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Confusing Word Pairs

... Among / Between Use between when referring to only two things being considered, and among when more than two things are ...

Multiple Choice Lesson - Chris McCarthy - 05/14/2012 - 12:00 - 24 comments

Merry Christmas! - Advanced Level Reading

... just asked me about my plans for next weekend. “You only have to take it all down again a month later. What’s the ... I respond, by way of making a point. “You only have to take them off again at the end of the day”. ... different. Underpants serve a practical purpose. And it only takes two minutes to put them on. A Christmas tree is more trouble than ...

Plain Lesson - Chris McCarthy - 05/15/2012 - 12:02 - 4 comments

Food Idioms

Here’s a list of idioms that all include a type of food, but can you remember which food completes which idiom? When you’ve finished filling them in, see if you can explain what each idiom means. Good luck! Lesson by Caroline ...

Multiple Choice Lesson - Chris McCarthy - 05/24/2012 - 07:38 - 11 comments

Advanced Level Reading: Royal Mail to be privatised

... His latest report says the universal postal service can only be maintained by an injection of private sector money and expertise ...

Multiple Choice Lesson - Chris McCarthy - 05/18/2012 - 11:16 - 1 comment

Chat Room and SMS English

The generation gap is a popular term used to describe differences between people of a younger generation and their elders, especially between a child and his or her parent's generation. Once you have crossed the generation gap, you are old, out ...

Multiple Choice Lesson - Chris McCarthy - 05/14/2012 - 08:27 - 14 comments

Culture Lesson - Pancake Day

... Match the words to their correct place in the text. Only use the numbers - do not type in the whole word. ...

Fill in the blanks lesson - Chris McCarthy - 05/16/2012 - 06:34 - 4 comments

Halloween

... Last weekend was Halloween. I only remembered this when I opened my front door to find a three-foot-tall ... of work, as far as Halloween costumes were concerned. The only real difference between a vampire and a pageboy at a wedding is the cape ...

Plain Lesson - Chris McCarthy - 05/24/2012 - 07:21 - 2 comments

How was your weekend?

... like so we decided to all _1_ up. These days we only seem see each other at weddings or funerals. An informal get together was ...

Multiple Choice Lesson - Chris McCarthy - 05/15/2012 - 11:16 - 9 comments

7 Personality Adjectives

Have you ever described yourself in one word? What word would you use to describe yourself? Personality adjectives are useful for talking about our characters or the characters of people we know. Here are seven personality adjectives fo ...

Fill in the blanks lesson - Chris McCarthy - 05/17/2012 - 07:14 - 16 comments

Past Simple or Past Participle?

... verb is needed, the past simple or the past participle? Only use one word. Lesson by Caroline ...

Fill in the blanks lesson - Chris McCarthy - 05/18/2012 - 11:10 - 14 comments