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Trivia of the Week: Star Fruit
Star fruit is also called “carambola”. It is called “star fruit” because it forms the shape of a star when sliced. Star fruit is a healthy snack, but should be avoided by people with weak kidneys. Have you ever eaten star fruit? How do you prepare it?...
Idiom of the Week: Fight fire with fire!
(Some children are playing a game of Capture the Flag.) Billy: Oh no! Sarah has a water gun! Erica: We’ll have to fight fire with fire. Get the hose! Fighting fire with fire means using the same weapon or technique that your enemy is using. In the example above, fire...
Word of the Week: Opposite (反対語)
Freddy: Dad, what’s the opposite of “tiny”? Dad: Hmm, how about “huge”? Freddy: What about “love”? Dad: Well, some say “hate”, but others say “apathy”. The opposite of a word is another word that is as different from it as possible on some scale (that is, “elephant”...
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Phrase of the Week: Pull it off
Sports commentator: No one thought they could beat the Bobcats, but they pulled it off! They won! Pulling something off means achieving something difficult, like a skateboard trick or a jewel heist. Of course, it can also just mean pulling something off of something...
TOEIC Practice Question of the Week
I chose this chair because it is very comfort. Find the mistake: A. chose B. this chair C. because it D. very comfort “Comfort” is a noun. We could say the chair provides a lot of comfort, but a chair cannot be comfort. Here we need an adjective: “comfortable”. D is...
Trivia of the Week: Lightning Safety
During an electrical storm, it is safest to be indoors or inside a car. In a car, you are safe because you are surrounded by metal. If the car is struck by lightning, the metal will lead the electricity into the ground. Indoors, you should never talk on a phone with a...
Idiom of the Week: He got axed!
“Where’s Bob? He’s usually the first one here.” “You won’t be seeing him around here anymore. He got axed!” “Really? What happened?” “The boss found out he was brewing his own beer in the storage room.” To be axed is to be fired from a job. It compares being fired to...
Word of the Week: Eyesore
Ellen: Did you see the new building down the road? It’s finally finished. Opal: Yeah! But what an eyesore! Ellen: I know! It’s a real monstrosity. An eyesore is something really ugly. If your neighbor puts up a big ugly decoration in his yard, you might complain that...
Picture of the Week: Northumberland wild cattle
Northumberland has lots of wildlife. It is a great place for salmon and trout fishing, has lots of deer, otters, puffins, red squirrels and wild badgers. The most famous wild animals are the Chillingham cattle. This is the last herd of wild cattle now living free in...
