‘He Said’ or ‘Said He’?

Let’s say you’re writing a brilliant piece of dialogue for your novel: “The zombie was wearing a pink carnation.” Is it said Squiggly? or Squiggly said?

Learn English with films

If you're feeling under the weather...

One of your employees looks sick. You ask her why she came to work, and she says that she has a lot of work to do. You'd rather she go home so that she doesn't make other people sick. You say this.

If you're feeling under the weather, by all means go home and get some rest.

Idioms & Quiz

English Idioms: Quiz

There are 15 questions to complete.

Question 1

My best friend dated my brother for five years. They just split up two weeks ago - it was a bad breakup, and now I'm walking on eggshell saround both of them.

"Walking on eggshells" means:

A	being very cautious so as not to upset or offend someone
B	helping two people resolve a conflict
C	trying to make depressed people feel better

Listen & Act

Do you have a good relationship with your parents? Do you get on better with your father or your mother? Tell me about your relationship with your parents. Do not use real names. Protect their privacy. Listen to this woman talk about her parents:

http://englishconversations.org/audio/miria2.mp3

Ooh, pretty!

You and your sister bought a gift for your mom's birthday, but you wrapped it at your house yesterday. You show her the ornately wrapped present on the way to the birthday party.   Ooh, pretty!

"W" phoneme

 For today’s English lesson, we’ll first look at how to pronounce W, and we’ll look at both V and W together.

Here are the example sentences. To get the details of this English lesson, you need to listen to the podcast  http://www.myhappyenglish.com/?powerpress_pinw=13146-podcast