Tag: reading comprehension

  • How to Cook Coconut Beef

    How to Cook Coconut Beef

    Learn English and practice new vocabulary and reading comprehension through this short post about how to make coconut beef!

  • How we should do Extensive reading (Part 2): Building a Reading Habit

    How we should do Extensive reading (Part 2): Building a Reading Habit

    Now you know why to do extensive reading and you’ve got the right book on your level!  Not sure what the best way to do extended reading is?  The answer is building a reading habit. Let’s talk about it! Consistency This is the most important factor in building a reading habit.  How long, where, when,…

  • Describe and Guess: Tools

    Describe and Guess: Tools

    Can you describe them?  You might not care about tools, but it’s very helpful to learn to describe things you don’t know the names of.  See if you can figure out which tool I’m talking about just by the description. Answers: A) a hammer B) a screwdriver C) a pair of pliers D) a utility…

  • How we should do extensive reading (Part 1): Finding the Right Book

    How we should do extensive reading (Part 1): Finding the Right Book

    There is just too much we need to talk about with extensive reading, so we will break it up into two sessions: Finding the Right book and Finding the right way. But first, let’s agree that … …everyone is different Your brain works different than my brain. We have to get to know ourselves to…

  • Sun and Lamai

    Sun and Lamai

    It was hot again.  It is always hot in Thailand.  Sun was standing in the dining room next to the big dining room table.  There were more than thirty hand-carved chairs, but they never used more than three.  One for Sun, one for his mom, and one for his dad, which was the person yelling…

  • Why We must do Extensive Reading

    Why We must do Extensive Reading

    What is Extensive Reading? It’s when we read a lot.   Not just reading a few text messages here and there or reading a few paragraphs in a textbook but reading something long! To do this, the stuff we read must be interesting and easy.  It’s what we did to develop our native language.  Our parents…