Tuesday, 21 April 2015

VOCABULARY




Using the letter grid below, how many words can you find?


Be careful,

1.     Each word must contain the central H.
2.     No letter can be used twice.
3.     The letters do not have to be connected.
4.     Proper nouns are not allowed

Examples: ache, heart

R
C
O
E
H
S
R
T
A


Let's see what do you have.

I Have A Dream,




A famous Speech in the American History if not in the world by Martin Luther King (I have a dream), 

Listen attentively to his strong words and make a comment.

LIFE,,







A picture from Google describes LIFE,, 

                    Do you agree What Life is really about? 

Saturday, 18 April 2015

Uses of Dictionary






I deeply thought of the uses of dictionary. I was certain that it doesn't give us the meaning of words solely yet it has other uses.
I asked Google this question and here are its answers?

We use the dictionary to be familiar with
1.     The definition of words.
2.     The spelling.
3.     The pronunciation.
4.     The breakdowns of the syllables in words
5.     The origins of words
6.     The different tenses that a word can have.
7.       Some pictures like maps, animals, plants,,, so on.

And others more.

Greeting Expressions





I fed up from saying 'How are you?' over and over. I searched about other ways of greetings and expressions other than 'How are you?'


I found the expressions in the FluentU website as follows.



1. Hey, Hey man, or Hi

2. How's it going? Or How are you doing?

3. What's up?, What’s new?, or what's going on?

4. How's everything? How are things? Or how's life?

5. How's your day? Or How's your day going?

6. Good to see you or Nice to see you

7. Long time no see or it's been a while

8. Good morning, Good afternoon, or Good evening

 9. It's nice to meet you or Pleased to meet you

10. How have you been?

BRITISH & AMERICAN ENGLISH VOCABULARY




Differences between British and American English vocabulary.