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ENGLISH. IDIOM OF THE MONTH. at sea | all at sea Meaning: If you're at sea, or all at sea, you're confused about something and not sure what to do. For example: · I'm all at sea with our new spreadsheet software. I just can't understand it.
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IDIOM OF THE MONTH • at sea | all at sea • Meaning: If you're at sea, or all at sea, you're confused about something and not sure what to do. • For example: • · I'm all at sea with our new spreadsheet software. I just can't understand it. • · For the first few days in her new job, Gail felt totally at sea. She didn't know what to do or who to ask for help. • Note: The idiom "all at sea" is used more in British and Australian English, though "at sea" is also sometimes used by speakers of British and Australian English, as well as by speakers of American English.
SLANG OF THE MONTH Flick Meaning: a movie For example: · Have you seen the new Batman flick yet? · Those Bollywood flicks are fun to watch, but they're pretty crazy. Note: Also "the flicks", meaning the movies, as in "Let's go to the flicks on Saturday night." Variety: This slang is typically used in British and Australian English but may be used in other varieties of English too.
PREPARATION Preheat the oven to 180ºMix together the flour, soda and baking powder in a bowl.In a different bowl, beat the egg and add the sugar. Beat together until white. Add the melted butter, the flour, the chocolate chips (big pieces of chocolate are better!), the chopped walnuts, the vanilla and the oat flakes.Mix together well and make balls approximately the size of a soup spoon .Place on baking paper or a greased baking tray. Leave some space between the cookies because they will spread and expand during baking.Bake for no more than 10 minutes (depending on the oven).Do not overcook the cookies. They should be soft not hard. UNBELIEVABLY GOOD CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES • INGREDIENTS (makes 12–14 cookies, depending on size) • 100g melted butter1 cup brown sugar1 egg150g good quality (70% cocoa) chocolate chips3/4 cup chopped walnuts1 cup flour1 ½ cups oat flakes½ teaspoon baking powder½ teaspoon soda1 teaspoon vanilla essence
Vanessa Bell • Vanessa Bell (née Stephen) (30 May 1879 – 7 April 1961) was an english painter and interior designer, a member of the Bloomsbury group, and the sister of Virginia Woolf. • Vanessa Bell was the eldest daughter of Sir Leslie Stephen and Julia Prinsep Jackson (1846 - 1895). Her parents lived at 22 Hyde Park Gate,Westminster , London, and Vanessa lived there until 1904. She was educated at home by her parents in languages, mathematics and history, and took drawing lessons from Ebenezer Cook before she attended Sir Arthur Cope's art school in 1896,and then studied painting at the Royal Academy in 1901 • Vanessa Bell's significant paintings include Studland Beach (1912), The Tub (1918), Interior with Two Women (1932), and portraits of her sister Virginia Woolf (three in 1912), Aldous Huxley (1929-1930), and David Garnett (1916). • She is considered one of the major contributors to British portrait drawing and landscape art in the 20th century. Frederick and Jessie Etchells Painting 1912
Tongue twister of the month • She sells sea shells by the sea shore.The shells she sells are surely seashells.So if she sells shells on the seashore,I'm sure she sells seashore shells.
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