Artículos escritos por profesores particulares de Inglés nativos

Student: How much do you charge? Kelly: I am not selling tomatoes. I cannot quote a fixed price. Even if I was selling tomatoes, prices would depend on the season, sales, etc. A professional teacher would never throw a fixed price at you without getting some backgroundi nfo. My prices range from 9-28 euros an hour depending on what you qualify for and what you need, not just what you want. ......................................................

Five essential listening skills for English learners 1. Predicting content Imagine you've just turned on your TV. You see a man in a suit standing in front of a large map with the symbols of a sun, clouds and thunder. What do you imagine he is about to tell you? Most likely, this is going to be a weather forecast. You can expect to hear words like 'sunny', 'windy' and 'overcast'. You'll probably hear the use of the future tense: ...

  For many English learners these two verbs are a little bit confusing. The confusion occurs mainly because both: lend and borrow have almost the same meaning. First of all, LEND means to give something to someone for a short time, expecting you'll get it back.             "I lend her my book yesterday." LEND is an irregular verb, which means it does not take the “–ed” ending....

Many pals asks me how do I deal with stress when I speak to international audiences. And my answer's always happens to be the same.  -I'm good at business presentations because I'm shameless. People got surprised when they hear my reply. But I just keep on explaining... To become a good professional in communication fields it's imperative to make believe your audience you're saying the most important thing in the whole world, and to re...

Hello! This is my first publication, I am really happy I can do this and look forward to many more. I love being an English teacher, because I adore teaching but mainly because I adore the English language and culture. For some reason the British have a bit of a bad reputation, and most regard them as cold, snobbish and distant. Having lived there for over 11 years I had the oportunity to get to know them well, and have to disagree with this wid...

Description:   This is a guide that will give to  you the most important keys and help to learn spanish and survive in a spanish spoken country. If you are thinking about travelling to take vacations or a bussines trip this is the best way to do it without givingup by trying. Section 1: In this section you will learn greettings, remember you can´t be too polite or unpolite, when you need to ask for somethig you must greet and look them...

Hi,   I would like to start this blog, talking about a very controversial matter, and also very interesting from my point of view. The other day, chatting wih a friend, regarding teaching English, he got a bit upset. During the conversation he could not understand that in order to speak a language, you need to spend most of the time developing your conversational skills: basically speaking, speaking and speaking. Why nearly 50% of Spanish p...