It’s been a while since we had any geek speak on the World of Words, so today I thought I’d share an article from the BBC technology news section. I use a 3.5G (HSDPA) Internet connection so this news was particularly interesting for me. I would love a connection ten times faster than the one …
Continuing with our Improve your English reading skills series, this week let’s look at scan-reading. When do we ‘scan’? We scan-read when we already know what information we are looking for. For example: when we are reading a train timetable when we are looking for an entry in a dictionary when we are looking for …
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Most guys have imagined what it would be like to be a secret agent at some point in their lives. The man in this article seems to have taken things a bit too far, though! There were some interesting driving-related expressions in the article, too. The first is ‘raced past‘. This means to move past …
It’s been a delicious week this week at the World of Words. We learnt some flavoursome food idioms, found out about an awful offal spill, read some ravishing reading tips, and took in some tasty twitter tips. Now it’s time to finish off the week in the usual style. Here’s the 14th Wil’s World of …
There are hundreds of English idioms related to food. Some of them are very common, others are more obscure. Here are my seven favourite: 1. too many cooks spoil the broth Meaning: too many people trying to do something at the same time will ruin the end result. Example: I don’t need 5 people to …
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A pun is a joke which relies on words which have more than one meaning or that sound like other words. Some people find them annoying or cheesy but I love them! Anyway, an article on the ABC news website attracted my attention today because of the pun in its title: Offal news for NZ …
Last week, we had a look at different types of English reading skills. This week, let’s focus on skim reading in more detail. Skim reading is a useful skill to develop and it’s easy to learn. The most common uses of skim reading are: browsing the news reading a magazine looking through long e-mails looking …
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Everyone seems to have a facebook account nowadays but I’ve noticed that twitter is becoming more and more popular, too. It even has its own new vocabulary related to it. We can call the people who have lots of followers on twitter ‘the twitterati‘ and each little message they write is called a ‘tweet‘. ‘Tweet‘ …