I love cycling. It’s such a clean and healthy way to get around and a nice way to exercise, too. I don’t think it’s that good for your health to smoke and eat fatty foods while you are cycling, though. That’s why I was amused by this article on the BBC News website. It seems …
I think car-sharing is a great idea but sometimes it can be difficult to find someone to share with. That’s why I was interested in this article on the Reuters website about a new car-sharing service in Germany. There’s lots of interesting vocabulary related to travelling by car in the article, too. The first interesting …
Regular readers of this blog will know that I’m very interested in Environmental issues. That’s why I was interested to see this article on the Reuters website. I have lived in South-East Asia on and off for the last six years and have been interested to see the progress made in educating the public about …
Something I very often have to correct when I’m helping students with their writing is the overuse of capital letters. Obviously, we need to use a capital letter for the beginning of a sentence or a proper noun, however, using them for a whole or phrase is the written equivalent of shouting, especially when writing …
I have mentioned before that I’m a bit of an computer geek and that’s why I was interested to see this article about Google’s ‘Chrome’ web browser on the Reuters website. I have already tried it on my PC at work and found it really fast and easy to use. It works really well with …
It’s an interesting time for politics in Japan at the moment. In the run up to the elections, there have been some good, detailed articles in the world news, too. This one on the BBC News website caught my eye over the weekend because it contains some interesting words and expressions. The first word I …
I have always loved plain white shirts. There’s something so fresh and clean about them and they go well with pretty much anything. That’s why I was interested to see this article on the BBC news website linking an increase in sales of white shirts to the recent recession. The title of the article is …
There was some really interesting expressions in this article about Quentin Tarantino’s new movie on the BBC News website. I love his films so I’ll definitely go and see this one even though the reviews of it haven’t been very positive. The title of the film is also interesting because the second word ‘Basterds’ is …