Artículos escritos por profesores particulares de Inglés nativos

Are you learning a new language? Do you like to cook? I do, but I like to eat even more. PIcking up recipes in a new language is one of the best ways to learn about a new culture (and even learn a little about your own in the process) while deepening your understanding of the language. Cooking Spanish recipes and eating with native Spanish speakers is by far my favorite way to immerse myself in the language. I can spend all day talking about foo...

Another of my most frequent recommendations is that students do a little every day instead of a lot one day a week (or fortnight, or month!), but many of my students still have trouble accepting that and think they need to dedicate an hour a day, if not more, to studying English. Now, of course, every one is different, but I honestly think that it's better to do a little at a time than a lot just once. And here's why. If you think of the gym – a...

I grew up in India. My parents are Indian and English so this already set me off on a path of speaking multiple languages. I got two languages from my father and friends and one from my mother. India has over 1500 dialects and 22 official languages. I speak 3 of them - English, Hindi, and Marathi; and because of this I can understand a few more due to their relation to English or Marathi. A bit like how French and Catalan and Spanish are connect...

Hello again! Hola de nuevo!! :) En el blog de hoy, quiero hablar de un tema que en todas mis clases de inglés, toma un rol muy protagónico. Aquí os presento una lista de los "False Friends" más comunes: Spanish Word(English Translation) Similar English Word(Spanish Translation)     A A actual (current, present-day) actual (real, efectivo) americano (person from North orSouth America) american (estadounidense) aprension (fe...

The Call is a worldwide acclaimed American thriller released in 2013. The plot starts one night when the 911 emergency operator, Jordan, receives a life-altering phone call from a teenager saying that a prowler was trying to break into her house. Still suffering because of the incident that doomed the girl's life to death, Jordan uncovers a sadist serial killer and focuses on his tireless hunt and capture before he can trap his next victim. The ...

Movies can bring the world to your students in very realistic ways. Films are multisensory, they have the ability to create an emotional connection between the message and the interlocutor in powerful ways. Furthermote, they can help you as a teacher not only to achieve your classroom goals, but also to introduce values and to raise awareness about current topics. Stories introduced through movies can create connections across time, place and cu...

Hi again!! In this blog, i want to focus on the specific needs students have when it comes to english learning. One day, one of my students came up to me and told me she wanted to improve her english skills at work. This kind of request drops you of guard, as you aways prepare your classes, focusing on the main english skills: Writing, reading, listening etc. Well, we had a discussion about it and we decided to focus her english classes on HR sk...

Hello all!! This time i am going to do something different to the previous blogs and that is to write in english....I think it is where i feel more comfortable! ;) In today´s blog i want to focus on one of the most important skills ever known: Reading. As you may have noticed, reading is a rich skill where society and the actual reading skill interect. From my personal point of view, it is one of the most fulfilling and worthwhile past-times. Al...

It's wintertime and this only means one thing: my students keep telling me about their toilet problems again. What is it with Spanish speakers? They share too much! Then they keep telling me how they ate lots of jam and had a lot of nice discussions with their families over Christmas. But I can't say I'm innocent of any mistakes! Only today I realized I have been using the word 'grano' for grain in Spanish. I realized this whilst doing the ...

“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” Benjamin's Franklin is sooooo true!!!! I believe that when a student is involved, he/she truly learns. This is part of my methodology of teaching foreign languages. I’ve been teaching for more than 20 years and making the student involved is a key to teaching with success. Not only does the student get motivated, but you, as an instructor, look for different ways to make ...

English is the second most spoken langauage in the world, it is estimated that around over 53 million people speak English. Due to this English is now the main language of certain eceonmic fields such as sicence, avation and information technology. due to such fields adopting English as it main language it is of no suprise that business is also adopting it as their main field.  Therefore i would recomend anyone to learn English as a second ...

Learning a language is all about changing habits in your brain. I think that some techniques that people use like studying long vocabulary lists, memorizing phrasal verbs, even this focus on grammar, is an attempt to short circuit a process which actually takes a long time. It takes a lot of exposure, a lot of reading and listening and, eventually, speaking in order to create new habits.   I have been teaching English in Spain for 7 ye...

Company language-training: How to motivate, empower and engage learners Thousands of companies across of Europe pay for their employees to improve their language (most often English-language) skills. While getting language training for free would seem like a huge source of motivation, training learners who have been forced to attend, or worse, have to attend during inconvenient times including at day-break, during their lunch-hour or at the end ...

How to Use Meet Okay, so, meet and know. These are two commonly confused words. So, to meet is to meet somebody for the first time. Somebody introduces you or you meet that person. “Nice to meet you.” MEET: Meet somebody for the first time, or in an introductions. This is one of the first things you learn in English, and to meet up with somebody, or to meet with somebody is to ge...