English Language Tips
English Language Tips
Our English Language Tip pages are designed to help you if you are learning English to develop your English skills and build your knowledge of vocabularly.
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Click on the different headings below to read some great tips, and make sure to share them with your friends if they are learning English too! Keep checking back as we will try to add more soon!
- The Most Important Part of Language Learning
- English Grammar Rules About Apostrophes and Semi Colons
- The Dream of Fluency; How To Persist Against All Odds
- English Grammar Tenses Part I
- English Grammar Tenses Part II
- English Grammar Rules About Proper Nouns
- English Grammar Rules About Conditionals
- Word Stress For English Language Learners
- About Cognates
- About Phrasal Verbs
- Learning English Grammar With Mnemonics
- How To Learn English Vocabulary
- Learning English Grammar With Idioms
- TXTSPK (Text speak)….What does it mean?!
- Learn to love your mistakes
- Responding to negative questions
- Common Canadian Greetings and Responses
- Understanding Native Speakers
- Preparing to study English abroad
- How to practise your English outside of the classroom
- How to remember new words
- Sailing Idioms in Business English
- Small Steps to learning English
- Polite Language
- Learning Homophones
- Tips for Practising Pronunciation Outside the Classroom
- The Internet and Authentic Listening Practise
- Scenarios to Practise Speaking English
- Saying "No"
- Mastering the American Accent
- Sing a Song
- Helpful Words
- Free Apps for your Android or iPhone
- So and Too
- Halloween Language
- What to Say to your Host
- Improving your Pronunciation and Confidence
- Writing Tips from St Giles Vancouver
- Tips for the FCE student – Reading and Listening
- Learning New Vocabulary
- A Little Help From Friends
- Reading Aloud and Recording Alone
- Dreaming in English – some Idioms with “dream”
- Preparing to take a Cambridge exam or exam course?
- Using Social Media to Improve Your English
- Useful British English Words and Expressions
- Preparing to do an IELTS course - Lower Level Students
- Four Grammar Rules that are Always True
- A Vocabulary Lesson for Your American Summer
- Tips on How to Improve your Cambridge English First (FCE) Writing Score
- Hypothetical Situations and Wishes
- Two Simple Steps to Better Pronunciation!
- Answering Negative Questions
- Idioms with Turkey and Chicken
- Making Suggestions with Let's and Shall
- Welcome to Raincouver!
- The ABC's of Canadian Expressions
- Important to use facial expressions when communicating in English
- BAD English