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For Students: Confusing words for Russian & Ukrainian speakers round 2
Back again for another bout of rounds between two words that can often be misused or misunderstood by Russian and Ukrainian speakers when...
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Luke
- Mar 24, 2020
- 4 min
For Students: Confusing words for Russian & Ukrainian speakers
I imagine most of you, like me are going crazy stuck indoors in these difficult times trying to entertain yourself in any possible way...
Luke
- Feb 24, 2020
- 4 min
For Students: Fame
Fame or fortune which one would you choose? Are you think-skinned enough to handle the price of fame?
Luke
- Feb 2, 2020
- 4 min
For Students: Politics Vocabulary
4 years after the United Kingdom held a referendum on to leave the EU or not, 4 years of hearing the word Brexit, 4 years of constant...
Luke
- Dec 31, 2019
- 5 min
For Students: Mistakes & Strange Things
The last post of the year. Things have been rather busy over the last few months which means I haven’t had the chance to write anything...
Luke
- Sep 27, 2019
- 2 min
For Students: Alternatives to Like
Like. I'm certain you like to use like a lot, and like is OK, but we have alternatives to like which we can use when we talk about our...
Luke
- Aug 27, 2019
- 3 min
For Students: Pictures
What would a good caption be for the last picture you took? Is it good enough to frame? If you look really closely, has anybody...
Luke
- Jul 14, 2019
- 4 min
For Students: English from England..
Hello from England. I'm Home from my home away from home for the summer before heading back to Lviv and to work in August. I always go...
Luke
- Feb 21, 2019
- 3 min
For Students: Animal Idioms
Are you a cat or dog person? Personally I prefer cats, they are independent, so it doesn't take too much effort to look after them, and...
Luke
- Jan 29, 2019
- 6 min
For Students: School & Education
They say your school years are the best years of your life. I'm sure you don't have to think about it too much to remember some good...
Luke
- Nov 13, 2018
- 6 min
For Students: Health & Fitness
Can you say you are fit? Would you be out of breath running to catch the bus? Could you do 100 sit ups / pull ups / press ups ? If you...
Luke
- Oct 30, 2018
- 6 min
For Students: Fashion & Shopping
It was Lviv fashion week last week which meant the designers were in town to show off their collections. Models were strutting down the...
Luke
- Oct 23, 2018
- 5 min
For Students: Telephoning
Over the last couple of weeks I have received a handful of phone calls, all of them not for me. How? - I don't know – Why? - I don't...
Luke
- Oct 16, 2018
- 6 min
For Students: Talking about crime
Have you ever broken the law? I bet you have! I don't mean by committing a serious crime, like putting on a balaclava and robbing a bank...
Luke
- Oct 2, 2018
- 2 min
For Students: Time Expressions
How often do you use yesterday, tomorrow, next week, or simply just say the name of the day when talking about your plans or something...
Luke
- Sep 25, 2018
- 5 min
For Students: Talking about cities
Are you from a town, city, or village? How do you define them? I read somewhere that if the place has 100,000 people or more then it is a...
Luke
- Sep 18, 2018
- 4 min
For Students: Reporting Verbs
Whenever we report what someone said like 'I LOVE YOU!' we can give more information how, and what was said by using different types of...
Luke
- Sep 11, 2018
- 4 min
For Students: Sports and Games
Are you a fan* of sports ? Are you more of a fan* of games ? At some point in our lives we have all played games, from when we were...
Luke
- Sep 2, 2018
- 3 min
For Students: Extreme adjectives
OK, what's the missing word? Have a look at the four sentences below from Mike's weekend to Liverpool I went to Liverpool and it poured...
Luke
- Apr 24, 2018
- 3 min
For Students: Money
I recently left Lviv for the academic year, and unfortunately I was fined on my way out because I had overstayed my legal time allowed in...