A combined reading and analysis of the opening eighteen lines of Chaucer’s General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, examining the seasonal imagery, the pilgrimage context, and Chaucer’s use of irony.
A digital flipbook providing a practical introduction to transformational-generative grammar, covering sentence structure, syntax, and applications to language teaching.
A practical guide to English pronunciation covering individual sounds including L/R, N/NG, and F/V/H distinctions, vowels and consonants, minimal pairs, connected speech, stress, and rhythm, with particular attention to the needs of Japanese learners.
A full-length introduction to transformational grammar covering basic sentence structure, the present simple tense, negatives, questions, emphasis, and the major word classes.
A video series introducing transformational grammar at beginner to intermediate level, covering basic sentence structure, the present simple tense, negatives, questions, emphasis, and the major word classes including pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, and articles.
A grammar series teaching English in context at intermediate level, covering reported speech and backshift, the present perfect, modal verbs, conditionals, the passive voice, and conjunctions, with attention to common errors and descriptive grammar.
A playlist covering the perfect forms of the English verb at beginner to intermediate level, explaining the present perfect, past perfect, and future perfect, and the distinction between simple, continuous, and perfect aspect.
A playlist presenting a practical approach to English vocabulary acquisition and fluency, covering reading strategies including skimming and scanning, and techniques for developing second language fluency.
A curated playlist of grammar livestreams answering learner questions on a wide range of topics including modal verbs, reported speech, relative clauses, the infinitive and gerund, adverbial clauses, tense and aspect, prepositions, collocations, and connected speech.
An advanced grammar series covering the present perfect and aspect, modal verbs, reported speech and backshift, the passive voice, phrasal and prepositional verbs, gerunds and participles, determiners, and dependent and noun clauses.