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The Primavera English Blog
Live or Leave?
Janean Fischli
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July 27, 2023
Say these words: hill, heel, slip, sleep, ship, sheep. Did you make a different sound for the vowels in each pair of words? In English, we have 26 letters in the alphabet, but many of the letters can make more than one sound and other letters make sounds that might seem very similar to a non-native speaker...
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Shoot the Breeze
Yolanda Wegner
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July 12, 2023
Remember last month’s post? Well, if you drop in on someone, you often stay for a while and shoot the breeze or have a casual conversation with that person...
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Dropping In
Evelyn Koppschall
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June 12, 2023
On weekends I enjoy dropping in on old friends. If a friend wants to chat with me, I hope they feel free to drop in, too. If you’re walking down our street and want to find out more about Primavera English, ring the doorbell and drop in for a visit...
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Monarch Butterflies
Janean Fischli
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May 18, 2023
Many students study with us with the long or short term goal of taking the TOEFL or a similar test. Perhaps the most challenging part of these tests is the writing section. Why is this?...
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Word of the Month: Adaptable
Yolanda Wegner
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May 1, 2023
To be adaptable is important in order to survive in our ever-changing lives. This is true for humans, animals, and plants in ways that are both physiological and behavioral, long term and short term...
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Idiom: Walking on Thin Ice
Yolanda Wegner
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April 21, 2023
This expression describes a situation in which someone is doing something risky or dangerous that could have unpleasant or serious consequences...
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Five More Minutes
Evelyn Koppschall
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April 13, 2023
Five o’clock p.m. is a close, fetid time of day, when the cobbled roads steam and the concrete walls of buildings seethe with foul hot air. I’m sitting in my classroom, trying to look perky, my hair tucked wetly behind my ears, when my student walks in...
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Word of the Month: Intuition
Jeanette Bazeley
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April 1, 2023
What is that feeling deep in our gut, apart from logic and rational thought, that makes us choose a career, a job, a life partner, or even something as simple as what to buy or what to wear? What is the instinctive feeling of a mother that her child is unwell even before there is any evidence?...
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Word of the Month: Strategy
Yolanda Wegner
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March 3, 2023
The word strategy often suggests scenarios such as trying to win a game of chess or running a successful business. But it is also an important skill for many other factors of our personal lives such as getting a project done or learning a new language...
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