You all love food no matter what language you speak but it is difficult to understand English cooking books or blogs if you don’t know some English cooking related words. Cu toții iubiți mâncarea indiferent de limb ape care o vorbiți dar este dificil să înțelegeți cărți de gătit sau bloguri în engleza, dacă nu știți câteva cuvinte legate de gătit. That is why I thought I could give you a…
In this lesson we are going to study prepositional phrases with BY. by heart E.g. When I was a student I learned a lot of poems by heart. by far E.g. He is by far the most intelligent person in the room. by accident E.g. She was so absent-minded that she put salt in the tea by accident. by chance E.g. I found this interesting book in your attic by chance.…
Prepositions create a big confusion for students who learn English as a second language. If you want to master the preposition usage you have to pay close attention to speech and written word. My advice is to keep a good dictionary close at hand. Remember that a preposition links nouns, pronouns and phrases to other words in a sentence. A prepositional phrase begins with a preposition and ends with a noun,…
Nothing is better than the coming of Spring. The snow melts, the flowers bloom and it feels good to go outside and feel the sun on your face. It is almost Easter, the time to get the family together for Easter eggs and roasted lamb. In this video I shall present you with some Spring Idioms. So, let’s get started! No spring chicken – to be rather old e.g. She dressed young…
Dragobete is a traditional Romanian holiday celebrated on 24th February, which is considered to be the equivalent of Saint Valentine’s Day. This day also bears the name of Beginning of Spring. It celebrates love and it is also the time when nature wakes back to life. Many Romanians exchange gifts with their partners as a way of showing their affection for each other in this day. One tradition associated with superstition…
Halloween is almost here! I love this holiday! Halloween makes me remember my childhood when I used to carve pumpkins and put candles inside them. Afterwards I lit the candles and walked with my friends on the street in front of my grandmother’s house in the evening until it got dark and I had to get back home. It was a lot of fun. Halloween is about wearing funny…
Hello again! In this lesson I am going to present you a few idioms connected to parts of the body. So let’s get started! all fingers and thumbs – clumsy E.g. I am all fingers and thumbs whenever I wash the dishes. I always break something. to pull someone’s leg- to joke around with someone, to try to fool someone E.g. John told his little sister that there was…
Do you find it difficult to pick up new phrasal verbs? I bet that most of you are sometimes pretty much confused when you use them. Well, cheer up because in this post I am going to present you a few phrasal verbs with the particle “up”. pick up to lift something or someone from a surface E.g. James was not afraid of spiders so he picked it up and looked…
a dark horse a person who does not tell other people about their ideas or skills and who surprises people by doing something they did not expect E.g. He is a dark horse. I didn’t know he had composed so many songs. a person who wins a race or a competition though no one expected them to win E.g. Everybody thought that George would win the elections but the independent candidate…
The verb “to do” is irregular. That means its past tense and past participle are not formed by adding “ed” at the end. They have a specific form: did for past simple and done for past participle. E.g. She did her best to persuade him. E.g. He did his best to win the match but he lost nevertheless. E.g. She has never done any volunteer work. To do is an…
Bună, numele meu este Cerasela Iuliana Pienoiu şi sunt profesoară calificată de limba engleză. Am absolvit Facultatea de Limbi şi Literaturi Străine în anul 2003 şi susţin cursuri de limba engleză (meditatii engleza online pe SKYPE).