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50 Amazing Life Lessons Everyone Needs. These Will Change Your Life. Its easy to lose ourselves in life sometimes.

50 Amazing Life Lessons Everyone Needs. These Will Change Your Life.

Life isn’t always easy, after all. Bad phases can come and go, or come and stay for a long time. But, we need to go on, and if we do we often come out stronger than we were before. Below are the best inspirational quotes to help you out during those tough times and hopefully give you some motivation, or at the very least something to think about. Famous Quotes by Author. Philosophical Quotes.

Stuck for a word? 15 Effective Ways to Use Google Docs in Class. June 19, 2014 I spend a considerable time every single day browsing the net tracking new updates in the world of educational technology and, often times, in the midst of this journey I would come across wonderful resources and tutorials that usually end up in one of my posts here in this blog.

15 Effective Ways to Use Google Docs in Class

So after the previous guide on how to be a Google Drive master , today I am sharing with you another awesome guide created by Eric Curts entitled "The paperless Classroom with Google Docs". This guide is available for free in a Google doc format from this link. In this guide, Eric walks you through the different stages of turning your classroom into a digitally focussed environment where you will no longer have any need for papers. This is al done through the effective use of the different Google Drive features and functionalities.

Here is a quick overview of the table of contents of this guide: Synonyms for words commonly used in student's writing. Amazing- incredible, unbelievable, improbable, fabulous, wonderful, fantastic, astonishing, astounding, extraordinary Anger- enrage, infuriate, arouse, nettle, exasperate, inflame, madden.

Synonyms for words commonly used in student's writing

Character and Personality Adjectives - Tasks. Here you can find the list of adjectives that describe character and personality Look at the following words which are used to describe a person’s character.

Character and Personality Adjectives - Tasks

Make two columns of positive and negative ones of them: cock-sure honest aggressive two-faced sensitive foolish stupid open trustworthy industrious strong charming vigorous dull thoughtful reliable boring helpful quick-tempered conceited talkative nervous competitive careful considerate petty kind polite bossy patient strong-willed sensible responsible cold lively candid mean selfish independent nasty relaxed enthusiastic arrogant silly ruthless fussy spiteful Which words from the previous exercise make their opposites by adding a prefix? Example: responsible – irresponsible Which words from the previous exercise make their opposites by changing their suffixes?

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Common Misspellings

The table gives the correct spelling of the word, handy tips on getting it right, and also the most common misspellings that we’ve found in our research, so you can check to see if any of the same mistakes have been tripping you up. Back to spelling. You may also be interested in: Words containing the letter q Spelling rules and tips Plurals of nouns. Vocabulary Tests and Games. Writing Tools. Use this quick list of Writing Tools as a handy reference.

Writing Tools

Copy it and keep it in your wallet or journal, or near your desk or keyboard. Share it and add to it. I. Nuts and Bolts 1. Strong verbs create action, save words, and reveal the players.4. 6. II. 11. Dig for the concrete and specific, details that appeal to the senses.15. III.