Peartree Life: pronunciation

Can you /beə/ homonyms?

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

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

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

Have you ever heard about the schwa /ə/? It’s the most common sound in English! English is a stress-timed language, which means that s...

Last Thursday, in English for Lunch, we carried on working on English pronunciation. So far we have seen how English pronunciation can be q...

As we have seen lately, English spelling can be quite confusing for students, mainly when they are trying to figure out how to pronounce wo...

Last week, in English for lunch, we continued tackling tricky English pronunciation. As we've seen before, English spelling somet...

There are many differences between teachers around the world, as their role may vary depending on the local culture, but it is universal...

Many of our new students say during their initial assessment test meeting that they want to improve particularly their grammar, tenses, ...