This booklet is designed to help you take your next steps in learning English. It contains practice exercises based on common mistakes made by intermediate (CEF: B1) level learners of English. If you spend a little time on these grammar and vocabulary points which often cause students difficulty, you’ll be able to get one step ahead and make sure you get it right!
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The New Yorker - 20 September 2010
The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, cartoons, satire and poetry published by Condé Nast Publications. Starting as a weekly in the mid-1920s, the magazine is now published 47 times per year, with five of these issues covering two-week spans. Although its reviews and events listings often focus on cultural life of New York City, The New Yorker has a wide audience outside of New York. It is well known in its commentaries on popular culture and eccentric Americana
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From accents to politics, this fascinating collection of essays from today's leading linguists uncovers the many misconceptions we hold about language "The media are ruining English"; "Some languages are harder than others"; "Children can't speak or write properly anymore." Such pieces of "cultural wisdom" are often expressed in newspapers and on radio and television. Rarely is there a response from experts in the fields of language and language development.
People who work well with numbers are often stymied by how to write about them. Those who don't often work with numbers have an even tougher time trying to put them into words. For instance, scientists and policy analysts learn to calculate and interpret numbers, but not how to explain them to a general audience.
Apes—to look at them is to see a mirror of ourselves. Our close genetic relatives fascinate and unnerve us with their similar behavior and social personality. Here, John Sorenson delves into our conflicted relationship to the great apes, which often reveals as much about us as humans as it does about the apes themselves.
