Chris Wylie
Study English in Sunny San Diego
It is time to travel again! The pandemic kept us locked down for years but now we can get out and get back to our lives. And that means...
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Chris Wylie
- Jul 5
- 2 min
5 Great Tips to Improve Your English Speaking Skills
Speaking English is what it is all about! Communicating with others; Sharing stories and plans; Making friends; all of these things start...
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Chris Wylie
- Jun 27
- 2 min
5 great Tips for Improving Listening Skills
Do you want to improve your listening skills? For ESL students, sharpening your hearing and understanding can feel difficult, but it...
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Chris Wylie
- Jun 20
- 2 min
5Great Tips to Build Your Vocabulary
Hello everyone! Today, we're here to talk about vocabulary – and how to improve it. Learning new words can be intimidating at first, but...
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Chris Wylie
- Jun 13
- 2 min
5 Great Tips For Reading English
English reading, ESL reading, English comprehension, vocabulary building, fun activities to learn English, speak out loud exercises,
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Chris Wylie
- Aug 24, 2020
- 2 min
What is American Food?
So, I have been spending the last three weeks trying to write a “quick” blog about what American food actually is. It was going to be a...
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Chris Wylie
- Aug 5, 2020
- 2 min
How to English:past simple
How to English is a blog series in which I share tips and tricks I have learned in my 25 years of teaching ESL. The goal is to clearly...
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Chris Wylie
- Jul 23, 2020
- 1 min
Missing Comic Con
The night before Comic Con I lay in my bed Hoping for heroes but feeling just dread Knowing the virus would be here instead. There will...
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Chris Wylie
- Jul 14, 2020
- 3 min
How to Teach Present Simple
The How to Series is a blog series in which I share tips and tricks I have learned in my 25 years of teaching ESL. The goal is to clearly...
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Chris Wylie
- Jul 7, 2020
- 4 min
The Five Language Skills
If I told you there are only five things you need to learn to use English, you would say I was crazy. And you would be right. But what is...
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Chris Wylie
- Jun 30, 2020
- 4 min
Ten Great Ways to Improve Your English During a Pandemic
I know there are a lot of people who like to travel to learn new languages. After all, what could be better than learning English on the...
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Chris Wylie
- Oct 6, 2019
- 2 min
Loud Mistakes
When I was a student in high school and university I sang in choir. We would learn a bunch of songs from musical theater, or maybe some...
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Chris Wylie
- Sep 29, 2019
- 2 min
Origin Stories
Origin (N): The beginning of something ~Wiktionary Origin is an important word to me today. Like many words in English, it started in...
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Chris Wylie
- Jun 26, 2018
- 2 min
When is Enough not Enough?
Scarcity. The word describes a situation where there is not enough of a resource that many people need to survive. And while I live in...
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Chris Wylie
- Jun 3, 2018
- 2 min
There’s No Place Like Home
It has been said that a prophet has no honor in his own country and I now say that a tourist attraction has no love in its own city....
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Chris Wylie
- Apr 22, 2018
- 2 min
On the End of the World
What do YOU do when the world is going to be destroyed...again?
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Chris Wylie
- Apr 15, 2018
- 3 min
Simple Past, Present Perfect, and Carpentry
“But, teacher, I don't understand the difference between simple past and present perfect. When do I use one or the other?” I have a few...
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Chris Wylie
- Apr 8, 2018
- 2 min
On the Death of Videotape and Other Media
Videotape barely exists any more as a noun. Actually, I am proud of the collection of Star Wars movies I have on VHS. Of course, in 2018, I
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Chris Wylie
- Apr 1, 2018
- 2 min
Simple Present and the Habit of Writing
We all of us have habits, the only question is if the good habits outweigh the bad.
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