What’s your New Year’s resolution? Improving your English? If so, here are my five ways to keep your New Year’s resolution and improve your English this year. 1. Get into a routine. Try to practise at the same time every day. Maybe you are an early bird. If so, get up half an hour earlier …
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How do you trick a criminal? Well, using money to lure criminals out of hiding seemed to work for the Thai police force. It seems that most criminals are naturally greedy people judging by the results of the operation in the article above. There was some interesting vocabulary here, too. The first interesting word was …
Have you ever tried skydiving? I haven’t, but after reading an article on the ABC news website about a 100 year-old grandmother planning to do a parachute jump, I’m tempted to give it a try. There were two great expressions in this article, too. The first is ‘take the plunge‘. This means to start doing …
It’s been an unusual weekend for me. The World of Words was hacked on Saturday night, which was a bit of a shock. I only thought hackers tried to get into big sites or sites that post offensive information. I guess nobody is safe nowadays, though. Anyway, things are back to normal now (I hope) …
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It’s been a varied week on the World of Words this week. We’ve seen some driving expressions, geek speak, time vocabulary and idioms, and tips on scan-reading. That means there’s only one thing left to do to complete the week! Test your English vocabulary, challenge your colleagues, compete with your friends. How well will you …
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Over the past two weeks, we’ve looked at sports idioms and food expressions. This week, let’s focus on time idioms and expressions. Here are my top 7 favourite English time idioms and expressions: to kill time Meaning: to keep yourself entertained (usually when you are waiting for something). Example: My train was late so I …
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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