Idioms of the week:

It's a small world

Blow me away

Lessons June 2024 Week 1

The world record for most children delivered at a single birth and surviving is nine babies.

Halima Cissé gave birth to nonuplets – five girls and four boys.

Halima says it is difficult putting them to sleep but cuddling them is best.

The nonuplets were born prematurely via Caesarean section 30 weeks into the pregnancy.

Full term births are between 39 and 40 weeks

Each baby weighed between 0.5 and 1 kg.

May 22 is Sherlock Holmes Day.

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective created by British author Arthur Conan Doyle.

The character Sherlock Holmes first appeared in print in 1887.

There are over 25,000 stage plays, films, television productions and publications about him.

“The Curious Casebook of Inspector Hanshichi” by Kido Okamoto was based on Sherlock Holmes.

“Couldn't care less” means “to care very little about something.”

I couldn’t care less about the soccer game.

“Get (something) out of my head” means ”to stop thinking about something.”

I can’t get that song out of my head.