tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56830090557392894982024-03-18T04:03:27.184+01:00A language studio - EnglishAleksandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01488581833414532474noreply@blogger.comBlogger109125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5683009055739289498.post-20470352100962208032017-01-16T20:10:00.000+01:002017-01-16T20:29:24.744+01:00The Project Competition 2017<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Get creative in class and motivate your students to use English by creating a poster on this year's topic - <b><i>The Future.</i></b></div>
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<b>1.</b> Divide your class into groups of 2-6 students</div>
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You and your students could win some fantastic prizes, including:</div>
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<b>2.</b> A set of 20 bestselling <a href="https://elt.oup.com/catalogue/items/global/graded_readers/dominoes/?cc=gb&selLanguage=en&mode=hub&dm_i=1MVU,4L1WZ,LC238V,H0X3A,1" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Dominoes</span></a> Readers</div>
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<b>4.</b> A certificate for every student that enters</div>
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Please visit the <a href="https://elt.oup.com/feature/global/project_competition/?dm_i=1MVU,4L1WZ,LC238V,H59FZ,1&cc=rs&selLanguage=en" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">competition website</span></a> or <a href="https://www.brainshark.com/oup/projectcompetition2017?dm_i=1MVU,4L1WZ,LC238V,H0X38,1" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">watch the short video</span></a> to find out more.</div>
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This year, Pearson ELT has launched the inaugural teacher award, recognizing innovative ELT teaching around the world.</div>
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Six lucky winners will receive an all-expenses-paid trip to the IATEFL or TESOL conferences in the U.K. or U.S.</div>
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You can submit your entry or nominate a colleague.</div>
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The Award is open for entries until January 1, 2017 via the <b><a href="http://bit.ly/2itYyUq" target="_blank">Pearson ELT</a> </b>website. </div>
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If you are not fond of using <b>very (</b>because it's weak or vague) and wish to replace it with a more accurate or vivid word, this enormously helpful infographic shows 128 words that you can use instead. </div>
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This webinar provides the tools to bring grammar to life through examples of everyday situations, as realistic contexts are always the best way to introduce and practise grammar.</div>
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Aleksandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01488581833414532474noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5683009055739289498.post-27986461093470914772016-09-04T15:58:00.000+02:002016-09-04T15:59:27.066+02:00Webinar - The Potential of Smart Devices<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Join the webinar to discover how technology can become a significant part of the learning process for your students. </div>
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The webinar will be presented by <b>Thomas Healy</b>, Smart Choice author and an Assistant Professor in the Intensive English Program at the Pratt Institute, New York City.</div>
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If you are an adult learner of English and would like to take a free online test just to get an approximate level of your knowledge of the language, here is a Cambridge one consisting of 25 questions.</div>
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Another year and another Say It With Oxford Competition. For all of you who are not familiar with this competition, here's what it is all about and what you should do to participate.</div>
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Organized by Oxford University Press, the competition is for teachers who would like to <span style="color: blue;">win a place on the Oxford English Language Teacher's Academy Summer School 2016</span>. </div>
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Aleksandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01488581833414532474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5683009055739289498.post-38617620015027536832016-04-30T23:21:00.000+02:002016-05-01T15:46:51.914+02:00IATEFL 2016 - Plenary by Jan Blake<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Jan Blake is one of the leading storytellers and performers, specialising in stories from Africa, the Caribbean and Arabia. Her storytelling is known as dynamic, exciting and witty. The way she performs is extraordinary. She is the winner of many storytelling awards.</div>
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I highly recommend watching the plenary of Jan Blake, in which she shares a selection of her favourite stories (the ones she read, heard, told to herself).</div>
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Storytelling represents one of the most powerful learning methods, thus the session is well worth hearing.</div>
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Although, unfortunately, I didn't attend the 50th (a golden jubilee!) IATEFL conference, I have the honour to be one of its online registered bloggers.</div>
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Today's post will briefly discuss the plenary by one of the greatest linguists - Professor David Crystal, who is the patron of IATEFL.</div>
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I met the professor a couple of years ago at a conference and I find his work truly inspiring.</div>
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You can watch David Crystal's presentation <a href="http://iatefl.britishcouncil.org/2016/session/plenary-david-crystal" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><b>here</b></span></a>.</div>
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The focus of Crystal's talk is on principal changes in all areas of the English language, referring to the changes of vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, etc. that have occurred in the last fifty years and those that are likely to happen in the next five decades. We see swift <b>language change</b> as a consequence of different factors, such as the Internet and globalization. He even expresses sympathy for language teachers, as English and its norms change at such a rapid rate that the language teachers once learnt to teach is no longer the same and acceptable. Of course, every living language is destined to be altered, but now we can talk about words and phrases that have a very short life - becoming old-fashioned quicker than it took them to get popular. I'm afraid that the future will only quicken the pace of (<b>vocabulary</b>)<b> change</b> and that teachers would need to learn how to best adapt for the sake of pupils.</div>
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As far as English <b>pronunciation </b>is concerned, the professor suggests two major changes over the last 50 years:</div>
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To mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, ELTA (English Language Teachers' Association in Serbia) is organizing two competitions for English language teachers and students.</div>
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You are invited to send your authentic lesson plans, quizzes, games and other Shakespeare-related classroom activities, which will be posted on ELTA's <a href="http://elta.org.rs/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">website</span></a> and Facebook <a href="https://www.facebook.com/eltaserbia/?fref=ts" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">page</span></a>. Each month from February to May 2016, two book prizes will be given to teachers who send the most inspiring ideas, and a special prize will be given to the teacher whose activity gets the most likes on Facebook.</div>
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You are also invited to send your or your students' drawings, illustrations, paintings, photos or collages of Shakespeare's quotes which will be posted on ELTA's Facebook page, and in June 2016 the best illustration will be chosen and its author will be rewarded.</div>
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Here's a selection of number idioms divided into three categories. Each example is followed by a picture for better understanding of the idiom. I hope you find it helpful.</div>
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With the help of the US Embassy in Belgrade, Serbia, <b>American Corner</b> Belgrade is organizing a new round of TOEFL advisory classes that will begin on January 23 2016 and will last 5 classes.</div>
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Aleksandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01488581833414532474noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5683009055739289498.post-66138579636260101332016-01-10T20:33:00.000+01:002016-01-10T20:35:37.971+01:00Many Languages, One World 2016<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI) and ELS Educational Services Inc. (ELS) are organizing the <i>Many Languages, One World</i> essay contest for the third straight year. </div>
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In order to participate, students must write an essay of 2,000 words or less regarding multilingualism in the context of global citizenship and of their personal, academic, and cultural background. The essay must be written in one of the six official UN languages (<b>English, French, Russian, Arabic, Spanish, Chinese</b>) that is not their mother tongue or primary language of instruction.</div>
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Essay submission deadline: <b><span style="color: blue;"><u>31 March 2016</u>.</span></b></div>
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As you have probably heard, several days ago Oxford Dictionaries announced that <b>Word of the Year</b> <b>2015</b> is not a word at all. It's a pictograph, officially named the <b>'Face with Tears of Joy</b>' <span style="color: blue;">emoji</span>. The<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-tDgeq9Md7Jje3AbZLJyjs5jDo6r2OpzoqJUihFqJUX7iZDasiJREQhyphenhyphenbcsyGl7hH5m5k4U-wVs0AbTRs32ASBOEbGLTOX6MvRsvhEEAjhvt3_u39xQIQ6BB_GuL_Vngc0T3mbPLBWjw/s1600/laugh2.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-tDgeq9Md7Jje3AbZLJyjs5jDo6r2OpzoqJUihFqJUX7iZDasiJREQhyphenhyphenbcsyGl7hH5m5k4U-wVs0AbTRs32ASBOEbGLTOX6MvRsvhEEAjhvt3_u39xQIQ6BB_GuL_Vngc0T3mbPLBWjw/s1600/laugh2.PNG" /></a>was chosen as the 'word' that best reflected the themes of 2015.</div>
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For this year's Word of the Year campaign, Oxford University Press has collaborated with SwiftKey - mobile technology business - to find out statistics for the most popular and most used word worldwide. It turned out to be a symbol rather than an actual word. It has been identified that use of the word <i>emoji </i>increased considerably in 2015, and that the <b style="text-align: justify;">'Face with Tears of Joy</b><span style="text-align: justify;">' one won the battle. According to the presented data,</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijHRP06s5G05xEBvwst2zrwE1bECCapz0CBjy5kpSJlSlnuTYdkFs3fKsErqzoVi1nIbTXqiDXY8fCt84FvYMmqEi00bUk7i2OIZl3bawmyqn5Eah-tegtsJVFa9_aaHnGdQRcMrgc758/s1600/laugh2.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijHRP06s5G05xEBvwst2zrwE1bECCapz0CBjy5kpSJlSlnuTYdkFs3fKsErqzoVi1nIbTXqiDXY8fCt84FvYMmqEi00bUk7i2OIZl3bawmyqn5Eah-tegtsJVFa9_aaHnGdQRcMrgc758/s1600/laugh2.PNG" /></a> made up almost 20% of all the mojis used in the UK, and 17% of those in the US in 2015. <span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span> </div>
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<b>The Project Competition 2016</b> is organized by Oxford University Press and is open to students between the ages of 10-16.</div>
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All teachers need to do is come up with some good ideas in class and inspire students to enjoy using English by creating a poster on this year's topic:</div>
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Climate metaphors are often used, especially in written English. </div>
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The word <i><span style="color: purple;"><b>climate</b> </span></i>can refer to the general atmosphere or situation in society.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: left;">° </span>The words - <i><u><b>cultural, economic, current, financial, moral, social, political, prevailing</b></u></i> - collocate strongly with climate in the social sense. </div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: left;">° </span>The company's dishonest policies towards the workers created <i><u><span style="color: blue;">a climate of distrust</span></u></i>.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8667px;">° </span><span style="line-height: 16.8667px;">The manager left <span style="color: #45818e;"><i><u>under a cloud</u></i> </span>of suspicion <span style="font-family: inherit;">after a fraud scandal.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8667px;">° </span><span style="line-height: 16.8667px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The message sparked off <i><u><span style="color: #783f04;">a whirlwind of</span></u></i> speculation.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8667px;">° </span><span style="line-height: 16.8667px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It was <i><u><span style="color: #6aa84f;">a whirlwind romance</span></u></i> - they married two months after they met. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8667px;">° </span><span style="line-height: 16.8667px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The horses<i><u> <span style="color: #3d85c6;">thundered</span></u></i><span style="color: #3d85c6;"> </span>down the dirt road.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8667px;">° </span><span style="line-height: 16.8667px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The <span style="color: #351c75;"><i><u>winds of discontent</u></i> </span>are blowing across the country.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8667px;">° </span><span style="line-height: 16.8667px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The truth has been lost in <i><u><span style="color: red;">the mists of time</span></u></i>.</span></span></div>
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Zahvaljujući saradnji <b>ELTA Serbia</b> (Udruženje nastavnika engleskog jezika) i <b>Američke ambasade</b>, organizovaće se dvogodišnji program besplatnih časova engleskog jezika namenjen osnovcima i srednjoškolcima od 13 do 15 godina iz socijalno ugroženih porodica iz <i><u><span style="color: blue;">Beograda</span></u></i> i <i><u><span style="color: blue;">Kragujevca</span></u></i>. Broj polaznika je ograničen.</div>
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Program se odvija posle časova, a pored časova engleskog, učenici će moći da nauče više o američkoj kulturi, kao i da učestvuju u raznim vannastavnim aktivnostima.</div>
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This <b>free online course</b> is open to anyone interested in the great poetry of <b>William Wordsworth</b>, focusing on his writing process and the beautiful landscape of the Lake District. </div>
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Through different readings and discussions with an emphasis on Grasmere and the Lake District, the course will explore why this location was so special for Britain's best-loved poet.</div>
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<li style="text-align: justify;">The city has a <b><span style="color: blue;">bypass</span></b>, which keeps traffic out of the centre.</li>
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<li style="text-align: justify;">Rioting has <span style="color: blue;"><b>broken out</b></span> all over the city.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">I <b><span style="color: blue;">passed by</span></b> your house on the way to the station.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">There is no verb <strike><span style="color: blue;">to date up</span></strike>.</li>
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<i> a meal you buy in a restaurant to eat at home</i><br />
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<span style="text-align: justify;"> 9. After her husband died, Anna had an emotional <b><u><span style="color: #3d85c6;">breakdown</span></u></b>.</span><br />
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<i> a serious mental illness</i><br />
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<i> new and successful development</i><br />
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<b style="text-align: justify;">◊</b> <b><i>up</i></b><br />
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<i> ending a relationship</i><br />
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<i> a large change</i><br />
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Aleksandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01488581833414532474noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5683009055739289498.post-46268994668728595252015-06-11T20:53:00.000+02:002015-06-11T20:53:56.100+02:00150 Years of Alice - Write About Your Wonderland<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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To celebrate 150 years of Alice in Wonderland, Macmillan Readers have organised a <i style="font-weight: bold;">Write about your Wonderland </i>competition for all English language learners. All you have to do is submit your fictional story about your Wonderland. </div>
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You can send in <u>a short story</u> (between 500 and 1000 words) <b>and/or </b>one <u>drawing</u> based on the theme <i>My Wonderland</i>.</div>
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In the <b>writing category</b>, there will be <b>one winner per age group</b>. They will win:</div>
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<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">£</span></span>100 worth of Macmillan Education eBook vouchers</li>
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In the <b>drawing category</b>, there will be <b>one winner per age group</b>. Their drawigns will appear on the cover of the collection. They will win:</div>
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The competition runs until <b>31 August 2015 (midnight GMT)</b>.</div>
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You can find some activities for inspiration<span style="color: blue;"> <a href="http://www.macmillanreaders.com/150-years-of-alice" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">here</span></a></span>.</div>
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<a href="http://www.macmillanreaders.com/wonderland-competition/submit-your-story" target="_blank"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b>Submit Your Story</b></span></a></div>
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Aleksandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01488581833414532474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5683009055739289498.post-91534429875908444892015-06-08T22:37:00.000+02:002015-06-08T22:37:11.587+02:00Getting Emotional<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Are you an emotional person? What emotion represents you the most? Does it depend on a situation?</div>
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<li style="text-align: justify;">Come on, tell me. I promise I won't breathe a word to anyone.</li>
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{<span style="color: red;">curiosity</span>}</div>
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<li style="text-align: justify;">No, I'm not going there. Look how high that tower is!</li>
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{<span style="color: lime;">astonishment</span>}</div>
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{<span style="color: cyan;">irritation</span>}</div>
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<li>Words can't express how much you mean to me!</li>
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<li>What do you mean I'm a couch potato? I exercise at least twice a week.</li>
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{<span style="color: #cc0000;">boastfulness</span>}</div>
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<li>Thank God you're here. When I couldn't get you on your mobile, horrible thoughts came to my mind.</li>
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{<span style="color: #351c75;">relief</span>}</div>
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<li>Oh, honey, don't cry. You'll be all right. It's just a small cut.</li>
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{<span style="color: lime;">reassurance</span>}</div>
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<li>Get this bunch of useless things out of my house! Now!</li>
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{<span style="color: magenta;">fury</span>}</div>
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<li>I can't tell you how much I appreciate everything you've done for me. I'd have been completely lost without your support.</li>
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<li>Wow! I could never do anything like that. Fifteen kilometres are my limit.</li>
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{<span style="color: red;">admiration</span>}</div>
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Aleksandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01488581833414532474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5683009055739289498.post-20354857994862567912015-06-03T21:08:00.000+02:002015-06-05T12:52:54.787+02:00Adverbs With Two Forms<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Some adverbs have two forms, one with and one without <span style="font-size: large;"><b>-ly</b></span>. Sometimes the two meanings are connected and sometimes they are not.</div>
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<u><b>easy/easily</b></u></div>
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1. Relax! Take it <span style="color: blue;">easy</span>! [calm; free from worry]</div>
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Real Madrid won the match <span style="color: blue;">easily</span>. [not difficult]</div>
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2. We hate it when you arrive <span style="color: blue;">late</span>. [arriving after the planned, expected time]</div>
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Have you been doing anything useful <span style="color: blue;">lately</span>? [recently]</div>
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I <span style="color: blue;">hardly</span> ever go to concerts. [almost never]</div>
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4. You're definitely doing it <span style="color: blue;">wrong</span>. [in a way that is not correct]</div>
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She spelled her own name <span style="color: blue;">wrongly</span>. [not correctly]</div>
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5. Can you lend me your book? <span style="color: blue;">Sure</span>. [certainly]</div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Surely</span> you don't expect me to say that? [used to express surprise that something has happened or is going to happen]</div>
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I think that those kids are <span style="color: blue;">mostly</span> orphans. [mainly]</div>
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The prisoner walked <span style="color: blue;">free</span> after seventeen years in jail. [not limited]</div>
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She has travelled <span style="color: blue;">widely</span> in Europe, Asia and Africa. [including a lot of different places]</div>
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I think very <span style="color: blue;">highly</span> of Andrew and his wife. [have a good opinion of someone/above average]</div>
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