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This list of words with the prefix ‘a’ is a sample taken from my Insider English eBook (also available in full here), which is a unique compilation of complimentary material and explanation for English teachers and learners. When you purchase it, it includes a lifetime subscription to updates).

This table lists homophones in two columns (physical / intellectual). A resource that will aid in pronunciation (and spelling) words pronounced /iː/ (with exceptions)

This 3-page hand-out for intermediate level learners of English outlines the uses of the word and expressions using “only,” with emphasis on syntax. It also contains a short quiz on using “only if” (as a conjunction) for a more challenging study. This resource serves to illustrate an insightful sample of my “Insider English” eBook, which is for sale here, a complimentary compilation of unique content for English teaching and learning.

This 3-page worksheet list the most common two-syllable verbs, which is ideal not just for expanding lexis but also for practising tonic stress, where most of the verbs are stressed on the final syllable (except where indicated). This is a sample taken from my Insider English eBook (also available in full here), which is a unique compilation of complimentary material and explanation for English teachers and learners. When you purchase it, it includes a lifetime subscription to updates).

This eBook is a unique* concept, a treasure chest of complimentary teacher resource for ELT (as well as for intermediate level autonomous learners (and above). It includes special lists, tables and charts of useful, systematically organised, content and ‘insider’ information (you most likely won’t find in mainstream course books), as well as ‘background’ explanations that lend to a whole different approach as to how English can be understood, in stark contrast to how it is taught today, with traditional (and flawed) analyses based on Latin ‘grammar’ that actually restrict communication, more than anything. (Study the file: Preface and Table of Contents for details.) This concept is that with thisBundle you also get updates for a lifetime (for as I long as I live to update it). Now at over 433 pages(and without fancy illustrations)— which I am continually weekly expanding in the Cloud* ( a separate Evernote Personal subscription is recommended) where you will gain access to a wealth of searchable additional content (+2166 files) all tagged by topic, plus several TOCs sorted by topics and alphabetically.

It doesn’t take a scholar to know that the system of teaching English is broke. This 18-part essay series titled “The English Problem” focusses on key concepts of English, which adult learners of all sectors need understand if they want to rise above a level of intermediacy. You’re small contribution will support me in furthering my long-term project, of reforming how English is taught. Only after several years of teaching ESL did I come to familiarise myself of intrinsic elements of English not presented in mainstream curricula from all major publishers. Another 12 (of 25) years of data compilation* led me to spot numerous discrepancies that woke me up to how conventional approaches to grammar are not just distorting how English actually “works”, but keeping learners puzzled and resorting to mediocrity in communication, since their questions about the target language still largely remain answered, if not inadequately answered. (With the recent advent of premature commercial AI apps comes digital fossilisation, through inaccurate databases, magnifying the dichotomy exponentially.) I’ve conceived an eBook (also available on this platform) that conveys (principally to teachers) more in depth how English intrinsically works, as I outline each of the key semantic and morphophonological idiosyncrasies that set it apart from the confines of prescriptive grammars. Ultimately, what it takes to solve the great problem in the long term will require greater dialoguing and tele-collaborating among EAL/ESL/EFL teachers because, frankly, I observe mediocrity in how adult (non-native) speakers express themselves verbally and in writing, highlighting an urgent need for enhancement. I am prepared to give workshops should English facilitators where they are given a chance to discuss the numerous points I raise in this essay and throughout my eBook. I’m eager to dialogue, in view of aspiring for more neuro-friendly and constructive ways of conveying our language as the world’s lingua franca such that non-native (adult) speakers move beyond a level of intermediacy.

This one-page table provides teachers and adult learners alike a coherent overview of how English uses key particles and words to communicate temporal and non-temporal, and modality, using a single non-complex sample, while avoiding conventional (confusing) terminology derived from Latin-based analyses.

I invite you to study the Preface outlines the concept of my eBook and its original content. The Table of Contents gives you an overview of the types of material the eBook offers. On purchase of my eBook here on TES you would get a lifetime* of regular updates and extensions to the content. ‘Lifetime’ means for as long as I live; I make it a point of regularly updating the content, which is the real advantage of digital media.

This 1-page hand-out for intermediate (and above) levels of English outlines the functions of the word “just” with a focus on syntax (word order). It is a free sample which serves to illustrate the years of work I have put into my “Insider English” eBook, which comprises a complimentary, comprehensive body of work designed for English teaching and learning. My eBook is available on this site.

This worksheet comprises charts to help you fine-tune the /w/ sound together with several vowel sounds, plus the distinction between /w/ and /v/. It is an upcoming addition to my Insider English eBook (also available in full here), a unique compilation of complimentary material and explanation for English teachers and learners. When you purchase a copy of the eBook bundle, you get a lifetime subscription to updates).

A two-page resource of the IPA used with English, including dipththongs and triphthongs.