If teaching it for the first time, how about breaking it down like this: Decisions/offers  .. Intentions..plans Decisions/offers...  we use 'will' at the moment of deciding or offering something E.g. It's hot in here, I'll open

If you want to make a distinction between the three, I would have thought it was a gradation in meaning: weeping.... lots of tears but not much , if any, noise or movements. You can say someone was weeping silently but not normally noisily.

That anon was from me, forgot to sign in first

The symbol and the expression was used a lot during the 60's era of flower power and the hippie movement. This was a time of sexual revolution for women because new forms of contraception supposedly freed them from the fear of unwanted pregnancies

Maybe, we all have our own ideas of expensive and cheap. It will be a good topic of conversation with my CPE students, all middle-class, Spanish, late 20's, starting to earn good money, always nicely-dressed and often with designer labels - but

Thanks for that, Delmobile, I was just beginning to think that I was showing my age. I can't remember ever hearing it in a UK restaurant but maybe I go to the wrong places.

I agree completely. I just don't expect either the question from a waiter or the diner to use the word 'work' in such a context. Am I right in assuming that it is an expression that can be used in AmE? 'May I take your plate, sir?' 'Have you

It's not an expression that I have ever seen. One expresion that I can remember is. There is good in everyone. - However this means that noone is totally bad so not quite the meaning. Another one used by the Jesuists, who run Catholic

Yet again these curious differences between AmE and BrE - if I had prepared that meal or maybe invited someone to dinner and they said that, I think I would be quite surprised, or even slightly upset, by such a comment. To me it seems to imply

Well,. I assume, maybe incorrectly, that they are of good quality because they are very expensive. I've never bought any. However somebody must buy their clothes because they've continued to trade for several years now with outlets in El Corte