So today we learnt how to drive your colleagues crazy by becoming a health fanatic. Other words for colleague we discussed are "work mate" "office mate" "fellow worker" "co-worker". We also learnt about the demise of the annoying paper clip in Microsoft products. A new word that cropped up was Tamagotchi. Just as annoying as […]

Slow Worms Are So Easy to Photograph Even I Can Manage ItOriginally uploaded by waɪ.tiː If you are legless it can mean you have drunk so much (alcohol) that you can't walk. But this is a photo of a slowworm "Anguis fragilis" (the slow worm, slow-worm, blindworm or blind worm) is not a worm, or […]

Today we listened to two texts. In the first text we met the phrasal verb "to throw up", not to be confused with "throw out" or "throw away", it means to vomit. There are lots of euphamisms for this rather unpleasant bodily function, here are just a few:- To be sickTo retchTo heaveTo toss your […]

Today we listened to a piece of text about how two faced the British can be when it comes to moaning about people from other countries living and working in the UK, when compared with the number of foreign players in football not to mention filling the job of the English football manager. The words […]

Prora - Timing is everything Originally uploaded by waɪ.tiː "Timing is everything" means doing things at the right time (which is often down to luck) is the most important thing. For example:- "If you're launching a new business, timing is everything." This photo shows a ticket from our visit to the museum at Prora on […]