Idioms of the week:

It's been a minute

On the back burner

Lessons January 2024 Week 2

18-year-old Tom Enoch has 24 world records.

Tom has Down syndrome and set a goal to break 21 Guinness World Records.

Babies with Down syndrome have an extra copy of chromosome 21. 

Down syndrome is also referred to as Trisomy 21.

So far, he has broken 24 records, and counting.

Tom’s online fitness course, “Tomfit”, is very popular.

January 2 is International Stop Spam Day.

The following are things you can do to reduce the number of spam messages you receive.

If you don't recognize the sender, do not open the message; delete it immediately.

Whatever you do, do not reply to messages from unknown senders.

The term “spam” came from a Monty Python comedy show in the UK.

In the skit, the word spam is repeated many times, just like the spam you get in email.

You can Google “Monty Python spam YouTube” and you can watch the comedy video.

“Keep one’s chin up” means “remain positive in a difficult situation.”

 It’s hard to keep your chin up when everything is going wrong.

“In hot water” means “to be in trouble.”

 Joey was in hot water after coming to work late twice this week.