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December 2025

Intermediate / Advanced English Lesson: Christmas 2025

Today’s lesson is about understanding text and then asking significant questions to gain further understanding.  Student Instructions:  Read a section and then ask your teacher two questions about the section to further your understanding of the topic. The questions should be about historical context. If there are new words in the text please ask about […]

Beginner English Conversation Starters

Here are 20 simple conversation starters that you can use to start a conversation in English. During our lesson today you with lead the conversation with your English teacher. 1. Hello! How are you today? 2. What did you do today? Where did you go? 3. Where were you born?  What is the name of […]

Advanced / Intermediate English Lesson: Discussing the latest news.

Below are two BBC links regarding two controversial stories this week. We will read 10 minutes of each story and the discuss and comment on each story. What we know about Bondi Beach Hanukkah shooting 1).  https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqjg22rey0lo Australia’s social media ban for children has left big tech scrambling 2).  https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce86381p70eo  

INTERMEDIATE / ADVANCED English lesson: Finding the right words

Today’s lesson is about understanding how to use vocabulary specifically without repeating one’s self when speaking or writing.  I want you to read the text until you reach a word highlighted in bold text. Below the paragraph you will find a list of the ten words with alternatives you could use instead of the word […]

Advanced / Intermediate English Lesson: Discussing the weather in English

It’s true, discussing the weather is an English past time. It’s almost obligatory to discuss how bad the weather is when an Englishman meets another Englishman. Even if its a beautiful day. It will either be too hot, too cold, too wet or any other negative you can think of. Introduction: The English obsession with […]