Five Habits To Live Better And Fight Alzheimer’s 26/05/22 / Keyword: Alzheimer’s In his last WEP for ECP, coach Rob talks about following the advice of experts and his father-in-law to improve his quality of life as he gets older. What tips did they give him? Click HERE to download the Weekly English Practice as a PDF. Useful vocabulary to live on borrowed time: to continue to…
Test Your Knowledge of British Culture! 19/05/22 Keyword: British Learning about British culture and customs will help you to have successful interactions when visiting the UK. Try answering these quiz questions to see how much you know! Click HERE to download the Weekly English Practice as a PDF. Useful vocabulary to make up: to constitute, to form title: a word used before a person’s name to indicate…
Musicians Who Despise Their Own Hit Songs 12/05/22 / Keyword: Song While every musician must be pleased with the royalties they receive from having a hit song, sometimes they aren’t that happy with the song itself. Click HERE to download the Weekly English Practice as a PDF. Useful vocabulary busker: a person who performs music or other entertainment in the street or another public place for monetary…
“Oh, Vienna! It Means Something To Me!” 05/05/22 Keyword: Vienna Coach John recently visited the capital city of Austria and was very impressed. Here he gives a whistle-stop tourist guide of this beautiful and historic city. Click HERE to download the Weekly English Practice as a PDF. Useful vocabulary whistle-stop: short visits to a number of different places in a short space of time nicknamed: informally named,…
Free Curry Leaves Japan Defence Force Members In A Pickle 27/04/22 / Keyword: Curry ECP coaches love ‘curry’. Kez tells us how six members of the Japanese SDF (see text) received brief suspensions after years of eating ‘free navy curry’ they weren’t entitled to. Click HERE to download the Weekly English Practice as a PDF. Useful vocabulary to leave someone in a pickle: to put someone in a difficult situation…
Are You A Boomer, A Gen Xer, A Millennial Or A Zoomer? 14/04/22 / Keyword: Cohort At ECP, we have a baby boomer, three Gen Xers and a millennial, three different generational cohorts. ECP coach Rob tries to clarify what all these monikers mean. Click HERE to download the Weekly English Practice as a PDF. Useful vocabulary cohort: a group of people with a shared characteristic moniker: a name for something behaviour: the…
What Harm Can One Drink Do? 07/04/22 / Keyword: harm Alcohol is portrayed as necessary for a vibrant social life, but this has diverted attention from the harms of even moderate alcohol use. Click HERE to download the Weekly English Practice as a PDF. Useful vocabulary widely: commonly, extensively, in many places disease: an illness or disorder briefing: a meeting or press conference widespread: found over a large area or among…
Don’t Like Science Fiction? This Will Change Your Mind! 22/04/21 / Keyword: science fiction ECP coach Rob is fed up of not being able to talk about science fiction with his colleagues and students. In this article he will show why it’s the best genre of all! Click HERE to download the Weekly English Practice as a PDF. Useful vocabulary genre: a category of art…
How One Company is Beautifying Wind Turbines 10/06/21 / Keyword: wind turbines Are wind turbines too big and ugly? Tulip-shaped ‘eco-art’ turbines try to address common complaints about noise, danger to wildlife and ugliness. Click HERE to download the Weekly English Practice as a PDF. Useful vocabulary spin: the presentation of information in a favourable way wind farm: land with energy producing wind turbines eyesore:…
The Making of a Basque, Bosnian, Geordie Filmmaker 17/06/21 / Keyword: filmmaker In this special interview, Gasteiz born, Glasgow-based filmmaker Yulene Hird talks about her projects, her life in Scotland, independence and deep fried Mars Bars! Click HERE to download the Weekly English Practice as a PDF. Useful vocabulary to end up: to become eventually; turn out to be framing: A frame is a single…
