Cafetalk Tutor's Column

Resolution #1 - Lose Weight!

I’m not normally a person who makes New Year’s resolutions, but I think this year I will have to ma...

三徳 or 牛刀? Cooking goals 2021!

One goal that I achieved in 2021 was to cook more; as you might have noticed, three of the last fou...

One goal from 2021: Maintaining friendships

For better or worse, I am not a particularly ‘goal oriented’ person, in the sense that I am not som...

My dad's Christmas roast potatoes.

In my last tutor column I mentioned at the end that I will probably be cooking chicken for Christma...

Roast Pork! Crack(l)ing good stuff...

It’s always difficult to answer a question that starts with ‘What is the best OO?’, because the ans...

Lemon Drizzle - A Winter Activity

I have been procrastinating recently, and so I am too late to write a column for the previous weekl...

IELTS Speaking Test Part 2 - The Monologue

  Speaking tests are never easy; unlike reading and writing tests, you don’t have the luxury of ta...

News of the Week: UK Edition 14/04/2021

Three main stories have dominated the newspapers in the UK this week: 1) The death of Prince Phil...

Spring has sprung again.

Spring has sprung. It’s a cliche, but spring is my favourite season of the year. Here in t...

Lesson Profile: 'In The News // 今日のニュース'

(25% off coupon for new students available for “In The News” until the end of February!...

Is hoarding a hobby? ホーディングは趣味かな~~

I have always found it very difficult to throw things away. It doesn’t seem to matter if th...

Tea or Coffee - A Difficult Choice

A quandary (/ˈkwɒndri/) can be defined as ‘a state of not being able to decide what to do&rsq...

Thomas's Travel 'Hacks'

Sometimes it can be difficult to tell the difference between a travel 'hack', a piece of good old-f...

Cohesion in IELTS Writing Task 2

In the IELTS writing paper, as you may know already, your two writing tasks are marked ba...

The Many Faces of "Get": Part 2

In the last blog we looked at four different ways that native speakers use the verb ‘get&rsq...

The Many Faces of "Get"

When you study English as a foreign language, you learn many weird and wonderful words, but this so...