執筆者 Modern English | 2013年08月22日 | Trivia
What do you do when you lose a tooth? Many English-speaking children put the tooth under their pillow at night. During the night, the Tooth Fairy comes and takes the tooth away. The Tooth Fairy leaves a little money in exchange for the tooth....
執筆者 Modern English | 2013年08月08日 | Trivia
The zucchini is a long green vegetable. It looks like a cucumber, but it is actually a kind of squash. Unlike a cucumber, it is not usually eaten raw. Zucchinis can grow very long, but they are picked when they are small and the seeds are still soft....
執筆者 Modern English | 2013年08月01日 | Trivia
An ice cream sandwich is ice cream sandwiched between two cookies or other sweet cakes. Different countries have different types of ice cream sandwiches, but the standard American sandwich is vanilla ice cream between rectangular chocolate wafers. Round chocolate-chip...
執筆者 Modern English | 2013年07月25日 | Trivia
“The Pied Piper” is a fairy tale about a man who saved a town from rats. The town was overrun with rats, so they asked for the piper’s help. He played his flute and the rats followed him out of the town. Then he asked for the money the town had agreed to give him, but...
執筆者 Modern English | 2013年07月18日 | Trivia
Have you tried “bubble tea”? The bubbles are not really bubbles, but round balls of tapioca. Tapioca comes from the cassava root, which is originally from Brazil. In the U.S. tapioca is usually made into a milky pudding, but recently bubble tea has become popular....
