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Introducing...
Hi everybody! Here is Monica from Italy! I come from Bassano del Grappa, a very well-known town not too far away from Venice. It is qu...
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English language resolutions
The new year is here and I am sure that everybody is trying their best to be a bit better than before. It doesn't matter if you want to...
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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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English idioms to use in the Autumn
October is here and I honestly can’t believe that we only have a few months until Christmas and the end of the year. But, before all the hu...
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The most common sound in English - schwa
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...
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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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Literature Time: Nonsense Language in Alice in Wonderland
One of the greatest pieces of literature is undoubtedly Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. The book from 1865 follows t...
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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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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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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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What did the English do with the R?
Last Thursday, in English for Lunch, we carried on working on English pronunciation. So far we have seen how English pronunciation can be q...
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"WeakVocabulary" app, the best way to learn new vocabulary
This week we asked one of our students, Pere Carretero, about a new vocabulary app he has developed. Read the interview and check out his a...
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Are you a good liar?
Last week, in English for Lunch, our students had the big challenge to find out if their classmates were good liars. First, students...
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What did you miss in our 'English for lunch' class?
Everton was talking about sounds with meaning. You have never heard of it? Well, don't worry, that is why we have a short blog post abo...
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Introducing...
Hello! My name is Margherita, I am 24 years old and I will be at Peartree for four months thanks to the Erasmus+ programme. Margherita ...
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