Feelings, Emotions and Mood

How do you feel about the way you express your feelings in English?



Willing to learn some more adjectives and expressions about feelings and emotions. This is your post to expand your vocabulary and what's more: you'll become more self-confident with your English emotions. 

What is the Reported Speech for?

When do we use passive structures?

St. Patrick's Day

"Saint Patrick's Day is held on March, 17th.  It's a public holiday in the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, and the British Overseas Territory of Montserrat. It is also widely celebrated by the Irish diaspora around the world, especially in Great Britain,Canada, the United States, Argentina, Australia, and New Zealand. 

Saint Patrick's Day is celebrated in more countries than any other national festival. Modern celebrations have been greatly influenced by those of the Irish diaspora, particularly those that developed in North America. In recent years, there has been criticism of Saint Patrick's Day celebrations for having become too commercialized and for fostering negative stereotypes of the Irish". 

For more reading, please click on here.

Question Tags for agreement or confirmation.

Basically, Question Tags are used when asking for agreement and confirmation, but they can also be found in common situations when we need to check whether something is true or not. Sometimes we just need to check information, so we use Question tags for that too.

Notice that Question Tags can also be used to invite people politely to do things, or even to refer to nothing or everything.

Adverts, Commercials and Creativity

http://morethaneoi.blogspot.com.es/2011/12/being-creative.html

"Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence"

"Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.” , written by George F. Will 






And what about girls and sports?


Activyst: Help Girls Play Sports from activyst on Vimeo.

School & Education

What's the weather like today?

As stated by the newspaper: The Guardian,
"2015 smashed the record for hottest year since reporting began in 1850, according to the first full-year figures from the world’s three principal temperature estimates".

To read the whole article, please click on here. 

So, Climate Change is real and Natural Disasters are more likely to happen than before. However, please do not panic so quickly, 'cos this is just an ESL blog. Here we only learn about language, culture and sometimes what's on the News. Now let's go into a greater depth about Weather, Climate Change, Natural Disasters and Human Risks.

More or less

More or less is one of the most common expressions for Spanish people speaking in English, however, do we have other different ways of expressing Approximation? Of course, we have. In conversation, we may need to talk about figures and numbers or even something which is only approximate, so for that reason, we'd better have a look at the following approximating expressions and sentences:

This book cost me four pounds something.
I took around two weeks or something like that.
There were just under / over / roughly / very nearly / upwards of / somewhere in the region of / some two thousand people there.
I've been here for twenty odd years. (odd= approximately, colloquial; Spanish: y tantas, -os; y pico)
I've been working as an accountant for something like five years now.
About; around.
Sort of, kind of, -ish...

To conclude, I hope you like this post and thus, you satisfy some of your language teaching expectations about Approximation and for the next time you need to express yourself broadly or generally speaking, you'll have, at least, some expressions to use and incorporate into your everyday language.

Source: Paraphrased from Straightforward. Advanced Student's Book by Roy Norris