Category: English for Intermediate students

Idioms about Cats. Today we’re going to start the new set of animal idioms. If you don’t mind, I’ll begin with cats being a cat-loving person. Don’t worry: the next post will be about dog’s idioms. Look through the list of the phrases below, study them carefully. Do you recognize your cat in some examples?…

We continue our work today. We should try to do the accounting calculation of the countable and uncountable nouns. It may seem impossible, still we can do it. We choose “some” to speak about both countable and uncountable when we don’t name the exact quantity. The quantity should be plural at least. We use “any” when…

Good morning/afternoon/evening! I hope that you sleep at night, and don’t study. We’ve discussed the subject of countable and uncountable. We have also learned the names of the groups for most kinds of animals! It’s high time to do the exercises. Repetitio est mater studiorum. We should revise what we’ve learned, and repeat the exercises to…

They say that it’s enough to know 500 words to be able to speak English, and to exchange the information. Do you think it’s true? Meantime more than 500 words in an English Dictionary can have a different meaning if they are used in another written or spoken context. This fact can be embarrassing or…