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Do you still have problems with verb tenses when you write a story?  Are you good at using time linkers??? Would you like some help? Go to "our filing cabinet' , once there look for 'writing' and you will find some exercises and stories to help you. I hope it's useful!!!!

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Just a kind reminder!!!! 30th January - Use of English + reading 1st February - Listening + writing 6th-8th February - speaking GOOD LUCK!!!!!!

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If you need some help with your speaking go to 'our filing cabinet' and download the document there. It is under 'SPEAKING' and it contains useful language you can use. I hope it comes in handy!!!

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Prepositions, everybody's headache, aren't they? Well, there is no magic remedy or medicine to learn them, or at least I haven't found it yet. The only way to learn them is use, use, use, use and finally, use. To help you there is a document in 'our filing cabinet', go and print it, and any time you have the chance, use them!!!!

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Modal verbs lend texture and meaning to language. The main function of modal verbs is to allow the speaker or writer to express their opinion of, or their attitude to, a proposition. These attitudes can cover a wide range of possibilities including obligation, asking for and giving permission, disapproval, advising, logical deduction, ability, possibility, necessity, absence of

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In class we were talking about education and especially about home education compared to our traditional system of attending a school. Why don't you give your point of view on the following? Think about the questions given, think about what you want to say, then press the record button and start recording yourself (don't speak for more than 5 minutes). Once you have finished stop the

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In class we talked about modals to express obligation. By sheer coincidence, I just bumped into this podcast, funny, uh? I'm sure you will understand it pretty well but, just in case there is any word you don't, you can read or download the script. If you want to read or download the script go here. Listen-to-english.com And this is Miss Bossy, a children's TV programme from 1983.

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Many people in the UK do not realise that British home education (known as 'homeschooling' in the USA) is legal, and becoming more popular all the time. Although laws in the four countries of the UK (England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales) are not the same, home education is legal in all of them. According to the 1996 education act in England and Wales, it is parents who are

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How many times have we talked about the importance of having the right information to avoid misunderstandings? How important is context to not interpret things wrongly? Well, here you can read an example of how a lack of context and lack of information can lead to a misunderstanding, this time, a tricky one.  ____________________ A misconstrued text message announcing the passing of a

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This is a unit by the BBC Learning English Service. John persuades Fiona to to go out with him to the cinema. They decide to go to see 'About a Boy' starring Hugh Grant at 'The Prince Charles' cinema in Leicester Square. At the end, they express different opinions about what they thought of the film. This unit will help you with the following; Making suggestions Reading simple film

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Sometimes you become confused at which form of the adjective you should use, either the -ing or the -ed form. I hope these videos help you understand their differences. video 1 Video 2 On this page you can find a very complete list of adjectives which either end in -ed or in -ing List of adjectives And these are some pages where you can put them in practice. Exercise

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We watch a lot of films in the cinema and we watch even more at home.  There are all sorts of films that come out every year, from romantic comedies to war films. But do you know what kind of film a tear jerker is? And a chick flick? That film you last saw, was it a blockbuster or a box office flop? What is your opinion about indie films? Have you ever heard of a Hollywood mogul? ...  If

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Can you spot the errors? Do you recognise some of them? Come on, it's fun!!! Estimated Charles:Such and how we accorded in our grateful supper of goodbye in the Palace Hotel, this is my first letter in English to you, my new friend. It has been very kind of your part to suggest a periodic interchange of missives in the that I send to you a letter in English and you to me in Spanish. It does

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Sometimes, during a lesson, one thing leads to another and you end up talking about something you hadn’t planned. That was the case in our last class, when after talking about Saint Andrew we ended up talking about the Irish Famine, also known as Potato Famine. Many of you had never heard of it but showed your interested in knowing a bit more. Be that as it may, I have decided to post an

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Scotland and Scottish people around the world celebrate Saint Andrew on November 30. Saint Andrew is the Patron Saint of Scotland, and even its flag is Saint Andrew’s cross. The most suprising thing is that it is thought that in life Saint Andrew had never been to Scotland or any country within the UK. WHO WAS SAINT ANDREW? Saint Andrew was one of the twelve Christian Apostles of Jesus

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SPEAKING In class we were talking about appliances, devices and gadgets. Why don't you give your point of view on the following? Think about the questions given, think about what you want to say, then press the record button and start recording yourself (don't speak for more than 5 minutes). Once you have finished stop the recording and listen to yourself. You can try it as many times as you

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Black Friday is the day following Thanksgiving Day in the United States, traditionally the beginning of the Christmas shopping season. On this day, most major retailers open extremely early, often at 4 a.m., or earlier, and offer promotional sales to kick off the shopping season, similar to Boxing Day sales in many British Commonwealth countries. Black Friday is not actually a holiday, but many

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Thanksgiving is celebrated on the fourth Thrusday in November, so tomorrow 24 November is Thanksgiving Day. It's a tradition in the United States. Families gather together for a large meal or dinner and the main dish is turkey. But what are its origins?   How the Turkey Gets Its Pardon  The turkey is the centerpiece of many a Thanksgiving feast. But at least two are spared the

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You already know what the suffixes -ful and -less mean, but why don't you put it into practice? Go to 'Exam practice' to go on practising word formation. Good luck!

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Well, this is just for fun but this funny thing could have serious consequences ... anyway, I hope you enjoy!!! Click to enlarge the image. What do you think?

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Watch the video and answer the questions. <p><p>addicted to technology? (Jesús and Vicent) </p></p> Are you addicted to technology? Have your say!!!!

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You already know how to compare using adjectives, but what about using adverbs? Do you know when to use one or the other? Let's hope this is clarifying enough....  ADVERBSLY Adverbs. With LY adverbs (adverbs formed from adjectives by adding -ly to the end) we form the comparative and superlative forms with more and most. Adjective Adverb Comparative Adverb Superlative Adverb quiet quietly

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Go to "our filing cabinet" to see, print or download the exercise.

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Go to "our filing cabinet" to see, print or download the exercise.

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 This is just for fun!!!! There are only nine questions. This is a quiz for people who know everything! I found out in a hurry that I didn't. These are not trick questions. They are straight questions with straight answers... go to commentaries to see the answers!!!! 1. Name the one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends

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Go to "our filing cabinet" to see, print or download the exercise.

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If you still have doubts about when and how to use gerunds or infinitives go to 'our filing cabinet' where you can find theory and some exercises with the key to practise.

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Would you like to practise using the gerund and the infinitive? Why don't you try this exercise? There are 100 questions but they are shuffled and only 15 are shown at a time. Each time the page reloads you will get new questions so come more than once!!!

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Remember that direct questions are often considered rude when speaking to strangers. To sound more polite we often use indirect questions. Indirect questions serve the same purpose as direct ones, but are considered more formal. In this presentation you will learn how to make an indirect question and different ways for asking sounding more polite. On this page you can review the theory. And

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Halloween's origins date back more than 2,000 years. On what we consider November 1, Europe's Celtic peoples celebrated their New Year's Day, called Samhain (SAH-win). The night before Samhain—what we know as Halloween—spirits were thought to walk the Earth as they traveled to the afterlife. Fairies, demons, and other creatures were also said to be abroad. Samhain was later transformed as

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A bit of Halloween history. Below you can find the transcript. Remember that this is listening practice, not a competition!! So, take your time and watch it as many times as you consider. And this is another video about halloween history and customs by History Channel.

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 For those who still have problems understanding when to use be used to, get used to or just used to, in this page you will find some explanations as well as some exercises for your practice.  If you find it's not enough and you still have problems, why don't you try this online exercice?. And this is another one. Just let me know if you still need some more help!

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Go to "our filing cabinet" to see, print or download the exercise.

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Go to "our filing cabinet" to see, print or download the exercise.

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Go to "our filing cabinet" to see, print or download the exercise.

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Go to "our filing cabinet" to see, print or download the exercise.

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Go to "our filing cabinet" to see, print or download the exercise.

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If you still need more practice for the exam go to  "our filing cabinet" to print or download the exercises.

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In class we talked about hurricanes, earthquakes and tsunamis. This is a video from Channel 4 news about the tragedy in Japan.

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Earth Day is a day designed to inspire awareness and appreciation for the Earth's environment. It was founded by U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson as an environmental teach-in held on April 22, 1970. Earth Day is celebrated in spring in the Northern Hemisphere and autumn in the Southern Hemisphere. Earth Day Network, a group that wishes to become the coordinator of Earth Day globally, asserts that

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BBC global weather report

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Hurricanes

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Are you environmentaly friendly? Would you like to live in a greener world? Is this what you want? Exahust fumes, dumping waste, global warming, oil slicks, greenhouse effect, toxic effluents, sea level raising... Is there anything we could do to help the earth breath? Worried about your impact on the environment? The way we use the planet's resources makes up our ecological footprint. Why

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This is a video of a Canadian girl who spoke to the United Nations and left them completely silent and speechless for five minutes. Her name is Severn Cullis-Suzuki, and her speech was given at a U.N. assembly in Brazil when she was twelve years old, in 1992. She had raised all the money to travel to the delegation, five thousand miles from her home, herself. Speaking about the hole in the ozone

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<p><p>The history of Easter </p></p>

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“It is commonly observed, that when two Englishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather,” the 18th century writer Samuel Johnson famously remarked. This is often the case today, but what makes the English as a nation obsessed with the elements? Look at any book or website that teaches foreigners English and one of the first conversations you can learn is about the weather. One site says, “

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... and let's avoid Mondegreens!!!! Now you will wonder what a Mondegreen is. Well, the word Mondegreen, meaning a mishearing of a popular phrase or song lyric, was coined by the writer Sylvia Wright. As a child she had heard the Scottish ballad "The Bonny Earl of Murray" and had believed that one stanza went like this: Ye Highlands and Ye Lowlands Oh where hae you been? They hae slay the Earl

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<p><p>How to Spot a Liar </p></p>

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Right now you are reading English. That means that you are using your brain in a very active way. Reading is a very active process. It is true that the writer does a lot of work, but the reader also has to work hard. When you read a text, you have to do some or all of these: imagine a scene in your head understand clearly what the writer is trying to say agree or disagree with the writer

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In formal texts, such as newspapers, descriptions or scientific processes, when we want to talk about what is generally thought or said, we use passive structures with reporting verbs. It is also used when people gossip as it is not important who first said, but it's supposed to be in the mouth of many people.  The construction is formed from: Passive reporting verb + to + infinitive or perfect

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<p><p>#1197 Crime News Story </p></p>

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It's time again for the annual 'Stella Awards'!  For those unfamiliar with these awards, they are named after 81-year-old Stella Liebeck who spilled hot coffee on herself and successfully sued the McDonald's in New Mexico, where she purchased coffee.  You remember, she took the lid off the coffee and put it between her knees while she was driving.  Who would ever think one could get burned doing

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VOCABULARY Have a look at this page where you can find definitions of the most common crime-related vocabulary. Page 1 On this page you will find definitions of the most common crimes and punishments. Page 2 EXERCISES How much do you remember? How good are you at it? Now you can put in practice all you have learned so far. Exercise 1 Exercise 2 Exercise 3 Exercise 4 Exercise 5 LISTENING

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Although you already know about question tags you still had some problems with them. This is a video to help you understand them.

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Fill in the gaps with the most suitable word. Before starting maybe you want to have a look at tips on how to make cloze tests. Click here.

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April Fools’ Day, which falls on April 1 each year, has been known as a day for pranks and jokes for centuries. Our counterpart is December 28. According to this article, the first known reference to tricks and April 1 is in the “Canterbury Tales.” Jokes have continued ever since in the form of fake events, false announcements and misleading newspaper stories. With the advent of new

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<p><p>Ryan Air Cheap Flights </p></p>

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SPEAKING In class we were talking about travelling and especially about tourism. Why don't you give your point of view on the following? Think about the questions given, think about what you want to say, then press the record button and start recording yourself (don't speak for more than 5 minutes). Once you have finished stop the recording and listen to yourself. You can try it as many times as

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 VOCABULARY Go to these links and do the exercises to reinforce your vocabulary about travelling and tourism. related to means of transport travel related vocabulary travelling, planning a trip tourism related vocabulary more tourism related vocabulary travel related terms and expressions LISTENING These are two videos from National Geographic. Go to our filing cabinet to do the exercises.

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St. Patrick's Day is celebrated on March 17, his religious feast day and the anniversary of his death in the fifth century. The Irish have observed this day as a religious holiday for over a thousand years. On St. Patrick's Day, which falls during the Christian season of Lent, Irish families would traditionally attend church in the morning and celebrate in the afternoon. Lenten

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Acting on the belief that books should be free for everyone, this website brings you thousands of free downloadable audio books in either MP3 or iTunes format. You can search for a book by title, author, keyword or browse through the collection by categories such as fiction, history and romance. An audio preview of each book is available before you start downloading it. In addition to a very

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Planet eBook offers an assortment of classic novels and books in electronic form which you are free to download and use, give to your friends, classmates, anyone! Existing free eBooks on the Web tend to be well beneath the quality of paper books, making them more difficult and less pleasurable to read. Planet eBook is trying to change this by publishing a small selection of high-quality eBooks

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Mardi Gras is the name given to Shrove Tuesday in many places but perhaps the most famous one is New Orleans, in the state of Louisiana, USA. The New Orleans Carnival season, with roots in preparing for the start of the Christian season of Lent, starts on January 6th. It is a season of parades, balls, and king cake parties. It has traditionally been part of the winter social season; at one

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Shrove Tuesday, also known as Pancake Day and Mardi Gras, signals the beginning of Lent, that period of time prior to Easter Sunday when certain Christian religions traditionally fast. On this day (so the historians say) there were feasts of pancakes to use up the supplies of fat, butter and eggs, foods that were forbidden during austere Lent. Nobody knows just how long people have been making

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We talked about supermarkets and about the way the products, stands and aisles are arranged in order to get more sales without the customer noticing it. That is called 'the psychology of supermarkets'. Not only the supermarkets but also the companies which have their products on sale there spend millions on studying the customer's habits. Everything counts, from the place of the product on the

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Are you still in trouble with the present perfect simple and continuous? Have a look at this presentation, it might help. And then do the exercises below, practice makes perfect!!! Presentation 1 Exercise 1 Exercise 2 Exercise 3 Exercise 4 Exercise 5

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You know English, you like English, but what do you know about the language you are learning? How did it originate? Where and when did people start using it? How did it become an international language? Read the following article to find the answers!!! A short history of the origins and development of English The history of the English language really started with the arrival of three Germanic

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Have you ever heard that men are from Mars and women from Venus? It comes from a book by John Gray offering many suggestions for improving men-women relationships in couples by understanding the communication style and emotional needs of the opposite gender. The book, as suggested by the title, asserts the notion that men and women are as different as beings from other planets. For some that's

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As the Internet has expanded and new technologies arise in relation to the Internet, so has new terminology, abbreviations, and neologisms. Here is a list of Internet related terminology.

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Given the individual natures of human beings, it's no wonder the English language includes so many personality adjectives. You might not notice it, but people use adjectives to describe each other more than they describe anything else. Personality, the most important thing about a person, has some incredibly fun words to describe it. Here are some of the most entertainingly interesting

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To learn more vocabulary about people's character and personality go to 'our filing cabinet' to download or print the document. You can try this online quiz by the BBC Learning Service aswell. 

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A description is a written or verbal account, representation, or explanation of someone or something,the process of giving an account or explanation of something. The joy of language is that it allows human beings to describe their environs creatively. The ammunition a large vocabulary affords the speaker is the ability to describe his surroundings more accurately and pointedly,

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In class we talked about relationships and we learned some phrasal verbs related to them. By sheer coincidence, I bumped into this blog entry and I just found it curious. Mysteries of the language... “I love you,” she says. “I love you more,” he replies. “I love you most,” comes her response. “I love you the mostest,” he answers, somewhat ungrammatically. And they carry on like this for a

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A friend sent me this video and I just thought of sharing it with you. Striking and moving, isn't it?

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Go to this page to learn about defining relative clauses Go to this page to learn about non-defining relative clauses And to this page to see them compared, defining vs non-defining relative clauses This powerpoint will be useful aswell And now you can try these exercises. If you still have problems, ask your teacher for more!!! exercise 1 choose the correct answer exercise 2 combine the

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These are the videos we watched in class. Now you can watch them again as many times as you want and do the exercises that you will find in 'our filing cabinet'. HOW TO SURVIVE VALENTINE'S DAY IF YOU ARE SINGLE HOW TO REKINDLE THE FLAME

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What is ABT2, ASAP or T4P? Well, they are Internet slang for about to, as soon as possible and thanks for posting. Internet slang (Internet short-hand, leet, netspeak or chatspeak) is a type of slang that Internet users have popularized, and in many cases, have coined. Such terms often originate with the purpose of saving keystrokes. Many people use the same abbreviations in texting and instant

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Groundhog Day is a holiday celebrated on February 2. It is held in the United States and Canada. According to folklore, if a groundhog emerging from its burrow on this day fails to see its shadow, it will leave the burrow, signifying that winter will soon end. If on the other hand, the groundhog sees its shadow, the groundhog will supposedly retreat into its burrow, and winter will continue for

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Listening is very important, listening comes before Speaking. You must be able to hear something before you can say it. CNN Student News is a ten-minute, commercial-free, daily news program produced by the journalists and educators at CNN. This award-winning show and its companion Web site are available free of charge throughout the school year and it includes daily transcripts for each show.

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Go to "our filing cabinet" to see, print or download the exercise.

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In class we were talking about dos and don'ts and most of you talked about recent laws. Did you know it's illegal in France to name a pig Napoleon? Or that in Ohio you're not allowed to get a fish drunk? There are many strange laws still in operation around the world. Most are no longer enforced, but technically you could be prosecuted if you break them. According to The Times this is a list of

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Go to "our filing cabinet" to see, print or download the exercise.

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Esperanto is the most widely spoken constructed international auxiliary language. Its name derives from Doktoro Esperanto, the pseudonym under which L. L. Zamenhof published the first book detailing Esperanto, the Unua Libro, in 1887. Zamenhof's goal was to create an easy-to-learn and politically neutral language that would serve as a universal second language to foster peace and international

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The exam is just around the corner and some of you get really nervous and stressed, not only before the exam but also after it when you listen to your classmates talking about how well or badly they did. To avoid panicking before the exam the best thing to do is to be well prepared. The more preparation you do beforehand the less you'll be in a position of panicking. But what about that stress

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WARNING: This game may make you smarter. It may improve your speaking, writing, thinking, grades, job performance... For each answer you get right, 10 grains of rice are donated to the United Nations World Food Program. Click here to go to the page and play the game.You can choose vocabulary, grammar, level ....

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Caving—also occasionally known as spelunking in the United States and potholing in the United Kingdom—is the recreational pastime of exploring wild (generally non-commercial) cave systems. In contrast, speleology is the scientific study of caves and the cave environment. The challenges involved in the activity depend on the cave being visited, but often include the negotiation of pitches,

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1997, and Britain is ushering in a new era. After thousands of years of Thatcher, the country rallies behind the young radical leader Tony Blair (Sheen), inventor of something fresh and exciting called New Labour, promising all kinds of excitement. The Establishment is underwhelmed, primarily anxious that this new PM will expect to be called by his first name. Still, life in Buckingham Palace

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Just for fun. This is a funny video of Steve Martin trying to learn English with a perfect American accent so he can be a spy in America. The footage is from The Pink Panther movie. Enjoy!

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 Skipping rope (British English) or jump rope (American English) is the primary tool used in the game of skipping played by children and many young adults, where one or more participants jump over a rope swung so that it passes under their feet and over their heads Go to "our filing cabinet" to print or download the exercise.

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The third Monday in January is supposedly "the most depressing day of the year". Here's what the web has to say about "Blue Monday". You might have seen or heard mention that today, 17 January 2011, is "Blue Monday": the most depressing day of the year. You won't be that surprised to learn there is no scientific basis for this description. The name was first popularised in 2005 as part of a

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Two simple definitions to hear: to receive sound with the ears to listen: to try to hear YOU are very good at languages! You must be because you already speak one language very well - your own! And if you can learn and speak one language well, then you can certainly learn and speak one or more other languages. But did you ever ask yourself: "How did I learn my own language?" In fact, you

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Words such as always, really, thoroughly, totally, etc are ADVERBS. They modify verbs, adjectives, other adverbs and sentences. Even though you insist on not using them, they are part of the language and they make our discourse more interesting and brighter. They are used to say how, when, where, or how often something happens, and also to make the meaning of an adjective, verb or another adverb

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English has an overwhelming tendency to leave letters in words even though  they are no longer pronunced ( think of the  g  in weight or daughter , for example, or the b in subtle, or the  p in pneumonia ). It is the only language to have nine ways to pronunce  a single four-letter combination. A rough coated ,dough-faced , thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough;

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By definition the Internet is a worldwide, publicly accessible series of interconnected computer networks that transmit data by packet switching using the standard Internet Protocol. But, how did it come to be this technology that is so popular and so widely used around the world? Was it always so large and extensive, filled with information about just about anything you could possibly think of

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<p><p><p><p>How to buy a computer </p></p&

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<p><p>Social Networking </p></p>

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I wouldn't call myself a social butterfly And there's not much that separates me from the other guy But when I login I begin to live There's an online world where I am king Of a little website dedicated to me With pictures of me and a list of my friends And an unofficial record of the groups that I'm in. Before the internet friendship was so tough You actually had to be in peoples presence

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TOKYO - A JAPANESE woman allegedly stole a million dollars for her 'boyfriend' who had emailed her a picture of a good-looking man but shunned contact in person for years, police and reports said on Friday. Sachiko Tsukada, 30, reportedly met the man on an Internet dating site in late 2001 but had never met him in real life until a lawsuit brought them together in October. Tsukada, a

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