Booking a hotel room can be stressful if you don’t know the right English words and expressions. Whether you are travelling for work, going on vacation, or visiting family, you need to understand common hotel vocabulary so you can make a reservation, ask questions, and check in with confidence. This guide introduces useful vocabulary and expressions
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Welcome to Week 9: Booking a Hotel Welcome to Week 9 of the Weekly Four-Skill English Challenge: Booking a Hotel! This week, you’ll practise the English you need to book a hotel room and communicate with hotel staff. You’ll learn useful hotel vocabulary and practise listening, speaking, reading, and writing through practical travel situations. By the end of
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Irregular verbs are verbs that do not form the past tense by simply adding -ed. Instead, the past form changes in different ways. For example: Because irregular verbs change in different ways, it can be difficult to know how to pronounce them. The good news is that many irregular verbs follow common pronunciation patterns. This guide organizes
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Travelling by plane can be stressful, especially when you are not familiar with the English vocabulary used at the airport. From booking airline ticket to checking in, going through security, customs, and listening to announcements, you need to understand many common words and expressions. This guide introduces useful airport and airline vocabulary for English learners at CLB 4–7. 1.
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Welcome to Week 8 of the Weekly Four-Skill English Challenge! This week, you’ll learn the English you need to book a flight and make travel arrangements. Whether you’re travelling within Canada, visiting family abroad, or planning a holiday, knowing how to ask about flights, understand travel information, and communicate your needs can make travelling easier and less
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When we talk about the past in English, we often add -ed to a regular verb: But -ed does not always have the same pronunciation. It can have three different sounds: /t/, /d/, or /ɪd/. Learning these three sounds will help you speak more naturally and understand other English speakers more easily. The Three -ed Sounds -ed sound When do we
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Making a complaint is an important everyday English skill. You may need to complain about a product, service, hotel, restaurant, delivery, bill, or workplace problem. Knowing the right vocabulary can help you explain the problem clearly and politely. 1. Useful Vocabulary for Complaints Word/Phrase Meaning Example complaint a statement that something is wrong I would like
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Welcome to Week 7: Making a Complaint Welcome to Week 7 of the Weekly Four-Skill English Challenge: Making a Complaint! This week, you’ll learn how to make a complaint politely when a product or service doesn’t meet your expectations. You’ll practise useful vocabulary and everyday English for explaining problems, asking for help, and requesting refunds, replacements, or repairs.
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The simple past is one of the most important verb tenses in English. We use it to talk about finished actions and events in the past. For example: This article explains how to use the simple past and gives you practice with common situations. 1. When Do We Use the Simple Past? A. Finished actions in the past
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Clear pronunciation can make everyday communication much easier. When you move to an English-speaking country, you may know many English words and grammar rules but still find it difficult to communicate with ease. Sometimes the problem is not vocabulary or grammar. It is pronunciation. You may pronounce a word differently from the way people expect to
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