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 | Mar 29, 2018 | Vocabulary
Ask the Teacher: Heritage vs Inheritance? 遗产 vs 遺產? In a recent bonus 1 on 1 class, Jack Lee, who is one of our long-term star students and a high school senior in Beijing, asked his DreyerCoaching.com star teacher Mr. Woodson: “I see that the Chinese meaning of these...
by Scott Dreyer | Jan 25, 2018 | Vocabulary
As a child, I remember riding the popular “It’s a Small World” ride at Disney World in Florida. A common English saying is “It’s a small world,” when we hear a story about people far away having some chance encounter or seeming...
by Scott Dreyer | Jan 12, 2018 | Vocabulary
Recently I was teaching an online student from Beijing, China, and she explained she had learned from her outstanding DreyerCoaching.com Team teacher that the word “phenomenon” is not used very often in English, and that it refers to some occurrence that...
by Scott Dreyer | Jan 10, 2018 | Vocabulary
Ask Scott Dreyer This question comes from Amy, a student in one of our Basic English online classes. Q: What’s the difference between a gorilla and an ape? Are they the same? And are they monkeys? –Amy in Shenzhen, China A: Great question! Thanks for...
by Scott Dreyer | Dec 23, 2017 | Vocabulary
This question comes to us from Linda, the mother of a DreyerCoaching.com student in Beijing, China, after we had a class about Christmas reading my blog post. Q: What is the difference between the words “holy” and “holly”? A: That’s a...
