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TOEIC Practice Question of the Week
"The project can't succeed if we don't _______ sufficient resources to it." Fill in the blank. A. allocate B. locate C. take D. pursue 「十分な資源を配分しないとプロジェクトが成功するはずがない。」...
Idiom of the Week: Train of Thought
"I had almost solved the problem when the doorbell rang and I lost my train of thought." When thinking, one thought leads to another. The thoughts are connected like cars on a train. Saying you lost your train of thought is perfectly normal. If you say your train of...
Word of the Week: Eerie
"If you want to keep that weird statue, you have to put it in your room. It's eerie and I don't like having it in the living room." "As they approached the abandoned house, the wind whistled eerily through the trees." Something that is eerie is a little bit scary. It...
Picture of the Week: Ski Lift
The ski lift carries people up the mountain so that they can ski back down. Some say it's difficult to get off the ski lift at the top! Have you ever gone skiing? How did you find it?...
Phrase of the Week: Find Out
"Did you find out if you passed the exam yet?" To find out something is to learn or come to know it. We often use "find out" when we actively seek out information: "Go and find out if the mail has come." But it can also be more passive: "I just found out that there's...
TOEIC Practice Question of the Week
"Who is on charge of reserving the hotel for the conference?" Find the mistake: A. Who is B. on charge C. of reserving D. for the conference 「協議会のホテルの予約担当は誰だ？」 ホテルで集まるほど大規模なミーティングです。誰も部屋の予約を間違えないように全部まとめてしたほうがいいかもしれません。これを任された人は「in charge of reservations」と言えます。「In...
It’s a bee! Let’s learn some animal words! ミツバチだ！動物の単語を覚えましょう！
This week's video teaches words for some animals that your child might see in their daily life! 今週の動画では日常生活で見かけるかもしれない動物の名前を教えます！ Classroom Tip This song goes with Happy Valley 1 Unit 8 vocabulary. Do the It’s a Chant and use this in place of the CD and FC. After...
Trivia of the Week: The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
Are you an INFJ? An ESTP? These letters are personality types. You can take a test to find out your own type. The first letter is I for "introvert" or E for "extrovert". The F and T stand for "feeling" and "thinking"—a T places more emphasis on logic and an F on...
Idiom of the Week: The Big Picture
"You have to look at the big picture and not get bogged down with the details." If you step back and look at something as a whole you can understand it better. You can see how the different parts work together. If you focus on the details of one part, you might not...
Word of the Week: Sweet
"I like candy and other sweet foods." "What a sweet child." "Check out my sweet new bike!" The basic meaning of sweet is a taste that most people enjoy, like sugar. When used to describe a person, it doesn't mean "naïve" but rather "kind" and "charming". We can also...
