Watch How couple disappearing in freak sinkhole in South Korea
This was a terrifying moment when a couple fell down a sink hole that appeared without warning as they walked along a pavement in South Korea.
The man and woman were seen just stepping off a bus at a transport hub in the capital Seoul when the ground beneath their feet gave way.
CCTV then shows the unidentified pair disappearing from view after being swallowed up by the sink hole.
Emergency crews, including firemen, were called to the scene and pulled the couple to safety.
According to ITV, the sink hole appeared close to a building site where a pair of 39-storey apartment blocks are being constructed.
It reports that an investigation has been launched by both Seoul Metropolitan City officials and the Korean Geotechnical Society to establish why the hole appeared.
The pavement has been cordoned off while experts examine the area.
Despite their horrifying ordeal, the couple involved escaped with minor injuries and were taken to hospital for observation.
News source: Daily Mail
A Burnt Child Dreads the Fire
Actions Speak Louder than Words
The meaning of the proverb “Actions Speak Louder
than Words” is: What a person actually does is more important than what they
say they will do.
Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder
Lean English through VOA - July 2015
Iran
Nuclear Talks Deadline Extended June 30, 2015
Is
There a ‘Skills Gap’ in US Job Market? June 30, 2015
The
Diamond Lens by Fitz-James O'Brien Part 1 July 2, 2015
U.S.
and Cuba to Reopen Embassies July 1, 2015
Bringing
the Internet Closer Helps Students July 1, 2015
Clash
Reported at Border of Vietnam, Cambodia July 1, 2015
Drug-Resistant
Tuberculosis Less Likely to Spread July 1, 2015
The
Diamond Lens by Fitz-James O'Brien, Part One July 2, 2015
Japanese-Americans
Remember End of World War II July 2, 2015
Chinese
Children Seeking a Happy Ending July 2, 2015
Demons,
Male Dancers and Dinosaurs at Theaters Everywhere July 2, 2015
Tunisia
Detains 12 in Connection with Hotel Attacks July 2, 2015
Everyday
Grammar: Beating Problems with Adverbs July 3, 2015
Things
You (Probably) Don’t Know About the 4th of July July 3, 2015
France's
'Freedom Frigate' to Celebrate 4th of July July 3, 2015
Independence
Day July 3, 2015
The
Changing Face of America July 4, 2015
US,
Cuban Embassies to Reopen July 4, 2015
Summer
2015 Brings Movies for Toddlers to Teens July 4, 2015
Nigerian
Group Provides Training for People with Disability July 4, 2015
Greek
Vote, China Weigh on East Asia Stock Prices July 6, 2015
China
May Be Facing Economic Slowdown July 6, 2015
Report:
Faster Speeds, Less Space on Internet July 6, 2015
Extremely
Dry Weather Raises HIV Risk July 6, 2015
Iran
Nuclear Talks Continue Past Deadline July 7, 2015
Obama
Meets with Vietnam’s Communist Party Chief July 7, 2015
Women's
World Cup Sets Records, Except Money July 7, 2015
Tibetan,
Chinese Football Teams Make History July 7, 2015
Study:
Chicago 'Immigration' Rate Dropping July 7, 2015
Growing
Minds Need Greener Spaces July 7, 2015
US,
Iran Leaders Meet in Vienna July 8, 2015
Affirmative
Action Case Returns to the Supreme Court July 8, 2015
Russia
Bans Internet Database Archive July 8, 2015
India’s
Selfie Campaign Boosts Fathers, Daughters July 8, 2015
Personal
Flying Vehicles Close to Reality July 8, 2015
US,
UAE Launch Sawab Center to Counter IS Message July 9, 2015
The
Diamond Lens by Fitz-James O'Brien, Part Two July 9, 2015
Egypt’s
New Anti-Terror Law Raising Concerns July 9, 2015
South
Sudan Marks Independence Day With Joy and Worries July 9, 2015
The
Diamond Lens by Fitz-James O'Brien Part 2 July 9, 2015
A broken friendship may be soldered but will never be sound
The meaning of the proverb “A broken friendship
may be soldered but will never be sound” is: Friendships can be rebuilt after a
dispute but will never be as strong as before.
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Present Continuous Tense
The present continuous tense is used:
1. To talk about
continuous activities:
- At the time of speaking: I am reading this book now.
- Around now, in a more general sense: I am learning English this year.
2. To talk about
planned future activities or intentions:
John and Jane are coming to lunch tomorrow.
They called to confirm.
I am
spending my holidays in Paris. I have already booked my flight.
Simple Present Tense
The present simple tense is used:
1. To talk about regular activities:
- John plays football once a week.
- They start work at 8:00am every morning.
- Sara goes to visit her grandpa on Sundays.
2. To talk about tastes:
- John likes Chinese food.
- Peter doesn't like classical music.
- Most children love candy.
3. To talk about facts:
- The sun sets in the west.
- In the United States, the weather is cold in winter.
- Poets write poems.
A Bird in the Hand is Worth Two in the Bush
The
meaning of the proverb "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush" is: You
should not risk losing something you have by seeking something that is not
guaranteed.
It
is better to get an opportunity or advantage that you are sure that is certain
than having one that is worth more but is not so certain.
"A
bird in the hand," is in your possession unless you let it go. But if you
leave it and try go for "two in the bush," there is no guarantee that
you'll catch them, you might end up with nothing in the end.
Example:
Mike:
"I think I'm gonna quit my job because another firm is going to offer me a
better job."
John: "Are you sure? You probably shouldn't
quit unless you know you're gonna get in for sure. A bird in the hand is worth
two in the bush."
A Barking Dog Seldom Bites
The
meaning of the proverb “A barking dog seldom bites” is: Someone who constantly
makes threats rarely carries them out.
A Bad Tree Does Not Yield Good Apples
The meaning of the proverb “A
bad tree does not yield good apples” is: A bad parent does not raise good
children.
A Bad Workman Always Blames His Tools
“A
bad workman always blames his tools” meaning: Blaming the tools for bad
workmanship is an excuse for lack of skill. The persons who do something badly seek
to lay the blame on their equipment rather than admit their own lack of skill.
Lean English through VOA - June 2015
US Promises $18 Million for Vietnam to Buy Patrol Boats
US:10,000 Militants Killed During Anti-IS Campaign
LinkedIn,EF Offer Test Scores for English Learners
MERS Cases Rising in South Korea
Obama Signs Law Ending NSA Collection of Phone Records
Animals Dying in California Oil Spill
VOA Witnesses Movement of Troops in Eastern Ukraine
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Anthrax Shipments Incident Continues to Grow
Heat-Resistant Glassware Celebrates 100th Anniversary
Working to End Violence Against Women, Girls in Bangladesh
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Students Urge Justice on Tiananmen Anniversary
Putin: Russia Increasing Nuclear Missiles Supply
Social Media Apps Help Public Agencies, But Raise Questions
US
to Position Military Equipment in Seven European Countries June 23, 2015
More
Calls for Removal of Confederate Flag June 23, 2015
Can
US, China Work Together on Economic, Security Issues? June 23, 2015
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Swift
Change to Apple Streaming Policy June 23, 2015
Obama
Announces Changes to Hostage Policy June 24, 2015
Training
to Prevent Campus Sexual Assault June 24, 2015
WHO
Warns Against Unnecessary Caesarean Sections June 24, 2015
Philanthropist
Provides Homes for the Homeless June 24, 2015
North
Korea Could Face Food Shortage June 24, 2015
The
Diamond Lens by Fitz-James O'Brien June 25, 2015
To
Build a Fire by Jack London June 25, 2015
Hungary
Criticized for Border Fence Plan to Stop Refugees June 25, 2015
Group
Works to Reduce Child Labor in Cambodia June 25, 2015
To
Build A Fire by Jack London June 25, 2015
Everyday
Grammar: Words Come and Go in English June 26, 2015
Gay
Marriage Is Legal Across the US June 26, 2015
US
Congress Gives President Obama a Trade Victory June 26, 2015
Dozens
Killed in Terror Attack at Tunisian Hotel June 26, 2015
'Jurassic
World' Sells $1 Billion Worth of Tickets June 26, 2015
Supreme
Court Health Care Ruling a Victory for Obama June 26, 2015
Most Popular Proverbs (Set 3)
- A good mind possesses a kingdom. (Material assets are fleeting, but intellectual assets will basically stay with you for the rest of your life. Therefore, intellectual assets are much more worth than material ones.)
- A hedge between keeps friends green. (It is best to have some sort of wall towards your neighbours.)
- A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on. (A verbal contract is completely useless.)
- All cats love fish but hate to get their paws wet. (Everyone wants success but many lack the self-discipline to become successful.)
- All good roads lead to Rome.
- All for one and one for all.
- A staff is quickly found to beat a dog. (Someone who wants to be mean will find things to be mean about no matter what.)
- As the old cock crows, so crows the young. (Children will become like older generations.)
- All cats are gray at night
- Enough is as good as a feast.
- Everything happens for a reason
- Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.
- Don't shoot the messenger
- Don't sweat the small stuff
- Don't take any wooden nickels
- Don't drive faster than your guardian angel can fly
- Don't drop the soap.
- Eat, drink and be merry.
- Eaten bread is soon forgotten
- Even a blind pig can find an acorn once in a while
- Even Homer nods
- Even Jove nods
- Every day is a school day
- Every dog has its day
- Every Jack has his Jill
- Eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth
- Faith will move mountains
- Familiarity breeds contempt
- Feed a cold, starve a fever
- Finders keepers
- Fine feathers make fine birds
- Fine words butter no parsnips
- First things first
- Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me
- Fools rush in where angels fear to tread
- Forewarned is forearmed. Forewarned, forearmed.
- Forget, when up to one's neck in alligators, that the mission is to drain the swamp
- Garbage in, garbage out
- Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime
- Give him enough rope and he'll hang himself
- God is in the detail
- God works in mysterious ways
- Handsome is as handsome does. Handsome is that handsome does.
- Haters gonna hate.
- He who laughs last laughs best. He who laughs last laughs hardest.
- He who smelt it dealt it.
- Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned
- Here today, gone tomorrow
- Hic Rhodus, hic salta
- Hindsight is 20/20
- History repeats itself
- Home is where the heart is
- Home is where you hang your hat
- Hunt where the ducks are
- Idle hands are the devil's playthings. Idle hands are the Devil's playthings
- Idle hands are the devil's tools. Idle hands are the Devil's tools
- If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail
- If at first you don't succeed
- If it ain't broke, don't fix it
- If my aunt had balls, she'd be my uncle
- If pigs had wings they would fly
- If there's grass on the field, play ball. If there's grass on the pitch, play ball
- If you can't beat them, join them.
- If you can't do the time, don't do the crime.
- If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen
- If you lie with dogs you will get fleas
- If you love someone, set them free
- If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys
- If you torture the data long enough, it will confess to anything
- if you want a thing done well, do it yourself
- Ignorance is bliss
- In for a dime, in for a dollar
- In for a penny, in for a pound
- In for an inch, in for a mile
- In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king
- In unity there is strength
- In vino veritas
- It ain't over 'til the fat lady sings
- It ain't the meat, it's the motion
- It ain't the whistle that pulls the train
- It is a wise child that knows his own father
- It is all fun and games until someone loses an eye
- It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of god
- It is easy to find a stick to beat a dog
- It is not the whistle that pulls the train
- It isn't the whistle that pulls the train
- It never rains but it pours
- It pays to advertise
- It takes all kinds to make a world
- It takes two to tango
- It's a long road that has no turning
- It's an ill wind
- It's an ill wind that blows no good
- It's an ill wind that blows no one any good
- It's an ill wind that blows nobody any good
- It's better to ask forgiveness than permission
- It's not the meat, it's the motion
- It's not the whistle that pulls the train
- It's not what you know but who you know
- It's the thought that counts
- Let a thousand flowers bloom
- Lex dubia non obligat
- Life is like a box of chocolates
- Life is not all beer and skittles
- Life's a bitch and then you die
- Lightning never strikes twice in the same place
- Like father, like son
- Little pitchers have big ears
- Little pitchers have long ears
- Live and let live
- Live by the sword, die by the sword
- Long ways, long lies
- Loose lips sink ships
- Make hay while the sun shines
- Make it do or do without
- Man is a wolf to man
- Man plans and god laughs
- Man proposes, god disposes
- Many hands make light work
- Marry in haste, repent at leisure
- Measure twice and cut once
- Measure twice, cut once
- Mess with the bull and you get the horns
- Might is right
- Might makes right
- Mighty oaks from little acorns grow
- Mills of the gods grind slowly
- Mind over matter
- Misery loves company
- Misfortunes never come singly
- Mocking is catching
- More haste, less speed
- Murder will out
- My enemy's enemy is my friend
- Nearly never bulled a cow
- Ne'er cast a clout til may be out
- Never look a gift horse in the mouth
- Nice guys finish last
- No good deed ever goes unpunished
- No good deed goes unpunished
- No guts, no glory
- No man is an island
- No matter how thin you slice it, it's still baloney
- No smoke without fire
- No time like the present
- Nothing succeeds like success
- Nothing ventured, nothing gained
- Old habits die hard
- On the internet nobody knows you're a dog
- Once bitten, twice shy
- Once you go black, you never go back
- One can run but one can't hide
- One good turn deserves another
- One man's meat is another man's poison
- One may as well hang for a sheep as a lamb
- One swallow does not a spring make
- One swallow does not a summer make
- One swallow does not make a spring
- One swallow does not make a summer
- One swallow doesn't a spring make
- One swallow doesn't a summer make
- One swallow doesn't make a spring
- One swallow doesn't make a summer
- One who hesitates is lost
- One's got to do what one's got to do
- Only fools and horses work
- Only nixon could go to china
- Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny
- Other days, other ways
- Out of the mouths of babes
- Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings
- Patience is a virtue
- Plus ça change
- Procrastination is the thief of time
- Proverbs come in pairs
- Proverbs go in pairs
- Proverbs hunt in pairs
- Proverbs often come in pairs
- Proverbs run in pairs
- Possession is nine points of the law. Possession is nine-tenths of the law
- Pride comes before a fall. Pride cometh before a fall. Pride goes before a fall. Pride goeth before a fall. Pride wenteth before a fall.
- Real men don't eat quiche
- Revenge is a dish best served cold
- Rubbish in, rubbish out
- Rules are made to be broken
- Sauce for the goose
- Short reckonings make long friends
- Silence is golden
- Six of one, half a dozen of the other
- Some days you get the bear, other days the bear gets you
- Sow the wind and reap the whirlwind
- Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind
- Spoil the ship for a hap'orth of tar
- Success depends on your backbone, not your wishbone
- Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof
- Tell me who walks with you, and I'll tell you who you are.
- Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves. Take care of the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves
- Take the cash and let the credit go
- Talk is cheap
- Talk softly and carry a big stick
- That which doesn't kill you makes you stronger
- That's the way life is
- That's the way the ball bounces
- That's the way the cookie crumbles
- That's the way the mop flops
- The bad penny always comes back. The bad penny always turns up
- The bigger they are, the harder they fall
- The cobbler's children are the worst shod
- The course of true love never did run smooth
- The dogs bark, but the caravan goes on
- The door swings both ways
- The fish rots from the head
- The fucking you get isn't worth the fucking you get. The fucking you get isn't worth the fucking you take. The fucking you get isn't worth the fucking you're going to get
- The lord works in mysterious ways.
- The map is not the territory
- The more things change, the more they stay the same
- The only thing one should fear is fear itself
- The proof is in the pudding. The proof of the pudding is in the eating
- The road to hell is paved with good intentions
- The screwing you get isn't worth the screwing you get. The screwing you get isn't worth the screwing you take. The screwing you get isn't worth the screwing you're going to get
- The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak
- The wheel turns
- The whistle does not pull the train.
- The world is one's lobster.
- Them's the breaks
- There are many ways to skin a cat
- There are none so blind as those who will not see
- There are plenty more fish in the sea. There are plenty of fish in the sea
- There are two sides to every question
- There is nothing new under the sun
- There is reason in the roasting of eggs
- There may be snow on the rooftop but there is fire in the furnace
- There's a rotten apple in every barrel
- There's always a bigger fish
- There's many a slip twixt cup and lip
- There's more than one way to skin a cat
- There's no accounting for taste
- There's no fool like an old fool
- There's no place like home
- There's no such thing as a free lunch
- There's no time like the present
- They're only after one thing
- Third time pays for all
- Third time's a charm. Third time's the charm
- This too shall pass. This too shall pass away
- Throw dirt enough, and some will stick
- Throw enough mud at the wall and some of it will stick. Throw enough mud at the wall, some of it will stick
- Treat them mean, keep them keen. Treat 'em mean to keep 'em keen
- Truth will out
- Tune in, turn on, drop out
- Turnabout is fair play
- Two can play that game
- Use it or lose it
- Walk softly and carry a big stick
- When it rains, it pours
- Where there's muck there's brass
- Wherever you go, there you are
- Who pays the piper calls the tune
- You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink
- You can't fight city hall
- You can't get a quart into a pint pot
- You can't make a silk purse of a sow's ear
- You can't put a wise head on young shoulders. You can't put an old head on young shoulders
- You can't run with the hare and hunt with the hounds
- You can't take it with you
- You get more with a kind word and a gun than you do with a kind word alone
- You get what you pay for
- You've got to be in it to win it
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