Hello everyone! For today’s mini lesson, let’s talk about how to use ‘by’ and ‘with’ to say how something is done. We can use both ‘by + verb+ing’ and ‘with + noun’ to explain how we do something. BY We usually use verb+ing with ‘by’. ‘By’ is used with an action. Examples: • He opened…
Taiwanese students spend thousands of hours studying English. Yet after three to five class-hours of English as a foreign language every week for more than nine years, most students can barely utter a sentence of English. The government’s “Bilingual Nation 2030” policy would do little to change this. As artificial intelligence (AI) technologies would soon…
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Today I was asked “how do you improve your French?” and it wasn’t until then that I realized I was waiting for someone to ask me that question. To give you some context, for professional reasons I had to obtain my A2 certificate in French in less than 6 months. I’d never studied this language…
akimbo adjective or adverb / uh-KIM-boh/ What It Means 1: having the hand on the hip and the elbow turned outward2: set in a bent positiona tailor sitting with legs akimbo The model, arms akimbo, struck a pose at the end of the runway. SYNONYMS jagged V-shaped Y-shaped crooked crotched divaricate forked oblique sharp-cornered skewed…
recidivism (noun) Definition of recidivism: a tendency to relapse into a previous condition or mode of behavior especially: relapse into criminal behavior Synonyms backsliding. relapse. decadence. declension. decline. degeneration. descent. deterioration. Antonyms ascent. betterment. improvement. increase. rise. Did you know? The re- in recidivism is the same re- in relapse and return, and like those words recidivism is about going back: it’s a tendency to relapse, especially into…
Joyeux 14 julliet ! La choute de la Bastille Dans les premiers mois de la Révolution française, une grande agitation règne à Paris. Au printemps 1789, les États généraux, refusant de se dissoudre, se sont transformés en Assemblée nationale constituante. En juillet, le roi Louis XVI fait venir de nouvelles troupes et destitue Necker, un…
Have you ever worn winklepickers or salopettes? Is the saying about French women and their oxters true? Do your friends complain that you bibble too much? Have you ever experienced zoanthropy and been convinced you were an elephant? Do you have a favorite weird word in English or any other language? Drop us the word and definition in the comments section below! bibble v.…
The word of today is: What It Means Inscrutable means “not readily investigated, interpreted, or understood.” It often describes what is mysterious or difficult to comprehend. Example: The famously reclusive author remains an inscrutable figure even after the publication of some of her personal correspondence. Definition of inscrutable : not readily investigated, interpreted, or understoos: MYSTERIOUS an inscrutable smile inscrutable motives Other Words…
Children learn sign language to support classmate Primary 2 pupils at Omagh Integrated Primary School have learned sign language this year to support one of their classmates. They were keen to learn the new skill to support their classmate Callum. They have also inspired their local neighbourhood police and other emergency services to learn the…