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Do you feel like you need a study routine? You are in luck! Tune in for one of my favorite study routines that I share with my private students! Every 5 days, the routine begins again. You practice listening, reading, writing, and speaking.

Make sure to get a pen and paper before listening to this episode of Stairway to English! Each day is a different activity that builds on the previous until you reach day 5.

Make a commitment to yourself and get started with this routine today!

Stairway to English: Short easy to understand episodes to improve your English grammar and fluency

The 5 Day Study Routine You Need to Improve Your English and Learn New Vocabulary

In today's episode of Stairway to English, understand the idiom "to have a lot on my plate". You will be able to use it in sentences and understand the meaning. Comment on this podcast with a sample sentence and I will correct your work!

See you in the next episode! 

I have too much on my plate to study English today! Learn the idiom "to have a lot on my plate"

Uh oh Did you just ask someone out and you didn't mean to?! Don't make this mistake! Understand the difference between asking someone out and asking someone over in this episode of Stairway to English!

In this episode, you will learn 8 phrasal verbs using "ask"

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Don't ask around to learn how to use the verb! Instead listen to Stairway to English and learn 8 phrasal verbs using the verb "Ask"

Practice speaking English quickly and fluently by using tongue twisters! This is the second episode in this series of episodes. Today's tongue twisters are:

⭐Betty Botter bought some butter
But she said the butter’s bitter

⭐How can a clam cram in a clean cream can?

⭐I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream

Remember to pause the video to practice the sounds!

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Tongue Twisters Series: Practice English intonation and the sounds B, TT, C, Cl, Cr, Sc

Practice speaking English quickly and fluently by using tongue twisters! This is the first episode in a series of episodes I will do highlighting different tongue twisters with different target sounds.

Today's tongue twisters are:
⭐ Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers
⭐ How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
⭐ I saw Susie sitting in a shoeshine shop. Susie works in a shoeshine shop. 

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Tongue Twisters Series: Practice English intonation and the sounds P, W, Ch, S, Sh

Don't make the same mistakes even native English speakers make everyday! Listen in to Stairway to English to learn to use these homophones correctly! Grab a pen to take notes! 

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😱😱 "Your over there!" "Their coming over for dinner!" 😱😱 Use your, you're and there, their, they're correctly instead of making these mistakes!

You walk in to a restaurant and the hostess says, "You can sit everywhere!" Is this correct? Can you actually physically sit everywhere? Not really! Learn what she should have said in this episode of Stairway to English. Learn the differences between everywhere, nowhere, somewhere, and anywhere.

Listen to the end to learn how to receive a special downloadable sent to you on italki chat!

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Are you everywhere, nowhere, somewhere, or anywhere?! Learn the difference between these 4 words!

You will learn the 8 levels of adjective placement in the English language so you can correctly use and place adjectives to describe nouns in sentences. Remember the more adjectives that you use, the more descriptive your sentences are BUT they must be used in the RIGHT order!

🖊️ You will want to take notes so get out a pen!

👉 Book class with me! https://italki.com/teacher/8476284 
👉 My students receive bonus podcast content! 
👉If you don't see an opening on my calendar that is ok for you, send me a message!