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  • August 30, 2015
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English Idioms: Sports-Hit a Home Run

Vocabulary, Fast & Fun

From Targets in English


The Targets in English Idioms Series is readable on any device, including iOS and Android pones, tablets and computers, with Amazon’s free reading apps.

Publisher Description
Improve your English vocabulary and comprehension with a quick, fun lesson in idioms. Idioms: Sports—Hit a Home Run teaches common and colorful idioms that come from talking about sports and games, from baseball, to running, to playing cards.
People become emotional when talking about sports. Picture parents watching their kids play youth sports, like Little League baseball, or fans watching a pro baseball game. With all that emotion, many colorful idioms from sports have become common.
What does it mean if an office worker hits a home run? Will he or she break a window? What does it mean if people have something up their sleeves? Does it mean they don’t have pockets?
Learn these and other essential phrases in Idioms: Sports—Hit a Home Run.

Quick Targets in English E-Books
The Quick Targets Idioms series provides bite-size lessons that are fast and entertaining.
The problem with learning English idioms is that there are thousands to cover. Quick Targets solves this problem by teaching a handful of idioms at a time, arranged by topic, such as money, sports, foods, and study. By studying idiom groups this way, students can more easily learn and remember the material.
The Quick Targets Idioms series features:
• Idiom Groups: Teaching idioms by topic.
• Comics: Idioms introduced with fun illustrations showing phrases in use.
• Definitions:Simple English definitions, grammar explanations, and notes on idioms’ origins.
• Numerous Examples: Sentences showing idioms used with different verb tenses, objects, etc.
• Lively Dialogues: Fun conversations showing further examples of the idioms in use.
• Quizzes and Puzzles: Review and test your knowledge.
  

You might also like Targets’ English for Baseball, which allows you to learn English conversation and enjoy baseball at the same time.

(C) 2015 by Targets in English. All rights reserved.

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  • August 29, 2015
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English Idioms: Foods-Going Bananas

Vocabulary, Fast & Fun

From Targets in English

 

The Targets in English Idioms Series is readable on any device, including iOS and Android pones, tablets and computers, with Amazon’s free reading apps.
Publisher Description
Improve your English vocabulary and comprehension with a quick, fun lesson in idioms. Idioms: Foods—Going Bananas teaches common and colorful phrases that come from talking about food, cooking, and eating.
People think about and talk about food all the time, so it is not surprising that many delicious and colorful idioms have come from food and eating. For example, what does it mean if a woman goes bananas? Is she hungry? Or what does it mean if a man spills the beans? Will he have to clean the beans up?
Learn these and other delicious phrases in Idioms: Foods—Going Bananas.

Quick Targets in English E-Books
The Quick Targets Idioms series provides bite-size lessons that are fast and entertaining.
The problem with learning English idioms is that there are thousands to cover. Quick Targets solves this problem by teaching a handful of idioms at a time, arranged by topic, such as money, sports, foods, and study. By studying idiom groups this way, students can more easily learn and remember the material.
The Quick Targets Idioms series features:
• Idiom Groups: Teaching idioms by topic.
• Comics: Idioms introduced with fun illustrations showing phrases in use.
• Definitions: Simple English definitions, grammar explanations, and notes on idioms’ origins.
• Numerous Examples: Sentences showing idioms used with different verb tenses, objects, etc.
• Lively Dialogues: Fun conversations showing further examples of the idioms in use.
• Quizzes and Puzzles: Review and test your knowledge.

You might also like Targets’ English for Baseball, which allows you to learn English conversation and enjoy baseball at the same time.

(C) 2015 by Targets in English. All rights reserved.

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  • August 28, 2015
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English Idioms: Study-Hit the Books

Vocabulary, Fast & Fun

From Targets in English

 

The Targets in English Idioms Series is readable on any device, including iOS and Android pones, tablets and computers, with  Amazon’s free reading apps.
Publisher Description
Improve your English vocabulary and comprehension with a quick, fun lesson in idioms. Idioms: Study—Hit the Books teaches common and colorful phrases that come from talking about school and studying.
As kids, people spend every day for years in school, and even afterward, they still need to learn new things—whether it’s how to speak another language or how to play a difficult video game.
So it is not surprising that we have numerous idioms relating to school and learning. What does it mean, for example, if we hit the books? Are we angry with our books? And do you want your children to be teacher’s pets or class clowns?
Learn these and other studious phrases in Idioms: Study—Hit the Books.

Quick Targets in English E-Books
The Quick Targets Idioms series provides bite-size lessons that are fast and entertaining.
The problem with learning English idioms is that there are thousands to cover. Quick Targets solves this problem by teaching a handful of idioms at a time, arranged by topic, such as money, sports, foods, and study. By studying idiom groups this way, students can more easily learn and remember the material.
The Quick Targets Idioms series features:
• Idiom Groups: Teaching idioms by topic.
• Comics: Idioms introduced with fun illustrations showing phrases in use.
• Definitions: Simple English definitions, grammar explanations, and notes on idioms’ origins.
• Numerous Examples: Sentences showing idioms used with different verb tenses, objects, etc.
• Lively Dialogues: Fun conversations showing further examples of the idioms in use.
• Quizzes and Puzzles: Review and test your knowledge.

You might also like Targets’ English for Baseball, which allows you to learn English conversation and enjoy baseball at the same time.

(C) 2015 by Targets in English. All rights reserved.

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  • August 27, 2015
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English Idioms: Body-Thumbs up

Vocabulary, Fast & Fun

From Targets in English

 

The Targets in English Idioms Series is readable on any device, including iOS and Android pones, tablets and computers, with  Amazon’s free reading apps.
Publisher Description
Improve your English vocabulary and understanding with a quick, fun lesson in idioms. Idioms: Body—Thumbs Up teaches common and colorful phrases that include parts of the body: the head, the nose, the neck, and more.
Many colorful English idioms use parts of the body, from head (heads up) to toe (toe the line). In fact, head to toe is an idiom meaning “over the entire body,” as in She was dressed in white, from head to toe.
What does it mean if you lose your head? Are you walking around with nothing on your shoulders? What if you poke your nose into someone’s business? Does this mean you have a large nose?
Learn these colorful phrases in Idioms: Body—Thumbs Up, and other Quick Target e-books.

Quick Targets in English E-Books
The Quick Targets Idioms series provides bite-size lessons that are fast and entertaining.
The problem with learning English idioms is that there are thousands to cover. Quick Targets solves this problem by teaching a handful of idioms at a time, arranged by topic, such as money, sports, foods, and study. By studying idiom groups this way, students can more easily learn and remember the material.
The Quick Targets Idioms series features:
• Idiom Groups: Teaching idioms by topic.
• Comics: Idioms introduced with fun illustrations showing phrases in use.
• Definitions: Simple English definitions, grammar explanations, and notes on idioms’ origins.
• Numerous Examples: Sentences showing idioms used with different verb tenses, objects, etc.
• Lively Dialogues: Fun conversations showing further examples of the idioms in use.

• Quizzes and Puzzles: Review and test your knowledge.

You might also like Targets’ English for Baseball, which allows you to learn English conversation and enjoy baseball at the same time.


(C) 2015 by Targets in English. All rights reserved.

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  • August 20, 2015
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Start the Series!


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Idioms 1: Money—Hit the Jackpot

Book 1: Money!
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Taking Rides at Alameda County Fair, Part 3

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  • July 18, 2015
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The rides at Alameda County Fair are all mobile and move on to thrill or terrify people at other fairs and events. It’s amazing that all this can be packed up and moved. According to the Butler Amusements website, the company provides the carnival for numerous fairs and events in  California, Arizona, Nevada, Oregon, Washington State, and Idaho. Check out there website here.

Check out photos from the 2015 Alameda County Fair below.


 


OK, so this last photo is not of a ride. But a stand called Beers of the World is where I would go after getting off one of these rides. In fact, it is where I sat and watched other people ride the scary rides.
(C) 2015, by Targets in English.

About: Targets in English publishes topical books for learning English as a second or foreign language. Study the topics you want to learn when you want to learn them, and make learning English fun.

Taking Rides at Alameda County Fair, Part 2

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  • July 17, 2015
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The rides at Alameda County Fair are all mobile and move on to thrill or terrify people at other fairs and events. It’s amazing that all this can be packed up and moved. According to the Butler Amusements website, the company provides the carnival for numerous fairs and events in  California, Arizona, Nevada, Oregon, Washington State, and Idaho. Check out there website here.

Check out photos from the 2015 Alameda County Fair below.



There are people up there! Someone should rescue them!




Remarkably, people pay to ride on this thing.




(C) 2015, by Targets in English.

About: Targets in English publishes topical books for learning English as a second or foreign language. Study the topics you want to learn when you want to learn them, and make learning English fun.

Taking Rides at Alameda County Fair, Part 1

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  • July 16, 2015
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The rides at Alameda County Fair are all mobile and move on to thrill or terrify people at other fairs and events. It’s amazing that all this can be packed up and moved. According to the Butler Amusements website, the company provides the carnival for numerous fairs and events in  California, Arizona, Nevada, Oregon, Washington State, and Idaho. Check out there website here.

Check out photos from the 2015 Alameda County Fair below.




Sunset at the Alameda County Fair. 


I enjoy carnival rides vicariously, through the screams and vomit of others.


I’ll bet they don’t let Stephan Curry play this one.

(C) 2015, by Targets in English.

About: Targets in English publishes topical books for learning English as a second or foreign language. Study the topics you want to learn when you want to learn them, and make learning English fun.

Alameda County Lays Out the Fare

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  • July 13, 2015
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Barbecue, Flavors and Big Signs

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Check out some of the foods sold at this year’s Alameda County Fair (June-July 2015). Above is a basic hamburger stand selling burgers, dogs, and fries.

Page 1 Food Vocabulary:

– hot dogs (on a bun)
– corn dogs (hot dogs breaded and put on a stick)
– french fries
– curly fries (curly = in circles)

This Year’s Foods:

The fair this year featured new tastes in its food concessions, with emphasis on (1) barbecue themes pretty much everywhere and (2) a mix of flavors, ethnic and in terms of ingredients. From garlic vegetarian kabobs to tequila pickle poppers, fair food this year stretched its imagination to create mouth-watering menus and signs, surrounded by stacks everywhere of cut firewood for barbecues and smokers, sometimes for foods that aren’t barbecued at all.


Language Notes

See the title of this post, Alameda County Lays Out the Fare. 

Alameda County is just east of San Francisco and includes such cities as Oakland, where the county government meets, and Pleasanton, where the fairgrounds are located.

Lay out is phrasal verb meaning “to serve,” as in food.

Fare, which is pronounced the same as fair, means “food”.

Coming Soon

English for Foods and Cooking: Learn the English needed to talk about foods and cooking. This new book from Targets in English will explore the language around meats, vegetables, fruits, and common Western dishes. The book will be released this fall.

Baseball English: This is a great book for baseball fans around the world who want to watch English broadcasts of baseball games or talk about the sport in English with friends. Whether you’re staying up late at night to watch the New York Yankees or watching the Little League World Series, Baseball English will help you get the whole cultural experience and enjoy the sport more. Baseball English will be released this summer.

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Travel: Rocks and Ocean at Monterey Peninsula, Part 1

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  • June 13, 2015
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The clash of wave on rock along Monterey Peninsula forms ideal scenery for photographers playing with a new camera or lens. Aim nearly anywhere and you catch a postcard-ready photo. About two hours south of San Francisco, the peninsula stretches out into the Pacific to feature scenes of cliff and rock adorned with trees that have weathered season after season of oceanfront in their time.

See and 

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