Academic English skills for international students
Visuwords online graphical dictionary is a great resource for learning about words, their meanings and other related words. Let’s be honest, learning vocabulary can be hard work! Anything that makes learning new words, and learning about new words, more interesting is worth taking a look at and I’ve been enjoying myself with the Visuwords online … Read more
Not fit for purpose Last week I mentioned the royal baby in the UK and I said that lots of people were placing bets on what the new baby would be called. In the end the baby has been called George, which was the favourite name! One bookmaker (a person who takes bets from people) … Read more
Prefixes and suffixes: Omnishambles I heard a new word this week: omni-shambles! What a great word! Here it is in context: Cameron slammed over ‘omni-shambles’ Budget Well, you might know the word ‘shambles‘ – but then again you might not because it is not that formal. A shambles is a mess, or confusion resulting from … Read more
Did you know that the lastest cost of the London Olympic Games 2012 is £11 billion! Wow! Now, that’s a big number! Do you have any idea of what the original cost was? It was £2.4 billion! And we thought that was expensive! I’ve been reading a bit about the cost of the Olympic Games … Read more