Learning English with Mr Liebermann

This website is a work in progress (= Diese Website ist in Arbeit). If you notice mistakes or sections which need improvements, please let me know.

Common Mistakes

I post about common mistakes of English learners on Mastodon. Browse posts under the hashtag #AmCorrecting to see some mistakes you can easily avoid.

Resources

Advice for all English lessons

Required Materials: A list of all the things I expect you to bring to our English lessons.
Structure of an exercise book entry

Research

Skills

African American Voices

5 minute read

If textbooks and curricula about US cultural studies did not explicitly require learners to read texts by and listen to an ethnically diverse cast of voices,...

Holding a discussion

3 minute read

In class or in exams you will often be asked to discuss an issue. One of your goals in this context is to keep the discussion going and to respond to what ot...

Narrative perspective

1 minute read

Any story is told through a narrative perspective. The author of a story chooses a narrative perspective to produce a certain effect.

The Google Books Ngram Viewer

less than 1 minute read

The Ngram Viewer (https://books.google.com/ngrams/) can show you the frequency of certain (combinations of) words (over time). I often use the Ngram viewer w...