執筆者 Modern English | 2014年02月06日 | Trivia
The most iconic Valentine’s Day gift is a heart-shaped box of fancy chocolates. This tradition goes back to the 1840s. The pretty boxes could be used to store love letters or a lock of your lover’s hair. Richard Cadbury is thought to have invented this style of box....
執筆者 Modern English | 2014年01月30日 | Trivia
What’s your blood type? Human red blood cells can have two different antigens, A or B. If you have only one, your blood type is A or B. If you have both, it’s AB. And if you have neither, it’s type O. Other animals, such as dogs, have more different blood types....
執筆者 Modern English | 2014年01月23日 | Trivia
The Hokey Pokey is a silly dance. To do this dance, just make a circle with your friends and follow the instructions: You put your right hand in You put your right hand out You put your right hand in And you shake it all about You do the Hokey Pokey and you turn...
執筆者 Modern English | 2014年01月16日 | Trivia
Janus is the Roman god of beginnings and transitions, including doors, passages, endings and time. January, the beginning of the year, is named after him. He controlled the beginning and ending of war as well....
執筆者 Modern English | 2014年01月09日 | Trivia
The English language has many words with the same or similar meanings. But sometimes when writing, we can’t think of a different word so we use the same one over and over. This is not considered good writing. In this situation, we can use a thesaurus. It is a book...
執筆者 Modern English | 2013年12月19日 | Trivia
One traditional Christmas activity is getting the Christmas lights out of a box in the attic and untangling them. Sometimes one light is loose or broken, and none of the lights will light up until it is found and fixed!...
