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Two similar idioms
It’s a very short post about two common English idioms which seem to be quite similar, I mean their meaning is similar and they may...

Kamila Górniak
Apr 10, 20181 min read


Spring idioms & proverbs
Easter has just passed but we still have wonderful Easter holidays, that’s why I’m coming with the newest pack of spring and Easter...

Kamila Górniak
Apr 6, 20182 min read


Spring & Easter idioms
Hi! Sunny spring has just come and everyone seems to be more cheerful and full of energy than during those miserable winter days...

Kamila Górniak
Mar 28, 20182 min read


English idioms
Hello! I’m coming to you with the newest portion of popular English idioms. They are commonly used and that’s why it is so important to...

Kamila Górniak
Jun 12, 20174 min read


World Book Day 2017 – short stories
Another World Book Day has just passed. Lots of fancy costumes of book characters, competitions, meetings with authors and reading books...

Kamila Górniak
Mar 4, 20171 min read


‘Did she read…?’ – Past Simple
To ask a question in Past Simple tense we need the word DID. As you probably know, there are different types of questions we may ask. One...

Kamila Górniak
Feb 1, 20173 min read


‘I didn’t lie …’ – Past Simple
Last time we practised making positive sentences in past Simple. To recap, click here: past simple. If you need to print the list of...

Kamila Górniak
Jan 23, 20171 min read


‘I’m having a party…’ – collocations with HAVE
Collocations are combinations of words used together. This time I’ve prepared for you collocations with verb TO HAVE. What can we have...

Kamila Górniak
Jan 17, 20172 min read


‘I saw you … ‘ – Past Simple
In the previous grammatical post I taught you about verb ‘to be’ in past tense. You can find that post here. Today I am going to tell you...

Kamila Górniak
Jan 12, 20174 min read


Polish Exhibition
Polish Artists: Elżbieta Tęgowska, Magdalena Nowak and Urszula Dulewicz invite you to the exhibition in Gallery 49 in Falmouth, Cornwall...

Kamila Górniak
Nov 13, 20161 min read


‘Do you have time…?’ – collocations with TIME
Spend time, waste time, make time, have time or run out of time? What’s the difference between these? Let’s find out! #Collocations #time...

Kamila Górniak
Nov 6, 20161 min read


Halloween
Have you ever wondered how Halloween began and who started the eccentric practices which evolved into our celebrations today? Let’s...

Kamila Górniak
Oct 30, 20164 min read


‘I was upset…’ – TO BE in the past
Past Simple is one the basic tenses you should know if you want to communicate in English freely. Yes, this is one of these tenses...

Kamila Górniak
Oct 15, 20163 min read


‘I’m going to go abroad…’
We use going to to say what we want to/intend to do in the future. Contrary to Present Continuous used to express future plans, going to...

Kamila Górniak
Sep 9, 20163 min read


Beautiful side of Great Britain – Falmouth
Watch some amazing photos of Falmouth in Cornwall (south – west of England). There’s nothing more to say… 🙂 To be continued… To see all...

Kamila Górniak
Jun 25, 20161 min read


Beauty of Cornwall: Wonderful St Ives
Beautiful, picturesque and definitely worth visiting – St Ives in Cornwall, this is one of these places that the British may be proud of....

Kamila Górniak
Jun 12, 20161 min read


‘Is it raining?’ – Present Continuous
The way we build questions in Present Continuous is inversion. It means that we swap a subject with verb ‘to be’ (am, is, are) Sposobem...

Kamila Górniak
May 20, 20161 min read


‘The aren’t staying …’ – Present Continuous
Last time I showed you how to build sentences in Present Continuous and when to use this tense. Do you need to recap before we go on to...

Kamila Górniak
Apr 11, 20161 min read


Shades of grey at Falmouth beach in early spring
#Cornwall #Photos

Kamila Górniak
Mar 19, 20161 min read


Present Continuous – recap & exercises
This post is to revise Present Continuous. Usage, forms and making positive sentences before we go on to making negative ones. The...

Kamila Górniak
Jan 10, 20161 min read
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