Phew phew phew what an exciting day that was yesterday, two fantastic games of Rugby. Wales (sob) just losing to the Springboks and then the All Black taking France to the cleaners and showing everyone how Rugby should be played.

There's an idiom hidden in that sentence. Here are some more:

http://a4esl.org/q/h/9807/km-animalidioms.html

http://a4esl.org/q/h/9801/sb-idioms.html


https://www.englishclub.com/ref/Idioms/Quizzes/Food_1/index.htm


Some of us talked about the Queen last week. Here's a link to the Royal web page:


http://www.royal.gov.uk/

And here is the story of the Royal Family and the Rugby World Cup:

https://storify.com/BritishMonarchy/rwc2015?utm_source=embed_Header


So now I have to mentally prepare for today's games. Enjoy your week!

Good morning everyone: the first frost of autumn has touched our garden overnight.  Note to self: must bring in the agapanthus.

Britain has been in a baking fever the last weeks: The Great British Bake Off finished last Wednesday, and what a thrilling final it was.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b013pqnm

is a link to the Programme Website and there you can scroll down for recipes and stories.

The World Rugby Cup continues and just gets more and more exciting. Next week we'll be looking at more flags and countries so here's some online practice for capital cities:

 http://www.eslgamesplus.com/countries-and-capitals-drag-and-drop-spelling-game-for-esl/

We saw last week how important it is to recognise if a word is a noun or a verb. Try out your skills here:

http://www.english-online.org.uk/games/verbnounbothnew.htm

Enjoy!

Jubilations here in downtown Morsum as Australia beat England in the Rugby World Cup yesterday evening. This means England and Wales are through to the quarter finals and England are out!

It was an Aussie week anyway, what with Cousin Nicholas' visit.
Nicholas' wife Lorraine told us about the Bilby, an Aussie animal, which is replacing the Easter bunny.

 
 
 
http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/countries/australia-quiz/
So Horst has been busy making bilbies.

Let's take the chance to look at some Downunder English


http://www.education.vic.gov.au/languagesonline/english/english.htm

http://www.elllo.org/study/australia/english_2004.htm


http://www.australia.com/en/things-to-do/art-music-culture.html


 http://a4esl.org/q/h/9801/mg-australia2.html