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🐄 Hilda and Maude are LIVE! 🐄
As this is our first video on TikTok, there has been a bit of a moderation delay.
But never mind! You can see our two bovines speaking their first words right here! 🐄🎙🐄
Give them a big LIKE! 👍
| 2 |  👩🏫 Happy World Teachers’ Day! 👨🏫
Today is World Teachers’ Day, so congratulations to teachers everywhere, whatever you teach. 🎉
English, art, science, agriculture, music, mathematics, sport... almost everyone, everywhere, has learned something from a teacher at some point in their life.
And learning never really stops.
So, to all the teachers around the world, and to everyone who is learning with them:
Happy World Teachers’ Day! ❤️
🐄 And in honour of the occasion, there’s some news from The Bovine View.
The book is now available, and if you haven’t seen it yet, you can take a look at the free sample here:
👉 Take a look at the free Bovine View sample
And Hilda and Maude have been busy too.
For the first time, they’re alive... and they speak! 🐄🎙🐄
They’ve been discussing one of the eternal mysteries of the English language:
If English has rules, why does it have so many exceptions?
Maude, naturally, has an explanation. 😏
Here’s their first little video:
👉Watch Hilda and Maude’s first TikTok video
Happy World Teachers’ Day from The Bovine View, Hilda, Maude and me. 🐄📚 | 117 |
| 3 | 4. Golf became available to a wider section of society partly because... | 122 |
| 4 | 3. The Scottish links contributed to the development of golf because... | 87 |
| 5 | 2. James II attempted to prevent people from playing golf because... | 70 |
| 6 | 1. It is difficult to identify a single inventor of golf because... | 65 |
| 7 | ⛳️ Who Invented Golf?
Ask who invented the telephone, and there is a name most people can give you. Ask who invented golf, and the answer is much less straightforward.
Games involving a stick and a ball had been played in Europe for centuries before modern golf appeared. Several countries have therefore claimed a connection with its origins. However, the game we recognise as golf today developed mainly in Scotland during the Middle Ages. There is no evidence that one particular person suddenly invented it. Instead, it seems to have evolved gradually from earlier games.
We know that golf was already popular in Scotland by 1457 for an unusual reason: the government tried to stop people playing it. King James II banned both golf and football because they were distracting men from practising archery. At the time, archery was considered important for Scotland's military defence. The ban was not particularly successful, and golf continued to grow in popularity.
Scotland's landscape also helped shape the sport. Coastal areas known as "links" provided open, naturally uneven ground that was well suited to the game. St Andrews became particularly important. A document from 1552 confirms the right of local people to play golf on its famous links, although this does not mean that golf was first played there in that year.
As the game became more organised, players needed agreed rules. In 1744, the Gentlemen Golfers of Leith produced the earliest known written rules of golf. There were just 13. During the following century, improved transport, cheaper equipment and increasing leisure time helped golf become accessible to more people and spread far beyond Scotland.
So who invented golf? Probably nobody. Scotland can reasonably claim to be the birthplace of the modern game, but golf itself was the result of centuries of development rather than one person's bright idea. | 64 |
| 8 | ⛳️ Today is National Golf Lover’s Day in the USA!
So, what better time to discover who actually invented golf? 🤔
Today we’re combining a little history with some IELTS Reading practice.
📖 Read the short text below and then complete the sentences by choosing the correct ending. Your answers must both make sense grammatically and match the information in the text.
This is called Matching Sentence Endings, one of the 14 question types you may encounter in the IELTS Reading test.
There are four questions and six possible endings, so watch out: two endings are not needed! 👀
Ready? Let’s tee off! 🏌️
#IELTSReading #LearnEnglish #IELTSPreparation #NationalGolfLoversDay | 97 |
| 9 | QUIZ 5
What does “I do” mean here? | 195 |
| 10 | QUIZ 4
Can you dance? | 177 |
| 11 | QUIZ 3
Are you married? | 153 |
| 12 | QUIZ 2
Did you enjoy the wedding? | 135 |
| 13 | QUIZ 1
Do you like weddings? | 126 |
| 14 |  🐄 It’s Friday, and what a Friday it is!🐮
Time for The Bovine View, but what a Bovine View it is today.🤠
Today, The Bovine View creator Michael is marrying Kira. 💍💍
And what better day to look at two of the smallest, but most important, words in English:
“I do.”👍
🤔But why can such an important answer be only two words?
The answer is VE: Verb Ellipsis.
English often avoids repeating a verb or verb phrase when the meaning is already clear.
🍦 Do you like ice cream?
Yes, I do. 👍
We teach this structure even in Kindergarten. I do means I do like ice cream. The rest is understood, so we leave it out.
💍 And the same grammar appears at a wedding:
Do you take this woman to be your wife?
I do.👍
Here, do carries the grammatical work, while the words already understood from the question are omitted.
And it isn't only do. English can do the same thing with other auxiliary and modal verbs:
Have you been to London?
Yes, I have.🌟
Are you British🇬🇧?
Yes, I am.
Can you dance?💃
Yes, I can.
The auxiliary or modal remains. The information we already understand doesn't need to be repeated.
Other languages use ellipsis too, but not always in the same way.
🇷🇺 Russian:
Ты любишь мороженое?
Do you like ice cream?
Да, люблю.
Yes, [I] like [it].
Russian can omit the subject because the verb form люблю already tells us who is doing the liking. But it repeats the main verb rather than using an auxiliary equivalent to English do.
🇫🇷 French:
Tu aimes la glace ?
Do you like ice cream?
Oui, j’aime ça.
Yes, I like it.
French can avoid repeating the whole question too, but it doesn't normally use an auxiliary equivalent to English do to replace the main verb phrase.
🇬🇧 English:
Do you like ice cream?🍦
Yes, I do.
English can leave out like ice cream completely and let the auxiliary do carry the grammatical information.
That's Verb Ellipsis (VE): a lot of meaning packed into very few words.
And that explains Maude's joke:
“Weddings cut the waffle, not just the cake.” 🎂
In British English, waffle 🧇means more than a batter-based baked food, but using more words or giving more information than is really necessary. To cut the waffle means to remove the unnecessary words and get straight to the point.
And on Michael and Kira's wedding day, you can't get much more to the point than:
“I do.” 💍
#TheBovineView #EnglishGrammar #LearnEnglish #VerbEllipsis #EnglishLanguage #EnglishLearning #IDo | 137 |
| 15 | 🇺🇸 Today is National Jiffy Mix Day! 🥞
But forget the mix for a moment...
🤔 Just what is a “jiffy”?
🎵 Here's a clue: listen to Manfred Mann's Earth Band, “Blinded by the Light” (1976)👆 above
Why have we chosen a song about light? 💡
❓ In science, one definition of a “jiffy” is approximately...
A. The time it takes light to travel 1 centimetre
B. The time it takes light to travel 1000 metres
C. The time it takes light to travel around the Earth
See below for the correct answer
✅ A. The time it takes light to travel 1 centimetre.
That's about 33 picoseconds, or 0.000000000033 seconds! ⚡️
Physicist Gilbert N. Lewis used jiffy for this incredibly short period of time, which explains today's musical clue: “Blinded by the Light.”||
📖 But where does “jiffy” come from?
Long before scientists borrowed it, a jiffy already meant a very short period of time.
👉 I'll be back in a jiffy.
= I'll be back very soon.
The word has been used in English since at least the late 18th century, but its exact origin is uncertain.
One suggestion links it to older slang associated with lightning, which would make the idea of something happening extremely quickly rather appropriate. ⚡️ But the etymology isn't certain.
🇬🇧 And British readers will probably recognise another Jiffy:
📦 a Jiffy bag = the familiar padded envelope used for sending things through the post.
So how long did today's English lesson take?
Just a jiffy! 😁
#InAJiffy #EnglishVocabulary #IELTSAAA | 176 |
| 16 | 🇺🇸 Today is National Jiffy Mix Day! 🥞
But forget the mix for a moment...
🤔 Just what is a “jiffy”?
🎵 Here's a clue: listen to Manfred Mann's Earth Band, “Blinded by the Light” (1976)👆 above
Why have we chosen a song about light? 💡
❓ In science, one definition of a “jiffy” is approximately...
A. The time it takes light to travel 1 centimetre
B. The time it takes light to travel 1 metre
C. The time it takes light to travel around the Earth
See below for the correct answer
✅ A. The time it takes light to travel 1 centimetre.
That's about 33 picoseconds, or 0.000000000033 seconds! ⚡️
Physicist Gilbert N. Lewis used jiffy for this incredibly short period of time, which explains today's musical clue: “Blinded by the Light.”||
📖 But where does “jiffy” come from?
Long before scientists borrowed it, a jiffy already meant a very short period of time.
👉 I'll be back in a jiffy.
= I'll be back very soon.
The word has been used in English since at least the late 18th century, but its exact origin is uncertain.
One suggestion links it to older slang associated with lightning, which would make the idea of something happening extremely quickly rather appropriate. ⚡️ But the etymology isn't certain.
🇬🇧 And British readers will probably recognise another Jiffy:
📦 a Jiffy bag = the familiar padded envelope used for sending things through the post.
So how long did today's English lesson take?
Just a jiffy! 😁
#InAJiffy #EnglishVocabulary #IELTSAAA | 1 |
| 17 | 🇺🇸 Today is National Jiffy Mix Day! 🥞
But forget the mix for a moment...
🤔 What is a “jiffy”?
🎵 Here's a clue: listen to Manfred Mann's Earth Band, “Blinded by the Light” (1976)👆 above
Why have we chosen a song about light? 💡
❓ In science, one definition of a “jiffy” is approximately...
A. The time it takes light to travel 1 centimetre
B. The time it takes light to travel 1 metre
C. The time it takes light to travel around the Earth
See below for the correct answer
||✅ A. The time it takes light to travel 1 centimetre.
That's about 33 picoseconds, or 0.000000000033 seconds! ⚡️
Physicist Gilbert N. Lewis used jiffy for this incredibly short period of time, which explains today's musical clue: “Blinded by the Light.”||
📖 But where does “jiffy” come from?
Long before scientists borrowed it, a jiffy already meant a very short period of time.
👉 I'll be back in a jiffy.
= I'll be back very soon.
The word has been used in English since at least the late 18th century, but its exact origin is uncertain.
One suggestion links it to older slang associated with lightning, which would make the idea of something happening extremely quickly rather appropriate. ⚡️ But the etymology isn't certain.
🇬🇧 And British readers will probably recognise another Jiffy:
📦 a Jiffy bag = the familiar padded envelope used for sending things through the post.
So how long did today's English lesson take?
Just a jiffy! 😁 | 1 |
| 18 | QUIZ 3
Are you married? | 1 |
| 19 | 5/5 The more alarms I set, _____ I seem to get up. ⏰😴 | 267 |
| 20 | 4/5 The more expensive the restaurant, _____ the portion seems to be. 🍽 | 250 |
