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Are You Ready for Another Low-Tech Christmas?
23 December 2010
Image by Marcin Wichary
Word count: 445
Estimated reading time: 5 minutes
Last year at this time I wrote about having a low-tech Christmas – disconnecting from computers and other tech gadgets and reconnecting with people.
Reconnecting not via Facebook – but face-to-face connections. Not being limited to 160-characters via Twitter – but long, relaxing conversations. …
How to Create An Easy-Access Vocabulary Notebook
16 December 2010
Image by Daehyun Park
Word count: 315
Estimated reading time: 3-4 minutes
When you’re learning new words, do you record what you’ve learned in a notebook like the one above? Or on your computer?
There are drawbacks to both methods. With a paper vocabulary notebook, you have to flip through many pages to find specific words and definitions. …
Grammar Bite #7: Prepositions You Can Live Without
9 December 2010
In the last grammar bite we talked about prepositions you can’t live without – those that are required to make a sentence correct.
Today we’ll look at phrases where you can eliminate one or more prepositions and make your writing more concise.
Instead of using this… | Use this… |
face up to someone/something | face someone/something |
try out something | … |
Using New Vocabulary In Sentences
2 December 2010
Image by greeblie
Word count: 395
Estimated reading time: 5 minutes
When you learn new words, it’s always best if you also learn how to use them correctly in sentences. This makes the words easier to remember and use in your everyday life.
Learn the correct grammar
To help you with this, I’ll give you another tip that Professor James Venema …
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