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Weekly Lesson for Study – Tea Rooms. One notable evolution is the shift from traditional tea rooms to the ubiquitous coffee shops of today.
Title: The Evolution from Tea Rooms to Coffee Shops: A Cultural Shift
Audio: This will be posted shortly on my YouTube channel and Spotify
Continue reading “Weekly Lesson for Study – Tea Rooms”In Today’s Podcast to help you learn English:
The verb and noun “Probe”.
Antidepressants are being probed by the Government.
Cheers Stars, Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson begin a new podcast.
Tom Sellick from Magnum PI writes a Book
Jurors in the UK get offered Counselling.
Today’s podcast for learning English:
The English idiom world’s apart,
The King and Prince Harry don’t want to meet,
Young British People have anxiety about using phones.
To have no qualms,
Scotland gets a new First Minister who says he wants to eliminate child poverty.
My thoughts on Miss World and beauty contests.
New Weekly Lesson Now Online – Roberto’s Story. I am also posting it below for your future reference so it will always be here in the blog.(Audio will be in tomorrow’s podcast).
Next week’s lesson is now online. I am also posting it below for your future reference so it will always be here in the blog.(Audio will be in tomorrow’s podcast).
Continue reading “New Weekly Lesson Now Online – Roberto’s Story”Extract:
Today. I want to explore with you the difference between face-to-face classroom lessons and e-learning lessons on the internet. I’ve done both and there’s a very real difference. And if you’re someone who hasn’t had an online lesson before or you’re just not sure how they work, we’re going to be looking at that today.
Continue reading “#749 Getting the Best from Online Lessons”
Extract: Well, there’s a story in one of our newspapers today. This is from the Daily Mirror and it’s saying that pints of wine will be on sale from this coming Autumn. Now, you may remember a few months ago, I told you about this….that pint size glasses and bottles of wine were to be made available in the UK. And of course, as a nation, we don’t really taste things. We just drink in volumes because we, we don’t really have an appreciation you know…. we don’t taste the wine and say
“Oh delicious, dry, sweet,,,, would be nice with fish”.
No…. we just drink to get drunk so it’s no surprise then that we would want wine by the pint rather than appreciating the delicacy and beauty of the drink. So we’re going to go through this story and we’ll be talking about it as we go.
Today’s phrase is to be rigged. Now when something is rigged, it is believed that it’s operated using deceit or some kind of malicious behaviour to promote a desired outcome. Now, let me just give you some examples to show you what I mean:
So, if we say, for example,
We had an election today to vote for our Union leader but I honestly believe the election is rigged.