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View: 2899 | Jan 3, 2022
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Resolution #1 - Lose Weight!
I’m not normally a person who makes New Year’s resolutions, but I think this year I will have to ma...
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View: 3709 | Dec 30, 2021
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三徳 or 牛刀? Cooking goals 2021!
One goal that I achieved in 2021 was to cook more; as you might have noticed, three of the last fou...
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View: 2825 | Dec 29, 2021
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One goal from 2021: Maintaining friendships
For better or worse, I am not a particularly ‘goal oriented’ person, in the sense that I am not som...
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View: 3058 | Dec 18, 2021
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My dad's Christmas roast potatoes.
In my last tutor column I mentioned at the end that I will probably be cooking chicken for Christma...
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View: 4579 | Dec 17, 2021 | 1
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Roast Pork! Crack(l)ing good stuff...
It’s always difficult to answer a question that starts with ‘What is the best OO?’, because the ans...
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View: 3080 | Dec 15, 2021
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Lemon Drizzle - A Winter Activity
I have been procrastinating recently, and so I am too late to write a column for the previous weekl...
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View: 6242 | Jun 1, 2021
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IELTS Speaking Test Part 2 - The Monologue
Speaking tests are never easy; unlike reading and writing tests, you don’t have the luxury of ta...
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View: 3742 | Apr 14, 2021 | 1
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News of the Week: UK Edition 14/04/2021
Three main stories have dominated the newspapers in the UK this week: 1) The death of Prince Phil...
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View: 3999 | Mar 31, 2021 | 1
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Spring has sprung again.
Spring has sprung. It’s a cliche, but spring is my favourite season of the year. Here in t...
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View: 4164 | Feb 1, 2021
Thomas the Teacher
Lesson Profile: 'In The News // 今日のニュース'
(25% off coupon for new students available for “In The News” until the end of February!...
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View: 4165 | Feb 1, 2021
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Is hoarding a hobby? ホーディングは趣味かな~~
I have always found it very difficult to throw things away. It doesn’t seem to matter if th...
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View: 4275 | Jan 28, 2021 | 1
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Tea or Coffee - A Difficult Choice
A quandary (/ˈkwɒndri/) can be defined as ‘a state of not being able to decide what to do&rsq...
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View: 5799 | Aug 11, 2020
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Thomas's Travel 'Hacks'
Sometimes it can be difficult to tell the difference between a travel 'hack', a piece of good old-f...
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View: 4971 | Aug 7, 2020
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Cohesion in IELTS Writing Task 2
In the IELTS writing paper, as you may know already, your two writing tasks are marked ba...
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View: 5151 | Jul 30, 2020
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The Many Faces of "Get": Part 2
In the last blog we looked at four different ways that native speakers use the verb ‘get&rsq...
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View: 5209 | Jul 23, 2020 | 1
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The Many Faces of "Get"
When you study English as a foreign language, you learn many weird and wonderful words, but this so...