One of the most fun parts of teaching English to students is by letting them discover figurative language.  Figurative language is any speech that is not meant to be taken literally.  Students in traditional classrooms and ESL classrooms will enjoy learning about three of the most interesting types of figurative language in English: idioms, oxymorons, […]

The last ten years have done quite a number on the English language, haven’t they?  We started out by having to learn “blogging” and all the associated vocabulary (blogosphere, pinging, trolls,feeding, tags). 
Then we were on to texting, and this one REALLY blew our minds because we not only had to learn what SMS […]

Americans love their slang. It is unusual to get through even one normal conversation without at least one idiom or slang phrase coming up.  Idioms, or slang expressions, are words or phrases that you cannot figure out from the actual word choice. They often mean something completely different from the normal use of the words, […]