Improve your English this weekend and “Go Dutch!”
Friday, April 17th, 2009Looking for ways to improve your English this weekend?
Why not go to the Holland House festival in Trafalgar Square to celebrate the Dutch Queen Mum’s Birthday? There you can chat to people and practise your conversation skills, watch or take part in some of the fun activities, listen to live music and sample some Dutch delicacies. Better still, there’s no entrance fee, so what are you waiting for?
http://www.holland.com/uk/hollandhouse2009/hollandhouse2009.jsp
Vocabulary
Chat - to talk to someone informally.
Take part in - to participate / join in doing an activity.
Live music - bands / groups of musicians performing on stage (not recorded on a CD for example)
Sample… delicacies - to taste the lovely traditional food.
Entrance fee - price to enter / participate in an event.
Homework
Try and find out what these three Dutch idioms mean
- To go Dutch
- It’s all double Dutch
- Dutch courage
Have fun!