Butterfly wings move in a figure 8 motion. Rather than flapping their wings up and down like birds, butterflies contract their bodies, making a figure-8 pattern with their wings. 🦋

Hoy aprenderemos algunos nombres de animales marinos en inglés 🌊 🦑 ¿Cuál es tu favorito? ¡Te leemos en comentarios!🐡 #Cambridge #Seavocabulary #Seaanimals #Englishlesson #summer #aprendeinglés

Today’s #WordOfTheDay is ‘trifling’. Some things seem important, but if you take a step back and look at the big picture, you’ll see they’re only trifling issues.

to serve/do time = cumplir una condena, estar a la sombra tuː sɜːv/duː taɪm After serving his time, the assailant will be deported back to his home country

#PhrasalVerbsECI ("To stand up” = "Dejar plantado”) Ej.: "I should have guessed that she would stand me up." ("Debería haber imaginado que me dejaría plantado.") Pron.: /tuː stænd ʌp/ (elclementeingles.blogspot.com/2015/09/mierco…)

#VocGeneralECI ("Last call” = "Última llamada”) (Costumbre americana de avisar en el bar cuando están a punto de cerrar la barra y el que quiera la última copa tiene que pedirla ya.) Pron.: /læst kɔl/ (elclementeingles.blogspot.com.es/2016/04/lunes-…)

Glaver

to eye up and down = mirar de hito en hito, mirar de arriba abajo tʊ aɪ ʌp ənd daʊn He eyed her up and down

thsr.us/continue If someone or something "continues" to do something, they keep doing it and do not stop. E.g. "Outside the hall, people continued their vigil." #learnenglish #ielts #thesaurus #synonym #synonyms

💙Idiom Of The Day 💙"Come what may" - no matter what happens 💙"Come what may, the woman plans to go to her cousin's wedding celebration." 💙"The man will visit his friend in the hospital, come what may." 💙"Come what may, I plan to speak to my friend about the problem."

The human brain is estimated to have a storage capacity of 2.5 million gigabytes. That would be enough to hold three million hours of video content.

Ships & boats: 🔁❤

Today, we’re going to learn the idiom ‘a bed of roses’. We’re guessing Naomi didn’t find her job on Linkedin.

#IdiomsECI ("To spill the beans” = "Descubrir el pastel”) (Ser un bocazas y revelar un secreto.) Ej.: “So who spilled the beans about her affair with David?” (“Y bien ¿quién destapó el pastel de su lio con David?) Pron.: /tuː spɪl ðə biːnz/ (elclementeingles.blogspot.com/2017/04/martes…)