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  • Vocabulary

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    • Check out the New Word of the Day, Learn Idioms and Learn News Words
    • Watch the video tutorial on "Building Vocabulary Through Reading" and then try the quiz
    • Check out the dictionaries and vocabulary exercises!
    • Try to use new words in your speaking and writing
    • Keep a vocabulary book - organised into topics
    • Study collocations (word combinations)
    • Practise spelling
    • Learn about prefixes / suffixes
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    • - some good advice on how to develop your concentration.

    • One "goose" and one "moose"...two "geese...but not two "meese"!

      All it takes is a simple S to make most English words plural. But it hasn't always worked that way (and there are, of course, exceptions). John McWhorter looks back to the good old days when English was newly split from German -- and books, names and eggs were beek, namen and eggru!

      LOCATED IN THE Spelling SECTION

      • over 500 gap-fill exercises to learn
      • review over 1500 items of general vocabulary in English

      LOCATED IN THE Dictionaries & Exercises SECTION