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Grass isn’t greener on the other side. It is greener where you water it.

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Great sources of articles ⬇️

National Geographic (environment, animals, space exploration) ✅
Forbes (globalization, business, technology) ✅
The Athletic (sports, budget allocation, commercialization) ✅
History.com (industrialization, consumerism, nuclear weapons, national celebrations) ✅
Investopedia (capitalism, socialism, taxes) ✅

Article analysis should help in terms of idea generation, reading comprehension and learning specific vocabulary 💯

SYNONYMS FOR HARMFUL (WRITING)

❌(Common version)
harmful

✅(Possible synonyms)

detrimental
damaging
adverse

For example:

❗️Excessive screen time can be detrimental to children's health.

❗️❗️Pollution has a damaging effect on the environment and wildlife.

🔵 Send your own examples using the vocabulary in the chat, and I will correct some of your sentences!

P.S. - Using the word ‘harmful’ is not incorrect, but try to avoid overusing it (more than 2 times in one essay).

#vocabulary

#OCTOBER27
#COMMONMISTAKESINMOCKWRITING

1️⃣ Using a comma after ‘because’ and ‘that’s

It is clear that there is no comma after the word ‘that’. ✅
Students put a comma after ‘that’ because their grammar is terrible. ✅

2️⃣ Paraphrasing every single word in the question

Not all words have good synonyms. In fact, most words don’t. I am seeing some candidates change the word “roads and transport” to “vehicles and transport”, which is a big mistake here. Don’t paraphrase words like children, people, and schools, because you can’t.

3️⃣ Not using the obvious verbs

Another very annoying problem is when students use words like “X stood at” or “X made up” when they can use far better, natural verbs given in the question. For example, instead of saying “Italy began at 22%” or “Italy’s spending was 22%”, you should definitely try saying,

“In 1990, Italy spent / allocated 22% of its budget …” ✅
“In 2006, nearly 80% of English men and women watched TV in their free time, …” ✅


4️⃣ The next problem relates to overusing cohesive devices such as “To begin with” or “However”. You shouldn’t start every single sentence with a cohesive device, or else you’re gonna get a very low score for CC. If you read my sample essays, I only use 1 maybe 2 cohesive devices in a whole body paragraph, half of which are tucked away in the middle of the sentence. (I got 9.0 for my CC.)

P.S. The list can be longer, but I have a place to go. Wait for the post about the common mistakes made in the reports/essays written by candidates who took the mock test yesterday at our center.

And like the Moon, we must go through phases of emptiness to feel full again.

@stoic_lines

Allah says in the Quran:

If you show thanks, I will surely give you more. [14:7]

🎵 Listening Exercises Level B2👇

1) High-achieving teenagers
2) Boy bands
3) How to improve your memory
4) How to study
5) My hero
6) New inventions
7) Sports interviews
8) Best job in the world
9) You've changed
9) The filter bubble
10)British festivals
11)What kind of student are you?
12) History of the Airplane

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🎵 Listening Exercises Level B1👇

1) Amazing facts
2) Advice for exams
3) Celebrations
4) Difficult situations
5) My favourite things
6) Llamas
7) My favourite film
8) Organising your time
9) Weekend
10) Sports centres
11) No place like home
12) The weekend
13) A phone call
14) Katie and make up

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🎵 Listening Exercises Level A2👇

1) Free time
2) Eating out
3) Giving directions
4) Going to the cinema
5) Shopping for clothes
6) Stop wasting time
7) Taking notes
8) Tour of london
9) Nasreddin goes shopping
10) Nasreddin and the Beggar
11) Nasreddin and the Smell of Soup
12) Trains and travel
13) Nasreddin's Visitors
14) Travelling abroad
15) Rain
16) Using colours to do homework
17) Weather forecast
18) Val's garden
19) Sack garden
20) Work

⚠️Узингизга керакли маьлумотларни топиш учун кук рангдаги езувларни боссангиз кифоя!👆