Let’s Talk

The Primavera English Blog

Word of the Month: Cultivate

Hela Goodwin, May 8, 2024

Here at Primavera English we try to cultivate studious atmospheres in our classes. However, when I’m not teaching English...

Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, Turn Around

Evelyn Koppschall, April 12, 2024

There’s a reason we remember children’s songs and skip rope chants long after we cease to be children. Children’s brains are more receptive to growth, and the music, rhythm, and joyful memories that accompany the words of a song or skip rope chant help to stamp the words into a child’s memory forever...

Matti

Hela Goodwin, March 1, 2024

Meet Matti – the newest member of the Primavera English team. He lives out in our yard and loves to eat peanuts and fruit. He’s super friendly...

Word of the Month: Resolution

Jeanette Bazeley, January 8, 2024

Happy 2024 to everyone! Have you made any New Year’s resolutions? Many people like to make a fresh start at the beginning of a new year. They decide to change their habits or improve themselves in some way...

Word of the Month: Engagement

Janean Fischli, November 23, 2023

Wow, December is almost here! At Primavera English, we are celebrating the engagement of...

Riddles

Janean Fischli, October 11, 2023

With young learners, riddles are a great/fun way to practice comparatives and superlatives, as well as English vocabulary. The theme of the riddles can be adapted to any vocabulary topic and students love the challenge of figuring out clues, ...

Actually or Currently?

Janean Fischli, September 12, 2023

Don’t get confused! The word actually does not mean currently, as it does in Spanish. Native Spanish speakers are tempted to say a sentence like, “I am actually living in an apartment.” In English we would use the word currently or right now in this sentence: I am currently living in an apartment...

Live or Leave?

Janean Fischli, 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...

Shoot the Breeze

Yolanda Wegner, 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...

« Previous 1 2 3 4 … 10 Next »