In this blog you will find 15 English idioms that everyone should know. But first, what is an idiom? Idioms are group of words, or in other words, a phrase that has a meaning different from the literal meaning of the words in it. In other words “Idioms mean something different than the individual words.” Native…
What are your pronouns? In English, the most common answers are “he” or “she”. But a growing number of people identify as neither male nor female, and ask to be referred to with novel pronouns. “They” is by far the most common of these. In English, the linguistic adjustments required to accommodate non-binary people are…
Artificial Intelligence in education offers numerous possibilities to add more value to students, facilitates the teaching-learning process and improve the positioning of educational institutions. What years ago, might have seemed like science fiction, today is a reality completely applicable to projects and institutions of all kinds thanks to Artificial Intelligence (AI). AI uses fields such…
Vox populi Etymology Latin, voice of the people What It Means Vox populi is a Latin phrase that translates to “the voice of the people” and means, in essence, “popular sentiment or opinion.” A successful campaign manager and ardent defender of workers’ rights, Adela dedicates her time to speaking on behalf of vox populi. VOX POPULI in Context…
Hello everyone! For today’s mini lesson, let’s talk about the passive infinitive. The passive infinitive is ‘be + past participle’. We can use it in the same places as the normal infinitive to show a passive meaning. USE We can use the passive infinitive after verbs that usually take ‘to + infinitive‘. We can use the…
L’approche actionnelle a mis à l’honneur la tâche finale dans l’apprentissage des langues. L’atelier propose d’explorer les types de tâches proposées dans Défi A1 et A2, et de s’approprier des techniques d’enseignement pour mettre en œuvre les savoirs linguistiques nécessaires à la réalisation de ces tâches. Le 31 mai dernier, le Département des Langues Étrangères a eu l’opportunité de participer à…
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…
Свидание: 16 февраля 2023 года. Любовь — это сила, которая движет миром, наполняет нас энергией и заставляет видеть лучшую сторону жизни. Но есть любовь, которая невозможна, потому что на нее не отвечают взаимностью, потому что она запрещена или платонична. Именно поэтому возник День невозможной любви, который отмечается 16 февраля. На протяжении всей нашей жизни, особенно…
Datum: Dienstag, 14. Februar 2023. Der Valentinstag, auch bekannt als Valentinstag oder Tag der Liebe und Freundschaft, wird jedes Jahr am 14. Februar gefeiert. Die Feier katholischen Ursprungs ehrt die guten Werke, die der Heilige Valentin von Rom zur Verteidigung der emotionalen Bindungen und der Liebe vollbracht hat. Valentinstagsgeschichte. Valentine war ein christlicher Mönch, der…