Wyatt, Rawdon - Check Your Vocabulary for TOEFL Exercise 1Look at these sentences and decide if the statement which follows each one is true or false. Use thewords and expressions in bold to help you decide. General Vocabulary Changes 1. There has been a dramatic increase in the number of people living in the country. 2. steady decrease in the number of people out of work. 3. deterioration in the national road system. 4. decline in the number of exam passes. 5. weakening of the dollar. 6. tightening up of border controls. 7. We're running down our stocks of coal. 8. constant rise in the rate of inflation. 9. sharp fall in the pass rate. 10. The alliance are going to build up the number of weapons they have. 11. growth in industrial activity. 12. relaxation of the rules. 13. narrowing of the gap between those working in different sectors of the economy. 14. Some management roles are going to be phased out 15. There has been an upward trend in the number of people shopping in small local stores. 16. There has been marked progress in her English. 17. general improvement 18.
20 Awesome Brainteasers with Answers to Rack Your Brains – Obvious Fun So you want to see how smart your brain is? Here’s 20 of the awesome brainteasers with answers to see how far you can think. Now don’t simply jump to the answers right away. I must say most of these riddles can easily be cracked, once you give it a good thought. Put your grey cells to work with these awesome brainteasers! Tom’s height is six feet, he’s an assistant at a butcher’s shop, and wears size 9 shoes. An Interactive Mind Map Made With Thinglink This morning I saw a Tweet from Thinglink Edu about an interactive image of examples of uses of Thinglink in education. One of the examples was this interactive mind map created by Phillipe Packu. The mind map is a drawing that was uploaded to Thinglink then pinned with videos, images, audio files, and links to example each part of the mind map. I've embedded the mind map below. Applications for Education I've written about Thinglink a bunch of times because I think that it can be a very useful tool for students to tag and identify important elements in images.
Riddles For Kids - Riddles.com Text Messaging, Chat Abbreviations and Smiley Faces - Webopedia Updated November 16, 2016 / Posted March 01, 2004 By Vangie Beal This chat guide lists more than 1,460 text message and online chat abbreviations to help you translate today's texting lingo. With the popularity and rise in use of online text-based communications came the emergence of a new texting language, tailored to the immediacy and compactness of these new communication media. While it does seem incredible that there are thousands of text abbreviations, keep in mind that different chat abbreviations are used by different groups of people. Top 10 Text Abbreviations According to search query data the following 10 text abbreviations are the most requested chat definitions: What does rofl mean? List of 1,461 Online Chat and Text Message Abbreviations To keep our chat guide user-friendly for all ages, some inappropriate words have been edited to include an alternate meaning. Numbers & Characters A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z The History of Text Messaging
background - Google 搜索 Как выучить английские неправильные глаголы Английский язык всё больше и больше приобретает статус международного. Его учат в странах Евросоюза, России, Китае. Со знанием английского языка проще устроиться на хорошую работу. Возможно, секрет в том, что это - язык ведущих стран мира. А возможно, в том, что он достаточно прост и структурирован. Что это такое? Все глаголы в английском языке имеют три формы, которые формируются благодаря несложным правилам. С какой стороны подойти? Существует несколько мнений. Тем, кому отступать поздно и некуда, остаётся запастись терпением, выбрать себе подходящий метод обучения и смело двигаться вперёд! Метод рифмования. Этот метод основан на том, что большинство неправильных глаголов можно зарифмовать. come – came — come become – became – become speak — spoke — spoken break — broke – broken Те неправильные глаголы, которые не удалось зарифмовать с себе подобными, прекрасно рифмуются со строчками на русском языке. Проверить себя: сделать тест на неправильные глаголы из этого стишка Группа 1. Группа 2.
YouTube to MP4 & MP3 Converter and Video Download -... VOA Special English Free Online YouTube Downloader: Download YouTube Videos,... Digital Storytelling with Voicethread (and How to Do It Offline) As regular readers of this blog will know, I love doing things in class that are simple yet productive and full of student-generated content. It might be something like a drawing activity that leads into a whole series of other tasks, a couple of everyday items as the basis of discussion, or, as featured on my recent guest post on Teaching Village, a basic digital camcorder and some very creative young minds. Another simple but effective web 2.0 tool I really like using is Voicethread. I love the interactivity it offers with different people able to leave messages on the same presentation slide as well as the option to combine images or text with audio or video comments. At the start of the school year, I was asked at work if I knew of any ways to make the activities we do for the school wiki more interactive and Voicethread was the first thing that came to mind. “Great - do it” they said. “Sure,” I replied. (..pause..) “Isn’t there a way to do it without all that?”