News Exercise #49
80 Years Married and Still in Love Questions: 1) Opening sentence: “The ____ ____ of a____ ____ ____.” 2) Helen: When I worked in my mother’s shop, after ____ ____ ____ ____ my mother said to me, “Who’s____ ____ ____ ____ ____, …
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News Exercise #48
This week I’m moving away from news once more, to one of my favourite British TV shows “QI”, hosted by the excellent Stephen Fry. To make it a little easier, here are the names of the people speaking, from left …
Confusable words: tell/teach
I often hear ‘tell’ and ‘teach’ used incorrectly. “Please teach me your phone number” is wrong. It should be “Please tell me your phone number”. Just giving information is ‘tell’ or ‘inform of’ – for example “I’ll inform you of …
Idiom: to um and ah
To um and ah is a popular British phrasal verb but what does it mean? “Stop umming and ahing and get on with your work!” A: He can’t decide what to do. B: He is worried about possible errors. C: …
News Exercise #47
Questions: 1) Mel Gibson: It’s too soon. __________________________________________ too soon(means he left the world too soon). He was very gifted, and he was _________________________ (means other people’s work is judged by his level), and no-one could ever kind of reach …
Idiom: It never rains
As we experienced severe rain last weekend, I was reminded of the expression: “It never rains”, or the full version “It never rains but it pours”. It is used to express that only very bad things seem to happen (“pour” …