English Endeavors

Improv, scripts and world premieres

Drama helps us make sense of the world. It explores what happens when people make certain…

Being able to speak effortlessly is a great luxury. As a native speaker,…

I recently started using an app to learn German. I liked it more than I…

As instructors, we’ve been told that beginning students cannot handle multiple paragraphs and more advanced grammatical…

There’s a saying in English, “Don’t throw out the baby with the bathwater.” We mean that…

Cambridge University Press is hosting a panel for grammar week in March 2021, and we’ve been…

Here is a drawing-and-guessing activity from our new book, 60 Kinesthetic Grammar Activities (Alphabet Publishing) that…

For the first post of the year, let’s talk about pragmatics, prosody and pronunciation. Our voice…

This morning I learned that Japanese parents invoke a demon named Oni to scare their children…

Getting ready for CaTESOL on Friday where I’ll be talking about pronunciation through theater. I…