Vicki Hollett

There’s often no match between English spelling and pronunciation and the letters ough are an infamous example. In this video lesson we set about teaching how to pronounce the letters OUGH in English and demonstrate eight different sounds this letter combination can make – in British AND American English.

Click here to download a free chart with the eight sounds.

Tongue twisters can be great pronunciation practice for English learners. They’re not only fun, but they also train your mouth muscles to move in new ways – something we all have to learn when we’re trying to speak a new language.

With the aid of some great English learners, we set too to teach a few. And come back soon because we have more planned.

There are a couple of things that seem to cause learners problems with causative verbs.

First is the meanings. The most common ones like ‘make’, ‘have, and ‘get’ have lots of other meanings too. And then there’s ‘let’ which is also very common, but why is it causative? Causative suggests it’s about one thing causing another, doesn’t it? How is ‘let’ like that?

And then there are the confusing patterns they follow. Why do we ‘make someone do something’ but ‘force someone TO do something. Sometimes English is just plain weird!

So we’ve made a video lesson about them. There was a lot to cover so we broke it into two parts. Here’s part one which is about meanings:

And here’s part two which is about the patterns they follow:

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