NEWS & EVENTS
WARNING SHOTS DRIVE AWAY A BRITISH SHIP
Watch the BBC video in the original. Immediately after the clip you can read the text on your screen and listen to the soundtrack once more. Russian forces have fired warning shots at […]
GREAT BRITAIN
NEWS & EVENTS
PRINCE PHILIP, THE HUSBAND OF QUEEN ELIZABETH II, IS DEAD
Prince Philip was known for his gaffes. One of his more famous gaffes was when Prince Philip told British students in China during the 1986 state visit: “If you stay here much longer, you’ll all […]
HISTORY MYSTERIES
QUEEN ELIZABETH HAD A BLACK GREAT-GREAT- GREAT-GREAT GRANDMOTHER?
Bridgerton is a Netflix series. We see the social season in London in 1813. Debutantes are presented to Queen Charlotte. Queen Charlotte was a German princess. She was married to King George III and became the […]
EVENTS & HAPPENINGS
PANIC BUYING AHEAD OF A NEW LOCKDOWN
Britain faces another shutdown from Thursday. Shoppers loaded up trolleys and formed snaking queues outside stores. Panic buyers stock-up ahead of the four-week lockdown. Today they have stripped supermarket shelves bare. Shelves at a store in Devon […]
GRAMMAR STORIES
SUCCESSFUL PUFFIN
At least one Atlantic puffin seems to have had a successful time hunting for fish in Scotland, UK. Source GRAMMAR The puffin seems to have had a successful time. Тупик, похоже, неплохо провёл время. Интересно, […]
NEWS & EVENTS
EITHER RUSSIANS ARE THE DUMBEST IDIOTS ON EARTH, OR …
Russians are dumb. Hopelessly stupid. They are amateurs of the worst kind. Why? Well, for one, their so-called super-duper biowarfare agent “Novichok” seems unable to kill anybody. The Russians must have realized that. This is why, when they tried to […]
NEWS & EVENTS
Prince Harry, Meghan Markle & FINDING FREEDOM
Книга Finding Freedom должна выйти совсем скоро, в августе, но некоторые интернет-издания уже начали публиковать отрывки из неё, кроме того, в прессе появились цитаты, раскрывающие, скорее всего, самые «сочные» абзацы. Авторы, Омид Скоби и Кэролайн Дюран […]
NEWS & EVENTS
BORIS JOHNSON IS AS “FIT AS A BUTCHER’S DOG”
Boris Johnson says he has never felt better. He says he is as “fit as a butcher’s dog” thanks to his workout regimen after he recovered from Covid-19. The PM, 56, jogs at 6.30 am […]
NEWS & EVENTS
ATTACK IN READING, UK
The town of Reading is in the English county of Berkshire in the south of England. First, we need to learn to pronounce these place-names – Reading and Berkshire: Reading [ˈrɛdɪŋ] = red-ing Berkshire [`bɑːkʃɪə] / […]
VOCABULARY BUILD UP
CORONAVIRUS STATS MAY BE ALL WRONG
April 17, 2020 The Daily Mail newspaper says that old people are dying in old-people’s homes because they are not tested for coronavirus. The newspaper claims that there is a ‘hidden epidemic’ of coronavirus in […]