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Confusing words: rubbish, trash, garbage 19 Aug 2013 | 06:19 am
In this post I going to talk rubbish. Does that mean I’ll be talking nonsense? No, actually I’m going to look at vocabulary connected to rubbish in the sense of ‘household waste’, including synonyms a...
Can I or May I? Which should we use? 5 Aug 2013 | 07:04 am
When we ask for, give, and refuse permission, the words we most often use are can and can’t: Can I speak to Dave Williams, please? You can help yourselves to tea and coffee. I’m sorry, you can’t sm...
It’s = ‘it is’ or ‘it has’. How to tell the difference 17 Jul 2013 | 02:22 pm
The short form of it is is it’s. But it’s can also mean it has. Likewise, he’s can mean either he is or he has. The problem is this: How do we know whether the writer means it is or it has, or he is...
Dynamic verbs for describing a graph and making a clear presentation 30 Jun 2013 | 12:49 pm
Here’s a short but informative video explaining which verbs we can use in sales and marketing presentations to describe degrees of change in graphs. The video was posted on Youtube by Roxana Pascariu,...
Build your English vocabulary: 10 alternative words for ‘thing’ 13 Jun 2013 | 07:25 pm
The word ‘thing’ is ubiquitous, i.e. it’s everywhere. A good thing, a bad thing, many things, something, anything, everything; we use the word a lot. And the reason thing is such a common word? Well, ...
Eggheads, couch potatoes and tough cookies – 8 English food idioms 2 Jun 2013 | 09:47 pm
The number of categories for English idioms is seemingly endless. We have weather idioms, where we might hear that it’s raining cats and dogs; colour idioms (such as ‘green as the grass’ or ‘blue in t...
Chips vs. fries: the top 5 differences between American and British food vocabulary 21 May 2013 | 09:16 pm
In most cases Americans and Britons have the same words for speaking about food. A steak is a steak, apples are apples, and potatoes are potatoes. Most of the time it doesn’t matter which side of the ...
Chips vs. fries: the top 5 differences between American and British food vocabulary 21 May 2013 | 09:16 pm
In most cases Americans and Britons have the same words for speaking about food. A steak is a steak, apples are apples, and potatoes are potatoes. Most of the time it doesn’t matter which side of the ...
Chips vs. fries: the top 5 differences between American and British food vocabulary 21 May 2013 | 09:16 pm
In most cases Americans and Britons have the same words for speaking about food. A steak is a steak, apples are apples, and potatoes are potatoes. Most of the time it doesn’t matter which side of the ...
Chips vs. fries: the top 5 differences between American and British food vocabulary 21 May 2013 | 09:16 pm
In most cases Americans and Britons have the same words for speaking about food. A steak is a steak, apples are apples, and potatoes are potatoes. Most of the time it doesn’t matter which side of the ...
