All 805 Activities A-Z
There are currently 805 British English Activities in the Britlish Library and I regularly add new Activities. The grid below shows you the 805 Activities available arranged alphabetically from A to Z. Use the navigation buttons to look through them. If you want to concentrate on a particular area of English, choose the category view instead.
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Colour Idioms
Idioms are expressions that are natural to native English speakers. They are very confusing for non-native English speakers. They're confusing because idioms don't mean what the words say. You cannot literally translate English idioms into another language. For example: A black mark has a literal meaning of a black mark on clothing or any other material. It also has a non-literal meaning of a record of something bad you have done. This lesson uses a video English lesson about colour idioms which I made in 2010, and which has been very popular on YouTube. ...
Comfy, Comfier, Comfiest
Comfortable is not an easy word to say, is it? While comfortable only has 3 syllables, many students try to use 4. Comfortable is so uncomfortable a word to pronounce that in 1829 someone decided that it might be better to use only the first syllable and a -y suffix. The informal word comfy was born and what an improvement, I’m sure you’ll agree. Comfy is a comfy word to pronounce, isn’t it? Let’s see how we use comfy in conversation, shall we?
Commas - Punctuation for Students
Oscar Wilde, a great British writer, once admitted to spending an entire morning removing a comma from a poem. Asked if that was all he had done, Wilde replied, By no means: on mature reflection, I put back the comma. If a great writer like Oscar Wilde had difficulty in deciding where and when to use a comma, what chance have the rest of us got? In this lesson I will teach you about the history of the comma and about how to use it. You will learn about clauses, ambiguity, the Oxford comma, question tags, coordinating conjunctions, coordinate adjectives, dates, and more. Do ...
Commas Challenge
I asked the OpenAI ChatGPT: “How do you use a comma in English sentences?” What it said I put in a video which you will find in this challenge. Watch the video and then you should know enough about the use of commas to get a perfect score in this challenge.
Common Mistakes Challenge
Even the best of us make mistakes because nobody is perfect. If you are a diligent student of English, you might be able to answer all the 20 random questions in this Britlish Challenge without making a mistake or two. Can you show the world how good your English is by putting your name at the top of the Leader Board? Good luck!
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