Apr 13, 2018 Chunks, Word of the day Word of the day: provincial This morning, I took my kids down to Gökyüzü, one of the many amazing restaurants near where we live, for a Turkish breakfast. As you may have seen from the featured photo, the portions there are so huge that the kids just shared one between the two of them. As I watched them devour the […]
Apr 3, 2018 Chunks, Word of the day Word of the day: craic Over the last few days, I’ve actually been to Dublin, the capital of Ireland, twice! Last Friday, I also spent a few hours in Galway, on the wild west coast of Ireland, where the winds come whipping in from the Atlantic Ocean! I was working with local teachers of English, talking specifically about Outcomes – […]
Mar 27, 2018 Chunks, Word of the day Word of the day: less The other day, just as I was slowly waking up and making my first cup of coffee, I heard a discussion on the radio about the whether or not you can say “less than one in five people”. It seemed that several listeners had said that this was wrong and were insisting that less should […]
Mar 23, 2018 Chunks, Intermediate word of the day Intermediate word of the day: pride Pride is that feeling of satisfaction and pleasure that you get when you’ve done something special, or when someone connected to you has achieved something. We often talk about people taking pride in things. If you take pride in something, you feel very proud of it; you feel a deep sense of satisfaction about it. […]
Mar 14, 2018 Chunks, Word of the day Word of the day: social mobility Social mobility is the idea that over their lifetimes or across generations, people from lower-class backgrounds can move to a higher social class. An example of this would be my father, who grew up in relative poverty in Liverpool before the war. He was the son of a factory worker, but he then won a […]
