People often say that women can never have too many shoes and handbags. Well, I say that English learners can never have too many English phrasal verbs and expressions. They are what makes our English sound natural, and are more useful than shoes and bags, too. This week, I am proud to present my top …
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Here’s something a little different for the World of Words today. I am in Malaysia on vacation at the moment, so I thought I would share a great little article about the country with you. I love the Lonely Planet website. It doesn’t go into a lot of depth on individual countries but the overviews …
I’ve had a very busy time this weekend. I promised you on Friday that I have some exciting news and here it is. The kind people over at learn2lingo have invited me to write their blog for them. It’s a great site for finding a private teacher to learn with or even for teaching your …
It’s that time of the week, again. Some of us are winding down, ready for a relaxing weekend. Others of us are getting ready to party! I’m somewhere in-between. I have an exciting announcement to make on Monday and I have to do some preparation beforehand. Please remember to have a look at the World …
After a busy week on the World of Words, the weekend is finally drawing near. I wonder what everyone is doing this weekend? The people from Facebook we saw on Monday are probably celebrating and spending some of the money they have made. I’ll be getting up early and trying to find some time to …
It’s been a busy weekend for lots of people. President Obama was busy accepting his Nobel Prize, I was busy looking for interesting vocabulary in the news, and Hilary Clinton was busy travelling around Europe. This article on the BBC website has an good summary of her tour. There’s some useful vocabulary in the article, …
People often mention the importance of body language in communication. I find it interesting how body language varies around the world. A gesture may be perfectly polite in one county but deeply offensive in another. That’s why I was interested to see this article an learn that sometimes, something as simple as jewelery can be …
From the information in this article on the Reuters website, it seems that Allen Stanford is having the opposite problem from the ladies we saw trying to break into a jail last week. It seems like Stanford can’t wait to get out. There was lots of interesting vocabulary in this article starting in the title: …