Welcome to The Pending Subject Newsletter Every Thursday you will receive: Tips to improve your English English language content to keep you in touch with the language A weekly challenge to keep you progressing A quote to inspire your learning Today, AI can detect diseases, drive cars, process massive amounts of data to solve problems faster than humans, and be an English teacher wherever and whenever you need it. A teacher, not a creator, or a translator! Because AI shouldn't be a shortcut...
3 days ago • 2 min read
Welcome to The Pending Subject Newsletter Every Thursday you will receive: Tips to improve your English English language content to keep you in touch with the language A weekly challenge to keep you progressing A quote to inspire your learning Students often say to me they want to sound more 'native.' A fine way of doing that is to learn metaphors. A metaphor is a comparison between two otherwise unrelated things. That’s the boring, standard definition of a metaphor. I prefer a more exciting...
10 days ago • 2 min read
Welcome to The Pending Subject Newsletter Every Thursday you will receive: Tips to improve your English English language content to keep you in touch with the language A weekly challenge to keep you progressing A quote to inspire your learning On the last Thursday of the month for the next four months, I will be writing a special edition of The Pending Subject. Each part will be dedicated to giving you tools and tricks so you can improve your English. The aim is that by the beginning of...
17 days ago • 2 min read
Welcome to The Pending Subject Newsletter Every Thursday you will receive: Tips to improve your English English language content to keep you in touch with the language A weekly challenge to keep you progressing A quote to inspire your learning One of my principles for learning English is to make it fun. If it is fun you will enjoy yourself; if you enjoy yourself then you will repeat the practice and convert it into a routine; if you make it a routine you will reach your goals. Simple! One way...
24 days ago • 2 min read
Welcome to The Pending Subject Newsletter Every Thursday you will receive: Tips to improve your English English language content to keep you in touch with the language A weekly challenge to keep you progressing A quote to inspire your learning Scrolling on social media is the number one hobby for many today. According to Statista, 1.44 billion people use Instagram and 955 million use TikTok. So what's the attraction, and how can this appeal be used to help people learn English? Easy, simple,...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
Welcome to The Pending Subject Newsletter Every Thursday you will receive: Tips to improve your English English language content to keep you in touch with the language A weekly challenge to keep you progressing A quote to inspire your learning Insufficient time. Not knowing how to improve. Insufficient confidence. These are the three things that students say stop them from making progress in their English learning. Maybe you have said the same? Maybe you have said one or two of the three? I...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
Welcome to The Pending Subject Newsletter Every Thursday you will receive: Tips to improve your English English language content to keep you in touch with the language A weekly challenge to keep you progressing A quote to inspire your learning I am often asked how students can increase their vocabulary. Writing new words with a definition and examples in English is a good technique if those words are then reviewed and practised, and not forgotten in a notebook somewhere. But sometimes we can...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
Welcome to The Pending Subject Newsletter Every Thursday you will receive: Tips to improve your English English language content to keep you in touch with the language A weekly challenge to keep you progressing A quote to inspire your learning If I had to say the number one thing that Spanish people spend hours studying in English classes with little reward for their dedication, the answer would definitely be irregular verbs. Tables of irregular verbs are printed, homework is given to learn...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
Welcome to The Pending Subject Newsletter Every Thursday you will receive: Tips to improve your English English language content to keep you in touch with the language A weekly challenge to keep you progressing A quote to inspire your learning The subject of how to study would be a productive use of time in schools. I observe many haphazard ways of preparing for tests and chaotic attempts to memorise information in both children and adults. With no obvious system in place, people often...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read