Nov 19, 2017 Chunks, Word of the day Word of the day: bling When I was in the last two years of secondary school, I did History A-level, and spent quite a lot of time reading about the English Civil War, the execution of King Charles the First, the eleven-year Interregnum – the period of time when the country had no king or queen, and was instead ruled […]
Nov 16, 2017 Chunks, Intermediate word of the day Intermediate word of the day: resignation When someone resigns from a job, they publicly say they are going to stop doing it. The noun is resignation. With most jobs in normal everyday life, people don’t actually use the word resign that much; instead, they decide to quit or leave their job. They might have to hand in a resignation letter to […]
Nov 8, 2017 Chunks, Word of the day Word of the day: bolshie Last Wednesday marked the centenary (the 100th anniversary) of the 1917 Russian revolution. In March that year, Nicholas II, the last tsar of Russia, abdicated. The First World War had been disastrous for the country and food shortages and rampant inflation proved to be the last straw. In Petrograd (now known as Saint Petersburg), soldiers […]
Nov 7, 2017 Chunks, Intermediate word of the day Intermediate word of the day: suicide Suicide is the act of deliberately killing yourself. There are a number of different ways that people usually commit suicide: Sometimes young people get together and make a suicide pact – they make an agreement that they are going to kill themselves in the same way and at the same time. Often, when people are […]
Nov 6, 2017 Chunks, Word of the day Word of the day: faff Over the last few days, I’ve been in Minsk, the capital of Belarus, running a teacher development seminar for around 150 wonderful locals. In one particular session, we were looking at pronunciation, and I was talking about the way my own approach to dealing with pronunciation in class has changed over time. I mentioned that […]
