Remember, Remember 11th September
This emotive event means that there will be lots of adjectives describing 'feelings' in the article. There is a glossary below to help you with definitions for each adjective. As…
Idioms: Starting a new job
Look out for some common idioms in the article. Don't worry if they are difficult to understand because there is an 'Idioms glossary' below giving you an explanation for them…
Pub, Wet Walk, Theatre and Tea! Welcome to London!
We've had some very British weather this week, and it really feels like September now! But we've also had some great stuff of the social, and some very British things…
Prefixes: Overcharging on Pre-pay Oyster cards Revised!
Prefixes are common in the English language, but thanks to London Transport, one word with a prefix has now been changed to help us Londoners (and tourists) financially – overcharging!…
Music would have been different with Freddie, wouldn’t it?
Look out for usage of would + have + past participle in the text and an explanation of unreal situations afterwards. There is also a glossary below to help you…
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY: OFFICIALLY No# 1
Cambridge University has come top of an international league table of the world’s best universities. For the second year running, it beat Harvard and MIT in the USA into second…
Recruiting Internship
SGI is looking for a new Intern from the beginning of 12 September 2011. If you have European nationality, and you are interested in developing your skills in customer service…
Imperative: Do it before you’re 30!
Imperative usage is explained below and there is also a glossary for some difficult words/expressions A Twitter record was broken (with 8,868 related tweets per second) when Beyonce announced that…
Bank Holiday Monday, 2000 Years of History, A Little Bit of Shakespeare and A Little Modern Art
Now the school is really much calmer. On Monday, SGI was open for the morning, but lessons finished at 1.30pm, and teachers and students alike went to do their own…
Film Vocabulary – Top 3 Movies EVER!!!
Look out for some useful film vocabulary throughout the blog I’m a bit of a film buff and like to think that I have good taste in that department (but…