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July 2nd, 2009 | Tags: english classes, speaking, speaking practice, spoken comments | Category: Bite Sized English, spoken | Comments Off

This is the first entry in the “The Economy” series. We’ll be talking economics all week!
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June 29th, 2009 | Tags: business, economic, economy, news | Category: English One, Topic, spoken | Leave a comment

This is an entry in the “Hometown English” series. There will be more information on cities and describing cities all week.
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June 26th, 2009 | Tags: amsterdam, hometown | Category: English Three, listening, spoken | Leave a comment

This is the first entry in the “Hometown English” series. The other posts are:

Hometown vocabulary
The modal verbs
Welcome to Dresden
Amsterdam

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June 22nd, 2009 | Tags: hometown | Category: English One, spoken | Leave a comment

This entry is the first of the White Wedding series. The other posts in this series are:

Basic Vocabulary
Party, Celebration and Anniversary
Wedding Idioms
A ‘Typical’ American Wedding

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June 15th, 2009 | Tags: Everyday English, romance, wedding | Category: English One, Topic, Writing, spoken | Comments (1)

There are two reasons that I really like this video.  The first is that I agree with what the author/speaker is saying: the important thing isn’t what category other people put you in, but what you yourself decide to do.  I don’t know how old the author/speaker is, but I’ve heard enough stupid things said [...]

May 24th, 2009 | Tags: generation, lost, Video, word order | Category: spoken | Comments (2)