Everyone has an accent! Part II - or How can I make myself understood???

So, I suppose you have read our blog post last week and watched a Youtube video talking about different accents in the UK (if you haven’t j...

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Everyone has an accent!

The way you speak your own mother language (whether it is Spanish, Arabic or Chinese) is closely linked to the place you grew up in, your c...

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English for lunch is back, isn't it?

And we're back with our English for Lunch blog posts! Over the last weeks, we have covered many different topics based on our students...

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These are words that go together well…

As an English language student, you may have heard your teacher saying something like: ‘This just doesn’t sound right!’ , after you made a ...

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Which is the most difficult sound in English?

Well, speakers of different languages will normally struggle with different sounds, so the answer should be: ‘a sound that you don’t have i...

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Present Perfect or Past Simple

Last week, in English for lunch, our students saw an important difference between the past simple and the present perfect. Present p...

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Using narrative structures

There are many ways we can tell the same story. We might emphasise different points, we may pause before an important or funny part to crea...

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Keep calm and carry on

Keep calm /kɑːm/ and carry on . It’s only phrasal verbs! I couldn’t wait to get on with English for Lunch last week and help students...

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Word pairs and listening! Lots to do in our English for Lunch

Last week, in English for Lunch, we had already finished our series of common collocations in the English language. We had seen preposition...

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NOUN + PREPOSITION = COLLOCATION CASINO

Last week, at our English for Lunch Casino, our students had to bet their (imaginary) pounds on which prepositions collocate with certain n...

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You can count on us!

Last week, in English for Lunch, we continued working on common collocations found in the English language! We had already seen preposit...

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Don't worry about your English anymore! Come join us to see some common collocations.

Last week, in English for Lunch, we started a new series of lessons on collocations! Collocations are a combination of words that freq...

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Forming new words

Last week, in English for Lunch, we finished our series of lessons on how suffixes can be used to change a word class. We had seen how to u...

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Give me a 'get' for 200! It is phrasal verbs jeopardy!

Are you a fan of TV game shows? Last week, in English for Lunch, our students revised and learned some phrasal verbs playing against each o...

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Phrasal verbs: If you didn't show up check what you missed!

Last week, in English for Lunch, we continued our series of lessons on phrasal verbs (or multiword verbs). We had seen that a nice way to r...

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Get up and join us for English for Lunch!

Last week, in English for Lunch, we started a new series of lessons on multiword verbs (also known as phrasal verbs). In English, we h...

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This is the rhythm of... English

Last week, at English for Lunch, Peartree students got into the rhythm of English! As many learners point out, one of the main obstacl...

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What you missed in our 'English for lunch' class

Here at Peartree Languages we’re always chuffed * when students come to our English for lunch sessions. It’s a great chance to make new fri...

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You meet interesting people if you go to English for Lunch…

You’ll find out some interesting things if you can make it to the next Language for Lunch... If we didn’t have English for Lunch, Thur...

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If I had attended English for Lunch, I would be able to understand this grammar!

If I had the chance, I would be an English language teacher all over again! If only I could be in the classroom all day and not in the offi...

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