by Scott Dreyer | May 10, 2018 | Vocabulary
English is a crazy language! For example, sometimes DIFFERENT letters make the SAME sounds, like: “Daisy is in great shape.” But at other times, the SAME letters make DIFFERENT sounds, like: “Eat bread & steak.” So it is with the /-ed/ at...
by Scott Dreyer | Feb 1, 2022 | Learning Resources
“So many Chinese kids have terrible English pronunciation! You wouldn’t believe it!” I still remember when my wife and I were chatting over coffee with a Chinese woman who was an educational consultant in Shenzhen. She was explaining how so many Chinese students...
by Scott Dreyer | Sep 24, 2021 | Learning Resources
“So many Chinese kids have terrible English pronunciation! You wouldn’t believe it!” I still remember when my wife and I were chatting over coffee with a Chinese woman who was an educational consultant in Shenzhen. She was explaining how so many Chinese students...
by Scott Dreyer | Apr 21, 2021 | Writing
In my award-winning book Write Like a Champion, I explain several common types of writing tasks: how-to, persuasive, definition, etc. In a “definition” paper, you seek to define a term. That came to mind while recently listening to a podcast by master...
