Easter

noun
The most important and oldest festival of the Christian Church, celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ and held (in the Western Church) between March 21 and April 25, on the first Sunday after the first full moon following the northern spring equinox.

But, when is...

- Good Friday?
- Palm Sunday?
- Lent?

Who is the Easter Bunny?

Why do we have Easter eggs?

Write your answers in the comments below. A free egg to the winner!

Happy Easter!

New word

After the 'news' story last weekend, here's a new words, and some words related to it, for you to look up or ask your teacher about. :-)

hoax (n)
practical joke, joke, jest, prank, trick; ruse, deception, fraud, bluff, confidence trick; informal: con, spoof, scam, setup.

Visual dictionary

Are you a visual learner? Do you want to increase your vocabulary?

There is a great online 'visual dictionary' here. Just type a word in the search bar and watch lots of connected words appear.

Warning - some of the definitions are quite difficult, but you should be able to find lots of new words and can look them up in your own dictionary, if you need to.

Learning English Website

If you haven't tried the BBC World Service Learning English website yet, try it now.

Have a look around, but if you're interested, the Words in the News section is particularly useful.

Learning by singing!

Here you can watch music videos and sing along - a fun way to practise your English with your friends, or alone! (You can use the dictionary on this site to check words you're not sure about, or you could practise working out the meaning from the context.)
Click on the link below:
Tubeoke

Useful website

A useful website. You can meet language learners from around the world, do language exercises, and ask native speaker friends to check your work.
(I'm going to use it to improve my Georgian!)
http://www.livemocha.com/

Film Club

For current adult students:

Film club: We will be showing the English comedy "Run, Fatboy, Run" at 7pm on Tuesday 02 March at the Dolidze branch.

Feel free to bring drinks and popcorn!

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