Well, so much for me saying in my last blog ‘hope the sun keeps shining as much as it has been this week!’ That put the dampers (many English expressions relate to our unpredictable weather patterns!) on any prospect of Easter sunshine – sorry about that. Read the rest of this entry »
Hello lovely readers, how are you all today? I’m shaking nervously to be honest. I have some bad news; I’ll be leaving in two weeks. Even though I’m going back to Switzerland for holidays, I won’t have time to write any further blogs because, when I get back I’ll be busy working and getting ready to go back to school at the same time. However, I’ve got some stuff to tell you before I leave. Read the rest of this entry »
Veronika Nikitina - at Kings London
Last year, Veronika Nikitina won a Kings quiz (held in conjunction with Russian partner agent Ya Language School, based in Novosibirsk). 1st prize was a two-week Intensive English course at Kings London.
We recently caught up with Veronika half-way through her course and found out that for her, studying in London was a life-long dream come true. Read the rest of this entry »
Recently, in my Elementary class, we played a language game. It probably has an official name but let’s just call it the ‘Story Game’. The aim was to revise vocabulary we’d been learning that week, but it could work equally well at a party or in a pub, preferably after a few pints or whatever tickles your fancy – a strange idiom which just means ‘whatever you prefer’. As you’ve probably realised by now, English is full of strange idioms, perhaps because England is full of strange people! Read the rest of this entry »
I’ve been taking an English course at Kings London since January and have been learning a lot about the language. In my opinion, there are many similarities between English and German – my mother tongue. There are also differences, the main ones I can think of are, for example, the word order: in German, part of the verb often goes at the end of the sentence. Also, in German, every noun has a capital letter at the beginning, but in English that’s only for nouns which are the names of places, like London or Germany or The Alps! Read the rest of this entry »
