Tag: Grammar

Take our US elections English vocabulary quiz and learn the words you need to join in discussions about the US elections. As well as the voting process, we’ll explain: – the race metaphor – terms for the political parties – blue, red and purple states – who can and can’t vote – some effects of COVID-19 – common collocations like hold an election and going to the polls – the primaries – words like platform,

Word pairs make your English more colloquial and conversational. (To see our first video on word pairs, click here.) The technical term for these expressions is binomials and English is full of them! In this video you’ll learn: – what some of them mean – the common patterns they follow – how to use them in action We’ll show you phrases for things you’ll often find together like: – soap and water – shoes and

Make your English sound more natural and fluent with useful English word pairs. These binomial expressions will make your English sound more colloquial and conversational. We start off with some easy ones like salt and pepper and knife and fork and then move on to some you might not know like: – an arm and a leg – touch and go – high and dry – to and fro – thick and thin – flesh

Jay hasn’t been able to get his haircut because of the corona virus so Vicki takes on a hairdressing challenge. What could go wrong? Learn lots of English words and phrases that you’ll need at the hairdresser’s and barbershop. You’ll learn how to: – explain the haircut you want – give instructions to your hairdresser or barber – engage in small talk Here’s just some of the hairdressing vocabulary we look at: The tools: scissors,