Learning English

Is having a 'golden touch' the best thing to wish for?

How do you think the story ends?

A) King Midas gets very rich by turning everything into gold
B) King Midas regrets his wish and asks for it to be reversed
C) King Midas's daughter also gets the gift of a golden touch
D) King Midas's people hate him because of his wealth

To do

Watch the video and find out which option is correct. And listen out for three more uses of touch.

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To do

So, the correct answer was B) King Midas regrets his wish and asks for it to be reversed.

Now will you need a touch of luck to correctly answer these questions that help you practise the different uses of touch?

Get in touch!

How was that? Now it's time for you to tell us a story! It can be a true story or an imagined one - but it must be your own original work. Try to use as many of the phrases with touch as possible:

• touch and go
• a touch
• touched
• touches
• a nice touch
• gets in touch
• sense of touch

Email your story to us at [email protected]. Make sure you write 'touch story' in the subject line and in your email too. Unfortunately, we can't give individual feedback, but we do read every email, and we’ll publish our favourites here or on our social media sites.

Your Stories

Alis 

It’s touch and go if I will ever go to London. I’ve been dreaming it since my childhood and that’s why I’ve got an idea about how a day in the City could be. I often talk to my little daughter about my dream. So she also knows a touch about this issue. She is touched by my passion for English language and since she began learning English at school she is excited to have learned “Santa, Don’t Be Shy” song from British Council web site. Her sense of touch is very high and she would like to feel the touches of everything in London. Till our trip will become reality she gets in touch with London pictures from the web. When she tells me about what she learned she puts her arms around my neck and this is a nice touch to associate with English beauty!

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Yoyododomomo

Something that really touched me in my life. Time. Time hurts us. All of us. Since we were young, when an event or even a nice touch happens, we always get the sense of touch that this thing won’t end. We feel accustomed to it especially if it is a happy event. We get used to it easily but when it ends we feel touched.

Through time, we start to hate this thing in our life for instance, when we pass our bac exam, we go to study at the university. We meet friends, we study with them for years but when we finish our study, each one of us starts a new life far from his university friends and wewill betouch and go [BBC Learning English says: the phrase touch and go is for situations, not people, so use the pronoun it, not we here] whether we’ll meet one day together or not. When we get a new job the same thing happens, we again meet other people and we’ll feel touched because one day we will be separated.

Even in nice touch events, [BBC Learning English says: this would be better expressed as: 'Even when an event is a nice touch'] the same thing happens for example and as far as I’m concerned, during my pregnancy months, I felt that it was too long and it won’t end but it ended. It’s true that I have now a lovely baby but it really touched me because it was such a wonderful experience but it’s now as if it took few minutes.

That’s life, everything has an end whether good or bad. I hope we never lose the persons we love.