Wednesday, October 7, 2026
I should probably go to bed...
Common Health Problems/At the doctor's
Vocabulary: Common Health Problems on Learning Chocolate
Vocabulary: Internal Body Parts
Ellii on Should and other common modals
Modals are helping verbs. They are never used in continuous tenses and they have their own way to do past tense.
Should I put more grammar on the class website? Should we do less grammar in class?
Friday, October 2, 2026
Getting Chores Done
What are you doing today? What chores are you going to do this weekend? Do you want this dog?
What is this dog doing?
What chores did you do today? Do you like to listen to music when you do housework?
Describe a chore that makes your life happier.
Wednesday, September 30, 2026
Everybody needs somebody
It's totally crazy, but in English everybody, everyone, and everything use singular 3rd person verbs -- just like he, she, or it. Think of everybody (or everyone or everything) as one big group (it)...
Everybody needs water.
Everyone tries to live well.
Everything is getting better.
Everybody Needs Somebody -- same song, but easier to follow lyrics. No capital I's...
In formal English, we write "Everything is going to be all right."
What things are important for everybody? What does everybody need to do?
Nobody knows
Nobody and no-one also use that third person singular verb
that often needs an s just like verbs after he, she, & it
Nobody is there.
Nobody works like he does.
No-one understands except you.
What do you want people to see and understand?
Someone Somewhere
How often do you call someone who lives far away? What are the best ways to keep in touch with people who are far away?
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