Jan 26, 2017 Chunks, Phrase of the day Phrase of the day: Onwards and upwards The publication of this post marks the end of our first full week of WORD OF THE DAY over here on the Lexical Lab site and I’ve spent much of the last few days tying up loose ends – sorting out all the little bits and pieces that needed to be done as we move […]
Jan 26, 2017 Chunks, Phrase of the day Phrase of the day: Tell it to the judge! A couple of weeks ago, as part of the ADVANCED LANGUAGE AND CULTURE course I was teaching at the time, we discussed recent literary trends here in the UK. We looked at the best-selling books in different genres and talked about what the sales of certain titles might say about the state of society. As […]
Jan 24, 2017 Chunks, Word of the day Word of the day: pivot There’s an ancient Greek myth about a king called Sisyphus, who committed a terrible crime against the gods and was condemned to an eternity of hard labour! He was forced to spend each and every day carrying a huge boulder – a great big rock – up a mountain, only to see the thing roll […]
Jan 23, 2017 Chunks, Phrase of the day Phrase of the day: a weight off my mind The last few weeks have been particularly stressful. Firstly, there’s my father-in-law, who suffered a terrible fall at the end of last year. He hit his head as he fell, which caused bleeding in the brain. He had to have an operation to reduce the pressure and it left him in a very bad way. […]
Jan 22, 2017 Chunks, Phrase of the day Phrase of the day: bite off more than you can chew About a year ago, after a chance meeting with a friend of a friend, who had a beautiful Grade II listed building in Bloomsbury, a historic part of central London, we rashly decided that it would be a great idea to start a language school. To give you some idea of quite how poorly prepared […]
