Are you used to taking large hand luggage onboard when flying by plane? Then read this: A number of global airlines are set to standardize the size of all carry-on hand luggage we take on board, meaning SMALLER bags than many of us have been used to. While you read, find the synonyms of the …
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Jun 18
Are YOU a Super-Recogniser?
Ready to test yourself? Are you one of those people who’ll easily recognise a face they have once seen? Find out whether you possess the rare ability to recognise faces you’ve barely glimpsed. Scientists are only just beginning to understand why some people have the skill and how it works and how the police uses …
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Jun 17
Freeze Yourself to Health? – New Fitness Treatment from Monaco
This new trend has people freeze themselves for 2 or 3 minutes in minus 100 degrees Celsius only to feel … great afterwards! Read on, revise some vocabulary, and practice some cool expressions to make your English flow with the help of an interactive test! Source: Yahoo Beauty, Original article by Kristin Tice Studeman …
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Jun 03
Get off your butt and on your feet!
Are you sitting down as you’re reading this post? Get up!! You burn a lot more calories standing up, and, as an added bonus, you will less likely get heart disease. Have I convinced you? Not yet? Read on! Plus, scroll down for a vocabulary quiz on prepositions! Spend your day sitting down at …
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May 22
Who is going to be Eurovision’s next winner?
Do you follow the Eurovision Song Contest every year? Can you predict who the winner will be this year? This article sums up what leads to success – read on before you place your bet! For a quick training in reading skills, try to guess the meaning of the orange words as you read the …
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May 22
Is your colleague pure evil?
If you have ever wondered how to handle conflicts with co-workers – which I am pretty sure you have – this one is for YOU! A Reading task to help you be a more efficient reader in English (B1/B2 and above). Most of the time when we read a text, we do not read every …
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May 05
YangYang: Robot strikingly resembling Sarah Palin is unveiled in China
How do you feel about the possibility of humanoid robot sales people in stores? While I do appreciate scientific advances in general, I have strongly mixed feelings about this one! Watch the report and decide for yourself. For your language learning experience of the day, we put together a vocab quiz for you using words …
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