Car Accidents

Have you ever been in a car accident? In today’s lesson, you’re going to learn expressions for describing different types of accidents, their causes, and results. Let’s begin with the difference between a car accident and a car crash. Car accident is the most general term – it can describe any type of accident, major or minor, and it can involve only one car or two or more cars. A car crash involves a collision – when a car hits an object with a violent impact. We can also use “crash” as a verb – for example, the car crashed into a tree, or the car crashed into a telephone pole.

Here are four specific types of accidents:

Oh my gosh!

You're getting married soon. Your coworkers threw a surprise party for you. When you enter the party, you're really surprised. You say this.Oh my gosh... I'm  speechless.   

Homographs

How do you like this: I bought this piece of china in a china shop when I was in China.

English is a crazy language. There is no ham in hamburger, no egg in eggplant, neither apple nor pine in pineapple. French fries weren’t invented in France, and English muffins weren’t invented in England. Furthermore, quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is not from Guinea nor is it a pig!

Around the House

MUST and CAN'T

MUST and CAN'T in Logical conclusions - using English modal verbs

- ful & - less

10 ENGLISH WORDS ENDING IN -FUL

1. cheerful = happy, full of positivity, in a good mood

I’m much more cheerful after I have my morning cup of coffee.

Opposite = grumpy

Get & Become

The word get and become are sometimes interchangeable. However, get has several different meanings. Become, on the other hand, is mainly used to talk about a development of some kind.

Get is one of the commonest words in English. It is mainly used in informal English. Some people even believe that get should not be used in formal speech and writing. That probably doesn’t make much sense, though.