One must know the difference between light (sun), a lightbulb (Thomas Edison invention), and a lamp (apparatus). The sun gives us natural light, the lightbulb gives us artificial light powered by electricity and you will need to screw a lightbulb into many types of lamps: desk lamp, floor lamp, wall lamp and so on. Now, a lamp that throws...
As far as storytelling for children goes, French author and member of the Académie Française Charles Perrault (1628-1703) is the precursor, the trailblazer, the pioneer. Every child in the world has learned one or two of his incredible fables. He laid the foundation for a...
22-year-old poet Amanda Gorman surprises the Inauguration with amazing poem and stuns the nation. The hill we climb (excerpt) “We will rebuild, reconcile and recover and every known nook of our nation and every corner called our country, our people diverse and beautiful will emerge, battered and beautiful When day comes, we...
As you become fluent in English, you notice that many words used in everyday language are not English, they are imported. Kimono (Japan), sauna (Swedish), cartoon (Italian), safari (Arabic), cigar (Spanish), guru (Sanskrit), karaoke(Japan), metropolis (Greek). But the strongest word used in English comes from a...
Happy New Year! January is named after the Roman god Janus. He had two faces so he could see the future and the past. Janus was the god of beginnings andguardian of doorways and gateways. ...
Já ouviu falar dos ‘The Famous Phrasal Verbs ou Verbos Frasais’? Eles são muito usados no inglês e, por isso, de extrema importância na língua. Os verbos frasais são formados por um verbo mais uma preposição e/ou advérbio, de forma que o significado das partes separadas...