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It is not an easy thing to get ready for IELTS, you should practice your English a lot but if you have decided to get IELTS our video lesson which is presented in this post will be very useful for you. Of course, we do not say that you will be ready for your IELTS exam after having watched this video but it can be your first step to be a success.
Here I am again with my useful tips (at least I hope so) which will help you to learn English as a foreign language. And today I present you the second lesson of British English which continues the previous one. In this video lesson we can learn more about English pronouns and about the usage of the verb to be with different pronouns. If you know this material and it is easy for you, I can give you one advice to improve your English skills – find a business video on YouTube and translate it taking into account all grammar rules you know. Post your transcript in this blog and I will send you a real prize.
Here is another video lesson for hard-working students who learn English. This is the first lesson under the brand of “British English”/ In this video lesson you will learn how to say a few words about yourself and you will learn all English pronouns. If you are a teacher of the English language you can use this educational video for your classes with students. Next time I will post some other lessons from “British English” which can be useful for you to improve your language skills.
Hello my dear friends! It has been too long since my last post in this blog for those who learn English through Internet. And today I am again with you and ready to present you another great video lesson on English Grammar. In this video lesson you will learn a lot about English Infinitive Phrases which are widely used in everyday speech and it is important to learn them if you want to master your English and communicate like a native speaker/
It is never late to learn and today I present you some idioms about knowledge with examples:
to know something (somebody) like the palm of one’s hand
Example:
Believe me he’ll do it this way, I know him like the palm of my hand.
Everything that can be done is being done, you needn’t worry about that. Martin knows the place like the palm of his hand.
to know what is what
Example:
He isn’t such a fool as they took him for. He knows what is what.
to know the ropes
Example:
Mr. Bart said not to worry. And he’s smart. He knows the ropes.
Not to know what from which
Example:
I’ve been doing it the whole evening but still can’t understand what from which.
In this video lesson you can practice English pronunciation with a native speaker who will train you to speak English without accent. Follow step by step instructions to improve your English speech to make it fluent and “beautiful”.
When you learn English abroad and have no chance to take classes with native speakers or communicate with then in everyday life it is very difficult to learn new English words which are used nowadays. That’s why sometimes our English is more like Hindi as we use old words and expressions which are nit used by native speakers or have another connotation at present. As for me I found a great way out. You know that Google is the biggest search engine in the world and this company has other services which can be useful for those who learn English. So let’s start:
• Talk (Windows 2000/Windows XP/Server 2003/Vista)
Chat with native speakers (the same as ICQ)
• Reader
Read different blogs for English students
• FeedBurner
Find feeds to add them to your Reader.
• Gmail (Also known as Google Mail)
Write emails to your panfriends to master your language.
• YouTube
Watch different videos to learn spoken language
• Book Search (Previously Google Print)
Find educational books to learn English
• Language Tools
Collection of linguistic applications, including one that allows users to translate text or web pages from one language to another, and another that allows searching in web pages located in a specific country or written in a specific language.
• News
News in English – the best way to learn new words.
• Scholar
Search engine for the full text of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and scholarly fields. Today, the index includes virtually all peer-reviewed journals available online.
• Answers
Question and answer service, allowing users to pay researchers to answer questions.