執筆者 Modern English | 2012年10月25日 | Trivia
On Halloween, children dress in costumes and collect candy from their neighbors. One popular costume choice is a witch. A traditional Halloween witch wears a pointy hat and ragged black clothes. She has green skin and a big ugly warty nose. She flies on a broomstick...
執筆者 Modern English | 2012年10月24日 | Idioms
Ken: You’ll never guess who I saw at the grocery store. Ted: Who? Ken: My old roommate from college! Ted: But didn’t you go to college in California? Ken: Yeah! Small world, huh? We say the world is small because we keep meeting the same people by coincidence. What...
執筆者 Modern English | 2012年10月23日 | Words
Maurine: Oh no, I forgot my wallet. Could you lend me three dollars for some coffee? Catherine: I would, but I’m completely broke! Sorry! When you are broke, you have no money at all. If you knock a vase off of a table and it breaks, it is not broke; it is broken....
執筆者 Modern English | 2012年10月22日 | Pictures
What is orange and round and sweet, and eaten in the fall? Persimmons are well-known in Japan, but actually they can be grown in many other places as well, such as the U.S., Europe, and Brazil. America also has its own species of persimmon, and there are other...
執筆者 Modern English | 2012年10月20日 | Phrases
Newscaster A: In a Dickensian twist, the orphan child turned out to be a long lost princess and is now living in the lap of luxury. Newscaster B: She’s really gone from rags to riches. A “rags to riches” story tells about someone who starts out very poor and ends up...
