Business English Pod propune microbiştilor anglofoni două podcasturi cu expresii idiomatice fotbalistice: Football and Soccer Idioms (Part 1 and Part 2), precum şi un distractiv joc de expresii idiomatice americane şi britanice. Încercaţi să înscrieţi cât mai multe goluri, nu contează antrenamentul sau forma fizică, ci doar cât de bine stăpâniţi limbajul sportului rege: World Cup English Soccer Idioms Game for ESL.
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MORE than 65,000 19th-century works of fiction from the British Library’s collection are to be made available for free downloads by the public from this spring.
Owners of the Amazon Kindle, an ebook reader device, will be able to view well known works by writers such as Charles Dickens, Jane Austen and Thomas Hardy, as well as works by thousands of less famous authors.
The library’s ebook publishing project, funded by Microsoft, the computer giant, is the latest move in the mounting online battle over the future of books.
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“The English names for the days of the week have their roots in astrology and ancient cultures. The practice of naming days after heavenly bodies began – at least for the Western world – with the Greeks, and was then adopted by the Romans and Anglo-Saxons. For this reason, the names we are so familiar with draw from Latin and Old English, aligning stars and myths with calendar days. Next time you hear a friend or coworker expressing relief at the end of the week with TGIF, you’ll know that it’s more apt to be thanking goddess!”
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Situl English Addicts oferă acces gratuit la întreaga arhivă de activităţi de învăţare şi perfecţionare a limbii engleze până în 8 septembrie. Zilnic, situl publică câte o lecţie de limba engleză, bazată pe evenimente curente, fiecare modul conţinând zece activităţi structurate. Modulele sunt clasificate în funcţie de gradul de dificultate, tematică şi accent.
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“Emails have their own language. Stray into a chat room and you might find yourself in need of a translator. So why shouldn’t social networking come with a vocabulary of its own? Just in case you have been slow to hit the keyboard to scrap/wall/tweet, we bring you a guide — by no means definitive, but a good place to begin — of the lingo spawned by most popular social networking sites around.”
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Sursa: Inttranews
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