Idioms of the week:

To go over something with a fine-toothed comb

To go to someone's head 

Lessons August 2025 Week 3

The Osaka 2025 Expo has the world's largest wooden structure.

The "Grand Ring" is a 2-kilometer-long wooden walkway.

A show using 2,500 drones, with 1,749 forming a tree-shaped image, set a world record.

A marching band of 12,269 musicians also broke the record for the largest marching band. 

In 1791, Prague organized the first World's Fair in Bohemia (modern-day Czech Republic).

In 1970, Osaka hosted Asia's first World Expo, attracting over 64 million visitors, making it the most visited Expo of the 20th century.

August 2 is “take a penny / leave a penny” day.

Customers can leave pennies they don't want, and others can take pennies if they need them to make exact change for a purchase. 

The US penny is being phased out and will stop being manufactured in early 2026. 

 It costs more to produce a penny (3.7 cents) than its face value.

Prices will be rounded to the nearest nickel as an example, 21 and 22 cents will be 20 cents, and 23 and 24 cents will be 25 cents.

“To go Dutch” means “to pay for oneself when going out in a group.”

When I have lunch with my coworker, we go Dutch.

“To go up in flames” means “to burn.”
The house went up in flames and the firefighters had a hard time putting out the fire.