Memorial Day is an American holiday that honors the memory of people who died while serving in the U.S. military. This year, it will be celebrated on Monday, May 27th. You might read or hear about Memorial Day ceremonies in the United States. The Ame...
In last week's Everyday Grammar, we looked at prefixes in reports of student protests against the war between Israel and Hamas. Then, we asked our readers to use prefixes from that story to write about their experiences with protests in their own cou...
American college students have been protesting the war in Gaza between Hamas and Israel. In this week's Everyday Grammar, we look at a few of the prefixes and words people are using to talk about the protests. The Merriam-Webster dictionary says a pr...
In last week's Everyday Grammar, we explored large numbers in the news. We learned about numbers such as a million, a billion, and a trillion. We asked our listeners and readers to write us messages about their countries. Today we give feedback on so...
We have a question for you. What do countries, economies, mathematics, and the news have in common? There are several ways to answer the question. But today we are thinking about this connection: large numbers. Large numbers, say, a million and up, a...
In this week's Everyday Grammar, we answer a question from a reader named Sol. Sol asked, When you make a question about a team such as the Bay Packers, do you say, 'Are the Bay Packers famous?' or 'Is the Bay Packers famous?' Sol is talking about th...
In this week's Everyday Grammar, we continue a trip around the world. But, instead of seeing famous places, we will learn about wonderful foods of different countries. We will also learn about grammar and writing along the way. Background In a recent...
In today's Everyday Grammar, we will take a delicious trip to East Asia. We will taste wonderful and perhaps unfamiliar foods - if only in our imagination. We will also learn about some of the details of writing, including common spelling and punctua...
Symbols of Easter Spring has begun in the northern half of the Earth. For Christians, a major springtime holiday is Easter. This year, Easter falls on March 31. In this week's Everyday Grammar, we learn how to talk about holidays and the foods, objec...
Talking about Your Dreams In an earlier Everyday Grammar, we talked about Fast Car, a song about young people who had dreams of making their lives better. Then, we asked our readers and listeners to tell us about their own dreams. In today's lesson,...
What Is Your Countrys National Dish? Consider a time when you sat down to share a dish with family or friends. What was the dish? Is the dish special in your country or area? In today's lesson, we will explore how to talk about foods. We will learn a...
Learn Indefinite Pronouns with 'Fast Car' On today's Everyday Grammar, we are going to look at things that are different from each other: in other words, contrasts. Let's start: At the 2024 Grammy awards, one performance got the attention of many dif...
Breaking the Rules with Miley Cyrus Flowers Every year, the Recording Academy in the United States gives awards to the performers and songwriters with the most outstanding achievements from the year before. The Academy calls those awards the Grammys....
What Is Popular in Different Countries? In a recent lesson, we asked our readers and listeners to write to us about what is popular in their country. In today's lesson, we will explore some of what was written to us. Our audience will be the guides o...
What Is Popular in Your Country? Think about something that your friends or people you know like. Can you bring an image to your mind? The image that you are thinking of can serve as a starting point for today's report: the word popular. In today's E...
