Trivia of the Week: Butterscotch

Butterscotch is a sweet flavor. Real butterscotch is made of brown sugar and butter, like toffee but not boiled as long. Butterscotch-flavored sweets don’t always contain real butterscotch, though. It is common as an ice cream topping or a flavor for hard candies or...

Idiom of the Week: Rock the Boat

Ted: You all want green peppers on your pizza right? We’ll have two large pizzas with green peppers. Steve: I hate green peppers! Fred: Don’t rock the boat, Steve! Everyone else loves them. Rocking the boat means making trouble for the group. If one person in a boat...

Word of the Week: Splurge

“I splurged on this Blu-ray box set of my favorite TV show.” To splurge is to spend a lot of money on something extravagant. Sometimes we want to buy something nice even though it is pretty expensive. It’s okay to treat ourselves to something now and then....

Phrase of the Week: Make Someone Smile

“I love to make my friends smile.” Often we use the word “make” to mean “to force someone or something to do something”, but this is not always what it means. It’s good to make someone smile, but you shouldn’t force them! “Make” means that the smile would not have...

Flyering

I love doing flyers. It was hot and I was up early today – I slept on the sofa at school. Then I met the team and we handed out over 1,500 flyers. Good job! The reason I love it is because we can make it fun. If we smile at people and they react, smile back and...