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284 words in a month #2
Day 2 Your store of words today contains these words: In-di-cate, ac-cus-tomed, de-vas-ta-tion, re-ject (noun or re-ject verb), de-ci-mated, re-lo-cate (US English re-lo-cate),...
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284 words in a month #3
Here is a crossword made up of today´s words. Your challenge is to invent clues for them in the REPLY box below. Across 1, 4, 6, 8, 9 Down 2, 3, 5, 7, 10
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284 words in a month #4 – Whisky
Photo credit: screenprint from Google Images When I was still at school we had a dog called Whisky, a Border Terrier. Each morning I used to take him for a walk in the fields by the river Medway in...
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If at first you don´t succeed … 284 words in a month #5
Maybe you know the quotation “If at first you don´t succeed, try, try again” . It seems that it first appeared in Thomas Palmer´s ’Teacher’s Manual’ (1840) and in ’The Children of the New Forest’...
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284 words in a month #6 – Making sentences
When you are working in a foreign language it takes a little practice before you can link seemingly unconnected words into one theme. Tips for using your words in a sentence: TIP ONE: Try two at a...
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Learn 284 words in a month #7 The hard-working dentist
There are three challenges today, for the same ten words. The easiest one, but good for spelling, is to find the words in the wordsearch below, the second one is to fit each of the ten words into this...
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Learn 284 words in a month #8 – A surprising ending
Can you link AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL and MICROSCOPE in a paragraph? … or SPECTACULAR and ENDURING? … or CO-WORKERS and BRIGHT or EXTENSIVE and NOTORIOUSLY or SUBWAY and PRIVACY? Could you make a short story...
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Learn 284 words in a month #9 – Dutch skating
http://www.2bdutch.nl/videos/figure-skating SKATING IN THE NETHERLANDS This six-minute video is about a year old now, but it is very topical and your challenge is to watch it in Dutch, with Dutch and...
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Learn 284 words in a month #10 – Personalize!
Use NEW words and USE new words. Make them yours. To know what they mean is not enough. You need to be comfortable with speaking them in a natural way, surrounded by other words. Let´s say that you had...
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Learn 284 words in a month #11 – Philosophy on wheels
Each country has its philosophers, writers or ordinary people with plenty of good old common sense. Do you have some favourite quotation by someone famous, a friend, or a member of your family? I like...
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