Using the following idioms about body parts complete the sentences: to get something off your chest to cost an arm and a leg to lift a finger to be all thumbs to be up to someone´s ears to pull someone´s leg to get your head round to be heads and shoulders…
Efl : English as a Foreign Language

Classic British Dishes
Classic British Dishes 1. Melt-in-your-mouth homemade scones. Turn any hour into high tea with these perfectly fluffy, perfectly dense, fresh-out-the-oven scones. (Life tip: It’s pronounced «skons». Wild, I know, but trust me.) 2. Adorable, Christmas-ready mincemeat pies. Miraculously, mincemeat (or mince) pies contain no meat — just delicious bits of fruit and a lot of holiday spirit. Impress your English…

Idioms of the day II
Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth = don’t be ungrateful when you receive a present, even if it’s not exactly what you wanted. The more the merrier = the more people or things there are, the better a given situation will be.

Idioms of the day
http://www.everywordcounts.co.uk/christmas-idioms-phrases-unwrapped/ Good things come in small packages = the size of a gift doesn’t determine what’s inside. It’s the thought that counts = it’s the kindness behind an act that matters, however imperfect or insignificant it may be.

Phrasal Verbs II
PHRASAL VERBS II Phrasal verbs are not my students’ favourite topic, are they? Anyway, native speakers use phrasal verbs all the time in conversation! That´s why it is so important to try to use as many as possible. It might seem like a lot, but these 25 phrasal verbs will improve not only your written communication, but also your ability…

British Food and Food Idioms
BRITISH FOOD What’s in Marmite? Marmite is a yeast extract. Marmite was invented in the early 1900s by Justus Liebig. The original recipe included just salt, spices and celery. Now, the ingredients listed on the Marmite label include yeast, sugar, salt, mineral salt (potassium chloride), caramel color, corn maltodextrin, minerals (iron), vitamins (niacin, thiamin, riboflavin, folate, B12), herbs and spices. There…

Phrasal Verbs
PHRASAL VERBS: a phrase (such as take off or look down on) that combines a verb with a preposition or adverb or both and that functions as a verb whose meaning is different from the combined meanings of the individual words.

Emphasis of Adjectives
EMPHASIS OF ADJECTIVES Complete the following collocations : ……idle …… tired ……open ……..dry …… cheap ……deaf ……. naked …..thin …….broke …..awake ……. drunk ……dark …….asleep ………sharp ……..cold …….hot …

Cool grammar review
These charts are some cool reminders so that you can brush up frequently confusing words such as prepositions, adverbs, connectives, verbs. Pop from time to time on this post in order to revise for your exams, writings, etc.

My students´ blogs
The writing task for my second year students was about writing something that they are really keen on. Most of them wrote something related to their favourite youtubers, footballers, actors. I told them that the most original blog, the best written, and the best designed would appear as my next post on my blog. Therefore, here I present you the…