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I've watched a few Australian TV programmes recently and have picked up some differences between Aussie and British English. If you want to practise your listening skills or familiarise yourself with the Australian accent, I recommend "A Place to Call Home", "The Doctor Blake Mysteries", "800 Words" or "The Heart Guy" (also called "Doctor Doctor".
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Are these sentences right or wrong?
Now keep reading and check your answers at the end. There are many differences between British and American English. Sometimes we use different words and other times just the spelling is different. In this post, you'll learn some vocabulary for talking about cars and driving. You might hear these words quite often in films and TV shows so I hope this post helps you!
Today is International Dog Day so I thought I would give you some useful vocabulary to talk about dogs.
In this post, you can learn the most common dog-themed idioms in English. I was surprised to discover that there are so many! Read on to learn more!
Do you prefer cats or dogs? I like both but think I'm probably more of a cat person. In this post, I'm going to teach you some cat-themed idioms we use in English.
We've just had a heatwave here in the UK! In Cambridge it was over 30 degrees for six days. This might be totally normal in some countries but not here! It's not my favourite weather at all and I'm very glad it's cooler today! This morning we had rain, thunder and lightning!
Keep reading for some useful vocabulary for talking about the weather in summer! When I started to post on Instagram, I made 24 phrasal verb posts, one for each letter of the alphabet except for X and Y! I tried to choose phrasal verbs that are useful or interesting. Here they are! I hope you enjoy them! (You can find me on Instagram @learnenglishwithkatie.)
When learning vocabulary, it's important to know which words go together and which ones don't. Common combinations of words are called collocations and that's what this post is about.
Let's start with a short quiz! We are living in strange and difficult times with the coronavirus pandemic. Unfortunately, many companies will go out of business and many people will lose their jobs. I thought I'd make a mini lesson on this topic to teach you some useful vocabulary.
Today's mini lesson is about the phrasal verb "pick up". Did you know it has lots of different meanings? Here are the top six!
Students often ask me how to learn and remember new words. They complain that they study new words one day and the next day they have forgotten most of them! I've experienced the same thing myself when I've tried to learn another language. The most important things to do are the first two on the list: record new words and review them regularly.
Do you know what nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are? What about pronouns, conjunctions, prepositions and determiners? When you learn a new word, do you learn what kind of word it is? Is this even important? Keep reading to find out!
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