суббота, 14 декабря 2013 г.

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?

понедельник, 9 декабря 2013 г.

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 

воскресенье, 8 декабря 2013 г.

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".