"Say" vs. "Tell": How to Explain the Difference
"Say" and "tell" – these two words are so simple yet so confusing. Today, let's review the main differences between...
- Grammar
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A Valentine's Day Activity for Free-Talk Lessons This Week
For the week of Valentine's Day, a fun activity your students can do is write short messages to people they...
- Conversation
- Vocab & Expressions
These New Drawing Tools Will Make Your Lessons More Fun
Up to now, our lesson room offered 10 tools for interacting with the whiteboard, images, and PDFs. a color palette...
- Updates
7 Cold & Flu-Related Phrases and How to Explain Them
A lot of your students these past couple years have probably mentioned that they feel unwell. Maybe they had a...
- Vocab & Expressions
Free-Talk Topic: Family & Lunar New Year
Lunar New Year – Taiwan and Korea's biggest holiday – is coming up on February 1st, and this usually means...
- Conversation
How to Respectfully Address Students from Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand
Tutors sometimes ask us about respectful ways to address our students. This makes sense as in many of our students'...
- Online Tutoring
Introducing Darren: Engoo Tutor and Award-Winning Filmmaker
It's not every day that you meet an award-winning filmmaker who also has over a decade of experience teaching English!...
- Online Tutoring
Engoo 2021 in Review
2021 was a difficult year. So here's to giving ourselves a pat on the back and reflecting on some of...
- Online Tutoring
- Updates
New Year's Resolutions – Free-Talk Activity of the Month
A brand new year means it's time to set New Year's resolutions! So during free-talk lessons this month, why not...
- Conversation
"OMG it's Xmas!" – The Surprising History of 5 English Abbreviations
A lot of students ask us why "Christmas" is abbreviated "Xmas." Today, we'll go over this along with the history...
- Curiosity