Hi, I’m Simon.
I’m an English teacher and trainer in Germany. Here you’ll find English lessons, my writing, and more.
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from northern Germany
English lessons built from my stories in Germany and beyond.
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I’m an English teacher and trainer in Germany. Here you’ll find English lessons, my writing, and more.
from northern Germany
Stories from my life in Germany and beyond.
The clocks go back, the evenings draw in, and in Germany the winter tyres go on. Here’s how I get through a month of change, and the German winter nobody warned me about.
Germans love to moan about Deutsche Bahn. So why do I love it, even after being kicked off a train three times?
Golden October in Germany, with an autumn storm on its way. While I wait, I share an old folk tale about a small bird, the showy trees, and the evergreens that stay.
English lessons built from my stories in Germany and beyond.
A little bird, a storm and the trees that stayed green. Learn vocabulary and idioms about weather and support, and finally fix the classic “I live here since…” mistake.
Level: B1–B2.
Storm on the way? Learn the words for extreme weather, how to give a warning, and how to use the first conditional to say what will happen.
Level: B1.
Love it or hate it? Learn the very British idiom “it’s a bit Marmite”, useful words from my Deutsche Bahn story, and how to use relative clauses with who, which, whose and where.
Level: B1–B2.