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 …
There was another food-related article on the BBC news today. A worker in a chocolate factory died when when he fell into a giant mixing tub full of chocolate. Maybe if it had been the hot dog man from yesterday, he could have survived by eating his way out! Some interesting words from this article …
There was a funny article on the BBC news a couple of weeks ago about the world hot dog-eating champion. He managed to eat 68 hot dogs. I think the most I could ever manage would be three bit I’m sure it would make me feel really sick! There is an interesting expression in the …
I love mornings here in Bali because they are so beautiful. Some people call it ‘the morning of the world’ because it is so spectacular! I have not always been an early riser, though. In fact, I used to be a real night owl until a few years ago. I saw this blog entry a …