Showing posts with label Vocab. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vocab. Show all posts

Wednesday, 28 October 2009

What's the most offensive swearword in this office?

What's the most offensive swearword in your workplace? Catherine's colleague names a few, but does she guess the right one? Watch this hilarious video and find out! For advanced students.
Enjoy!

Monday, 26 October 2009

Body parts

We have not forgotten about our elementary students. Here is a video that will help you revise the parts of the body in a very amusing way! You're gonna have fun!

Thursday, 23 April 2009

You're fired

English has many ways of beating about the bush, of not saying straightforward what it really means to say. On this ocassion, we recommend this text in which you can learn fifty ways for a boss to tell their staff that they're fired. Hope you enjoy it!

Friday, 6 March 2009

1st NI Students' Choice: Tania

To check out Tania's contribution enter here and you'll find 66 essential phrasal verbs, 50 very useful expressions, Internet-related words, football-related words, Church-related words and other interesting tools for Spanish speaking learners of English.

Thursday, 22 March 2007

mean??

What does "mean" mean? Think about these sentences: "I didn´t mean to wake you up but..." " He´s the meanest man I know, he doesn´t even invite his friends to a coffee!" "It´s 19.00 hours, Greenwich Mean Time." " If you contradict him, he gets mean." " They have got to the means to do it." "What do you mean by that?" "Mean Woman Blues"

Tuesday, 20 March 2007

Popular British Sayings

"Tinker, tailor, soldier, sailor,..." How does it continue? There are four more "occupations".

Tuesday, 20 February 2007

tacky

If your written work is "tacky": Is it- a) done very quickly? b) shabby and below standard? c)covered in blue tack?

Sunday, 18 February 2007

I´m "constipated". A false friend?

Is this something you would tell your teacher to explain away your not-so-brilliant performance during the class? Or would you rather keep it to yourself?

Monday, 5 February 2007

garrulous

Is it the Russian word for "Charles"? If you are a garrulous person, do you barge into places like a bull into a china shop? Or do you simply not respect the local customs? Or perhaps it´s just that you´re in the habit of talking or writing too profusely? - Warning: it´s a false friend for Spanish speakers!

Tuesday, 30 January 2007

JEOPARDY

What is it? A hairy feline? A jungle predator? If your livelihood is in jeopardy, could it be you are in trouble with the fat cats? Send in your answers with an example sentence.