Words Starting With "W"

Linking Sounds...

http://www.myhappyenglish.com/?powerpress_pinw=9038-podcast

Native English speakers tend to connect or link sounds together when they speak. This makes listing to English a bit tricky for a lot of English learners. For today’s English lesson, I’m going to show you a few examples of how we connect sounds when we speak. Learning this can help your English listening skills and help you to sound more natural in English!

Think English or American

Learn how to think in English! Watch this video then try the same techniques yourself - talk about what you are doing, when you are doing it. It is more difficult than you think! 

The suspect steps out on to the pavement. He's wearing a black coat, dark hat and carrying a bag. He approaches a blue car, puts the bag in the car. He closes the boot, looks around and gets into the car. A red

Phrases with CAN’T

#1 – “Jeff wants to sing in the church choir, but he can’t carry a tune.”

Someone who can’t carry a tune has no musical ability; they can’t sing a simple melody correctly.

13 Essential Literary Terms

Metaphor [met-uh-fawr, -fer]

Aristotle wrote that mastery over the art of metaphor is a sign of genius, but what does this ubiquitous literary term mean in its most basic form? A metaphor is a figure of speech in which a term is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “She is a rose.” Excluding the possibility that the subject of this sentence is literally a flower, this example suggests that the subject possesses figurative extensions of qualities or attributes of a rose, such as exquisite beauty or perhaps a prickly disposition.

English is Easy

Jokes, anecdotes...

I’m sick of being sick!

http://www.learnhotenglish.com/pdfs/free-lessons/HE131_jokes_46.mp3

BEAR  HUNTING

A: I say, I say, I say. What’s the best way to hunt bear?

B: I don’t know. What is the best way to hunt bear?

A: With no clothes on.