LLFE-A04 · My Working Day — Present Simple for Routines
📖 From the teacher's desk: My working days in hospitality were never the same — but my routine was! I always arrived at The Ivy an hour early to set up the bar, brief the…
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LLFE-A03 · Where Are You From? — Talking About Your Hometown
📖 From the teacher's desk: When people ask me where I'm from, I never know where to start — born in Bangladesh, grown up in Australia, now living in La Réunion. I've learned that describing…
LLFE-A02 · Can I Help You? — Polite Requests at Work
📖 From the teacher's desk: Working in luxury hospitality at places like Establishment and Popolo in Sydney, polite requests were the foundation of every interaction. "Could you...?" rather than "Do this!" is the difference between…
LLFE-A01 · At the Bar — Ordering Drinks in English
📖 From the teacher's desk: As a sommelier and bar manager at The Ivy and Merivale venues in Sydney, I took thousands of drinks orders in English every week. The language of ordering drinks is…
LLFE-YL10 · Tell Me a Story! — Simple Past Narrative
📖 From the teacher's desk: At bedtime in La Réunion, I tell my son stories — sometimes in English, sometimes in French, sometimes a magical mix of both! At ELT Hub in Brittany, I discovered…
LLFE-YL09 · Happy or Sad? — Emotions and Feelings
📖 From the teacher's desk: In my multicultural classrooms at ELT Hub in Brittany, I quickly learned that emotions are universal but expressions are cultural. My students from different countries showed feelings very differently! Being…
LLFE-YL08 · Where Do You Live? — Places in Town
📖 From the teacher's desk: Saint-Pierre is the second-largest town in La Réunion — it has a beach, a market, a harbour, and some wonderful restaurants. Moving here from Sydney, I had to quickly learn…
LLFE-YL07 · Monday, Tuesday… — Days of the Week Chant
📖 From the teacher's desk: In my years managing restaurants in Sydney, the busiest days were Friday and Saturday — always. Now in La Réunion, my son asks every morning "Is it a school day?"…
LLFE-YL06 · This Is My Family — Family Vocabulary
📖 From the teacher's desk: My family is wonderfully spread across the world — from Dhaka to Sydney to La Réunion. My partner Vanessa and I are raising our son here in Saint-Pierre, and family…
LLFE-YL05 · I Like Pizza! — Food Vocabulary
📖 From the teacher's desk: Managing restaurants like Uccello and Popolo in Sydney meant talking about food every single day. Back in La Réunion, our kitchen is a beautiful mix — rougail saucisse, Bengali dhal,…
LLFE-YL04 · My Body — Body Parts TPR
📖 From the teacher's desk: At my son's crèche in Saint-Pierre, the teachers use "Simon Says" in French every morning — "Simon dit: touchez votre nez!" I now play the same game in English at…
LLFE-YL03 · Red, Blue, Green! — Colours and Shapes
📖 From the teacher's desk: La Réunion is one of the most colourful places I've ever lived — turquoise lagoons, orange cliffs called "Piton de la Fournaise," and deep green sugar-cane fields everywhere. I often…
LLFE-YL02 · One, Two, Three! — Numbers 1–20
📖 From the teacher's desk: At Merivale in Sydney, counting was everything — 16 covers on table 4, 3 bottles of Bollinger for table 12! Numbers in English felt natural to me because I used…
LLFE-YL01 · What’s Your Name? — Greetings and Introductions
📖 From the teacher's desk: When I first arrived in La Réunion, my little one came home from crèche one day and said "Bonjour!" to everyone she met — even the cat! Greetings are the…
Have You Ever…? Present Perfect for Experience — B1 English Lesson
We use the present perfect to talk about experiences at some point in our life. We do not say exactly when — the focus is on whether the experience happened at all.
The Passive Voice: Things Get Done (B2)
In an active sentence, the subject does the action. In a passive sentence, the subject receives the action.
Reported Speech: What Did They Say? (B2)
When reporting past speech, tenses shift one step back in time:
Modal Verbs: Could, Should, Would (B2)
Choose the correct modal verb (could / should / would) to complete each sentence.
Past Simple vs Past Continuous: Telling Stories (B1)
I was carrying a tray of champagne glasses [background — in progress] when the head sommelier walked in. [main event — sudden]
Second Conditional: What Would You Do? (B1)
The second conditional describes imaginary or hypothetical situations — things that are not true now, or very unlikely to happen.