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Your English

Home » Adults » Support for Teaching Adults » Support for Teaching Vocabulary

Collocations

Teenage students looking at computer.

Vocabulary Builders: IT metaphors

Help your students master information technology jargon. Now with Interactive Worksheets!

  • Vocabulary Builders: Truly loving collocations

  • Your English: Collocations: hidden

All Collocations

Phrasal verbs

Your English: Phrasal verbs: a match report

By Tim Bowen

Yet again, Tim Bowen notches up another fine Your English article. Here, we can lap up his football report on Fulham vs Juventus.

  • Your English: Phrasal Verbs: animals

  • Your English: Phrasal verbs: back

All Phrasal verbs

Theme-based expressions

Theme-based expressions: countryside

By Tim Bowen

Don’t beat about the bush and get straight to the point with Tim Bowen’s countryside themed expressions.

  • Theme-based expressions: music

  • Theme-based expressions: football

All Theme-based expressions

Word of the week

Word of the week: Amok

By Tim Bowen

Have you ever had to deal with a classfull of students running amok? Well, it's happened to all of us. Tim Bowen whips up a frenzy with this rather odd Word of the week.

  • Word of the week: Camp

  • Word of the week: Banter

All Word of the week

Idioms

Your English: Idioms: cake

By Tim Bowen

Tim Bowen shows us why these idioms are a piece of cake.

  • Your English: Idioms: back

  • Your English: Idioms: air

All Idioms

Phrase of the week

Phrase of the week: a dark horse

By Tim Bowen

Tim Bowen sheds some light on the origins and definition of the phrase a dark horse.

  • Phrase of the week: Hobson's choice

  • Phrase of the week: at sixes and sevens

All Phrase of the week

Word grammar

Your English: Word grammar: certain

By Tim Bowen

We’re absolutely certain that Tim Bowen can explain certain rules of word grammar.

  • Your English: Word grammar: back

  • Your English: Word grammar: above

All Word grammar

Words from other languages

Words from other languages: Chinese

By Tim Bowen

Don’t be brainwashed by Tim Bowen’s gung ho approach to English words from the Chinese language.

  • Words from other languages: Dutch

  • Words from other languages: Arabic

All Words from other languages

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