Having a calm (and spooky) Christmas!
Having a peaceful Christmas – with shopping, travel arrangements, presents, school events, lunches and dinners, office parties, decorations, Christmas cards, cooking on a massive scale…
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What’s your office like?
Is it big and modern and surrounded by landscaped garden in an out-of-town business park? Maybe it’s in a unit on an industrial estate with…
Selfishness or selflessness?
I read the other day that self-help books which promote the idea of individuality as the path to happiness are very popular right now. The…
Making memories
Welcome to a new year of language acquisition and skills development with King’s Training. We hope you have had a great summer and made some…
Enjoy Language
Language teachers tell their students “don’t forget to keep in contact with the language over the summer”. This is essential advice, but I would like…
The language of music
The idea that music brings people together, at least temporarily, as a kind of common language is well known. However, like any cultural force (football…
From darkness to light
I am sure that in English classes this week everyone has been revising language like ‘blackout’, ‘power cut’ and ‘power outage’. Power failures, like the…
Swift by name, swift by nature
The word ‘swift’, as an adjective, is a synonym of ‘fast’. But ‘swift’ is also a noun. A swift is a bird which I begin…
Lost and found
I am one of those people who would be lost without Google Maps to get from one place to another. I am (easily) old enough…
I look forward to it!
Spring is nearly here! March is a time for better weather, blooming trees, hope and looking forward. ‘To look forward’ is used figuratively in English…