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English Listening: A Trip Downtown | Episode 20

June 6, 2016 by Melanie 15 Comments

English Listening: A Trip Downtown | Episode 20 | English Teacher Melanie podcast

Listen to a story about my trip downtown Toronto to meet my friend! You’ll also learn how to say names of places and streets in a city.

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English Vocabulary: Don’t Call It a Toilet!

January 7, 2013 by Melanie

English Vocabulary: Do Not Call it a Toilet! | English Teacher Melanie

  In Canada and the US it is impolite to use the word toilet. You can call the actual physical thing a toilet, but if you want to say that you need to use the toilet, you must say something else. We have all sorts of other polite names for it! You can start by […]

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Present Perfect: “Have You Ever Been to (a Place)?”

April 21, 2012 by Melanie

English Grammar: Have you ever been to a place? (Present Perfect) | English Teacher Melanie

Have you ever been to Rome, Italy? You can use the present perfect to talk about a place, city, or country you have visited. The present perfect is used to talk about if, at any point in your life in the past, you have visited or traveled to a specific place. The present perfect is […]

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English Grammar: How to Use Present Simple to Talk about Future Events

January 14, 2010 by Melanie

English Grammar: Using the Present Simple to Talk about the Future | English Teacher Melanie

  The present simple can be used to talk about talk about scheduled future events. These are events that happen according to a schedule or timetable. They are usually scheduled by someone else and they are usually public events. Tomorrow is Friday. I fly to Paris next week. The plane departs at 8 p.m. The […]

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