A cat teaching English? Really?
English is a stressed language. In some cases, where you put the stress in a word changes the entire meaning of the sentence. RE-fuse means garbage. Re-FUSE means you won’t do or take something. Same word, different emphasis on syllables-entirely different meanings. Refuse should always be put in black bags. I would always refuse to…
I did stand up to Flash the other day. Remember that I stand in for him any time he takes a day off and sleeps. Those posts stand out because they don’t happen that often. I think Flash is lazy sometimes, that’s why I have to stand in so our students don’t get stood up…
My assistant stood up to me today. She said I should sit on the other part of the sofa when I wanted to take a nap where she was. If you stand up to someone, it means you tell them you won’t do what they want, usually because of a principle. Humans should stand up…
Here’s some reading practice. Most of the reading on this blog will have something to do with cats. This article was from a few years ago. I don’t have any complaints about the cat furniture in our place. I use the regular furniture. Vocabulary: ‘fussy or fussiest’, ‘eyesore’, ‘craft’ and ‘craftsman’ and ‘comprise’. A special…
Isn’t this a nice cat? You pet the cat. You petted the cat. Passive-The cat is getting petted. The cat is being petted. I know in some places you might hear that the cat is being stroked. In some other places, this might sound unusual. Stick with the verb ‘pet’. Remember, your cat is also…
Cracked Broken It wasn’t me.
Some people say their cats are always breaking things. I’m a good cat and I don’t push things off shelves or tables. In fact, the guy I live with is much more careless than I am (careless means “not careful” ). If your cat does damage things, it’s your fault for leaving things out for…
It snowed here yesterday. Or maybe it was the day before. I was asleep. The city is covered with a ‘blanket’ of snow. It doesn’t snow here very often. In places that get snow frequently, they have special trucks called ‘snowplows’ that clear the streets so that cars can drive and people can go out…
This is a follow-up to the story earlier this week about a lawyer denying he was a cat. This graphic made me think of something interesting. In English, there are a number of terms that refer to a human lawyer. Sometimes, they are called “attorneys”. Some countries have different types of lawyers called “barristers” and…
If someone tells you that you live in “LaLa Land”, it means you’re in your own world, and you’re not being realistic. My assistant is never in LaLa Land. Right now, she’s in a box.