Example: “Don’t make a song and dance about it; I’m only a few minutes late!” To make a song and dance about something is to over-react, and treat an incident as more serious than it really is. Sometimes people say, …
Living in the sticks. Questions 1) What does the first speaker miss the most? 2) 0:30 Why does he like living in the mountains? 3) 0:37 Living in the countryside makes her care more about what? 4) 0:48 He likes …
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This week’s news item is presented by a Scottish journalist. You may find his accent a little more difficult to understand than usual. Formula E Questions: 1) In the opening sentence he says “In one of the world’s most polluted …
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This is not a list of mistaken Japanese-English words. These common katakana words are English but they are rarely used in English. It’s probably better to avoid using these: クラクション horn (for a car), though people often use the work …
Truck Driver ‘Hero’ Questions: 1) He is a sanitation truck driver, but one of the people he helped used a different name. Could you catch it? 2) What do his ‘love bags’ contain? 3) For how long has he been …