A Piece Of Cake! In this creative workshop, we sorted through idiomatic expressions in English and their meaning. This workshop had a two-part session with two different teachers. After all, two heads are better than one. The result? Our students left with a plethora of expressions they could use in multiple contexts. In a [...]

How to Pinpoint Prepositions In, On, Under, Behind, Between… and the list goes on. It sounds easy right? Well, prepositions in English are actually quite tricky because they don´t stand the test of direct translation. Prepositions change meaning according to context as well. In our workshop this week we discovered some rules for prepositions [...]

Welcome on Board! You have your boarding pass in hand, you´re luggage has already been checked. You have already been through the boarding gate. There is a slight delay before take-off, but at least you got the aisle seat. Does this situation sound familiar? It´s you, in an airport scenario. Now imagine going through all [...]

Flour and Flower, Ate and Eight, Hour and Our. What do these pairs of words have in common? They´re homophones! In this workshop, we discovered words that sound the same, but have different meanings. Pronunciation here was not a priority as homophones sound the same, so the main focus was on semantics. In a [...]

Is it football or soccer? Hood or Bonnet? Windshield or Windscreen?  Whichever you choose, it´s all English anyway. In our workshop, titled Football or Soccer? We discovered the differences between varieties of English. The English language has over ten different variations. In this workshop, we concentrated on British and American English differences.   Saying football [...]

Get the Job! You add your name, interests, experiences, maybe a picture, but no, it´s not your profile on a social media site, it´s a CV! In our CV Workshop we explored what a professional CV looks like in English, as well as learned which information is useful to say to get the job [...]

On April 26th we launched our Pronunciation Workshop at the Social Club. Pronunciation is a complex matter, as it´s often the cause of miscommunication, but who says it can´t be fun? In order to combat that, this workshop explored the mispronunciation experiences and broke down the pronunciation process into three phases:  Listening, Distinguishing, and [...]