As noted last week, intonation is the rise and fall of pitch in the voice — when speaking. There is the need to master the concept and its manifestations to improve on our spoken English. Among other ...

English teacher Tarek Amara suggests activities, from dinnertime chats to 15 minutes of reading daily. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Liu, Y. and Luo, Y. (2026) A Corpus-Based Study of Musicality in Zhu Shenghao’s Translation of Shakespeare’s Four Great Tragedies. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 14, 425-438. doi: ...

ISC Class 12 English has 2 papers: Language & Literature, each 80 marks theory + 20 internal. The English Language paper (2025-26) requires answering 4 compulsory questions. Effective time management ...

ISC Class 12 English Literature has 80 marks for theory and 20 for internal assessment. The 2025-26 syllabus and sample papers are key to preparing for the exam. Section B (60 marks) covers Prose, ...

It’s been described as embarrassing, clichéd or “unhelpful singsong.” Many poets dislike it too, but it’s a style they’ve learned from each other.

Every time we speak, we're improvising. "Humans possess a remarkable ability to talk about almost anything, sometimes putting ...

Do women clean the house more often than men? Alice and Neil discuss the topic and teach you a tidy amount of vocabulary ...

The Barrow-in-Furness accent is very different from the rest of Lancashire and Cumbria because of an intense mixing and rapid ...

Brain scans show a spot in the cerebellum attuned specifically to words, expanding on studies that point to the region's ...

Why is punctuation important? Neil and Alice discuss rhetoric, commas and full stops.