Nov 26, 2017 Chunks, Phrase of the day Phrase of the day: smash it Every now and then, a phrase comes along that makes you feel really old. I’m not talking about things like the use of the adjective bare, which you hear teenagers and young adults using all the time on the streets of London. In case you’re wondering, by the way, in sentences like I was bare […]
Nov 24, 2017 Chunks, Intermediate word of the day Intermediate word of the day: anniversary An anniversary is a date when you celebrate something good that happened on the same date in a previous year – or when you mark something more serious or sad. The most obvious kind of anniversary is a wedding anniversary, and many wedding anniversaries have particular names, so if you’ve been married for twenty-five years, […]
Nov 19, 2017 Chunks, Word of the day Word of the day: bling When I was in the last two years of secondary school, I did History A-level, and spent quite a lot of time reading about the English Civil War, the execution of King Charles the First, the eleven-year Interregnum – the period of time when the country had no king or queen, and was instead ruled […]
Nov 16, 2017 Chunks, Intermediate word of the day Intermediate word of the day: resignation When someone resigns from a job, they publicly say they are going to stop doing it. The noun is resignation. With most jobs in normal everyday life, people don’t actually use the word resign that much; instead, they decide to quit or leave their job. They might have to hand in a resignation letter to […]
Nov 8, 2017 Chunks, Word of the day Word of the day: bolshie Last Wednesday marked the centenary (the 100th anniversary) of the 1917 Russian revolution. In March that year, Nicholas II, the last tsar of Russia, abdicated. The First World War had been disastrous for the country and food shortages and rampant inflation proved to be the last straw. In Petrograd (now known as Saint Petersburg), soldiers […]
