by Scott Dreyer | Jul 22, 2021 | Vocabulary
A couple in the Hsinchu, Taiwan Science Park enrolled their children in a DreyerCoaching Summer Camp a few years ago. Pleased with the results, the dad (to respect his privacy, we will call him “Wayne”) then joined DreyerCoaching classes too to improve his...
by Scott Dreyer | Feb 23, 2021 | Vocabulary
Lucy’s Story Amazing! Lucy is a high school student in Beijing, China, now in her second year with DreyerCoaching. In early 2021, she entered an English speech competition against 380,000 (!) other contestants from all across China! From that 380,000, she...
by Scott Dreyer | Jul 9, 2019 | Vocabulary
Matt, a student of ours in Beijing, China, was in one of his DreyerCoaching.com classes and asked this great question about this reading passage: Why does the first paragraph have the word “were”? In China, the teachers tell us to use the word...
by Scott Dreyer | Apr 27, 2019 | Vocabulary
Recently a member of our DreyerCoaching teacher team and I were working with a Chinese professional man and his American supervisor. We were working on helping the Chinese man write better emails in English. One big issue was: expressing certainty and uncertainty....
by Scott Dreyer | Jan 24, 2019 | Vocabulary
It’s all about word choice. Recently a friend in Sunday School told our class, “My wife says I’m tight…but I tell her I’m thrifty.” We all laughed. Why? Because they are saying basically the same...
by Scott Dreyer | Sep 26, 2018 | Vocabulary
Ask Scott: This question comes from Bob in Hangzhou, China. Q. How do you use the word SINCE? A. Great question! Like many words in English, it has MANY meanings and uses, so it has MANY translations in Chinese! It can give a reason for something, like...
