Hey you, tell you all what, I appeared on the BBC Learning English Staff Blog...oh oh...don't get misunderstood...I am not working as a staff there...haha, I've just posted a comment on a blog last night...and this morning when I checked, it's there!
Find me at the last last comment at the end of the page...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/communicate/blog/staff/0000012495.shtml#comments
Have a nice day friends!
Venus
Alright, yes, again, English idioms from The Teacher of BBC.
This time is the bean idiom.
Bean...as in Mr Bean...green bean...red bean...coffee bean...that bean, haha!
OKay, here comes:
1) to be full of beans - to be full of energy
2) I haven't got a bean - no money at all
3) spill the beans - to tell secret
Exercise time again, haha:
Alright. I am still full of beans now, although I did some strenous exercise after I come back from work. This afternoon I was talking to one of my close colleagues, I told her to just spill the beans. She said, she wanted to borrow some money from me, she hasn't got a bean...oh my...I'll think about it...
Yo~have you already learned from the beans? Haha~
Venus
The Phrase Finder is a website that provides origins and meanings of the commonly used English phrases, sayings and idioms.
Although a part (Phrases Thesaurus) of the website requires a log-in (which I am not very sure if it actually charges a fee), the other part of the website (Meanings and Origins of phrases, sayings and idioms) is for free access. And there's one section on the english phrases and sayings coined by Shakespeare - very informative isn't it?
I personally find this useful. :)
Venus
I came across this FreeRice website, first finding its fun over clicking on the correct definitions of the various english vocabs, then realising that by clicking all these, some free rice are given to some people who need them through the UN.
I was having fun playing with the vocabs and at some point of time I stopped to find out if this website is for true---does it really do what it advocates?
And wikipedia writes so:
FreeRice is a charity website where users play a vocabulary game in order to raise money to fight world hunger. FreeRice began on October 7, 2007. It was created by John Breen, a computer programmer from Bloomington, Indiana who also created thehungersite.com therainforestsite.com and Poverty.com. Breen invented the site, and typed in all 10,000 definitions, after observing his son study for the SAT.
In exchange for advertisements on the website, various sponsors donate the money necessary to pay for the rice and other costs to run FreeRice. The donations are distributed by the United Nations' World Food Programme (WFP). To date, the site's creator has given over $100,000 to the WFP. The WFP now encourages people to visit FreeRice.com.
Well...come along! Try the website and do charity while learning---what a good combination isn't it!
Venus
I'm not sure how many of you have watched this British sitcom before, 'Mind Your Language'. But it was certainly one of my favourites in the 1980s...I couldn't remember the exact age when I enjoyed watching it with my cousins...The only thing I could remember is that we really did enjoy it very much~ (and that's the reason why I've never forgotten it after all these years..)
In case you don't know, the sitcom sets on an adult class in London, on learning english as a foreign language. The main character of the show is of course the teacher, British-english speaking Mr Brown (this is the very name I remember the most in the show). Creating all the funny conversations in the show is the whole class of students from different countries, speaking different mother tongues.
When I was younger I understood less English, but even so, we were already enjoying it very much~
If you by chance are also an avid lover of the show like me, you can find the you-tubes of the show put up by a very thoughtful person (whom I don't know, haha). Go to http://www.you-tube.com/ and look for the member "shaiji". In his/her profile, you'll find a whole series of Mind Your Language, even from the very beginning---1st lesson~!
Watching the show again, reminds me of really a whole lot of childhood memories~
Venus
ps: From wiki I realised that Barry Evans (who starred Mr. Brown) has passed away a few years back in the late 1990s. A tribute to him here.
Again, these are from the BBC English 'The Teacher' Show.
This time round I share some idioms of fruits that I learnt.
1) To go bananas - to behave in a crazy way
2) It's a case of sour grapes - when someone is jealous of the other person and pretend not to be so
3) A second bite of the cherry - to have a second chance of doing something after failing the first time
Exercise from Venus:
Mars is going bananas because I (not he) just won a big lottery. It's just a case of sour grapes when he said I was lucky to win because I'm with him, haha...Maybe he should give himself a second bite of the cherry and this time round he might be the lucky one (because he's with me now...)
Venus
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I hereby share 3 idioms related to Pie, which I learnt from BBC English Learning site (a very nice language learning website Mars and I both fancy...interactive learning, oppurtunity learning, you can find them all there...).
1) It's as easy as pie (something is very easy)
2) Pie-eyed (drunk)
3) To have a finger in many pies (to be involved in lots of different activities)
These 3 idioms are the latest lesson from The Teacher. If you frequent BBC Learning English, you'll know him (The Teacher), a very funny guy who teaches english in a humourous way. We both like him, his funny slang and his extremely entertaining facial and body expressions. LOL~
Enjoy learning from a pie~ Go to the video site here--> The Teacher, Pie.
Venus
I found this map on the net, any idea what it means?
Well, here comes this brand new storey in our blog. What we are going to post in this floor, will be some notes we find interesting in our process of on-going English learning.
I came across a quote by Einstein on the web, which I wholeheartedly agree with. He said,
"Learning is not a product of schooling but the lifelong attempt to acquire it."
Venus
ps: oh ya, the map...no idea?
