Politely Disagreeing in Meetings | Business English B1
Direct disagreement can sound rude even when it is not intended. These phrases let you push back professionally.
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Professional Email Greetings and Sign-offs | Business English B1
Match the greeting to your relationship. "Hey Mike" to your director is too casual. "Dear Sir or Madam" to a colleague of three years is too stiff.
Can and Can’t — Talking About Abilities | English for Kids A2
A short A2 lesson for children on using can and can’t to talk about abilities, with the basic form, simple example sentences and questions with short answers to practise.
Question Words — Who, What, Where, When, Why | English for Kids A2
An A2 lesson for children on the question words who, what, where, when and why: what each one asks about, with example questions to read and practise.
Present Continuous — What’s Happening Right Now? | English for Kids A2
Look around you. Write 3 sentences: "My [friend] is ___ing."
Simple Present — What I Do Every Day | English for Kids A2
An A2 lesson for children on the present simple for habits and daily routines, showing when to add -s for he, she and it, with everyday example sentences.
My School Day — Daily Routines | English for Kids A2
Routine verbs: wake up · get dressed · eat breakfast · go to school · study · have lunch · play · do homework · go to bed
Animals on the Farm — English for Kids | A1
Farm animals: cow · pig · horse · sheep · chicken · duck · goat · dog · cat
Telling the Time — O’clock and Half Past | English for Kids A1
An A1 lesson for children on telling the time with o’clock and half past, with clock examples and the question What time is it? to practise.
Food I Like and Don’t Like — English for Kids | A1
pizza · pasta · rice · bread · soup · cake · apples · carrots · fish · eggs
Colours in My World — English for Kids | A1
Colours: red · blue · green · yellow · orange · purple · pink · white · black · brown
My Family — English Vocabulary Lesson for Kids | A1
Point to a family member and say: "This is my mum. Her name is Ana."
ELT365 · Day 165 — Extensive listening outside the classroom
Extensive listening — whole podcasts, audiobooks, or shows at comfortable level — builds fluency and automaticity. Volume matters more than analysis.
How I Built a Reliable Voice-to-Sheet Transcription Automation System (2026)
I often record voice notes on my phone — meeting summaries, ideas, tasks, or important thoughts. The problem was simple: the transcriptions stayed scattered. I wanted a system that would automatically capture them, organise them,…
ELT365 · Day 155 — Scanning for specific information
Scanning means moving through a text at speed to locate one specific piece of data, then stopping. The learner does not process the whole text.
ELT365 · Day 202 — Academic Writing at B2+: Hedging Language
Academic writing requires hedging — language that marks claims as tentative rather than absolute: "suggests," "appears to," "it is possible that." Over-claiming is a register error, not just style.
ELT365 · Day 170 — Note-Taking During Listening: A Trainable Skill
Note-taking while listening is cognitively demanding because decoding and writing compete for working-memory resources. Training learners to use symbols and abbreviations reduces that load.
ELT365 · Day 153 — Bottom-up vs top-down listening
Bottom-up processing builds meaning from individual sounds upward; top-down uses prior knowledge and context to predict. Skilled listeners use both simultaneously.
ELT365 · Day 152 — Why listening is harder than it looks
Listening in a second language demands simultaneous decoding of sound, parsing of grammar, and construction of meaning — all in real time, with no rewind button.
ELT365 · Day 205 — Speaking sub-skills — stress and intonation
Stress and intonation carry meaning in spoken English. A sentence stressed differently changes its meaning or politeness level. Teaching these explicitly improves both production and listening comprehension.