I’m sure you have probably heard about the recent suspected terrorist attacks in Jakarta, Indonesia. Here in Indonesia it is all we have been seeing in the news for the last few days. There was an interesting piece of vocabulary in an article about it on Reuters.com: Indonesia police: bomb attacks have JI hallmark ‘Hallmark’ …
I saw an interesting word on the Guardian website yesterday. There was an article about people choosing to have ‘staycations’. What they mean is that people are choosing to stay at home in the U.K. for their vacation rather than going abroad. I had not seen the word before yesterday but it turns out that …
I love YouTube. There’s just so much great stuff on it. That’s why I was interested to see that Google are optimistic about it becoming profitable in the future. In the article linked to above, there’s some really nice vocabulary in the third paragraph used to describe proportion of YouTube videos supported by advertising. Analysts …
I was pleased to see in the news that Garuda Airlines will be allowed to fly to Europe again. Garuda is Indonesia’s national airline and I have flown with them quite a few times since I moved to Indonesia five years ago and found them to be quite reasonable. The first piece of vocabulary from …
There’s an article in the BBC business news today that caught my eye because it has three really interesting expressions in it. The first is in the title: Major US lender ‘on the brink‘ In this situation ‘on the brink’ means that something, probably bad is about to happen. From the rest of the article, …
Keeping up our animal theme from yesterday, I saw a funny article about a drunk badger on reuters.com. I already knew that elephants and monkeys got drunk on fermented fruit sometimes but I didn’t know that badgers did it, too. ‘Badger’ is an interesting piece of vocabulary because it is an animal that is common …
There was an interesting article in the science news on Reuters.com last week about a new sub-species of monkey discovered in the Amazon rain forest. It think it’s amazing that scientists continue to discover more animals and it makes me feel excited that there are parts of the words that are still so remote and …
Students often ask me the difference between ‘everyday’ and ‘every day’. They both sound the same, so when do we need to put a space between the two words? ‘Everyday’ is an adjective and doesn’t need a space. E.g. He gets up at five in the morning as part of his everyday …