Illness, disease, sickness? That is our business!

The last blog post was on a medical topic, so let's go on with it. Today we have here some collocations, i.e. words that often go together, this time about illnesses.

First, let's look at some collocations about becoming ill. There are a few ways how to express what has happened to you:

catch a cold/an infectious disease/the flu/

Fun in the hospital?

Want to practice determiners? (a/an, the)
And have fun?
Does it sound impossible? Well, practicing grammar while reading jokes is far more enjoyable, I'm sure.

Here are a few:

How to cope with new vocabulary?

Learning new vocabulary can be tricky. Different people have different ways of remembering new vocabulary. Some people prefer to drill learn lists of words, others like to learn new words in the context of the whole sentence. Whichever is your case, here is some advice how to understand and learn better.

1) If you come across a new word, try to guess the meaning from the context. Think of the situation that the language describes. If someone is describing how they won in a competition, you might hear words such as

How many colours can you name?

According to popular opinions, men see much fewer colours than women. I'm not sure if it's true or not, but you can try and name colours in the picture and see if you're a man or a woman :)

My friend said that the words on the left cannot be

Other vs. another

Do you confuse 'other' and 'another'? Not sure when to use which?

Here is a short review of the grammar behind those words.

Apart from these rules, I also tell my students: you hear 'ANother', that's quite like the indefinite article 'an', so you have to use it with singular nouns ONLY.

 I hope that after reading this article you will be again a bit better at English ;)

Another and other are similar words that are often confused. Let’s have a look at how these words are used.

We use another when we talk about “one more of the same thing” that was already mentioned.

• I had a cup of coffee, but I want to have another

10 most confusing English words

Here is a list of 10 often confused English words.

Do you confuse them too or is your list different?

'DESSERT' or 'DESERT'

Dessert is a sweet dish, while the desert is hot, dry and full of sand.

'ACCEPT' or 'EXCEPT'

To accept means to receive or agree to something,