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10-15 min tasks to improve your English.
Sunday, April 7, 2024
Thursday, April 4, 2024
Daily Vocabulary Practice
Good morning, guys!!!
Can you call out the names of animals that fall into the following categories:
Farm animals, Pets, and Wild animals?
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
Daily Writing Practice
Hello guys!!
Think of the advantages and disadvantages of having a holiday in space. What are the good things about going on holiday into space? How would we benefit? What are some of the problems we could face? What would stop us from going on a holiday in space?
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
Daily Writing Practice
Hello guys!!
Write a letter to your friend (in another classroom) about the things in (describing) their classroom.
Paste your text in the comments below. Thank you!
Monday, April 1, 2024
My Daily Vocabulary
Hello,guys!
Here are the answers to the previous post:
1. fester
2. lurch
3. infatuation
4. jeered
5. confide
6. wheeze out
7. slurred
8. torment
9. doggedly
10. throng
11. corollary
Now it is high time to have some more practice. Enjoy it!!!
ace in the hole
bust
chomp
clavicle
dictum
dweeb
eave
furnace
magnanimous
mundane
parole
pawnshop
regs
smirk
snotty
stale off
vignette
wonky
1. I had a desk beneath the room's other ____, my old Royal typewriter, and a hundred or so paperback books, mostly science fiction, which I lined up along the baseboard.
2. Copying the files had been an infraction of department ___, and the fewer people who knew that the better.
3. There are no bad dogs according to the title of popular training manual, but don't tell that to the parent of a child mauled by a pitbull or a rottweiler, he is or she is apt to ____ your beak for you.
4. Additionally, these families will find, perhaps, some comfort in knowing that Mr. Waits is serving a prison sentence of life without the possibility of ____.
5. As an initial offer of credibility and good faith, he suggests that investigators review the investigation into the death of Daniel Fitzpatrick,63, who was buried to death in his Hollywood Boulevard ___ on April 30, 1992.
6. Olivas ____ as of Borsch didn't see the light.
7. But the bag of carrots was our ___.
8. the whole experience has ___ me.
9. I'm probably being ___ here, but I am also, believe me, honestly curious.
10. If I don't write every day, the characters begin to ____ in my mind-they begin to seem like characters instead of real people.
11. Also, I didn't want to sound like a workaholic ___.
12. he raises his hand and I cringe, ducking my head, waiting for the pain, and in that moment I know that I've done this before, felt this before, but I can't remember when and I don't have time to think about it now, because although he hasn't time, he's placed his hands on my shoulders and he's gripping them tightly, and it hurts s much I cry out.
13. I wrote my first two published novels, Carrie and Salem's Lot, in the laundry room of a doublewide trailer, pounding away on my wife's portable Olivetti typewriter and balancing a child's desk on my thighs; John Clever reputedly wrote in the basement of his Park Avenue apartment building, near ___.
14. I suggest a thousand words day, and because I'm feeling ___, I'll also suggest that you can take one day a week off, at least to begin with.
15. Whether it's a ___ of a single page or an epic trilogy like The Lord of the Rings, the work is always accomplished one word at a time.
16. It surrounds me, keeps the ___ world out.
17. If he does know, I assure you that sooner or later he'll start showing up, ___ his cigar and making his magic.
18. The ___ in writing classes used to be "write what you know".
19. It's morally ___, for one thing- the job of fiction is to find the truth inside the story's web of lies, not to commit intellectual dishonesty in the hint for the buck.
Monday, February 19, 2024
My Daily Vocabulary
Hello guys,
Here are the answers to the previous post from 02/18/2024:
1. heaved
2. thrall
3. slumped
4. hauled
5. bellowing
6. stifled
7. beckoning
8. banished
9. jangle
10. jolts
11. docile
12. twitching
13. loathing
14. libel
Enjoy the new words:
confide
corollary
dogged
fester
infatuation
jeer
lurch
slur
throng
torment
wheeze out
1. He had recovered from far worse, but for some reason this cut had begun to ___ and he could already smell the rot.
2. He pushed away from the trunk with a deep breath that made his head spin and his stomach ___.
3. Magnus had quickly realised his ___ was entirely one-sided.
4. Like his friends in Del, he had always ___ at such talk.
5. I ___ in him and I forget, once again, what I'm doing here.
6. He glanced down at her, his chest tight as he struggled to ___ the question.
7. "Why did you ignore me? Did I do something wrong?" he ___, hating how pathetic he sounded, and not only because of illness...
8. Why did he ___ himself with these questions?
9. But ___ he moved on, hurrying despite his exhaustion.
10. I'm part of the Friday - evening commuter ____, just another wage slave amongst the hot, tired masses, looking forward to getting home and sitting outside with a cold beer, dinner with the kids, an early night.
11. The ___ is that no writer will take all of his or her editor's advice; for all have sinned and fallen short of editorial perfection.
Sunday, February 18, 2024
My Daily Vocabulary
Hello guys,
Here are the answers to the previous post on 02/10/2024
1. hurtled
2. haul
3. lumber
4. jeering
5. snapping
6. frailing
7. gnashing
8. placate
9. thrall
10. pyre
New words to enjoy
banish
beckon
bellow
docile
haul
heave
jangle
jolt
loathe
libel
slump
stifle
thrall
twitch
1. Lief ___ on the cloak with all his might.
2. You were his ___.
3. His bronze skin looked sallow, and his tall frame seemed a little ___ in his seat.
4. Lief and Barda ___ on the cloak, their arms straining.
5. ____ in shock and terror they sank like stones, their arms thrashing frantically as their great weight drove them down.
6. Somewhere in those depths lay Jin and Jod, their wickedness ___ forever.
7. He felt a hand touch his arm, and looked up to see Manus ___ to him urgently.
8. Lief took a deep breath, ____ the whispering voice from his mind, and nodded.
9. Until I hear footballs on the steps outside, the familiar ___ of Cathy fishing around in her huge handbag for her house keys.
10. It ___ me to life.
11. He does as he's told, kicking off his shoes and lying back on the bed, ___ as a sick child.
12. Beside him, Manus was sighing and ___ - tormented, no doubt, by dreams.
13.For five years he had lived with fear and ___ in the company of wickedness.
14. Can't ___ the dead!!!