Hill Wood Talen English Arnhem/Huissen

03/05/2016

While it is a bit of an exaggeration, students clearly feel that classroom-based speaking practice does not prepare them for the real world.

07/12/2015

Compare your reading of the poem with this video! Did you get 90% right?

This is different. Even a native English speaker has to find this interesting. English must be a very old language, because how else could one explain the ra...

07/12/2015

Now, who said English was simple?

Are you up for the challenge?

12/06/2015

Bread, anyone?

Bread and butter

If something is your ‘bread and butter’ it is the way you make the money you need to live.
‘That online business is his bread and butter.’

A ‘breadwinner’ is the person who earns the salary in a family.
‘She is the only breadwinner in the house so she needs a good night’s sleep.’

‘Bread and water’ is the most minimal meal possible, and often used to describe a punishment or hardship.
‘If he gets in trouble again, it will be bread and water for a week.

Photo by waldopepper (Flickr:CC)

21/04/2015

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Neil

01/12/2014

And the countdown for Christmas has started!!

23/11/2014

Telephone language

Learn how to make telephone calls in the English language.

13/11/2014

English is a funny language. Do you agree?