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Learning Through Headlines: Hurricanes Harvey and Irma rack up huge financial costs
September 25, 2017

September 25, 2017: “Rack up” is a phrasal verb that means to accumulate, gather, or get. But is it for gathering positive things or negative ones? Find out how native speakers use it in today’s Learning Through Headlines! https://ca.yahoo.

Learning Through Headlines: Everyone Is Pretty Sure Ivanka Trump Has No Idea How To Use ‘Otherwise’ Properly
September 20, 2017

September 20, 2017: Poor Ivanka. Words are hard! Find out how the First Daughter misused the word “otherwise” in today’s Learning Through Headlines. http://perezhilton.com/2017-09-20-ivanka-trump-otherwise-twitter/?from=post Ivanka,

Learning Through Headlines: The Dodgy Origins of Dorothy Parker’s Famous Martini Quote
September 16, 2017

September 16, 2007: If you’ve ever had any British friends, then you’ll recognize today’s word, “dodgy.” If you don’t have any British friends, then you’d better give today’s LTH a listen so you will know what they’re always talking about! https://ca.

Learning Through Headlines: Charlie Sheen’s ‘9/11’ Movie Is Gross, Exploitative, and Just Plain Terrible
September 11, 2017

September 10, 2017: “Just” is a word that native speakers use all the time, and also one that non-native speakers often have a difficult time mastering. We’ll look at one way you can start using it right away in today’s Learning Through Headlines!

Learning Through Headlines: Dragons’ Den driven to drink by champagne entrepreneur
September 05, 2017

September 5, 2017: Drinking! Who doesn’t drink these days? Today we’re discussing a little phrase that might help explain why people enjoy those cold ones. Don’t miss it! https://ca.yahoo.com/news/dragons-apos-den-driven-drink-210807952.

Learning Through Headlines: This Strength-and-Cardio Treadmill Workout Is a Weight-Loss Silver Bullet
August 31, 2017

August 31, 2017: A “silver bullet” is a simple solution to a complicated problem. Find out where this expression comes from in today’s Learning Through Headlines! https://ca.news.yahoo.com/strength-cardio-treadmill-workout-weight-084700345.

Learning Through Headlines: Demi Lovato slays the national anthem at Mayweather-McGregor fight
August 28, 2017

There are lots of really colloquial ways to say that someone did a really good job doing something in English. We’ll look at a few of them in today’s Learning Through Headlines! https://ca.yahoo.com/news/demi-lovato-slays-national-anthem-040710818.

Learning Through Headlines: Price slump, tight cash wreak havoc in Canada’s top housing market
August 25, 2017

August 25, 2017: Native speakers of a langue often make mistakes too. Today we’re going to talk about a phrase that English speakers get wrong all the time! https://ca.yahoo.com/finance/news/price-slump-tight-cash-wreak-051804430.

Learning Through Headlines: Megyn Kelly was a total eclipse buzzkill on ‘Today’
August 22, 2017

August 22, 2017: When lots of people are really excited about something, we say there is a lot of buzz around it. What do you call someone who wants to kill that buzz? Find out in today’s Learning Through Headlines! https://www.yahoo.

Learning Through Headlines: Game of Thrones’ next White Walker battle is looming
August 19, 2017

August 19, 2017: Finally we get the chance to use GoT as material for LTH! Don’t miss today’s episode, where we talk about the word “looming.” https://ca.yahoo.com/news/m/f7048b92-05a7-31f7-9615-c94661576296/game-of-thrones’-next-white.