What is Splendid Expressions?

Would you like to be able to understand the everyday expressions used by native speakers of English? Do you need to speak and express yourself more confidently, in the knowledge that you've taken your language to the next level?

Of course - if you're serious about learning English - then the answer is YES! But one of the difficulties of English is how to understand natural, everyday, commonplace language, i.e. the expressions, idioms and metaphors that pepper the speech of native speakers. (See, there's one!)

That's why we've put together these quizzes of everyday expressions for you - specially selected for you as being the most useful.

But you get more than just a list of expressions (useful to a degree, but not enough if you want to take your English to the highest level.) It's a three-stage approach to help you learn the key words, understand the meaning and, most of all, remember the expression so you recognise and/or use it later.

Three Stage Approach?

You may be wondering why a three-stage approach? Let's see why.

Stage 1: If you think about it, many expressions have at least two key words:
eg. work one's fingers to the bone.
'work', 'fingers', 'bone' are the key words. Get any of the key words wrong and the expression doesn't work!

Stage 2: Then you need to see the expression in context so that the meaning is absolutely clear.
e.g. work very hard

Stage 3: Here's the tough bit: remembering the expression for another time. If you personalise the expression then you'll recall it more easily. What do we mean by this? Simply think of a situation of your own. We'll give you a question to think about.
e.g. Can you remember a time you worked your fingers to the bone?

Organised according to subject, Splendid Expressions allows you to pick and choose the quizzes that you want, OR you just work through them systematically.

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