Physical Appearance Adjectives – The Bald and the Beautiful
Everyone knows about the royal wedding this Friday and I’m sure everyone is tired of hearing about it already. However, the main topic of conversation in England is not about…
Received Pronunciation – Speak Posh like the Queen
If you read my blog on relative clauses last week, you will have seen the fantastic video of a 1950s BBC newsreader speaking with a ‘Received Pronunciation’ (RP) accent. This is…
Visit to the Museum of London, an English Afternoon Tea and the usual Pub Drinks
Easter is here! Chocolate Breakfast - Lunch & Dinner! This week I took a little group of around ten to our local pub, and we had our usual free drink…
Weather vocabulary; Sun is shining – London in April!
Everywhere you look now there are people wearing sunglasses, walking the streets in t-shirts and shorts and incredibly, smiling. You would be forgiven if you thought this was sunny Spain,…
Relative Clauses on the New London Bus
London is a place where you can eat fish and chips, take a photo by a red telephone box and jump on the back of a bus. London buses! Aaah.…
Superlatives: The largest fundraising event in the world is…
Over the last weekend, what do you think was the biggest sporting event? The FA Cup semi-final between Manchester City and Manchester United? The China F1 Grand Prix? The answer,…
Idioms for Success
While writing my blog on happiness last week, I read a lot of articles about being positive and looking on the bright side of life. This was very useful for…
SGI Easter Event: The Bunny Treasure Hunt
Last week, the Easter Bunny was out with friends in various London Pubs. He was having so much fun with the other bunnies that he lost all his Easter Chocolates Eggs,…
A Visit to the Pub & a Play by Agatha Christie
I hope you had a good week wherever you are! Here it was quite eventful! We had lots of students this week, and a special event on Thursday night, which…
Linking words: Amazingly, he shoots, he scores… he swears?!
Famous Wayne Rooney is probably the second most famous footballer in the UK after David Beckham. Over in East London last week, he became a bit more famous for something…