I've read all the canonical Sherlock Holmes stories and took notes of his dietary habits. Here's what I found out.
Eat like Sherlock: food in Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories
Do you know how many beans make five? – Expressions with the word “bean”
There are many different kinds of beans, from kidney beans and string beans to pinto and lima beans. Apart from being the key ingredient in many popular dishes all over the world, did you know that beans also happen to be an ingredient in a number of phrases and idioms in English? Letโs learn a few!
Let’s talk about books and literature
[This post has been written with ESL/EFL students in mind, CEFR level B2 and above.] Do you like reading books? What kind of books do you like best? Do you prefer fiction or non-fiction? In this post weโll go over the vocabulary that you can use to discuss books, from the words for different genres …
Thou shalt know thy grammar
In a recent grammar post I wrote about personal pronouns in English, but one thing I deliberately omitted there was the presentation of the archaic forms of the 2nd person singular. Those are thou / thee / thy and thine, which you may have come across in literary or religious texts. Let's first see what …
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