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View: 2893 | Montag, 3. Januar 2022, 20:58
Thomas the Teacher
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: 3701 | Donnerstag, 30. Dezember 2021, 23:55
Thomas the Teacher
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: 2813 | Mittwoch, 29. Dezember 2021, 07:23
Thomas the Teacher
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: 3048 | Samstag, 18. Dezember 2021, 07:58
Thomas the Teacher
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: 4571 | Freitag, 17. Dezember 2021, 07:10 | 1
Thomas the Teacher
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: 3072 | Mittwoch, 15. Dezember 2021, 23:41
Thomas the Teacher
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: 6234 | Dienstag, 1. Juni 2021, 19:10
Thomas the Teacher
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: 3739 | Mittwoch, 14. April 2021, 22:02 | 1
Thomas the Teacher
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 | Mittwoch, 31. März 2021, 21:09 | 1
Thomas the Teacher
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: 4162 | Montag, 1. Februar 2021, 23:33
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 | Montag, 1. Februar 2021, 05:07
Thomas the Teacher
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: 4273 | Donnerstag, 28. Januar 2021, 05:28 | 1
Thomas the Teacher
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: 5796 | Dienstag, 11. August 2020, 20:23
Thomas the Teacher
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: 4967 | Freitag, 7. August 2020, 00:04
Thomas the Teacher
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: 5150 | Donnerstag, 30. Juli 2020, 19:42
Thomas the Teacher
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: 5207 | Donnerstag, 23. Juli 2020, 19:56 | 1
Thomas the Teacher
The Many Faces of "Get"
When you study English as a foreign language, you learn many weird and wonderful words, but this so...