Arsenio’s ESL Podcast: Season 4 – Episode 84 – Vocabulary Development – Cause and Effect

Cause and effect is here! Along with a lot of different reading tasks about diseases and close reading skills on my patreon. Make sure you’re tuned in over there for the additional material under the 10$ umbrella! With that being said, tune into the blog and especially the podcast for examples! We use a number …

Arsenio’s ESL Podcast: IELTS Listening Skills – Following a Conversation

Woohoo! This is the first of its kind! I’m super excited to debut this, and I’m even more excited that this will be in YouTube, podcast, and Facebook live form. Now, you guys will get this on Facebook live before anything else. The podcast will debut Friday and the YouTube video will debut shortly after …

Arsenio’s ESL Podcast: Season 4 – Episode 23 – Vocabulary – Compound Nouns (Cars & Road)

Welcome back to another ESL podcast! Boy, I’m falling behind on blogs. Forgive me, but everything will be normal very soon. Nonetheless, here’s a write up of what I talked about and spoke about! Speaking How important is it for you to get a driving licence? Do you agree that younger drivers are more dangerous …

Arsenio’s ESL Podcast: Season 4 – Episode 3 – Vocabulary – Suffixes – Upper Intermediate

We’re back with some vocabulary! This is upper intermediate, so this will be a bit more difficult! These suffixes will go more into detail, so I hope you enjoy this! As you already know, a suffix is a group of letters added to the end of a word that usually changes the part of the …

Arsenio’s ESL Podcast: Season 4 – Episode 1 – Self-Awareness – Self-Evaluation

Guys! Welcome to the first episode of season 4! I just want to kick some things off before starting this. I want to do a self-awareness/self-evaluation before proceeding. To develop a skill, you first need to know where you’re starting from. What are your current strengths and weaknesses in particular areas of English? Is it …

Arsenio’s ESL Podcast: Season 3 – Episode 76 – Grammar – Indirect Questions

Indirect questions can be confusing, so I decided to go over them with you guys. We use question marks when the first part of the sentence is a question. Have you any idea what time he’s coming? When there is no question word (who, what, where, etc), we use if/whether. I’d like to know whether …

Arsenio’s ESL Podcast: Season 3 – Episode 67 – Developing Vocabulary – Prepositional Phrases with Verbs

Oh, this was requested! Well, not really, but a wonderful individual from Iran reached out to me and asked if I can do prepositions and phrases, and wadaya know, lesson is on it! I’m bringing to you guys today some prepositional phrases with verbs! Complete the sentences with these prepositions. about for for in of …

Arsenio’s ESL Podcast: Season 3 – Episode 63 – Grammar – Modal Verbs of Speculation & Deduction (Past)

Here’s the second grammar section, which is a follow-up from the “present” modals I’ve already done. Some people might have known about her. This girl must have been the princess. She may have deceased. This could have happened anywhere, but unfortunately it happened here in Queensland. It couldn’t have been easy. They may not have …

Arsenio’s ESL Podcast: Season 3 – Episode 62 – Vocabulary – Adjective Suffixes

We’re back with some more suffixes! Hope you guys like this one, but it’s a bit difficult, so brace yourself! Which of these words are noun and adjectives: Aristocracy, aristocratic, care, careful, careless, comfort, comfortable, fame, famous, luck, lucky, science, scientific, terrible, terror, uncomfortable. Turn these words into adjectives and write them in a columns …

Arsenio’s ESL Podcast: Season 3 – Episode 59 – Vocabulary Skill – Working out Meaning from Context

Welcome back to some more vocabulary skills! Love doing this and will have loads more coming up in the next course. When you hear a new word, you can write it down to look up later, but try to get the meaning as you listen. This helps overall comprehension, and I’ve seen it with my …