My students so far today

Today one of my students said, just like many other times before "this doesn't have sense" - How can I get them to memorise the equivalent phrase in English?  "make sense" - this doesn't make sense. Repeat, repeat repeat but what if they just don't bother?

Another student online: when asked how are you?  he says "I am blessed and you"  no punctuation marks, by the way. Apparently he's heard it many times. videos about how to answer the question in what I called "international English" instead of this  "culturally charged" reply, influenced by their country socialising questions, where religion plays a bigger role than in our more secular Europe.
An near-B1 who wants to be C1 in about 6 weeks.

Vocabulary with audio

August is a fairly quiet month for most teachers and I am spending some time compiling material I've been using for some time and maybe doing a quick review about it.

https://www.inglespodcast.com/ fantastic for B1+ learner of English, Spanish as a mother tongue.

Vocabulary

http://www.languageguide.org/english-uk/vocabulary/
Good quality pictures covering basic topics
Just place the cursor on top of each picture and hear it pronounced. Place over the red circles for related words.
Topics are basic but language provided can be high.
American pronunciation

www.learningchocolate.com
Lots of topics and very detailed words, high level.
There are also exercises with the vocabulary (matching, filling-in under picture, dragging, dictation, etc). Very good.


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