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English in the airport

Average: 3.8 (24 votes)

Are you planning to take a flight anytime soon? Here are some of the questions you'll probably hear in the airport and some example answers:

Check-in

How many pieces of luggage do you have?
Only one.

Did you pack your luggage yourself?
Yes, I did.

Has anyone given you anything to take on the flight?
No, they haven't.

Do you have any hand-luggage?
Yes, I have one bag.

Translation

What's the meaning of "Thanks for giving me a ride"?

Pronunciation

I often have problems to pronounce correctly adverbs, nouns and adjectives.
The most frequent problem is where to put the accent (which vowel is to be stressed).

My dictionary has a tool which plays the pronounciation of the words but it's difficult for me to remember everything and it's difficult to reset bad pronunciations.

Let's make some examples:

acronym (I put the accent on o :Error and horror!)

exclusive

defective

defects

I systematically forget the correct pronunciation (accent) and wrong the pronunciation.

Top 10 most disliked words & phrases!

Average: 3.1 (15 votes)

Test your Adjective knowledge.

Average: 2.1 (163 votes)

Take a look at the ten sentences below. Which adjective fits best for each sentence? Use this link to the Cambridge Online dictionary for any words that you don't know. It's a good habit to look up new words in a dictionary, especially an English-English one. 

 

Link: Personality Adjectives

Sometimes I don't know what to do in readings?! So help me

HELLO EVERYBODY?I WANT TO KNOW IF IT WILl BE POSSIBLE FOR ONE OF YOU TO HELP ME WITH MY READINGS COURSES:BECAUSE AFTER READING MY TOPIC COURSE ,SOMETIMES I SEE WHERE THE EXERSISES ARE AND SOMETIMES NOT.SO IM REALLY CONFUSE.Bye bye Smile

Culture Lesson: American Thanksgiving

Average: 3.6 (21 votes)

Read through the following information on American Thanksgiving and match up the key words (in bold) to their definitions:

Match the question to the answer

Average: 3.1 (15 votes)

Read through the ten questions below and choose the answers which best match them:

 

Link: Find the extra word

English Riddle: Can you answer the question?

Average: 3.2 (118 votes)

Read the following riddle (puzzle) and see if you can think of the answer. Click on 'Show Answer' to solve the riddle:

A father and son have a car accident and are both badly hurt. They are both taken to separate hospitals. When the boy is taken in for an operation, the surgeon (doctor) says 'I can not do the surgery because this is my son'. How is this possible?

How to use tact

Average: 1.7 (231 votes)

The time has come to speak of Uncle Len. Those of you with a better than average memory may remember me mentioning him in passing a couple of months ago. Uncle Len is a lawyer, and he sort of warned me that if his name ever appeared in any of my articles, he would sue me so hard that my children’s children’s children would still be paying his children’s children’s children damages long after the two of us were dead and gone.