C2 · People, relationships & family

C1/C2 Idioms related to love or relationships

Serena’s blog Is this quiz you have ten expressions related to relationships.

C2 · Education, study & language

C2 Listening and speaking: How to escape education’s death valley

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

Body, health & nutrition · C2 · People, relationships & family

C1/C2 Adjectives for describing bodies

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

C2 · Natural world & environment

C1/C2 Rain idioms and expressions

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!

C2 · Natural world & environment

C1/C2 Vocabulary quiz related to water

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Body, health & nutrition · C2

C1/C2 Idioms with Head

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

C2 · law & crime · politics & society

C1/C2 Idiom The red tape

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.

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Idiom Red in tooth and claw

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.

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Idiom A red flag to a bull

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

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C1/C2 Idiom Catch someone red-handed

Hands wearing red gloves If you were caught red-handed, what were you up to? Click on the quiz button to find out.