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  • Vocabulary

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    • 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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      TED-Ed Lesson: A brief history of plural word...s - John McWhorter URL

      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!

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

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