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Grammar Learning

The Future

simple-future- Chart

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grammar Learning Vocabulary

Countable and uncountable nouns

COUNTABLE AND UNCOUNTABLES NAMES

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Comprehension grammar Learning

Phrasal Verbs with Look

phrasal verbs with look

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Exercises Grammar Learning Vocabulary

Antonyms Worksheet

2. Match the following words with their antonyms.

   Contraction       detached       join       ambitious   alive  Exciting   quarrelsome   endless  traditional   determined

 

1. to separate, not to take part in : 

2. boring : 

3. long form, expansion : 

4. innovative : 

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Culture Grammar Learning Reading Vocabulary

Hugh Turvey: Inside the Life of an X-Ray Artist

Hugh Turvey is a British artist and photographer who uses x-ray technology to create what he calls Xograms, a fusion of visible light and x-ray imagery. I first worked with him for an assignment in the magazine and have to come to rely on his expertise when it comes to seeing the unseen. I spoke with him about his work and recent photo published in the February issue of National Geographic magazine.

goldfish

X-ray of a goldfish in a bowl.

I am an experimentalist and I think in images. Since I started working with x-ray in the late 1990’s, I am constantly amazed with how little I know.” —Hugh Turvey

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Comprehension Culture Learning News Reading Vocabulary

Fantasy Hollywood: restaging classic films with black models

When two Senegalese photographers messed with some very familiar screen moments, they were taken aback by the racial dimension to the response.

Black Hollywood Breakfast                  Breakfast at Onomo’s, 2013. Photograph: Antoine Tempé

Back in the 80s, my classmates and I piled into Mbabane’s local cinema to watch Top Gun. We’d turn to each other, channeling our best version of Val Kilmer to spout “You can be my wing man anytime” – followed by intense laughter. Who doesn’t have a favourite line, an iconic moment from film lodged in our minds?

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Exercises Grammar Vocabulary

Say or tell?

VOCABULARY
Fill in the blanks with say or tell .Don’t forget to check the tense.

1. Laura  her friends that she was going to have a party on Saturday.2. The teacher  the class to open the books.

3. Bob and Carol  they had already had dinner.

4. My friends  me to have a good time on my holiday.

5. My father  I was doing very well at school.

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Grammar Learning Vocabulary

Practice your English

Fill in the blanks with the words from the list.

As soon as – However – As – Suddenly
better – view – opposite – imagine
idea – room – even – front desk

As we live in London, we had thought it was a good  to go to Paris for one week. As you can , we were very happy and enthusiastic. , something unpredictable happened.We had booked a small  in a nice hotel  the river.

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Grammar Learning

Phrasal Verbs with «look»

Gap-fill Exercise

Fill in the blanks using the words in the box below, then click the «Check» button to check your answers.
   after      around      away      down      for      into      out      over      through    up   
1. While you are hiking in the forest, you need to look  for rattlesnakes. They are often lying on the trails.2. If you don’t know his phone number, you can look it  in the phone book.

3. The police are going to look  the recent robberies in the neighborhood. Hopefully, they will find the thief.

4. While he was looking  the papers, he noticed a couple of spelling mistakes.

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Grammar

PHRASAL VERBS WITH “BREAK”

COYOTE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Break down = stop functioning (vehicle, machine)

Break down = get upset

break something down =  divide into smaller parts

break in= force entry to a building

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Learning Vocabulary

10 different meanings of:

FOTO HANG

To hang:

1.   Suspend from a fixed point

2.   Execute by handing

3.   Adorn, decorate/adorner

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Learning

Cambridge apps for English learning

Now you can choose when and how to learn: anytime, anywhere, 30 seconds or 30 minutes, at home or on the go. Explore the following apps to find out more.

 The Phrasal Verbs Machine

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Phrasal verbs are complicated for non-native English speakers to learn and use. In this application we can find animate illustrations of 100 phrasal verbs set in the circus world of our main character and his friends.

We hope you find it useful!