I received my TEFL certificate in Dublin in 2007.   I have taught all levels of students but I have been primarily interested in upper-intermediate and advanced students and exam coaching since 2008.  I have prepared classes and private students for the FCE, CAE, IELTS, TOEFL and CPE.  I am currently pursuing an MA TEFL/TESL from the University of Birmingham.       I’m an American, but I lived in Ireland for five years so...

I am a passionate believer in independent learning.  But this doesn’t mean learning alone.  It means that we choose what is important to us and what we are going to concentrate on and then we find a way to achieve these goals.  And usually, we go to other people for help.  That’s why I made this site, to help students prepare for their English exams. You are probably here because you are preparing for an exam and you want to get a...

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Sometimes it’s difficult to really understand the exact sense of a word without seeing it in context.  For example, the words chance, opportunity and possibility.  They all have quite similar meanings but they all have particular situations in which they can be used.  If you visit the British National Corpus and type the words into the search box separately, the corpus will show you 50 examples of that particular word or phrase from a range of...