Mar 27, 2018 Chunks, Word of the day Word of the day: less The other day, just as I was slowly waking up and making my first cup of coffee, I heard a discussion on the radio about the whether or not you can say “less than one in five people”. It seemed that several listeners had said that this was wrong and were insisting that less should […]
Mar 23, 2018 Chunks, Intermediate word of the day Intermediate word of the day: pride Pride is that feeling of satisfaction and pleasure that you get when you’ve done something special, or when someone connected to you has achieved something. We often talk about people taking pride in things. If you take pride in something, you feel very proud of it; you feel a deep sense of satisfaction about it. […]
Mar 14, 2018 Chunks, Word of the day Word of the day: social mobility Social mobility is the idea that over their lifetimes or across generations, people from lower-class backgrounds can move to a higher social class. An example of this would be my father, who grew up in relative poverty in Liverpool before the war. He was the son of a factory worker, but he then won a […]
Mar 9, 2018 Chunks, Word of the day Word of the day: cowboy If, like many foreign students, the main image that comes into your head when you think of cowboys involves men in big hats and long boots, riding horses and heading off into the sunset somewhere in America, then you may be wondering what on earth the photo above has to do with cowboys.You’d probably also […]
Mar 5, 2018 Chunks, Phrase of the day Phrase of the day: raining cats and dogs We’re joking, of course. This is really NOT our chunk of the day. Only students of English and people who haven’t lived in the UK since about 1950 actually use this idiom – and it probably wasn’t even used that much back in the Fifties either! However, as London has now returned to normal after the […]
