Scene from the Body Snatchers (1978) The picture is from the final scene of the 70s version of The Body Snatchers and one of those really disturbing movies that sort of scares me out of my wits. I couldn’t help using the picture for this post because I somehow feel that many smokers must feel…… Continue reading C1-C2 Bad habit vocabulary crossword
What’s your favourite type of food? Do you like savoury dishes or do you have a sweet tooth? I particularly go for savoury, but I also sometimes crave for chocolate. Here’s another of my tacky videos (sorry, I don’t have a good video editor, but I’ll finally get round to it. Promise!). This video covers…… Continue reading B2 Flavour vocabulary
Here’s a challenge for you! First of all have a look at the wordcloud. How many of these words are you familiar with? Check the meaning of the news words. After, look at the flipping cards and to name them. To see if you were right by placing your mouse over the picture. Now isn’t…… Continue reading Flipping cards Injuries and treatments
Use of English activities Image by Danilo Alvesd Unsplash Are you one of my type, meaning that you’d ditch the doctor unless you found yourself at death’s door or are you more of the hypochondriac type that literally lives surrounded by huge piles of medical prescriptions? Are you leery of medical treatments or do you…… Continue reading C1/C2 What Doctors Won’t Do…
Photo by Miguel u00c1. Padriu00f1u00e1n on Pexels.com Is it pandemic, plague or epidemic? What’s the word for when I come out covered in rashes? Here’s a vocabulary quiz with some of the most Cish words I’ve found to help make learning vocabulary fun and above all, easy to brush up when needing to refresh our…… Continue reading Vocabulary quiz for illness and medical condition
Image by Nelly Antoniadou on unsplash If you kick the bucket or feel that you’re at death’s door, you’re obviously feeling quite rotten, but how rotten do you actually feel? On the button below you’ll find some idioms related to health. Don’t forget to hit the like button or suscribe if you found the activity…… Continue reading Health idioms
Pexels Negative Space Here you have a fun quiz for advanced levels that includes quite a few phrasal verbs and some idioms related to health.
WE HAVE DEEP ROOTS IN THE GREENWOOD ” I fear those grey, old men of Mocca’s Park,” Wrote Francis Kilvert, the Victorian diarist. “Those grey, gnarled, low-browed, knock-kneed, bowed, bent, huge, strange, long-armed, deformed, hunch-backed, misshapen oak men that stand waiting and watching century after century.” When it comes to describing something or somebody, it…… Continue reading C1/C2 Adjectives for describing bodies
Photo by Kat Smith on Pexels.com If somebody has difficulties to keep their heads above water, are they drowning? And what’s happening to your friend when after having some success in life, it went to his head? Your neighbour seems to have finally found her soulmate and is now head over heels, but you met…… Continue reading C1/C2 Idioms with Head
