Peartree Life: English for lunch

Red dye or red eye?

This past Thursday, students in English for lunch had a look at connected speech . Sometimes English learners can understand all the word...

A /be ə / Recently, at English for Lunch, the students had a look at English homonyms. According to a broader definition, a homonym ...

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...

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

Students normally get quite confused about how to pronounce words in English and (to be honest) English spelling doesn’t often help us much...

Last week, in English for Lunch, we got back to those dreaded phrasal verbs. And, guess what? We had a look at possible constructions with ...

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

Last week, in English for lunch, our students were asking about a common problem students face when learning English: the dreaded phrasal v...