Wind!

We hope you're enjoying the wind in Tbilisi today, and to help you talk to your foreign friends about it, here's some variations you can check the meaning of and use... Enjoy.

windy
adjective
1 a windy day breezy, blowy, blustery, gusty; wild, stormy, squally, tempestuous, boisterous. Antonym: still.
2 a windy hillside windswept, exposed, open to the elements, bare, bleak. Antonym: sheltered.

Pancake Day

Today is 'Pancake Day'

See here for a guide to making pancakes (and improve your cooking vocabulary):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayIuoNCaD7I

Snow

Enjoying the snow in Tbilisi?

Here is some snow related lexis - how much do you know? You can ask each other about unknown words / phrases in the comments.

snow(n.)
snowflakes, flakes, snowfall, white stuff; snowdrift, snowbank, snow-pack; avalanche.

TYPES AND CONDITIONS OF SNOW
blizzard; packing snow
blowing snow; powder
corn snow
drift; sleet
dusting; slush
flurry/flurries;
freezing rain; snow squall
frozen granular snow; snowstorm
hard-packed snow; soft-packed snow
icy snow; wet granular snow
lake effect; wet-packed snow
loose granular snow; wet snow
machine-groomed snow; whiteout
windblown snow
packed powder

Interesting website

On this website you can listen and do 'home-dictation' - (let us know if you find this useful by leaving a comment below)

http://www.listen-and-write.com/

Welcome!

Welcome to the new 'IH Blog'. Hopefully, you can use this to check the news from IH, talk to us and each other, find websites and ideas to help you with your English.

Let us know if you have any questions, or ideas for this site. For now, please look around. Remember, this is new, so we'll keep adding to it and improving it.

Happy blogging!

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