Feeling in the mood for something spooky? Keep reading to enhance your vocabulary with Halloween-inspired advanced words and expressions while setting the perfect atmosphere. No matter where you are or whether Halloween is celebrated in your country, we guarantee you’ll enjoy this read if you love all things thrilling. Plus, you’ll enrich your English with vocabulary that’s perfect for discussing anything scary or describing someone who’s feeling frightened.
Welcome to the latest entry in our series of posts dedicated to basic human emotions, and, more specifically, the English vocabulary we can use to describe them.
We’ve already covered anger and sadness, and today it’s time to explore another essential emotion we’re all familiar with: fear. Happy Halloween! 👻
The historical present, also called the narrative present, is when we use the present tense to describe events that actually happened in the past. For example:
I walked into the room, and there’s this dog lying on the sofa.
To all you idiom lovers, here’s a treat for you! After our previous post on hand idioms, we’re taking things one step further, or should we say, one body part further? 😄
This time, we’re turning our attention to another fascinating source of English idioms: the head!
From keeping your head to having your head in the clouds, English has plenty of colourful expressions involving this all-important body part. So, let’s see how many of these idioms you know!
