Tag: SpeakingEnglish
At long last!
This is my first video recording and it's just a taste of what we'll do in our conversation lessons. Lessons? More correctly I'd say practice. "Teacher talk" is very useful of course, it helps you get the rythyms of the language, so different from your own, but it's far more important for most people to… Continue reading At long last!
Droning
Yes, it's got a whole load of meanings, not just male bees or bombs-on-presidents! I used to tease my uni students by "droning" on like them...finishing with "amen" just to make them realise, with a laugh, how boring they were. Drone means to speak in a flat, boring, way, losing your listeners' interest on the… Continue reading Droning
Pronunciation problems
I always find it very embarrassing when I tell my students that they need to speak well. The reason? I've been in Italy for a long ,long time and I still speak like Stan Laurel! But the point is this: People can understand me because Italian is a pretty straightforward language to speak, whereas if you don't… Continue reading Pronunciation problems
English that grows 