New addings

Today I have added a new page about vocabulary enrichment: it is just at the beginning, but it will slowly grow up.

Moreover for those of you, who needs some more revision from A2 level, I'm working on a new blog, and have added right now a link from this blog (look at the list of links on your right, when you are on the blog page).

Leave me a feedback/comment, and let me know if the blog is working. Bye

On one of the hottest days of this summer!

SUMMERTIME...

Listen to the song and fill in the gaps

A very special event!

 We are witnesses to a historical event! 

So why don't you try a multiple choice reading quiz about the birth of Britain's royal baby?

Click on the pram and find out more

I love books!

“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself,

or like the ambicious, for the purpose of instruction.

No, read in order to live."

Gustave Flaubert

Reading is a very popular free time activity, and many people really love it. If you are one of those, why don't you start reading English books for pleasure?

If you want to find something  in English, without loosing the pleasure of reading, only because you might have chosen something too difficult for you, I suggest you to... (continue)

HELP! I CAN'T UNDERSTAND A WORD!

How many times did you find yourself in this situation? It happened to me very often at the beginning!

Thinking of my personal experience in learning English, I found it very difficult understanding this language, because it looked so different from my mother tongue, that I couldn't stop from getting anxious :).

When I  started learning English at school, the approach to the language passed above all through its grammar and for a long time I didn't get in touch with the "real English".

Fortunately nowadays finding good and various listening materials is much easier, even if you are not living in an English speaking country.

Are you curious? would you like to know how to succed in listening comprehension?
So click on the headphone

and find out more....

Pronunciation and fluency

This post to let you know that I have added a new page about Pronunciation

and a page about fluency

I hope they can help!

People

Today I want to start with a gift for my first readers (a majority of women) :)

 Look at this photo:

who is this man?

where is he from?

what's his job?

can you describe him? what does he look like? what is he wearing?

if you don't know him, can you try and guess anything about his life?

Now click on the photo, read the article and find out who he is...

Would you like to meet someone like him? I would take the possibility into consideration ;).

News About Omar Borkan Al Gala by Marina Priest

I'm sorry, but instead of meeting him on this blog, you will listen to a teacher of English, who is introducing herself, and she is asking a lot of questions to you as well.

First listen to her (possibly, don't look at the script during your first listening) than listen and read, and finally try to answer all her questions

Click on this link.

You can write your answers and pretend to speak with the teacher you heard, stopping her while she is speaking.

Introduce Yourself by Marina Priest

Complete the following cloze: use the suggested words

Cloze Test 1 by Marina Priest