If you’re looking for a background for conversations related to health and medical care, you’ve just found it. This video shows a waiting room where some patients are waiting for their GP to call them in for their appointment. The aim is to create the experience of being in an actual waiting room while learners…… Continue reading Creating Immersive Role-play Backgrounds: The Waiting Room
Advanced emotions from the rowdiest office Christmas party imaginable — only this one takes place inside a fridge. Wishing you a very Merry Christmas!!! Want to know what happens? You have the video down below.
It wasn’t the first time he’d stolen her chips… so yes — she had a chip on her shoulder.And when he finished the last one — he cashed in his chips.(Small note: the lines I used dark humour; be careful with audience sensitivity.) That headline practically writes itself. The word ‘chip’ appears twice here —…… Continue reading Idioms about Chips in Context: “Have a Chip on One’s Shoulder” & “Cash in One’s Chips”
In this post you will learn a new idiom/saying related to coping with difficulties or achieving an aim.
Serena’s blog Is this quiz you have ten expressions related to relationships.
If you happen to be a teacher, a parent or a student, you will have very probably spent a great deal of time thinking and speaking about school and education. You will also have probably wondered what schools are for and if they actually work at all. Astonishing as it may seem, you will also…… Continue reading C2 Listening and speaking: How to escape education’s death valley
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 Aleksandar Pasaric on Pexels.com We all know the one about ‘raining cats and dogs’ but what about ‘to rain on somebody’s parade’ or ‘to give something a rain check’? In the link below you’re bound to learn at least one more of the many British idioms. Go on! Give it a try!
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