Reported speech

Reported speech or indirect speech is a tricky part of English learning because there are many things to think about, and it gets used a lot so there’s no way to avoid it. Even if you do try to avoid it, you will hear people using it and if you don’t understand how it works […]

All the English tenses

By the time our students reach Level 3 or Level 4, they realise that English has a lot of tenses. So: how many tenses are there in English? The answer can be a bit complicated, because you need to understand 3 things: moods, tenses and aspects. In our classes we don’t usually explain all these […]

What people say about the Callan Method (part 1)

If you search for Callan or Callan Method on Google, a lot of criticism comes up. So we are writing two posts to explain why we think those criticisms and bad comments about Callan are not true. If you talk to students, they love the method and recommend it to others. Most of our students […]