9 Sep, 2021 | Learn English, Videos
What are phrasal verbs? A phrasal verb is a combination of a verb + preposition (or adverb). This preposition or adverb part of a phrasal verb is called the particle: Verb + particle Typically, the meaning of a phrasal verb is usually not obvious when we look at the...
24 Jun, 2021 | Learn English, Reading
This is a version of Allan Seager’s “The Street,” first published in the London Mercury in 1933 and republished in Vanity Fair in 1934. The Window – A short story There were once two men, both seriously ill, in the same room of a great hospital. Quite a small...
26 Mar, 2021 | Learn English, Videos
Rob Woodward will be doing a LIVE English lesson on YouTube. Today’s topic is… To Be – Error Analysis. This is an Error Analysis activity using TO BE in the Present Simple Tense. A sentence (or a question) will appear on the screen which is not...
26 Jan, 2021 | Idioms, Learn English
Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who has subscribed to the Woodward English YouTube channel. This weekend we recently passed another major milestone … 500,000 subscribers. THAT IS HALF A MILLION!!!! The number really blows me away (surprises me)...
7 Aug, 2020 | Learn English
Is the letter Y a vowel or a consonant? Traditionally, A E I O and U are vowels and the rest of the letters are consonants. See our lesson about the difference between a vowel and a consonant for more information. However, sometimes the letter Y represents a vowel...
4 Aug, 2020 | Learn English
What is the difference between a vowel and a consonant? To avoid giving an intense linguistic definition, I will try to keep things very easy and give a simple explanation about the difference between a vowel and a consonant. What is a vowel? A vowel sound is...
