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50 COMMON ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS IN ENGLISH

50 of the most useful English abbreviations and acronyms

PHRASAL VERBS: Your homework

Now, sing along!

PHRASAL VERBS AND... ZOMBIES!

Weird but quite clear videos of phrasal verbs in context. They are a bit long, though. Anyway, if you can spare some minutes.... They are going to carry on and on until you're dead! If these videos go with your learning style, here you have more on the Papa Teach Me YouTube channel.

ACCENTUATE THE POSITIVE: Accents&Dialects

http://www.bbc.co.uk/voices/ British accents in 11 great films How to pronounce UK place names   (the American speaker gets them all wrong! Such fun!) Please, when you are planning a trip abroad, avoid mispronunciations of the names of places. Just check the correct pronunciation of the places you are going to visit on forvo.com  beforehand. Anglophenia YouTube channel (Anglo + encyclopedia) Understanding British culture (for American speakers!!!) Illuminating! Experts demand legal protection for accents: Reading activity Should discrimination based on accent be made a legal offence? Global map of accents Archive English accents and dialects Archive UK sound map Five lessons that will help sort out your British accent Scottish accent: video + transcript For watching this video with subtiles, click here . Doctor Who : The greatest show in the galaxy So, name three Scottish inventions. Oh, and y...

SONGS TO PRACTICE schwa

T he sounds of English (BBC Learning English). Videos for all the sounds. Really helpful! Example: Useful tip: practise pronunciation using songs and sing along!!! And Tell her by Kenny Loggins, with lyrics. Finally, you know that when I tell you that English is a crazy language I'm not joking, hahaha...
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