Learning Polish

Polish in three months? Yeah right! It's a very difficult language...make that more like 3 years and then some! ;-)

English on the Buses!

Here is a new novel idea to learn English...on the local city buses! The idea is simple...two video screens show English words or simple English phrases with the Polish translation next to them. Passengers have nothing else to do but just read and learn.

Shame that some of the slides have mistakes though. For example, it's trivial but why does 'to go to work' have a full stop after it? After all it's not a sentence. Apparently, there are also some spelling errors on some of the other slides. Though these remain to be seen by TDP!

English can be Fun!

Learning English is not just about sitting in the classroom and reciting words and doing boring grammar exercises. Far from it! English can be fun, fun, fun...and in my lessons I try to make them as enjoyable as possible. Take last week's upper intermediate class for example. A simple lesson on the lexical set of the body was turned into a fun visual activity by getting the students to draw around one of their class mates and then consequently label the body! Fun for all ages!