens Park is one of the best spots to hang out in Brighton. There are plenty of quality green spaces in Brighton. Queens park is a hilly terrain on a northward incline, set between Hanover and Kemptown. It is a popular destination for dog walkers and walkers alike, with a scenic pond at the … Read more
Every Thursday, students and staff from EC Brighton meet at Stanley Deason Leisure centre at 7pm, for our weekly 5-a-side football activity. It’s a great opportunity to keep fit and meet friends, while improving your English skills. English football, known as soccer in the U.S, i … Read more
