Lock and Load.

That's right it's time to load up.

A major reason for this blogging thing is to assemble the best sites you can find for helping you get the answers you need fast when you are writing.

For your armory, get a good English learner's page on grammar in your own language. Then find one just in English.  It's good to have a least two sources.  Remember that you need to use your time in class for questions that you can't find answers to and for practice, which is really why you are here.  You could have got grammar lessons in your own country, right?

Here's one in English.  It's like a little YouTube channel of grammar presentations at a whiteboard.  One of our Russian students showed it to me last year.  He's working as to help Russian students find school and university places now here and in the UK.

On the site you can search for the topic you are learning about.  You can also compare your teachers' lessons with these teachers' lessons.  Watch one or two a week and then use them.  People around the world are watching them but they don't have a pub full of Irish people down their street.  We want you to learn the grammar ideas as fast as possible so that your English becomes as correct and clear as it can become.  We want really good USE of English.

This website is based in Canada.  It's called EngVid.com.  It's great!  Soak it up! (Get all of it quickly as quickly as a sponge takes up water)  There's even an IELTS section for Ibrahim!   Lock and load! It's time to gear up. (You are not required to watch the ridiculous "Commando Gear Up" scene but if you do just watch the first 48 seconds. Mine was a truly wasted youth.)



(This same scene had a big impression on this kid Alex who proves that the Lock and Load scene didn't just make a big impression on me.)