Here is the text/script of the English Made Simple on the difference between the past simple and past continuous. The video is on www.youtube.com/englishmadesimple ” Hi Welcome to English Made Simple. Today we will talk about the difference between the past simple and past continuous and some examples. The past simple is an action […]
An Inspector Calls, The Themes: Age
An Inspector Calls, themes: Gender This is the third in a series of articles on the themes of the play, ‘An Inspector Calls’. The first focused on class division and social responsibility and can be read by clicking on here. https://englishmadesimple.org/an-inspector-calls-the-themes-part-1/ The second about gender can be read by clicking on here. https://englishmadesimple.org/an-inspector-calls-themes-gender/ An […]
The Indo-European language family.
Various languages around the world are related to each other and speakers can feel the similarity for example Spanish and Italian. One doesn’t need to be an academic to sense or realise these languages are ‘related’ as their similarity and varying degrees of mutual intelligibility cause people to arrive at that conclusion consciously or subconsciously. […]
Los Angeles, California.
Los Angeles is located in the state of California on the west coast of the USA besides the warm waters of the Pacific Ocean. Despite it being a city of 3 million, which is not that big when you consider that many cities that there are over at least 20 Chinese cities which have a […]
The history of the English language part 3
This is the 3rd in a series of articles on the history of the English Language. The first article can be found by clicking on here. The second by clicking on here. The history of the English language part 3 In our previous article we discussed the development of the English language from […]
New York, the biggest city in the US.
The biggest Anglophone country in the world is the United States of America, and the biggest city in that country is New York. Not the political capital but the city which is prioritised above all others when thinking about “I want to visit the US, but only have a week or less, which city must […]
The history of the English language part 2.
This is the second in a series of articles on the history of the English language. The previous article can be read by clicking on this link or just going to this URL, https://englishmadesimple.org/the-origin-of-the-english-language-part-1/ The history of the English language part 2 So in our previous article we had a brief overview of […]
The origin of the English language part 1.
To understand the origin of the English language we naturally need to understand the history of those who spoke the earliest forms of “English” or at least proto-English or the ancestral forms of the English language. In fact it is a matter of interesting debate whether the ‘English’ of Beowulf can really be considered the […]
What is linguistics?
What is linguistics? Well one common response might be, “the study of language”. It is possible that from then on the respondent might then continue down this particular path of reasoning and thought and further elaborate that the “study of language” is on how languages work including their grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation (or to sound […]
What is the IELTS exam?
The IELTS exam stands for International English Language Testing System. It is an exam first started in 1980 by Cambridge University and the British Council to measure competency in the English language. It is one of the more important English exams as it has a degree of official validity in that sometimes for visa applicants […]