Problem, trouble, and issue

What's the difference between "problem", "trouble", and "issue"?

The words "problem", "trouble", and "issue" are very close in meaning. What's the difference bewtween them? The answer is quite complicated, actually! Let's look at the meaning of each word and some of the ways that they're used:  

Pick up a habit

  Year Of English   "Setting resolutions is great, but what’s even better is picking up habits."

In Western cultures, it’s customary to set New Year’s Resolutions. A New Year’s Resolution is a goal that you set for yourself to achieve during that year.
Setting resolutions is great, but what’s even better is picking up habits.

White Christmas Melody

Christmas Poetry

Snowing and Winter Weather

The snowplow will come out and start plowing the street during a snowstorm.

When it is very cold, we talk about Jack Frost and Old Man Winter. We say things like:

• Jack Frost is outside. Old Man winter came for a visit.

How do you say “Merry Christmas” all over the world?

The Festival of Christmas

IELTS Speaking Test PART 2 
Sample Question and Answer 

Question:

Describe a festival that is important in your country. You should say:

• When the festival occurs

• What you did during it

• What you like or dislike about it

• And explain why this festival is important

Answer:

I think the main festival in my country is Christmas, which is in late December.

Santa Claus Quiz

Santa Claus Quiz – American Culture Lesson

Question 1.  How do children tell Santa what they want? (Choose 2 answers)
A	They visit him in a store
B	They send Santa a letter
C	They telephone him
D	They pray to him before going to sleep on Christmas Eve.

Communication

More about Christmas

Smth. ab. Christmas

Phrases for gift-giving

Gift or present?

The words "gift" and "present" mean the same thing, but which one to use depends on the occasion. These are the most common collocations (word combinations) for each holiday:

a Christmas present

Listen & Repeat

http://www.learnhotenglish.com/pdfs/free-lessons/HE128_TongueTwister.mp3

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers;

A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked;

If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,

Where’s the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?

She sells seashells on the seashore.

The shells she sells are seashells, I’m sure.

So if she sells seashells on the seashore,

Then, I’m sure she sells seashore shells.

Christmas Vocabulary & Symbols

Adjectives & Adverbs; Nominal Adj.

Pronunciation Practice

Finding English pronunciation tricky?

Having problems with English pronunciation? Well, don't be too hard on yourself - blame the language! Is it any surprise people have problems speaking English clearly when we pronounce words like 'once' with a /w/, but then ignore the /w/ completely in 'answer'. Why on earth are words like 'Wednesday' pronounced as 'wensday'? And what about 'creature' with 2 syllables but 'creation' pronounced with 3?

100 Answers to Common English Questions

100 Answers to Common English Questions

Idiomatic Expressions with GO

http://www.espressoenglish.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/10-expressions-go.mp3

#1 – go into overdrive

= start working very hard (more intensely than normal).

“Every year around Christmas, my department goes into overdrive – there’s so much work to do.”

#2 – go off on a tangent 

Learn English

Holidays collocations!

The end of December in the U.S. is known as "the Holidays".

The word "holiday" can mean any holiday, from religious holidays to national holidays like (in the U.S.) Independence Day and Memorial Day. However, "The Holidays" means the time around the end of the year. One reason that English speakers call this time of year "The Holidays" is to avoid simply calling it "Christmas".

Learn word combinations

               Year Of English  

Words that have similar meanings are called "synonyms".

In the past, you may have tried learning lists of synonyms at the same time. For example, you might look at this list of words that are synonyms for "good":

I can't stand...

You're talking about men with a group of girlfriends. Everyone is talking about what kind of men they don't like. You tell them about a quality that you don't like in men.

I can't stand it when a man doesn't trim his nails.

Ways To Use 'OF'

This apple pie was made of the freshest ingredients

A lot of students say that the preposition of gives them a lot of trouble. I agree that of can be tricky to use and I’ve been thinking about how we use it. For this English lesson, I am going to show you how we use of in an English sentence. Are you ready?

What's the weather today?

Let's talk about the weather

1.“It's a little overcast.”

2.

Using 'in'

The word in has a number of different uses in English. You probably know that in is a preposition, but did you also know that in also used as an adverb, an adjective, and even a noun? Today, let’s have a look at the various uses of this interesting little word.

Using 'the' with Superlatives

If we use a superlative adjective ('the tallest student in the class') then there is obviously only one (or one group) of the things we are talking about. There is one student who is the tallest in the class, and because it's clear to the listener which one we mean, we usually use 'the':

To or For...

Hello students!
A lot of people ask about the difference between to and for.
Today's lesson will help you understand when to use these two prepositions.

Don’t say: “I’m studying every day for improve my English.”

So touching...

weird

"That's weird. I could have sworn I put it here."
You're looking for the book that you're reading. You thought it was on the nightstand next to your bed, but it's 
not there. You think this to yourself.

I'm Yours - Lyrics

Idioms about TIME

Shop less, live more

http://www.buynothingday.co.uk/

http://www.podcastsinenglish.com/listen/level2/bnd.mp3

Bad Habits

Speaking Anxiety

School Idioms

Well this  Kaplan school idioms illustration will help you learn a lot of new phrases while studying.These school idioms are popular with both students and teachers. If you have studied in an English-speaking country, you may even already know some of these school idioms. So don’t drop out! Let’s hit the books and get to the top of the class with these idioms.

Vocabulary: Countries, Nationalities, and Languages

English Vocabulary: Countries, Nationalities, and Languages