Going Downhill

If things are “Going Downhill” it means that they are getting worse and worse. Here are some examples: “I used to be good at basketball when I was in high school, but my abilities started going downhill after I turned 40″. “She was really attractive when she was young but her looks have been going downhill lately”. “I think I will need glasses soon.  My eyesight seems to be going downhill fast” So now you know how to use the popular term “going downhill“.  I’m sure you’ll start to notice it more and more.  It’s a great phrase so please remember to use it!

Past Tenses

Past Tenses to Talk About Vacation

August is a popular month for vacations, but now that the month is over, it’s useful to know how to tell people about what you did. This post will cover how to talk about your past summer plans with the Simple Present, the Past Continuous and the Past Perfect Continuous tenses.

Ew! I stepped in dog poop!

You smell a bad smell. You realize that the smell is coming from your shoe, so you look at it. It has some brown stuff stuck to the bottom of it.

Ew! 

Make this sound when you see, smell, or hear about something disgusting.

Is classical music boring?

Reproduce the dialogue, can you?

Music describes you

Write the script, could you?

No Pain, No Gain

This is an extremely useful and widely used phrase in spoken English. The phrase is “No pain, no gain“. “If something in life is too easy, then you won’t have any success”.

I think many cultures have the same idea.  It’s that life isn’t easy.  We need to work hard to get real results.  If you workout in a gym, your trainer might say to you, “no pain, no gain“.

All I want is...

You're single. You've been on a few dates with different men recently, but they all went badly. Now you're frustrated that you can't meet someone normal. You complain to your friend.

All I want is to meet a guy with a stable job and a good sense of humor. Is that too much to ask?