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Expresión escrita: Avanzado C1

An email explaining an incident

Learn how to write an email to explain an incident to your manager.

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Vocabulario: Intermedio a intermedio-alto

Body parts 2

What's the difference between your thumbs and your toes? Do these exercises to find out and to learn vocabulary for more body parts.

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Comprensión oral: Preintermedio A2

Who's who in the office

Listen to two people talking about the people in their office to practise and improve your listening skills.

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Gramática: Principiante a preintermedio

Countable and uncountable nouns 1

Do you know how to use a, some, any, much and many?

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30 November, 2020 - 12:11

Hi Ahmed Imam, Only sentence 1 is correct. But, sentence 2 is correct if you delete the first rather: I'd take a taxi rather than wait for the bus. The meaning is the same as sentence 1. Best...

York Scene 2 Language Focus

30 November, 2020 - 11:11

I remember, I really felt this state when I was a school child. Well, while solving a math question, I was so absorbed in so that I couldn't notice that my room has been dark. In other words, I was...

An introduction to a lecture

30 November, 2020 - 09:11

I would like to show my boyfriend a nice place here in Lisbon, its called Praça de comércio. and i will invite him to eat pastel de nata, it is the best sweet i have ever eaten in Portugal.

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