Here are three idioms to talk about when something is scary. It’s scary! Oh no! Help! It’s scary. Maybe you’re watching a scary movie, or something happened that made you scared. The first one: people say, “It makes my skin crawl.” My skin crawl, my skin. My skin crawl. Crawl: C-R-A-W-L. The word ‘crawl’ just [...]
Here are a couple of idioms and a phrasal verb about how to say when two people are understanding each other, or not. Sometimes people talk together and they understand each other and everything’s great. Sometimes people talk together and they just don’t… they just don’t get it. They just don’t understand each other. They [...]
Here are three idioms to talk about when something is not important. Okay? To say, “Don’t worry about it; it’s not important.” The first one is a saying; it’s a saying where people say, “Don’t cry over spilt milk.” It’s sort of a “wise saying”, sort of an idiom: don’t cry over spilt milk. It’s [...]
Some English idioms to talk about stopping fighting or arguing, or when a fight or argument is finished: bury the hatchet; let bygones be bygones; water under the bridge; put it behind us; to make up.
Here are three idioms to talk about when a child is the same as the parents. Okay? You’re saying the son or the daughter is same as the mother or the father. First one is, “the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree”. Do you get it? “The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.” [...]
Hi. I’m English Teacher Fred and this is a lesson about informal greetings in English. A greeting is just saying, “Hi.” Just saying, “Hello, let’s talk. Let’s have a conversation.” And informal means common, usual, everyday. Just the normal way to talk to..
Most students of English have heard of VOA Special English, the radio program for learning English. I recently discovered that there is also a VOA Learning English Youtube Channel, which is excellent because you can read the article while you listen to it and…
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