Direct method — It was three years back when I landed my first job in an English academy in Madrid, Spain. I was young, inexperienced, very nervous and had absolutely no idea how on earth I was going to actually go about teaching my classes.
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No English accent — One thing I’ve noticed virtually all language learners want to achieve, as soon as they can, is getting rid of their accent. That is the specific phonetic features of their speech that are a dead giveaway of the speaker’s first language.
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The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is a system of phonetic notation that assigns a unique symbol to each sound that we can find in a language.
Our IPA chart for British English.
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When should we use verbs with to? Tell to or tell. Have you ever wondered why we say ‘explain to me what happened’ and NOT ‘explain me what happened’?
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Subject + Verb + object is the common structure in most English sentences, is it not? Well, most of the time it is, yes, however, what happens if we want to emphasise what we are saying? How can we do that? We can do it using subject inversion or auxiliary inversion.
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There are various ways in which one can apply emphasis in English such as cleft sentences, auxiliary inversion and punctuation. However, in this lesson, we will learn how to apply English emphasis and no emphasis using the main auxiliary verb to do.
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