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 […]

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 […]

I've been very remiss in posting up the lessons. Naughty me. Today we listened to a short text about drug dealers and addicts! The story was about an addict, Sandy Bergen from Canada, who took her dealer to court. You can read about the story here.