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Posted by Kati Sule on May 16, 2013
In this weekly post, we bring more useful content from the Macmillan Dictionary to English language learners. These tips are based on areas of English which learners find difficult, e.g. spelling, grammar, collocation, synonyms, etc. This week’s language tip gives useful advice on the adjective excited: Adjectives for describing things that make someone feel excited: [...]
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Posted by Kati Sule on May 09, 2013
In this weekly post, we bring more useful content from the Macmillan Dictionary to English language learners. These tips are based on areas of English which learners find difficult, e.g. spelling, grammar, collocation, synonyms, etc. This week’s language tip gives advice on the number thousand: After a number, or after several or a few, use [...]
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Posted by Kati Sule on May 03, 2013
In this weekly post, we bring more useful content from the Macmillan Dictionary to English language learners. These tips are based on areas of English which learners find difficult, e.g. spelling, grammar, collocation, synonyms, etc. This week’s language tip gives advice on the noun news: Although the word news has an -s on the end, [...]
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Posted by Kati Sule on April 25, 2013
In this weekly post, we bring more useful content from the Macmillan Dictionary to English language learners. These tips are based on areas of English which learners find difficult, e.g. spelling, grammar, collocation, synonyms, etc. This week’s language tip gives advice on the verb stop: When you want to say that someone is no longer [...]
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Posted by Kati Sule on April 18, 2013
In this weekly post, we bring more useful content from the Macmillan Dictionary to English language learners. These tips are based on areas of English which learners find difficult, e.g. spelling, grammar, collocation, synonyms, etc. This week’s language tip includes common synonyms for the verb change: alter: a more formal word for ‘change’ His election [...]
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Posted by Kati Sule on April 12, 2013
In this weekly post, we bring more useful content from the Macmillan Dictionary to English language learners. These tips are usually based on areas of English which learners find difficult, e.g. spelling, grammar, collocation, synonyms, etc. This week’s language tip helps with key vocabulary used for talking about likes and dislikes. Other ways of saying [...]
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Posted by Kati Sule on March 28, 2013
In this weekly post, we bring more useful content from the Macmillan Dictionary to English language learners. These tips are usually based on areas of English which learners find difficult, e.g. spelling, grammar, collocation, synonyms, etc. This week, we look at some Easter vocabulary. Easter is a movable feast. The term itself describes a Sunday [...]
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Posted by Gill Francis on March 25, 2013
Spring has sprung, and if the UK weather has any respect for seasonal averages, it will soon improve: temperatures will climb, the sun will shine. There will be fewer extreme events (as the weather people say), like blizzards and heavy snowfalls. March is typically a windy month, but wind speeds will drop in April and [...]
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Posted by Kati Sule on February 28, 2013
In this weekly post, we bring more useful content from the Macmillan Dictionary to English language learners. These tips are based on areas of English which learners often find difficult, e.g. spelling, grammar, collocation, synonyms, etc. This week some advice about the noun tendency: When a verb comes after tendency, use the pattern tendency to [...]
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Posted by Gill Francis on February 25, 2013
If you are a teacher or learner of English, you are probably familiar with advice beginning You do not …, You cannot …, Be careful …, and WARNING! Older coursebooks, especially, used ‘strikethrough’ to herald the errors that you must simultaneously notice and unlearn, e.g.: I need to concentrate myself. Strikethrough is a curious convention: [...]
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