Rebecca Teaches English

21/04/2026

I haven't taught a class in over two years, so if you are still waiting to get a writing back from me, I'm sorry, I think it's safe to say that it's lost.

09/01/2025

Have I found the ultimate English teacher video?
- food vocabulary
- Restaurant vocabulary
- business English
- charts and graphs for IELTS language practice
- interesting, inoffensive topic

Desserts at restaurants have gotten boring — here’s why.This video is presented by Bluehost. Bluehost doesn’t influence our editorial decisions, but they mak...

17/02/2024

The word "odd" must have a million-odd uses!

https://www.wordreference.com/es/translation.asp?tranword=odd

23/06/2023

Best not-a-zoo ever! Have you been?

The director of Fota Wildlife Park in Co Cork has said he expects the park to play a greater role in the conservation of native species in the future.

15/01/2023

Compare this street you know well to how it was 101 years ago:
https://www.rte.ie/history/2022/0426/1294458-civil-war-ireland-then-and-now-gunmen-on-grafton-st/
(if you can't see the full image and slider at the end of the page, your ad blocker might be blocking it)

17/12/2022

11/12/2022

A "cold snap" is the opposite of a "heatwave" and we are having one right now! It's 1°C ("one degree") right now and they say it will stay that way for a week.

So here's my blog about staying warm and happy in the Irish winter again:

Well, if you get hypothermia it might negatively affect your IELTS score, so here are some tips for people from places where the winters don’t get that cold. Staying warm: – Coats, hats…

04/12/2022

Older Irish people ask everyone where they are from all the time. It means "what town" or "what street". Then, after that, if they know the town/street, they list everyone they know from there and ask if you know those people.

This confused me for a long time because I thought they meant "what country" and I used to answer "Ireland!" and then we were both confused.

23/09/2022

In Ireland autumn traditionally starts on the first of August.

Meteorologists say autumn starts on the first of September in the northern hemisphere.

In the US they say autumn starts today (23 of September), the autumn equinox.

Not at all confusing!

(Note: days and months get capital letters but seasons don't)

19/09/2022

29/08/2022

Capel Street, one of the world's coolest streets:

Capel Street has been named the 22nd coolest street in the world by Time Out, outranking the likes of Grafton Street and Temple Bar.