Hi everyone

It’s the Easter holidays but that’s no reason to stop learning and practising your English! Here are some helpful videos:

Using your phone to help learn:

For middle and higher level learners

And finally, a video about Google Translate:

Hope you find these helpful!

Hi everyone

The Spring celebration was a great event so thanks to everyone who came on Monday this week. It’s now the Easter break so there will be no cafe sessions until Monday 25th April.

The link below will take you to a video which explains how to record your voice on an iPhone. This will be useful next term when we will be encouraging students to record themselves speaking English so they can play it back and improve.

Fun at the End of Term Celebration

This video is for the middle and advanced groups to help with your understanding of modal verbs:

This video is for beginners:

Have a great Easter holiday everyone and look forward to seeing you all again from Monday 25th April 🙂

Hello

Some useful videos this week to help you with your English:

A couple of videos for beginners:

We hope you enjoy these videos. Remember, the final cafe session this term is on Monday 28th March and it will be a celebration with food to share and games to play. Please come if you can – everyone is welcome!

The cafe will start back again after the Easter holidays, on Monday 25th April and Thursday 28th April

Best wishes

Julie and Carolyn

Hi everyone

Hope you are enjoying the lovely spring weather we are having at the moment. Just a reminder, Monday 28th March will be our spring celebration at the cafe when everyone is welcome. We will restart the cafe sessions after Easter from Monday 25th April, 10 – 12 as normal.

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This week at the cafe we are talking about the origins of Easter. Hope to see you soon!

Best wishes

Julie

Hello

Here are some videos to help you with your English – as usual they are aimed at different levels. Also please note that Monday 28th March will be the last cafe session this term, and it will be an Easter celebration with food to share, a free raffle with prizes to win and games. All students are welcome to attend, even if you normally come on a Thursday. It will be from 10 – 12 as usual.

Hi everyone

This week we will be talking about numbers in the beginners group:

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Hello everyone

Hope you had a good half term holiday. Here are some videos which support the topics we covered this week – Valentine’s Day and Pancake Day. There are also two basic videos about the months of the year and days of the week.

Hello everyone

It’s now half term so just to remind you there are no classes next week. The cafe sessions will start again from Monday 21st Feb.

In the meantime here is a very useful video with lots of basic phrases to help you have a conversation:

Keep practising your English and see you soon!

Hello everyone

Next week is half-term so there will be no classes on the 14th and the 17th February. This week we are continuing to look at likes/dislikes (beginners), and health (the other groups).

Here are some videos that you might find helpful:

ADVANCED GROUP: Watch the video drama called THE YELLOW WALLPAPER. THEN, look at the analysis on plot and characters. Notice the comments about the treatment of mental health conditions in this drama. Look at the progression of the main character’s mental health condition as the story unfolds

So there’s something for everyone this week – happy learning!

Hello everyone

Here are a few videos to help with your learning:

ADVANCED STUDENTS: a really important video on “reductions” (speaking English like a native). It shows you how to understand sentences with reduced words: have/of/etc. Please note this lady is Australian, so some differences in pronunciation, primarily in the “of” reduction. British English would use this pronunciation: a lot’v/sort’v/ etc and not the flapped “t”.