LINKS FOR LEARNERS
Schoolhouse Rock offers fun videos to help you master tricky grammar issues. Here’s one on prepositions.
Schoolhouse Rock Preposition video: https://youtu.be/avC53wsZiJA?feature=shared
Schoohouse Rock “Mr. Morton”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoZn12BEjyM
For “Quick and Dirty Tips” on grammar, listen to Grammar Girl’s podcasts:
Grammar Girl: https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/grammar-girl/
Use idioms – figurative or non-literal phrases and expressions – to spice up your communication practices! With a toolbox of these common idioms, you will end up writing and speaking with a range of different tones and colors in no time:
- https://www.thoughtco.com/common-english-idioms-3211646
- https://medium.com/@igorkarasev/20-essential-english-idioms-for-esl-students-d0a92f915e88
Browse the Oxford English Dictionary’s academic word list, full of words you probably encounter if you work around a university like Princeton.
Explore prepositions, which place your subject in time https://www.stmarys-ca.edu/sites/default/files/2023-03/PrepositionChart.pdf
And try some practice exercises to perfect your English with “Learn English, Feel Good.” Some of the sections you might not find in an English class are
- Phrasal verbs: https://www.learnenglishfeelgood.com/phrasalverbs/
- Traveling: https://www.learnenglishfeelgood.com/travelenglish/
- Popular movies and TV shows: https://www.learnenglishfeelgood.com/eslvideo/index.html