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Do you notice anything strange about these four expressions? 🟠 Say the truth🟠 Do a mistake🟠 Say my opinion🟠 Give an exam They all have a verb + determiner + noun combination so they are grammatically correct. But a fluent English speaker would say they "sound wrong". This is probably the most frustrating feedback that an English learner can...
Read MoreStudents often ask for a list of essential words to learn for English proficiency exams like IELTS and TOEFL. Getting a long vocabulary list and trying to memorize definitions is not a good learning strategy. It doesn't reflect the way your brain likes to learn things, and so it's rarely
Read MoreAcademic English contains lots of long complicated words. The TOEFL and IELTS reading sections may contain words that you don't immediately recognize, but you can work out their meanings by learning about these two effective strategies. 1. Understand how words are structured 2. Learn some of the Latin and Greek
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