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How Marketers Use Social Media for Recruitment An opinion essay ( Look at the essay and do the exercises to improve your writing skills) 5D SKILLS FOR WRITING: 2. READING 3. WRITING SKILLS a. 2, 4, 3, 1 b. c, d     b, c, d because it's goog to create interest ( b, c ) and introduce an issue objectively ( d ), but not stating an opinion before presenting the arguments isn't logical. c. a, b, c     a, b, c because the conclusion should not contain new information or arguments. e. Also    What's more    Moreover    as well as    Above all    Besides    Furthermore f.  g.  h.

Texting, the great debate TEXTING IS GOOD FOR THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE Prof. David Crystal debunks the myths (S1Ep2 of It's Only a Theory , 11 May 2013) " illiterate " " ... and every one of those statements are a load of chicken droppings" "nobody sends a text without not be ing a point" "why are they leaving the letters out ?" "... the more you text, the better your literacy scores" "... abbreviations are new-fangled , cooked up by today's youth - not so". " textiquette " "... they'd look at me as if I am  nuts ." "... there are downsides to texting" 2b or not 2b?   ( The Guardian ) Video games testing  reading exercise KEY : 1. d 2. a 3. b 4. b 5. d 6. a 7. c 8. c

Multiple-choice listening : Gregg and Todd debate the necessity of minimum wages. TIP: Make sure you hide the script and do the quiz and vocab exercises before you read it. Now, let's see if this pic jogs your memory : With lyrics . ODE TO WORK I AM TIRED BECAUSE I AM OVERWORKED The population of Britain is  51  million. 21 million are retired. That leaves  30  million to do the work. There are  19  million in school. That leaves  11  million to do the work. Of this total,  2  million are unemployed and  4  million are employed by the government. That leaves  5  million to do the work. 1  million are in the armed forces which leaves  4  million to do the work! From that total  3  million are employed by the County and Borough Councils leaving  1  million to do the work! There are  620,000  people in hospitals and  379,99...

The novel upon which Hitchcock based the film  "Rear Window ". The chilling and riveting story of a man immobilised in his apartment, observing the minutiae of life - and death - through his rear window. Most of Hal Jeffries's daily observations run to the mundane, until he plays back certain events in his mind and realises that they point to a murder. What do you fancy doing? - Read the short story "It had to be murder" by Cornell Woolerich, 1942 (13 pages). - Listen to it on BBC Radio Reading. - Watch Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954) The Must-Read Short Stories Behind 16 Great Movies

Kaitiakitanga – guardianship and conservation New Zealand Travel website Sounds of New Zealand English Environment (vocabulary and activities) New fountains and bottle-refill points to tackle London's plastic waste ( The Guardian ) ESL Video Quiz: (multiple choice) Green Growth : A New Model for Sustainable Development in Asia Avatar : Environment, Sustainability The Na'vi (in English: The People) are a race of extraterrestrial humanoids who inhabit the jungle moon of Pandora. They choose to live in harmony and natural equilibrium with their surroundings. If they become too numerous, Eywa, the intelligence they worship, may devise a way to limit their numbers before they cause an ecological imbalance, for she maintains the balance of life. Over the millennium, the Na'vi have developed a healthy respect and reverence for their surrounding environment. In return, Eywa may have affected the environment to provide them with sufficient food a...

Blue Gum Tree   - a short story  by Pat Boyle. Eucalypts: Trees of the Future?  (New Zealand Geographic)

A report on a school trip abroad Look at the report and do the exercises to improve your writing skills.

Another useful YouTube channel: Emma Saying Learn how to say words in English correctly with Emma Saying free pronunciation tutorials.

The battle for the most popular Christmas advert is underway... Best Christmas Adverts 2017 – Festive Round up So Far. Christmas ads 2017 round-up: Watch the festive best from around the world . #everybitofChristmas | Sainsbury's Ad | Christmas 2017 THE 'GOGGLEBOX' CAST INTERACTS WITH GOOGLE HOME IN CHANNEL 4 AD BREAK TAKEOVER

A Special Christmas Story: The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry.   / ˈmeɪdʒaɪ /  1.   Read the short story online here (only 6 pages). 2.  Listen to it : T he VOA Special English program, AMERICAN STORIES (with transcript). The mp3 file is on the right-hand side. 3. Summary, Theme & Analysis ( video and quiz ). The Magi : I n the Bible, the three men, thought to be kings or astrologers, who followed a star to visit Jesus Christ when he was a baby and give him presents. They are also called the Three Kings or the Three Wise Men. SPEAKING EXAM, Task 2 (interaction): Read the following articles in order to gather ideas and vocabulary about this topic: - The pros and cons of online shopping: Article 1 - The pros and cons of online shopping: Article 2 - Demonetisation:   Fundamental shift in payment habits

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Chris Hemsworth's Dangerous Climb in the Himalayas:  Being Elsa Pataky's plus one,  the actor took part in the Spanish adventure programme "Planeta Calleja" . However, something went wrong. This is how he explained it: SOME HELP FOR YOU: We did a trip recently to the Himalayas. Oh, really? How high up did you go? We got higher and higher and we ended up in about 4000 metres above sea level. You acclimate every couple of days ... so your body adjusts to that, lack of oxygen. Have you ever heard of altitude depression? Just to give you an idea, if you had a bottle of water outside your sleeping bag, it's frozen by the time you wake up. It has to be tucked in with you. Oh, really? It was freezing. I'm in my bed, I'm just tossing and turning ...  and my breathing is getting worse ... like in a Darth Vader meets Daffy Duck . "Get him off the mountain" Apparently, the oxygen in my lungs, the next day was oxyge...

Black Friday :  Todd explains Black Friday and Cyber Monday to Aimee. Living on the cheap:    Dan talks about how he saves a lot of money by living in Southeast Asia. Both with quiz, vocab., and script.

Scouring the nation for recipes that evoke each of the 50 states  (reading) The story of Thanksgiving by Ellen Degeneres: Autocorrect mishaps : Friday Night Mishaps (multiple choice listening activity) What's Your Worst Travel Mishap? Last year I planned to travel to Florence for the weekend with a friend in August. We each booked tickets for the same flight coming home Sunday evening and couldn’t figure out why mine was so much cheaper. On Sunday morning, while trying to check in online in order to print my boarding pass, I realized that the flight I had booked left Florence that very same day but in September! After a panicked phone call with Iberia, who mockingly informed me there was a 300-euro fee for my ignorance of the months of the year, I got booked on the correct flight. Signed: Your Teacher

They would and they did! To take over To boss sb around Funky phrasals (BBC Learning English) Phrasal Verbs Games (Macmillan Dictionary) Phrasal verbs in context (older post) APP

Improve your writing . How to write an essay . Written Production . Writing class: Makeovers . Writing C1 . Writing topics and reference sites online (C1) . The Essay - Mr. Bean Extra History: South Sea Bubble (market crash, 1711). VIDEOS PREPOSITION PLACEMENT IN RELATIVE CLAUSES Everyday English Formal English (writing) Is that the man  (who) she arrived with ? Is that the man  with whom she arrived ? Does he know the girl  (that) John is talking to ? Does he know the girl  to whom John is talking ? It is a club  (which) many important people belong to . It is a club  to which many important people belong .

Page 20, exercise f: 1.  a. eerie b. deafening c. hammered d. whining e. gurgling f. roar g. thump h. whisper i. decibels 2. roar: dull whisper: soft thump: dull 3.  absorb sound (vb.) ambient soung (adj.) a scraping sound (adj.) background noise (noun, making a compound noun) EXPRESSING PREFERENCES: Exercise 1 Exercise 2 Exercise 3 Exercise 4 The More Education Republicans Have, the Less They Tend to Believe in Climate Change , an  exhaustive scientific report unveiled this month (The New York Times)

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