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A big football match: The Community Shield

3rd August 2015 by Andrew 9 Comments

In this article, you will see some words in blue. I explain the meaning of those words at the end of this article, in the vocabulary section. Yesterday, in London, England, there was a very important football match. The name of the match is the Community Shield. The Community Shield is an annual football match which is played the week before the start of the new English … [Read more...]

“can afford something” | English vocabulary

26th July 2015 by Andrew 29 Comments

Money

If I can afford something, then I have enough money to buy it. The form is: subject + "can afford" + noun For example: If a Ferrari costs £100,000 (one hundred thousand pounds), and I have £150,000 (one hundred and fifty thousand pounds), then I can afford a Ferrari. Negative If I do not have enough money to buy something, then we use the negative. For … [Read more...]

Cars and driving in England and Great Britain

25th July 2015 by Andrew 5 Comments

Driving on the left The biggest shock for foreigners driving in England or Britain is driving on the left side of the road. Everything is reversed when compared to driving on the right side of the road. When you want to overtake, you overtake by the right, when you go around a roundabout, you go around in a clockwise direction. You must take extra care when you want to turn … [Read more...]

The game of cricket

24th July 2015 by Andrew 2 Comments

The game of cricket originates from England. Nobody knows the exact date of when cricket was first played but there is evidence of the game being played in the year 1550 (over 450 years ago!) In the early years, the game was only played in England but the game then also became popular in many of the British colonies. Today, big international matches (called test matches) are … [Read more...]

In, on and at | Prepositions of place

24th July 2015 by Andrew 30 Comments

A preposition of place is a word which helps to describe where something or somebody is. A preposition of place describes the location of something.There are many prepositions of place in the English language and each of them has several uses. In this lesson, we will study 3 prepositions of place: atinon at Specific point or place We can use "at" to describe a … [Read more...]

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