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How to improve your English skills with drilling techniques
Drilling in language learning simply means listening to a language model and repeating what is heard. The language model (or structure or pattern) can be provided by a teacher, a friend, another student or a recording. Even though modern language learning tends to be rather student-led than teacher-led, drilling can be a good way to support…
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Vox Pop – Home Edition #3
Afraid of your English getting rusty? No need to worry! While there are certainly more obstacles around at the moment with interaction reduced to a minimum due to social distancing, we hope to provide you with some ideas & resources to stay motivated.Here is what we are doing: Today’s recommendation is writing an article for…
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Culture and Cuisine – Nanaimo bars
With this weekly post we want to introduce you into the culinary range of the English speaking world. Each week we present you an iconic dish and give you information around its origin, preparation and eating habits. Crusty, sweet and very popular in Canada: this week we present you the famous Nanaomi bars – an…
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Vox Pop – Home Edition #1
How to stay in contact with the English language and language learning when social interaction is extremely limited, Universities are closed and traveling is not possible? Which resources can be used to improve your skills, where do you get input that motivates you even though you are more or less alone with learning? With our…
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Culture and Cuisine – Bagel and Lox
With this weekly post we want to introduce you into the culinary range of the English speaking world. Each week we present you an iconic dish and give you information around its origin, preparation and eating habits. This week we are visiting the Big Apple – New York. Bagels can be regarded as a true…
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Culture and Cuisine – Cottage pie
With this weekly post we want to introduce you into the culinary range of the English speaking world. Each week we present you an iconic dish and give you information around its origin, preparation and eating habits. This week’s recipe comes from Great Britain! Cottage pie is a cheap and filling dish which is widely…
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Art and culture online
In times when museums are closed, no libraries are accessible and social interactions are extremely limited, cultural institutions are intensifying their efforts to make their offerings available to people despite the very special situation. With the help of new technologies, it is possible to visit cultural institutions virtually without leaving home. Advantages for you: Nobody…
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Connected Speech: Elision
Of all the features of English pronunciation, connected speech, or the flow between words, is the most subtle and one of the least well described. Elision is a specific part of connected speech, the one which is responsible for all the sounds dropped and most of the letters that seem to serve no purpose in…
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culture and Cuisine – Gumbo
With this weekly post we want to introduce you into the culinary range of the English speaking world. Each week we present you an iconic dish and give you information around its origin, preparation and eating habits. Our first recipe comes from Lousiana, one of the Southern states in the US. Louisiana’s iconic dish Gumbo…
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The Genius of Dr. Seuss
Who is Dr. Seuss? Born in 1904 in Springfield Massachusetts, Theodore Seuss Geisel could be regarded as the most considerable and popular english speaking childrens book author (and cartoonists) of the 20th century. Under the psyeudonym „Dr. Seuss“, more than 60 books were written and illustrated by the author over the long course of his…