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Vocalbulary advanced
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Building in metaphors Flashcards
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Vocalbulary advanced
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Abbreviations and acronyms
Prefixes
Suffixes
Word-building and word-blending
Global contact and language enrichment
Similar but different
At work: colleagues and routines
At work: career and promotion
Business 1 : telemarketing, niche marketing, entrepreneurship
Business 2: submit a tender, default on a payment
Cramming for success: study and academic work rote-learning, assignment, deadline
Education: debates and issues, elitism, League table, the three RS
Talking about yourself
Realationships: positive aspects
Relationships: problems
Passions reactions and emotions
Feelings, antipathies and aversions
Observing others: appearance and mannerisms
Observing others: character traits
Birth and death
Free time: relaxation and leisure
All the range: Fashion and clothes
Homestyles, Lifestyles
Socialising and networking
The performance arts
The plastic arts
Talking about books
We are what we eat
Dinner: eating out
On the road
Travel and accommodation
Tourism
Describing the world
Weather and climate
Building in metaphors
Trees, plants and metaphors
Animals and birds
Environment and conservation
Here to help: service encounter
Authorities: custom and police
World views:ways of thinking
Festivals in theis cultural context
Talking about languages
History
Poverty: the have and the have not
British politics
The language of law
War and peace
Economy and finance
Personal finance
The media: print
The media: internet and e-mail
Advertising
The news
HEalth and illness 1
Health and illness 2
Health and illness 3
Diet, sport and fitness
Aspects of industrialisation
Technology and its impact
Future visions
Space: expanse and confinement
Time: sequence and duration
Motion: nuances of pace and movement
Manner: behavior and body language
Sound
Weight and density
Colour
Speed
Cause and effect
Comparison and contrast
Difficulties, dilemmas and hitches
Modality: expressing facts, opinions, desires
Number statitics and assessing quantity
Permission and prohibition
Complaining and protesting
Apologising, forgiving and reconcilliation
Complimenting and praising
Promises and bets
Reminiscences and regrets
Agreement, disagreement and compromise
Academic writing 1
Academic writing 2
Writing: style and format
Lexical Strategies for speaking
Speech : style and articulation
Vague language
Types of idiom
Idioms for situations
Idioms that comment on people 1
Idioms that comment on people 2
Idioms that comment on stories and reports
Phrasal verbs 1
Phrasal verbs 2
Phrasal verbs 3
Divided by a common language
Other Englishes
Language and gender
Language of age ans social class
Newspaper headline language
