台北英文家教 | Taipei English Tutor

12/01/2020

I created a Chinese New Year story. Enjoy!
Video: http://bit.ly/nianvideo
Lesson plan: http://bit.ly/nianlesson

Worksheet available at https://bit.ly/peterplans Created by Peter Dunstan in 2019 for the English Advisory Group's CLIL CNY Life Skills curriculum developmen...

11/04/2016

"I want pony" and "I want a pony" have very different meanings, in the same way that "I want chicken" differs from "I want a chicken".

If you skip articles (a / an / the / some), then your meaning becomes "I (verb) SOME (common noun)" by default. E.g. "I want water" means "I want SOME water".

29/02/2016

Can anybody help this lady?

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18/01/2016

Keeping warm?

11/01/2016

More language of lies

A ‘swindle’ can be used as a noun and a verb, as a noun it refers to a situation where someone has been cheated out of money or possessions through deceit or lies.
‘I lost a lot of money in the insurance swindle during the 1990s.’

As a verb ‘swindle’ refers to the action of deceit and lies leading to the receipt of ill gotten goods or money.
‘He swindled her out of her life savings, I hope he gets caught and goes to jail.’

If you ‘mislead’ someone then you purposefully set out to give them the wrong idea or impression.
‘I think he has misled me. I am sure he told me the party was Saturday, not today, as he doesn’t want me to be there.’

‘A fallacy’ refers to a belief that is based on a falsehood or an unsound argument.
‘The idea that all babies can walk when they are one is a fallacy.’

Photo by Kristian Niemi (Flickr:CC)

14/12/2015

Weather

Under the weather
To be ‘under the weather’ is to feel unwell.
‘I can’t go out tonight, I’m a bit under the weather, maybe tomorrow.’

Weather the storm
To ‘weather the storm’ is to successfully deal with a very difficult situation, usually one that has lasted some time.
‘The sales campaign starts on Monday and with these discounts we will be inundated with customers, I sure hope we can weather the storm.’

Choose one of the phrases and make an example sentence and we will tell you if you are right or wrong.

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