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Access English-homepage with various online activities and tools

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Access English-homepage with various online activities and tools

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There is a saying in English: "You can take a horse to water, but you can't make him drink." In other words, you can't learn a language without wanting to and without making an effort. The rewards for making this effort are enormous - much larger and more important than the grade you get at the end of the year.

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Access VG1: Drag-and-drop: English variants

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Slang expressions can be hard to understand. In this activity you can try your hand at matching definitions in English to slang variants from four different countries.

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Access VG1: The History of English (slides)

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English is today spoken as a native language in every continent and in islands in all the three major oceans. About 30% of the world's population can speak English at least reasonably well. A large proportion of the remaining people are either working on it, or will be doing so during their lives.

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Resources and tutorials that explain how to write an academic essay with an overview of essay structure, style and writing process

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Access VG1: Grammar Toolbox: Joining sentences

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Online activities to improve your English

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Online activities to improve your English

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Activities for ESL/EFL Students (English Study)

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Free Online English Learning: Study English with Quizzes, Tests, Crossword Puzzles, Exercises and other activities for students of English as a second language.

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You will find all the help you need to solve the map quizzes in the maps in your ACCESS TO ENGLISH textbook.

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This is the longest section of your essay and may consist of several paragraphs. Each paragraph should deal with only one idea or argument. This is stated in the topic sentence of the paragraph. Additional sentences should add information to the topic of the paragraph. Vary the length of your sentences to avoid becoming boring.

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When you have worked through these three stages you should have a good understanding of the text. Finally you can test yourself. Take your list of difficult words and try to write sentences using each of the new words. Share your sentences in class or in groups. Are you using the words right?

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Apart from beginning a sentence and when writing the personal pronoun "I", a capital letter is used for personal names and titles, places, days of the week, months, public holidays, languages, nations, religions, nationality adjectives, titles of books and films:

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The rest of the paragraph will expand on the topic sentence. Most often the topic sentence is the first sentence in the paragraph. Good topic sentences will give a clear idea about the whole paragraph.

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How to make cue cards for an oral presentation

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How to make cue cards for an oral presentation

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How to write notes for an oral presentation

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Use the dash (-), it can be very useful in note-taking, for example marking when you move from one point to the next, or to mark sub-points.

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A job application and a formal letter are basically built up in the same way. Be polite, write complete sentences, divide the text into logical paragraphs, follow the formal rules and make sure it looks tidy.

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A job application and a formal letter are basically built up in the same way. Be polite, write complete sentences, divide the text into logical paragraphs, follow the formal rules and make sure it looks tidy.

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Access VG1: How to make a good presentation

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Some people have a natural gift for making presentations and actually enjoy it. For others it is more difficult and can cause some anxiety. The good news is that it can be learned. In this film we aim to give you some practical advice to help you improve your presentations and take some of the terror out of making them.