be used to / get used to

Posted on February 18, 2019 by Robert D. E. Senior

Click on the link below for a  simple explanation of this grammar point:

be-get used to

A typical mistake is to mix up ‘ be used to’  with ‘used to’.  Click on the link below to see the latter if you are unsure.

https://robertdesenior.com/2016/10/20/used-to/

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How to use ‘however’

Posted on July 1, 2018 by Robert D. E. Senior

Everything you need to know is here:

http://blog.esllibrary.com/2014/08/27/however-7-sentence-positions-2-uses/

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A1 – what you should know

Posted on October 4, 2017 by Robert D. E. Senior

See the pdf to find out what an A1 level learner should know before moving up to A2.

Level-A1-Learner-Outcomes

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The Phonemic Alphabet

Posted on June 12, 2017 by Robert D. E. Senior

The phonemic alphabet is the symbols used to represent the sounds of the English language. You see them in a dictionary, usually written in italics and between two slashes. Here is a very nice pictorial depiction from English File that will hopefully help you remember how to pronounce each symbol.

EF1 Phonemic Consonants

EF1 Phonemic Vowels

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likely / unlikely

Posted on June 11, 2017 by Robert D. E. Senior

See here for an explanation and here for a few exercises.

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Subject / Object Questions in Past Simple

Posted on May 6, 2017 by Robert D. E. Senior

Check out this infosheet to learn when we use the help verb ‘did’ to make questions in past simple and when we do not.

Simple Past Subject and Object qs

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Used To

Posted on October 20, 2016 by Robert D. E. Senior

See the ‘used to info sheet’ below for a thorough explanation of how ‘used to’ works and the ‘would for past habits’ info sheet for a comparison to the use of ‘would’ in a similar sense.

used-to-info-sheet

would-for-past-habits

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How to pronounce regular verb -ed endings

Posted on July 31, 2015 by Robert D. E. Senior

Click on the link below for a full explanation 🙂

https://www.englishclub.com/pronunciation/-ed.htm

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Numbers in English

Posted on April 13, 2015 by Robert D. E. Senior

How to say numbers in English:

Numbers in English

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Find a tandem partner: http://www.gospeaky.com

Posted on March 20, 2015 by Robert D. E. Senior

Here’s another great looking website that’s still in beta mode but which should hopefully work nicely. Sign up and give them a try! Let me know how you get on by commenting here 🙂

http://www.gospeaky.com/profile/

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