Are you a Bollywood beginner?
Read this BBC article to find out the things you need to know about Bollywood – the Hindi language film industry based in Mumbai.
Ready for a riddle?
A riddle is a problem that is not always easy to solve or that has no clear answer.
Here’s one for you:
Re-arrange the letters:
O O U S W T D N E J R
to spell just one word.
Scroll down the page to read the answer.
“Just one word”
Are you a punctuation perfectionist?
Do you know how to use apostrophes correctly?
Do the apostrophe quiz to find out.
I made one silly mistake, as you can see in the picture above. Of course, I know what I did wrong. See if you can do better. 😉
Good luck!
A tricky translation
So you go to someone with an Anliegen.
You could say that you have a request to make.
But you could, quite simply, say that you have something important you’d like to talk about.
Overcoming procrastination
When we procrastinate, we don’t do or we delay doing something that needs to be done.
Why do we do that?
It can be because we don’t like the task. Or we have too much to do. Or we don’t know where to start.
What can we do?
- Set ourselves a deadline (it might be good to actually make a note in our calendars).
- Give ourselves a reward once we’ve finished a task.
- Ask a friend or colleague to help us.
What do you do?
If I eat too much chocolate …
We use the first conditional to talk about something that will happen (the result), if a particular condition (which is likely to happen) is met.
An example:
If you eat too much of that chocolate cake, you’ll feel ill afterwards.
If you’re not sure how to form a sentence like this, take a look at the BBC World Service’s web page.
