Despite water covering 71% of the planet’s surface, more than half the world’s population endures extreme water scarcity for at least one month a year. Current estimates predict that by 2040, up to 20 more countries could be experiencing water shortages. These statistics raise a startling question: is the Earth running out of clean water?…… Continue reading C1/C2 Listening TED Talks Are we running out of clean water?
I found this query on the internet and couldn’t help laughing. Of course, baby ants don’t really exist as such (meaning that you’d be really surprised to find a tiny version of an ant being reared by its parents, wouldn’t you?). But anyway, a baby ant would actually be an egg, a larva or a…… Continue reading B1 B2 C1 C2 What do you call a baby ant?
Serena’s blog Group nouns for animals can be a bit confusing as there are so many. What’s more, there doesn’t always seem to be a strict categorisation as we can apply the same word to different types of animals such as a group of whales that can be called a school, a pod or even…… Continue reading B2-C1-C2 Group names for animals
Learning vocabulary in a foreign language can be either fun or tedious depending on how you set yourself to doing it. It can also be quite frustrating as we usually only seem to remember the words that we use in our everyday interaction and very frequently forget ‘that other word’ (Ooooh! Ah! Eek! Oops! It’s…… Continue reading C1-C2 Vocabulary quiz for animals
Read the description and try to guess the correct option. fgsdg
Here’s a quick activity for advanced learners to help you learn, brush up and think about some expressions and ways in which we can talk about the future. .
One of the things people usually complain about in the country I live in is that there always seems to be lot of red tape. What does this mean? Click the quiz button to find out.
If something is red in tooth and claw, what is it like? If you don’t know (this one is not so obvious), take the quiz to find out.
If something is like a red flag to a bull, what are we talking about? A cartoon drawing of a furious man that looks like a bull
