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Words in the news: Turmoil
20/02/2014

Words in the news: Turmoil

Origin: The long-running boom in emerging markets came to be identified, if not propped up, by wide acceptance of the term BRICs, shorthand for the fast-growing countries Brazil, Russia, India and China. Recent turmoil in these and similar markets has…

The Beachfront Markets in Golden Coast, Australia
18/02/2014

The Beachfront Markets in Golden Coast, Australia

What impressed me most during my last Australian trip is the night when I strolled along the beach, stopped at…

The Rainbow Serpent
16/02/2014

The Rainbow Serpent

I encountered the painting of Rainbow Serpent firstly in listening part of the IELTS Examination Paper 8, and I reckoned…

46 ways to avoid using the word "very"
15/02/2014

46 ways to avoid using the word “very”

I am a big movie fan, collecting a sheer volume of Blu-ray movies in my removable disk, both Hollywood and…

IELTS Writing: Education subjects
15/02/2014

IELTS Writing: Education subjects

Reports are also a kind of writing types though the emerging frequency is not so high. But the low emerging…

IELTS Writing: The university function
14/02/2014

IELTS Writing: The university function

From the third post now, I will start to publish a series of IETLS writing practices that I wrote, in…

Ginger beer
13/02/2014

Ginger beer

Yesterday I was doing dictation practice with BBC radio tape, and met with this sentence: A typical chaffinch song’s a…

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