Word Pairs

Wednesday 13^th May

Hi! How’s everything?

Long weekend, beautiful weather, what else could you long for (wish)?

We started our class last week reading about ‘What I wish I’d known when I was 20.’

·         Annette Newman wishes she had known what a hard work being a mother was! When she was twenty she used to take her mother for granted.

·         Simon Hewitt wishes she had been able to overcome (get over) his shyness earlier! He was painfully shy (terribly shy) when he was in his teens and twenties.

·         James Garner wishes he had realized earlier that not having school qualifications doesn’t mean you’re a failure. There are other things, gardening in his case, that can help you to develop a career. He is now a landscape gardener.

After that we read about Philippa Forrester and her first crash!

She was so unlucky that she crashed into the car of a new workmate for whom she had a crush (be in love, fancy, feel infatuated)! That crush turned into a crash.

Then, we continued talking about word pairs.

Finally we started reading an article about bullying. Did you know that ‘Bullied kids are at higher risk of mental health problems?’

You can listen to this article clicking here http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/1505/150501-bullying.mp3

And that was all! More on Wednesday!