Language is a funny old thing. We master it, we use it, we play with it, we express ourselves with it and, indeed, to a great extent, we define ourselves by the ways we exploit it. Yet sometimes it springs a surprise on us, and we’re left perplexed and a little helpless. Have you ever, …
Most of my students learning English seem to rate their progress in the language, by the amount of tenses they ‘know’. I’ve deliberately put ‘know’ in parenthesis, as the the word seems to have different definition to different learners. Here are a few definitions: 1. I ‘know’ a tense because I have been shown how it …
You will hear people talking in eight different situations. For questions 1–8, choose the best answer (A, B or C).
You will hear five different people talking about occasions when a person’s clothes and appearance caused surprise or concern. For questions 1–5, match the speaker to the correct occasion in the list A–H . Use the letters only once. There are three extra letters which you do not need to use. A. a weddingB. a …
Below are a few expressions/ some vocabulary used in the listening excerp you will be asked some questions about in the Listening Test you can take here: My suggestion is to take the test before you do the next activity, and then take the test again, to see if the exercise has helped you with …
Look at the following phrases or word which are used in the listening you are going to be tested on. If you like you can scroll down to do the test first, and see how you do before yoy look at these phrases/words. Then go through the phrases/words below and gp through the interactive listening …
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An Interview With a British Politician.
