Word family: correct

• correctly
• correctness
• incorrect
• correction
• incorrectly
• corrective

Word family: defend

• defence
• defenceless
• defensive
• defensively
• defensible
• defender
• defendant

Build your vocabulary: walk

• march
• shuffle
• stagger
• step
• stride
• stroll
• tiptoe
• trudge

Do you know the plural form for papyrus?

It is papyri.)))
Please also check the pronunciation of the word papyrus.

What is the difference between CE and AD?

There is no difference in dating, just in the terms and who uses them. Anno Domini is Latin for "in the year of the Lord" referring to the birth of Jesus. C.E., the abbreviation for "Common Era" is used by Jews and other non-Christians to refer to the same system of reckoning, which has become the basis for the civil date in much of the world. In the same way, B.C.E. "Before the Common Era" substitutes B.C. "before Christ."

Transitional signals: Do you know these ones?

Good evening,my dear English learners!
Can you guess the meaning of those transition signals?
1. To these ends
2. By  the same token
Post your answers in comments below.

Word family: respect

• respectable
• respectability
• respectful
• respectably
• respected
• disrespectful
• respectfully
• disrespect                                                                      (Source: Macmillan School Dictionary)

Word family: forget

forgetful
forgetfulness
unforgetable
unforgetably

Vocabulary Task

flick	backlog	Tot up
sheaf	rev	usher
ponder	sterling silver	scone

1.       Hudson _____ for some time before putting on a pair of latex gloves.

2.       On the underside there was a hall mark, indicating that it was solid ______.

3.       But I do know that Mrs. Smith’s  ______ are absolutely superb!

4.       Hudson _____ the others into the car.

5.       Elvira _____ her hair.

6.       I’ll be in the office from 8 onwards – huge _____ of paperwork to sort out.

7.       Elvira _____ up the car, slid open the window and waved farewell.

8.       He asked the secretary, waving a _____ of papers ostentatiously.

9.       Hudson was working through some old reports and ______ mileages for the Bentley when Elvira rang through.

Vocabulary task

deleterious	filament	hauler	wrought iron
bolster	treason	vendor	warrant

1.       If people in a particular population marry randomly and if one out million is born homozygous for a certain _______ recessive gene one out of five hundred is heterozygous for that same gene, shown no ill effects, and is capable of passing it on.

2.       The special court formed to try former President of Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf on Friday his prosecution for ______ would not take place in a military court.

3.       A_____ is the stalk of a stamen.

4.       The Constitution guarantees that private homes will not be searched without a _______.

5.       In many cities, ______ must have a license to set up their booths in public places.

6.       Unlike cast iron, pure ______ contains no carbon.

7.       Brussels want to cut traffic and pollution with extra taxes on motorists and _______.

8.       Environmental campaigners hope a strong endorsement at the European level will _______ what they see as Britain’s weakening resolve to push congestion charging.

Vocabulary Task

deleterious	fiddle	gestation	mellowed
nudge	effigy	pied	saunter

1.       The equilibrium level for such dominant ______ genes is relatively low, however.

2.       Marsupials are a group of mammals that are born alive after a very short _____ period.

3.       Women can be later because they ______ a lot with their hair.

4.       Half-timbered cottages with ______ brickwork and rose bushes, not yet in bloom, around the front doors.

5.       One had ______ the other and then they had both looked at Elvira for a second or two.

6.       The two young men _____ off.

7.       I’m looking for a little _____ terra in the country and Challingstead seems to fit the ball.

8.       Radical supporters burnt an _____ of Bollywood actor Salman Khan at Khatoli town on Sunday.