The day Resistance took a beating… It’s 15:15 on the 14th January 2020. Resistance, the beast that had clouded my vision and halted my progress lay on the floor, battered and broken. It’s been a while since I wrote to you. That’s my bad. To be honest, the past few months have been quite busy …
Organic English? Wut? Think about this? What if there was a way to learn English naturally, like English speaking children do, without all the weird grammatical terms and rules. The only issue is that, we, as adults, like rules. We like knowing what we can and can’t do. Children on the other hand, don’t really …
Organic English: Happier, Healthier English Learning (A Case Study) Read More »
Are you guilty of this? You see something interesting on Facebook or in your email, you read it, and then you forget about it… If you’re guilty of this… go on, put your hand up… don’t be shy… I won’t lie. I’m guilty of it. Or I was, at least. I’d wake up and I’d …
Are You Guilty Of This? [English Learning Mistake] Read More »
Before we get into this week’s lesson on how to have great English conversations, I have a short story! Yesterday, I gave an online class about that had some technical issues (technical issues = problems with computer software). I could have quit, but these students had given me their time because they wanted to learn …
“I didn’t know that I would have to read so much!” “Sam, I have to read too much on my course. I don’t know what’s important.” Does this sound familiar? One thing that many of my students find surprising is the amount of reading that they have to do for their degree courses. If you’re doing …
Time is valuable to everyone, but time management can be difficult. You’ve probably had times when you’ve wished for more time (most likely at 11pm the night before an assignment deadline…) For some reason, though, the closer a deadline gets, the better we become at time management. For a few hours, days, or even weeks, we get …
Being late is easy! Why is waking up for a 9am lecture much harder than waking up for a 5am flight? It’s tough waking up for an early class (especially if your lecturer isn’t the most interesting person in the world). And then there’s always the model student who is always early for the 9am …
