Sharing time!

After watching Brazil Vs Ivory Coast and cursing each Ivorian player I decided to surf on the Internet and check my Twitter.

As I'm a good CPE student, I've been following some English Written Newspapers and then I came across with the following Twit headline: "@cnni China 'steals U.S. thunder' ahead of G20 http://bit.ly/drGc6C"

This isn't the sort of news that would call my attention, but that idiom "Steal one's thunder", that was something special. Something that I could not left behind. Something that made me wade through this article. I remember I've already seen this idiom before, for sure it was one of Friends' Series episodes and shamefully I've forgotten to look this up.

As a matter of honor and pride, I decide to google it and them stumbled across this amazing website:

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/index.html

This website is a corpus linguistic bank of idioms. It gives you the meaning and the origin of what you are looking up.

eg. http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/steal-ones-thunder.html

To my mind, showing the origin of the idiom is one of this website special features as I always questioned myself and others when the idiom didn't make sense. At last, Higor will nevermore be interrupted by my annoying questions. LOL

There is also this website I would like to share about Language corpora:

http://corpus.byu.edu/bnc/

It helps you to check the use of a word in context and also gives you the frequency rate it's used (like google).

Well, my goal here is to propose our classmates, future classmates and fellow teachers to share whatever is useful for our learning.

Danilo Antonietti Bertoni - CPE 2