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Picture of the Week: Apple
A traditional Halloween game is played with apples. Players try to fish apples out of a tub of water using only their faces. This is called “bobbing for apples”. In another variation of the game, apples are tied to strings, and players must catch them with their...
Phrase of the Week: You’re a Scaredy-Cat!
Dad: “I thought the vampire was really scary!” Daughter: “Daddy, you’re a scaredy-cat.” Have you ever seen a cat that was startled jump in the air and fluff up its fur? Sometimes cats can be scared of harmless things. Perhaps that’s why we call people who are often...
TOEIC Practice Question of the Week
Please rewrite this paragraph. Some of the sentences are not incomplete. Where is the mistake? A. Please rewrite B. this paragraph C. Some of the sentences D. are not incomplete 「この段落を書き直してください。いくつかの文章が不完全です。」 間違いはどこでしょうか？...
Trivia of the Week: TPing
On Halloween, we say “trick or treat”. This means that if we don’t get a treat, we will play a trick! One traditional trick is to TP someone’s house or car. “TP” stands for “toilet paper”! Mischievous children throw rolls of toilet paper over the house so that the...
Idiom of the Week: Not In So Many Words
“Did your mother say you could go out today? I thought you had a lot of homework.” “Well, not in so many words, but she implied it!” When we talk about what someone said, we often rephrase it using different words. We especially like to shorten things so we don’t have...
Word of the Week: Fallen Leaves
“Please rake all the leaves in the yard into a pile.” In autumn, leaves fall off the trees and pile up all over the ground. If someone talks about raking up leaves, you know they mean the fallen leaves. If they say the leaves are pretty, they probably mean the leaves...
Phrase of the Week: It Wasn’t That Scary
Mom: “That haunted house sure was scary! Are you okay? Not too scared?” Daughter: “It wasn’t that scary! They weren’t real ghosts!” If something was less scary than we expected, or not as scary as someone said it would be, we say it wasn’t “that scary”. You can use...
TOEIC Practice Question of the Week
It appears we gave you the wrong flyers. We apologize for the _____. Fill in the blank. A. mix-up B. switch C. mismatch D. wrong Dは形容詞ですが他はみな似た意味ですね。「The flyers were...
Trivia of the Week: Zombies
Zombies are dead bodies that come back to life. Zombies are different depending on which scary story they appear in. Many zombies move slowly. They can lose arm and legs and not be affected. They chase people to eat their brains. If a zombie bites you, you become a...
Idiom of the Week: Waltz Off
“You can’t just waltz into the demon king’s castle! You have to level up first!” A waltz is a kind of dance, but we say “waltz off” or “waltz into (somewhere)” to mean someone walks in a care-free way. It is often used when the speaker thinks the waltzer should take...
