Written by Lilian Ndongmo. ESL Teacher Here’s a list of ten of the most common English idioms and idiomatic expressions. Familiarize yourself with them if…
Got 2 minutes? That’s all the time you need to perhaps learn a new word, phrase or idiomatic expression. We bring you short clips from…
Written by Lilian Ndongmo. ESL Teacher With all due respect for animal-lovers, vegetarians and vegans as well as my culturally-diverse subscribers, fans and visitors out…
Every now and then I just love to throw in a word or two to add panache to my sentences. I knew you’d love to…
written by Lilian Ndongmo. ESL Teacher Forming plurals is a piece of cake for some, but a little complicated for others. For beginnesr, it can…
written by Lilian Ndongmo. ESL Teacher Cheapskate is not a new word. (To pronounce, split the word in two –cheap.skate – then say them together as one…
written by Lilian Ndongmo. ESL Teacher Anything but refers to someone or something that is contrary to what you expected. It places emphasis on the…
Written by Lilian Ndongmo. ESL Teacher If you’re looking at this word and thinking of food (‘munch’) or house (‘hausen’), you couldn’t be more wrong….
Written by Lilian Ndongmo. ESL Teacher The word slacktivist is coined from two English words: slacker and activist. A slacker is a person who is…
Written by Lilian Ndongmo. ESL Teacher To bluff means to say or do something to deceive, impress or intimidate others. The word bluff is commonly…
Look at this situation: You listen to a song or a piece of music on the radio or on TV or anywhere else. One hour…
written by Lilian Ndongmo. ESL Teacher A compound word is usually made up of two or more words. How can you describe someone using compound…
written by Lilian Ndongmo. ESL Teacher Today, we will look at two idioms: 1. To make faces (at someone) Meaning: make (usually silly) expressions with…
Written by Lilian Ndongmo. ESL Teacher When talking about animals and the meat of these animals, the names are not the same. Let’s look at…
written by Lilian Ndongmo. ESL Teacher The purpose of this article is to address the usage of course, class and lesson, which many of my…
written by Lilian Ndongmo. ESL Teacher The word “babymoon” is a fairly new word in English usage. It was coined in 1996 from “honeymoon’, which is…
written by Lilian Ndongmo. ESL Teacher No more Meaning 1: A definitive and permanent stop of an action, a thing or a person Examples: There are…
written by Lilian Ndongmo. ESL Teacher Anymore Meaning 1: a definitive and permanent stop of an action, a thing or a person Synonym: any longer Example: …
written by Lilian Ndongmo. ESL Teacher Isn’t it interesting how the English language is able to manipulate words into beautiful – or not so beautiful –…
written by Lilian Ndongmo. ESL Teacher Workafrolic was coined in 2005 by Richard St. John during a TED presentation. Definition Workafrolic is a combination of the…
written by Lilian Ndongmo. ESL Teacher What makes these words confusing? 1. Difference in spelling Complement is spelled with an ‘e’ in the third syllable, while…
written by Lilian Ndongmo. ESL Teacher For many learners, learning English is even more challenging when they come across certain words which make them feel confused…
written by Lilian Ndongmo. ESL Teacher Spelling: logorrhea (US); logorrhoea (UK) Do you know someone who always has something to say; who’s always talking and doesn’t…
written by Lilian Ndongmo. ESL Teacher Yesterday in class, I nearly got my head bitten off. I was telling Habiba, my student, about something I was…
written by Lilian Ndongmo. ESL Teacher Have you ever heard, seen or used this word before? Do you know what it means? This is one of…
written by Lilian Ndongmo. ESL Teacher Meaning: Money you give someone to prevent them from exposing a secret. Example: 1. The police officer was fired and…
The correct pronunciation of PSY
written by Lilian Ndongmo. ESL Teacher Words that begin with PSY are often very troublesome for many English learners to pronounce. People whose first or native…
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