Sab’s English FunLetter 9

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For FUN Students & Teachers of English!

“The Most Wonderful Words on the Web!”

(from FunEnglishLessons.com & RainbowEnglishSchool.org)

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Sab’s INTRODUCTION

Hello English Fans, here’s today’s English FunLetter to help take YOUR English to the next level!

It was 😍 Valentine’s Day a couple of days ago, and the good news is… I got a Valentine’s Day card!

No, it wasn’t from my mum. 👵 No, it wasn’t from the cat. 😸 And NO, I didn’t send it to myself! 😄

But if you didn’t get one, don’t worry: I love you, you know that, don’t you?!

I’m preparing for an art exhibition next week. It is on the theme of road safety and I am one of 102 artists who are showing their work.

I’ll show you my painting next week and you can tell me what you think.

My paintings are rather curious – they are made up of 9 squares in a 9×9 grid. They can be arranged in an infinite number of ways.

They are a bit like a jigsaw puzzle, but a very unusual one. Here is an example on the left.

You can see my latest paintings HERE on my Infinity² website.

What is YOUR favourite way of creating? Tell us in the Fun English Lessons Facebook group HERE.

*INTERESTING VOCABULARY
couple of days
– two days
curious – something that is strange or unusual
infinite – without limits or without an end
jigsaw puzzle – a picture in many small pieces that you put together as a game

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IN OTHER NEWS…

It’s official – most of my English teaching is done online these days – and I LOVE it!

I was at a crossroads in my teaching career just before Covid struck.

I was in a dead-end job and I felt like I was going nowhere fast!

Then, when Covid came, we had to work from home, if possible.

I discovered this was a great way to teach, and my enthusiasm took off again.

Now there’s no turning back – I wouldn’t change this way of working for anything.

Although it is very nice to see real humans in the flesh from time to time!

*online (adj) – connected to computers, especially the internet
*strike (v) – to hit, to attack suddenly
*in the flesh (expr) – physically present, here in real life, not on video

*ENGLISH IDIOMS ~ Life is a Journey

1) at a crossroads ➜ at a point where a choice must be made

2) a dead-end job ➜ a job with little or no hope of promotion or better pay

3) go nowhere fast ➜ to not give a useful result; a waste of time

4) take off ➜ grow quickly, to get much better

5) no turning back ➜ not possible to stop a change and do what was done before

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WORDS in the NEWS
From BBC World – Europe:

Too much snow causes Winter Olympics disruption

Heavy snow has caused a major upheaval to the Winter Olympics schedule with temperatures set to plummet to -35C at the Beijing Games.

Several skiing events had to be pushed back a day because of the conditions at the Genting Snow Park.

The women’s freeski qualifications were postponed on Sunday because of heavy snow and poor visibility.

Difficult conditions at the alpine skiing meant 33 of the 87 men’s giant slalom starters were unable to finish.

USEFUL DEFINITIONS

disruption (noun) – the action of preventing a system, process, or event from continuing as expected

upheaval (noun) – a great change, especially involving much difficulty, activity, or trouble

plummet (verb) – to fall very quickly and suddenly

push back (phrasal verb) – to delay something so that it happens later than planned

postpone (verb) – to arrange for something to happen at a later time

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PHOTO of the DAY
One of my passions is publishing photos and writing about Paris every day.
Here is today’s photo:

EXERCISE
Write about this photo in English.

What can you see?
Where do you think it is?
What time or season is it?
Can you see any people or animals?
What are they doing?
How do they feel?

Do you like the photo? Why or why not?
Would you like to be in the photo?
Where would you prefer to be?

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Sab in Paris 🧩
Your Fun English Teacher