Archive for 'English Vocabulary'
Crazy Collective Nouns Posted by Gabriele on Aug 21, 2012
A collective noun is the name of a collection of people, animals, or things that can be spoken about as a whole or group. One of the many oddities (and annoyances) in the English language is the number of different collective nouns that exist. Some of these collective nouns are likely to be familiar to…
New words in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary Posted by Gabriele on Aug 20, 2012
Every year the publishers of the Merriam-Webster add new words to their printed dictionary. The new words being added this year come out tomorrow! This year they are adding 100 new words to the dictionary that they have been tracking and gathering evidence on related to usage over several years. A word has to be…
Foreign Words in English (Part VI) Posted by Gabriele on Aug 16, 2012
Over the last six months I have written a series of posts on different foreign words that have found their way into the English language. This is the last post I’m going to write in this series. If you haven’t read my other posts in this series you can easily link to them here: Part…
The End of the 2012 Olympics Posted by Gabriele on Aug 11, 2012
Tomorrow is the last day of the London 2012 Olympic Games. I can’t believe the games are almost over and we will have to wait another four year to see such amazing athletics! I hope you have been enjoying the games as much as I have and that you have been learning English vocabulary…
Spotlight on Synchronized Swimming Posted by Gabriele on Aug 6, 2012
In my opinion synchronized swimming is a very elegant sport. I enjoy watching it every four years during the summer Olympics. Unfortunately this isn’t a popular enough sport in the United States for synchronized swimming to be on TV very much other than during the Olympics. To stick with our theme of the Olympics…
Gymnastics in the Olympics Posted by Gabriele on Aug 5, 2012
Gymnastics is one of the most popular spectator sports in the Olympic Games. People love to watch gymnastics. Gymnastics is not just one sport though. In the Olympics there are three categories of gymnastic events: Artistic, Rhythmic and Trampoline and there are multiple events within these categories. In this post we will take a closer…
The triathlon and triathlon vocabulary Posted by Gabriele on Aug 3, 2012
Because the triathlon is a multi-sport event involving competition in swimming, cycling, and running, there is a lot of great English vocabulary we can discuss around this one Olympic event. First of all let’s discuss what this sport involves. This is an endurance sport in which athletes compete in continuous (back-to-back) events of swimming, cycling…