This quiz is a perfect way to build vocabulary about snow, ice, and all things cold !
You’ll be surprised by some of the answers…. enjoy, and wrap up warm 🙂
Winter Sports Quiz
Everyone is talking about Bucket Lists ! But just what is a Bucket List ?
What should be top of your Bucket List? Quite simply it’s a wish list of things you would like to do ! These “things” can involve travel, culture, sport and even personal development. In fact anything that you dream of doing !
The standard internet Bucket List usually contains 100 activities…… that’s mind boggling ! So try this quiz which will guide you in the right direction to make a list best suited to your personality, and also give you an opportunity to learn some new vocabulary along the way…..but, hey, isn’t that already on your Bucket List ? 🙂
SPEAKING: As a language learner these expressions could be useful:
I’ve already done that ….. I did it 3 years ago.
I could never do that….I would be afraid, I would be bored.
That sounds fascinating, exciting, amazing, wonderful, terrifying, boring, mundane.
LISTENING: Don’t forget to practice your listening skills too.
Click here to listen to Chris and Sue discussing their Buckets List.
Click here to hear what Etienne has to say about his Bucket List.
Click here here to hear what Henri, a new English learner, dreams of doing and see how Chris helps him to express his ideas.
But first, start here with the quiz.
What should be on your bucket list? Are you sporty, cultural, an adrenalin addict, a romantic, a fun person, a
traveller or do you prefer to stay in your comfort zone? This quiz may inspire you start ticking off items on your own personal
Bucket List. Have fun !!!
10 English proverbs you need to know
Test your knowledge of sporting idioms.
Welcome to your Test your knowledge of sporting idioms.
Sport is a huge part of British and all Anglo-Saxon culture and it is naturally reflected in the way we speak. We use expressions from boxing, horse racing, football, cricket and even card games to give our language more character and make it more interesting.
As a learner of English it's important to learn some idioms to be able to fit in more easily with the Anglo-Saxon culture.
Just in case you're wondering what an idiom is, take a look at this:
An idiom is a phrase or an expression that has a figurative, or sometimes literal, meaning. So you will see that these sporting idioms are based on real sports situations but the meaning has been transferred to non-sporting events, situations or feelings. While there are thousands of idioms, occurring frequently in all languages it is estimated that there are at least twenty-five thousand idiomatic expressions in the English language !
So "don't let the side down", "give it your best shot", try this quiz of just 18 questions to see just how useful it is to learn idioms. It could catapult your English into "a whole new ball game" !!!
Stand up comedian Imran Yusuf takes a comical look at the ways that British pronunciation differs from American pronunciation during a show at The Comedy Store, using his very own British Citizenship test.
Imran puts a young Oscar through his own novel British Citizenship Test and tells us about his multicultural upbringing in Hackney Downs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx8ukR1iSl8
Imran Yusuf was born in Mombasa, Kenya, and initially grew up in Hackney, East London, before moving to Harrow, North-West London. Both his parents and two older brothers became refugees of the economic war following the expulsion of Asians from Uganda by Idi Amin in 1972. Yusuf also attended school in the USA from 1992 to 1993 and attended William Allen III Middle School in Moorestown, New Jersey.
Imran Yusuf initially performed two open spots in 2000 at a comedy show hosted by comedian Jeff Mirza, but then did not choose to pursue stand-up comedy in until the summer of 2003 while on sabbatical from his career in the video games industry. He was the first winner of the “You Must Be Joking” stand-up competition at Newbury Comedy Festival in 2004.
In 2010, he finally made his impact at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2010 with his first solo show An Audience with Imran Yusuf receiving five-star reviews and a nomination from the Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Awards for Best Newcomer.
Yusuf was the first performer in a free show to have received a nomination for the award.
Later that summer, Yusuf appeared on Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow. October and November saw Imran begin crafting his 2011 Edinburgh show with special invitation gigs, plus releasing official confirmation of his 43 date UK tour An Audience with Imran Yusuf starting in February 2011 at London’s Soho Theatre.
On radio, Boxing Day 2010 saw Imran’s debut on BBC Radio 7’s The Now Show for a satirical look at current affairs and news. The special 45-minute show used Radio 4’s format for an extended show with Imran and guests.
A follow-up appearance on BBC Radio 4’s prestigious The News Quiz came soon after in February 2011, along with his television debut on BBC Two’s How TV Ruined Your Life with Charlie Brooker, offering an opportunity to see Imran in sketch-show action in the episode “Aspiration”. Further to this, between March and April Imran made a second appearance on The Now Show and a debut special guest slot on Arthur Smith’s Balham Bash (BBC Radio 4 Extra).
Summer 2011 soon saw more great news and opportunities coming for Imran when Zai Bennett, controller at BBC Three, green-lit The Imran Yusuf Show for a broadcast pilot in anticipation of a series for the show.
Interest from BBC America also saw Imran record a performance for Funny As Hell, a stand-up series presenting the best of British comedy in the United States.
Soon came Edinburgh Fringe 2011 where Imran took his all new show Bring The Thunder to the festival.
Continuing with the previous year’s trend of recording TV slots during the festival; Imran recorded a section of his show for Edinburgh Comedy Fest Live 2011 and BBC Comedy Presents: Free@TheFringe.
If the bulk of your thoughts come in the form images or shapes, then you might be a visual thinker.
There are many types of ways people process their thought patterns such as kinesthetic, thinking through physical movements, and aural which is thinking through hearing and rhythmic patterns.
Visual thinking, which is recognized as the most common form of thinking, is when you think through pictures and images. We don’t always remember the things we hear like aural thinkers, but the things we see.
If you’ve questioned your thinking skills, here are some indications you depend more on visuals than anything else