If you worry about your finances or you listen to the news about the global economy, I’m sure you are glad you’re still able to shop at the supermarket. Glum predictions about the recession keep see-sawing, stocks are all over the place, and it must even make some speculators dizzy. Including Warren Buffett, the billionaire… Continue reading Fall, Rise, and Fall Again – Vocabulary to Talk about Prices
Remember Words Better When You Learn them with Movement Researchers from Leipzig, Germany, have proved that students remember words better when they’re taught while doing a movement. Teachers have known this for years, which is why they teach children to act words out. For example if you teach a child the word “cook” you can… Continue reading A Tip for Memorizing Words – Use Movement
subterranean (adjective) – under the ground (sub means under in Latin) Examples of how you can use subterranean: In the Middle Ages there were no subterranean sewers, so people emptied their toilet bowls in the streets. There are many subterranean passages under the city of Rome, which were often used as hideaways. Water flows through subterranean… Continue reading Word to the Wise – Subterranean
stifle (verb) – to cut, to block or close the throat (choke) stifled (adjective) – having no air to breathe (also figuratively) stifling (adjective) – to close something so that there is no air Examples of how you can use stifle: The students stifled a laugh when their lecturer hurt herself when she fell off a chair. This… Continue reading Word to the Wise – Stifle
English with a Smile 