For Students: Fear & Worry
If you hate your job and every evening you say ‘please, please, please nooo’ then you dread going to work. Dread is an awful feeling....
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Luke
- Oct 7, 2019
- 5 min
For Students: Words with Shop
What day do you do the shopping? In the UK it is quite normal for people to do their weekly shop on a Friday for the week ahead. As you...
Luke
- Sep 27, 2019
- 2 min
For Students: Alternatives to Like
Like. I'm certain you like to use like a lot, and like is OK, but we have alternatives to like which we can use when we talk about our...
Luke
- Aug 27, 2019
- 3 min
For Students: Pictures
What would a good caption be for the last picture you took? Is it good enough to frame? If you look really closely, has anybody...
Luke
- Jul 14, 2019
- 4 min
For Students: English from England..
Hello from England. I'm Home from my home away from home for the summer before heading back to Lviv and to work in August. I always go...
Luke
- May 14, 2019
- 5 min
For Students: Addictions
Habit or addiction? There is a fine line between doing something very often, and doing something excessively to the point that you can't...
Luke
- Apr 23, 2019
- 2 min
Business English: Negotiations
The power of negotiation is a great skill to have. The ability to convince, persuade, and even manipulate the person you are speaking to...
Luke
- Feb 26, 2019
- 3 min
Business English: 10 Phrasal Verbs
A couple of days ago I was asked to help write a formal email to someone, we talked about what they wanted to say, and then together...
Luke
- Feb 21, 2019
- 3 min
For Students: Animal Idioms
Are you a cat or dog person? Personally I prefer cats, they are independent, so it doesn't take too much effort to look after them, and...
Luke
- Jan 29, 2019
- 6 min
For Students: School & Education
They say your school years are the best years of your life. I'm sure you don't have to think about it too much to remember some good...
Luke
- Dec 18, 2018
- 4 min
For Students: Christmas Time
I'm writing this as snow falls outside my window. I'm not really into snow. It's OK for a day or two, but after it becomes irritating,...
Luke
- Nov 20, 2018
- 4 min
For Students: Time
It's that time again... Do you know the most common noun in your language? In English the most common noun is time and it is no surprise....
Luke
- Nov 13, 2018
- 6 min
For Students: Health & Fitness
Can you say you are fit? Would you be out of breath running to catch the bus? Could you do 100 sit ups / pull ups / press ups ? If you...
Luke
- Oct 30, 2018
- 6 min
For Students: Fashion & Shopping
It was Lviv fashion week last week which meant the designers were in town to show off their collections. Models were strutting down the...
Luke
- Oct 23, 2018
- 5 min
For Students: Telephoning
Over the last couple of weeks I have received a handful of phone calls, all of them not for me. How? - I don't know – Why? - I don't...
Luke
- Oct 16, 2018
- 6 min
For Students: Talking about crime
Have you ever broken the law? I bet you have! I don't mean by committing a serious crime, like putting on a balaclava and robbing a bank...
Luke
- Oct 9, 2018
- 4 min
For Students: Laughing and joking in English
What makes you laugh? Do you laugh when people fall over or is it funnier when people fall off their chair. Do you laugh if someone farts...
Luke
- Oct 2, 2018
- 2 min
For Students: Time Expressions
How often do you use yesterday, tomorrow, next week, or simply just say the name of the day when talking about your plans or something...
Luke
- Sep 25, 2018
- 5 min
For Students: Talking about cities
Are you from a town, city, or village? How do you define them? I read somewhere that if the place has 100,000 people or more then it is a...
Luke
- Sep 18, 2018
- 4 min
For Students: Reporting Verbs
Whenever we report what someone said like 'I LOVE YOU!' we can give more information how, and what was said by using different types of...
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