Welcome back, everyone! We have IELTS back on the schedule today, and I'm super excited to bring you a variety of things today. Here we go! Here are some basic Part 1 questions. Where do you live? What is it like? What do you like about the area you live in? Diving Deeper - Urban Areas... Continue Reading →
Yes! All of these combined and for the future! This is going to be a difficult one, so please, prepare yourselves for a long podcast and blog! We're getting into the Intermediate realm now. 1a - Match the sentences (a-d) with the rules (1-4) a. In the next few weeks, leaders of the world are... Continue Reading →
Welcome back to another Facebook live/coaching Saturday/Tuesday! Yes, I'm adding in both days and both titles so no one gets confused. With that being said, let's get into the basics. A. Conjunctions are used to join two parts of a sentence together and express their relationships. What you need to do is look at two... Continue Reading →
Welcome back to another pronunciation episode! I love bringing these to you guys to start off the week strong, and so here I am today! Today we're going to go over stressed/unstressed schwa sounds. Able ability Major majority Compete ... Continue Reading →
Welcome back to another edition of TOEFL idioms, everyone! Since this was a massive hit amongst the ESL population, I decided to make another one for all of you so you can take your idiomatic expressions to the next level. Remember, learn and teach so you can remember them! Run into someone Meet someone unexpectedly.... Continue Reading →
Here we go, people! Some more vocabulary is on the board for today! Synonyms and Antonyms are my favorite, and this is why most of you should develop first your synonyms, then find out the opposite meanings. Again, this can reduce the recycling. For those of you who do not know, synonyms have similar meanings. ... Continue Reading →
Three of my students had gone in to take an interview at the United States Embassy in Bangkok. Two of them passed and one of them failed. How did she fail? Well, the common excuse is "he spoke to fast." However, that's exactly what happened. She wasn't able to pick up the -wh question'; therefore, it lead... Continue Reading →
https://www.buzzsprout.com/165390/869140-arsenio-s-esl-podcast-special-ielts-coaching-episode-005-lexical-recourse-correcting.js?player=smallGuys, welcome back to another IELTS Coaching podcast and Facebook live. Last week was a success in terms of doing the joint podcast/live, so I decided to go through with it again this week. Let's dive into the good stuff! Improving your Lexical Resource score This is a criteria that you will be graded on. ... Continue Reading →
Hello, everyone! I'm substituting grammar this week! I decided to add in a speaking skill since I didn't deliver one last week. So, here's a nice one for you today! During a conversation or discussion, we sometimes NEED to change, or shift, a topic. When speaking to other people, it is important to recognize the... Continue Reading →
We're back with some more coaching, everyone! Today we're going to discuss some language building and understanding prepositions. So, all of you probably already know how it works. In the English language, we use a lot of prepositions to indicate time, location, movement/direction and place. So, I decided to put a couple in the box... Continue Reading →
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