Welcome to my blog, everyone! For those of you who are returning, welcome back. For those of you who are new here, welcome to my first ever TOEFL IBT speaking practice. Although TOEFL IBT is becoming more obsolete (IELTS is replacing it), I figured I could give some guidance to some of you students out... Continue Reading →
Reported speech is all about repeating what someone said, but going a tense back. Direct speech statements. Antwone fisher is my favorite drama movie. I hope children of all ages will love the new book. I think I've just swum the length of the Nile river. I feel quite tired. Reported speech statements. Arsenio Buck... Continue Reading →
I wanted to do this with you guys and provide you with a bonus feature, too. So, last week (or about two weeks ago), I did an interactive exercise with you guys. You were suppose to enunciate a paragraph and send it to me, the winner being awarded two hours of free teaching on the... Continue Reading →
I'm bringing back more gerund and infinitive work, and with that will be a lot of exercises to discover yourself: personality, romance, ideal jobs, advice, etc. Enjoy the exercise down below! Rules When I go shopping, I don't buy anything. I love giving presents. Understanding other people's opinions isn't easy. I find it easy to... Continue Reading →
There's always time and room for understanding suffixes. These suffixes are used to describe a person's state of "feeling." Which suffix, -ness, -ship, or -dom, can we add to the words down below? Words: bored, free, friend, happy, ill, king, leader, lonely, mad, relation, sad, weak. Answers in the podcast. Complete the sentences using the... Continue Reading →
Hello, everyone! I want to emphasize how the stretch the vowel (voice) versus voiceless sounds. Many of my students still have difficulty with producing the voice sounds compared to voiceless, so here's an exercise for you! /p/ /b/ Lap ... Continue Reading →
Used to and didn't use to can sometimes be confusing, so I decided to make a short blog and podcast about it. I used to walk to school when I was younger. They didn't use to go to the University of Wisconsin. Rules: We used to talk about about habits in the past. Rules: After... Continue Reading →
Someone from an up and coming language center in Kazakhstan liked one of my posts. When she did, I checked her Instagram out and saw that she was an entrepreneur in Astana, Kazakhstan. I reached out to her and she referred her husband over. Finally, here's Nathan, an American born teacher who's been living in... Continue Reading →
Oh, past perfect is here! Do not fear: Arsenio is here! Honestly, this is just like the present perfect -- it's just you have an action happening before another action. Here's the breakdown for you guys. Look at the sentences. Which actions happened first? John was angry at Tim because he had gotten to the... Continue Reading →
Compound adjectives are made by joining two words. Some words are connected with a hyphen (just as I stated in my episode of compound nouns), some words are not. In this case, and when describing qualities of individuals, you will use a hyphen. Let's break some of these down. Podcast spoiler - Listen to my podcast... Continue Reading →
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