12 Nov 2013

Bushfires in Australia

Different views



Watch the video and answer the following questions and complete the sentences.

  1. In America ……. don’t have names. ………………. have names.
  2. In Japan ……. don’t have names. ………………. have names.
  3. In Japan, in which order do houses go?
  4. In China, if you are healthy you ………………. the doctor and when you’re sick you ………………………….. because he failed to do his job
  5. In West African music the …………… is thought of as the end of the musical phrase.
  6. Whatever brilliant ideas you have or hear, the opposite ………………………


30 Oct 2013

Welcome

George Mikes wrote in How to be an Alien:
When I arrived in England I thought I knew English. After I'd been here an hour I realized that I did not understand one word. In the first week I picked up a tolerable working knowledge of the language and the next seven years convinced me gradually but thoroughly that I would never know it really well, let alone perfectly. This is sad. My only consolation being that nobody speaks English perfectly.
I would like to dedicate this blog to all those who struggle to learn the language of Shakespeare.