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Passive. The difference between the United Kingdom (UK) England, Great Britain (GB) and the British Isles. England | Scotland | Wales | Britain | Great Britain United Kingdom | Northern Ireland | British Isles 'When people say England, they sometimes mean Great Britain, sometimes the United Kingdom, sometimes the British Isles - but never England.' How to be an Alien' by George Mikes Why is England or the UK sometimes called Britain?

The difference between the United Kingdom (UK) England, Great Britain (GB) and the British Isles

"England" is sometimes, wrongly, used in reference to the whole United Kingdom, the entire island of Great Britain (or simply Britain), or indeed the British Isles. This is not only incorrect but can cause offence to people from other parts of the UK. England, Scotland, Wales, Great Britain refer to different 'parts of the UK. The diverse history of England, Scotland and Wales has led to very different cultural traditions; The Scots and Welsh have right to feel aggrieved whenever the term 'English' is used wrongly, to mean all three.

The United Kingdom The UK's full and official name is the "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland". ESL without Photocopies Optimized for Firefox/Google Chrome.: Sarah’s terrible day. Third conditional drill practice. Purpose: practice of:IF + HAD (N’T) PARTICIPLE, WOULD (N’T) HAVE PARTICIPLE Materials: a print out of the story (see below) Teachers read the story: 1.

ESL without Photocopies Optimized for Firefox/Google Chrome.: Sarah’s terrible day. Third conditional drill practice

Students write each problem and its corresponding result on the board EXAMPLE: Her alarm didn't go off – she overslept. New Headway Pre-Episode 2-A Perfect Day. 1. BEFORE WATCHING THE VIDEO, ANSWER THE.

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U5_Social media networks are changing our way of having relationships. Reality TV - Cambridge ESOL Reading Comprehension Exercise. Reality television is a genre of television programming which, it is claimed, presents unscripted dramatic or humorous situations, documents actual events, and features ordinary people rather than professional actors.

Reality TV - Cambridge ESOL Reading Comprehension Exercise

It could be described as a form of artificial or "heightened" documentary. Although the genre has existed in some form or another since the early years of television, the current explosion of popularity dates from around 2000. Reality television covers a wide range of television programming formats, from game or quiz shows which resemble the frantic, often demeaning programmes produced in Japan in the 1980s and 1990s (a modern example is Gaki no tsukai), to surveillance- or voyeurism- focused productions such as Big Brother. Part of reality television's appeal is due to its ability to place ordinary people in extraordinary situations.

Cyberbullying on the Rise - Signs and Prevention. The Internet. The Internet is a network of millions of computers all over the world that are connected with each other and work together.

The Internet

It started in the USA in the 1970s and 1980s as a government project. The World Wide Web , which came up in the middle of the 1990s , made the Internet easy to use for everybody. Education , business, entertainment and government are changing as the Internet moves into the lives of more and more people. Networks A network is a group of computers that are connected to each other by cables or telephone lines. How the Internet Works All computers that are connected to the Internet must speak the same language. Every computer on the Internet has an IP address. When a computer sends data to another computer it is broken up into many small packets . Internet services E-Mail is the oldest and most popular form of communication between computers. Structure of an email address Finding Information However , Internet users must be careful. Modals. U3_Topics: Crime. Crime. A covering letter. U3_Covering letter (Jobs)