So how good is your vocab?
If you want to find out how many words you know, you might like to do this test.
Finding it difficult to speak English?
“The devil take the English and their language! They take a dozen monosyllabic words in their jaws, chew them, crunch them and spit them out again and call that speaking.” Heinrich Heine
It might be time to run
Head scientist: “This gas is a deadly poison. What steps would you take if it escaped?”
Young scientist: “Large ones, sir!”
Masks
China Daily has some lovely photo galleries with easy-to-read captions. Take a look at these photos of anti-pollution masks around the world. Some are quite frightening, aren’t they?
The interview
The Managing Director was interviewing a young lady for a position in his company. He wanted to learn something about her personality and so asked her the following question: “If you could have a conversation with anyone, living or dead, who would it be?”
The young lady replied, “The living one.”
