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The Brits (and Americans) love sarcasm. So, if you want to make friends with us, you’d better learn to recognise sarcasm because otherwise you’ll get pretty annoyed or maybe even quite hurt and offended. Honestly, we’re really nice people, we’ve just got a funny sense of humour!
SO WHAT EXACTLY IS SARCASM?

It’s saying the opposite to what you really mean. Why? Mainly it’s to be funny, we think it’s hilarious; but it could be used to be cutting and hurtful.
LET’S SEE SOME EXAMPLES

It’s Friday night and there’s a crowd in the pub. An obviously unattractive person walks in, and what’

Here are 5 British dishes that you should try (and perhaps even make!)

Learn about the origins of each dish & how they are prepared, cooked & served. If you are making any of these yourself, you can adjust the recipe by substituting an ingredient if necessary or required
1) A FULL ENGLISH BREAKFAST (BREAKFAST)

What? Traditionally, the English breakfast has sausage, egg, bacon, baked beans, grilled tomato, fried mushrooms, hash browns, toast and butter.
2) A ROAST DINNER (MAIN MEAL)

What? A roast dinner is usually: roast beef or roast chicken, roast potatoes, Yorkshire pudding, ro

If you pop a balloon, you break the balloon and it makes a small explosive sound. If your eyes pop out of your head, you’ve probably just seen something shocking. On a plane, your ears might pop during landing.
But informally, we often use the word pop when going somewhere or moving an object:

I’m just popping to the loo. (I’m going to the loo, but I won’t be long.)
I popped some clothes in my bag and left. (I put some clothes in my bag and left.)

These uses of pop are British English – they don’t exist in American English. This led to a dispute during the trial of a British a

Why don’t you....

.......go out walking? You won’t spend and you’ll see that London is much more than you thought, it can still give you the feeling that it was once villages and countryside. Try two of my favourites, they’re circular. During lockdown I’ve been doing them in the early morning and they’ve kept me happy. I think they will you.
Try walk number one:

Make your way to Perivale station, 297 bus or central line, turn right and walk to the canal, and when you reach it turn left and walk for ten minutes. You’ll see boats, people living on boats, ducks, ducklings at this time of

Tomi, from the WLES reception staff, sat down with Shin to ask him some questions about his experience at WLES. He studied with us from March to July 2019 and returned after studying with us 5 years ago, in 2014.

1) Hi Shin! Tell us a bit about yourself.

I am Shin from Japan. I’m a mix of Thai and Japanese actually.

2) And what have you been studying with us?

Erm, I’ve been studying English! General English, Business and IELTS. I have loved all my classes, especially the general English, Now I’m in the C1 general English class and I joined as B2. I’ve really liked it. I think

Academic IELTS is an internationally-recognised test which is used as an entry requirement for studying at university in the UK. It is also often needed for visa applications and for people going into specific fields of study such as medicine. When you take an IELTS test, your result will be a in the form of a band scored from 1 to 9. When you contact a university, they will tell you the band you need to achieve to enroll on their courses.
IELTS is for overseas students wanting to go into higher education, professionals in particular fields (such as medicine) wanting to practise in the UK, a

Join our Junior Social Programme to experience the real London by visiting traditional sights as well as hidden gems off the beaten track. Discover all the cool things to do in the capital with our fun, unique, Insta-worthy excursions. Our learners' language development extends from the classroom to these diverse outings, as students are always accompanied by one of our teachers who all have extensive knowledge of their home town, London.
We offer a full afternoon activites as part of our Junior programme in the Summer 2023. The afternoon activity including: Explore London, Drama workshop, D