Is it …
Where were you yesterday?
Where have you been yesterday?
Where had you been yesterday?
Where will you be yesterday?
Do this little quiz (link to br.de) – with its 16 questions – to find out whether you know your English tenses.
“It is a great thing to know our vices.” Marcus Tullius Cicero
“About the USA” is an American Studies reader that examines the customs, government and history of the United States of America. It’s written for intermediate to advanced learners of English and contains a range of activities to practise listening, speaking, reading and writing skills.
“I don’t work well under pressure … or any other circumstance.”
Both Dylan Thomas and Bob Dylan share a love of words. Can you tell which wise words come from which Dylan in this BBC quiz?
I must confess that the last time I read any of Dylan Thomas’s works (and I thought he was great!) was at school. And that’s a long time ago. So this might not be too easy. But, I’m a great fan of Bob Dylan (who, by the way, won the Nobel prize in literature last year for having created “new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition”), so the results might not be that bad …
Done! You can see my results here. Eight out of 12 wasn’t too bad. Can you beat me?
Another euphemism you might hear or read about is “vertically challenged”. People use it when they want to be more polite about someone being “short” (as opposed to “tall”). It’s a bit of a mouthful, don’t you think?
