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About Robert D. E. Senior

Fully qualified and experienced Professional English teacher / trainer UK native speaker BA (hons, first class) Linguistics and TEFL 15 years experience in UK, Spain and Austria FCE - CAE - CPE - BEC V - BEC H - TOEFL - IELTS Business, Academic and General English

Somebody anybody nobody etc

It’s essential that you get this right. Mixing up anybody-nobody sounds terrible in English and all it takes is a bit of study and a bit of thought. The basic rule is this: Use nobody/no-one as the subject in statements. … Continue reading

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Language Hacking Tips

Improve your English faster with these tips. The main idea is to replace German with English to the fullest extent possible in your daily life. This is by far the fastest and most effective path to learning. Of course, this … Continue reading

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English Verb Tenses: Future Continuous

To review the Future Continuous please click on the links below Future Continuous info sheet01 Future Continuous info sheet02 read the information and do the exercises. Here is a worksheet which will also help you focus on how to use … Continue reading

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English Verb Tenses: The Will Future

Need help with the tenses in English? Here’s an excellent overview of the Will Future (also known as the Future Simple). 09 The Will future And here are some worksheets which will help you focus on how to use the Will Future. … Continue reading

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Writing Skills: How to write a letter to the editor

If you ever need to write a ‘letter’ (these days more likely an email) to the editor of a newspaper, either in real life or more probably when practising for an exam, here’s some guidance on how to do it: … Continue reading

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English Verb Tenses: Past Perfect Continuous

Need help with the tenses in English? Here’s an excellent overview of the Past Perfect Continuous with links to additional online exercises. Past Perfect Continuous info sheet Read the information and do the exercises.

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English Verb Tenses: Past Perfect

Need help with the tenses in English? Here’s an excellent overview of the Past Perfect with links to additional online exercises. Past Perfect Info Sheet read the information and do the exercises. Here is a worksheet which will also help … Continue reading

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English Verb Tenses: Present Perfect Continuous

Need help with the tenses in English? Here’s an excellent overview of the Present Perfect Continuous with links to additional online exercises. Present Perfect Continuous info sheet Here is a worksheet which will help you focus on how to use the … Continue reading

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English Verb Tenses: Past Continuous

Need help with the tenses in English? Here’s an excellent overview of the Past Continuous with links to additional online exercises. Past Continuous info sheet And here are some great ideas for how to practise using the past continuous: http://edition.tefl.net/ideas/grammar/past-continuous-activities/

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English Verb Tenses: Present Perfect

Need help with the tenses in English? Here’s an excellent overview of the Present Perfect with links to additional online exercises. Present Perfect info sheet Here are some worksheets which will really help you focus on how to use the Present … Continue reading

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