Kung Hei Fat Choy! Happy Chinese New Year everybody! Today we can celebrate the turn from Year of the Horse to the Year of the Goat or Sheep. Do you know what animal you are born …
https://letslearnenglish.org/blog/2015/02/happy-chinese-new-year/

Today is a very important day! Perhaps the most important day of the year – it’s Pancake Day! Otherwise known as Shrove Tuesday, this is the day before Lent begins (a period when …
https://letslearnenglish.org/blog/2015/02/pancake-day/

I’ve written quite a lot in this blog about different markets around London, but they’re quite a good way of seeing a different part f the city that might not be in your guidebook…
https://letslearnenglish.org/blog/2014/12/columbia-road-flower-market/

What’s the first thing you think of when you imagine a typical English dish? I bet you say fish and chips and English breakfast, well I hope you’ve tried both of those things, but…
https://letslearnenglish.org/blog/2014/11/typical-english-food/

Last week you might have gone to the London Dungeon, another place to learn about London’s weird and wonderful past is the Tower of London. This is an old prison and castle from a…
https://letslearnenglish.org/blog/2014/11/ice-skating-tower-london/

Did you enjoy all the scary events of Halloween? Do you want to do it all again? How about visiting the London Dungeon? You can learn about 1,000 years of London’s horrible, gory …
https://letslearnenglish.org/blog/2014/11/another-scary-weekend-london/

Now that the weather is getting a bit colder it might be time to stop going to the park at weekends and think about doing some things inside. What about some shopping? There’s loa…
https://letslearnenglish.org/blog/2014/09/shopping-not-oxford-street/

Have you been to the West End to see a theatre show yet? Or have you been put off by how it expensive it is? Did you know that if you go to the ticket sales booth in Leicester Squ…
https://letslearnenglish.org/blog/2014/09/going-west-end/

Exciting news everybody! This weekend is a three day weekend, that's right Monday is a bank holiday so the school is closed! It's quite a special weekend in London at this time of…
https://letslearnenglish.org/blog/2014/08/bank-holiday-weekend/

Looking for something to do this Saturday? Take a stroll down to Broadway Market, which is a long road that connects London Fields to Regents Canal. It’s open on a Saturday from 9…
https://letslearnenglish.org/blog/2014/08/another-wonderful-london-market/

When people think of London most of the time they think about running around a very very very busy city filled with roads and traffic or being crammed onto a busy tube train. Whic…
https://letslearnenglish.org/blog/2014/08/different-side-london/

Lots of people miss the food from their country when they come to London and they don't like what we eat here. If you feel a bit like this please go down to Borough Market near Lo…
https://letslearnenglish.org/blog/2014/07/do-you-think-english-food-terrible/

Everyone in my classes at the moment tells me that they love going to the park - especially because the weather is so good. How many different parks have you been to in London? Ha…
https://letslearnenglish.org/blog/2014/07/have-you-been-every-park-london/

Tomorrow (Friday) looks set to be the hottest day of the year so far - it looks like it will be 32 degrees! Hampstead Heath is a great place to go if the weather is beautiful, it'…
https://letslearnenglish.org/blog/2014/07/whats-best-park-enjoy-hottest-day-year/