English Grammar: “Coordinating Conjunctions”

These conjunctions connect words, phrases and clauses. They are usually found in the middle of a sentence with a comma (,) just before the conjuction, or at the beginning of the sentence.
First, we will explain the difference between coordination and subordination: coordination means both parts of the sentence are equal. Subordination means one clause, or part of the sentence, is more important than the other.

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English Grammar: “Correlative Conjunctions”

These conjunctions connect equal sentence elements together (like two nouns) and are always composed by two words.

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English Grammar: “Subordinating Conjunctions”

Subordinating Conjunctions connect a dependent clause and an independent clause and establish a relationship between them. They happen at the beginning of a sentences (with a comma in the middle separating the clauses) or in the middle of a sentence with no comma.So, basically, a subordinate conjunction will connect a main clause and a subordinate one. If the main clause comes first in the sentence it won’t be separated from the subordinate clause by a comma. If the subordinate clause comes first, then we will separate the clauses with a comma.

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Day to Day English Sentences: “I like jazz too”

Ready for an English class? Carlos, one of our teachers, is going to give you a class about using the particle “also, so, too“. Find out other ways of saying “unless”, by watching the video!

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English Grammar: “Linking Adverbs and Transition Words”

When do we use each connector?

Ok, we will now look at the most used transitional words. Yes, it’s quite a long list – don’t worry, just understand when we use each one and practice making sentences with them.

Accordingly - in a proper or appropriate way : in a way that suits the facts, needs, or requirements of a situation.

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English Grammar – Distances and dimensions

Today we are going to learn all about words we use to talk about distances and dimensions. For example: “my swimming pool is very deep”.

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Intermediate Grammar: How to use “wish”

The verb “wish” expresses a desire for a situation that doesn’t exist now.
1. Wish + Part Participle

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Day to Day English Sentences: “There wasn’t much on TV last night”

How are you today? Ella, one of our lovely ABA Teachers, is going to teach you about the simple past. Find out more by watching the video!

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English Vocabulary: Imaginary words!

Words are created in many different ways: we borrow words from other languages, we shorten words – from gymnasium, we all say “gym”, we use suffixes and prefixes, we mix or blend two words together to make one – the word “brunch” comes from combining “breakfast” and “lunch”. 

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25 Most Useful Phrasal Verbs

Phrasal verbs are not students favourite topic, are they? There are so many in the English language and each one has many different meanings.

This is why it’s important to begin memorising the most important ones. Are you ready? Excellent!

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Day to Day English Sentences: “Who are they?”

How are you today? Fabiola, one of our teachers, is going to give you a class about how to use “who” and “where”. Find out more about interrogative pronouns by watching the video!

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English Grammar: “Will and Going To”

Future tenses will and going to are used in different ways in English, people often get the two confused and tend to just refer to will as the future in all cases, however this is not right. Both will and going to refer to a specific time in the future.

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Quantifiers

Quantifiers are words that precede and modify nouns. They tell us how many or how much. Selecting the correct quantifier depends on your understanding the distinction between Countable and Non-Countable Nouns. For our purposes, we will choose the countable noun trees and the non-countable noun dancing

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English Grammar – Question Tags

If we want to ask for information we usually use the standard question form. However, sometimes we just want to keep a conversation going, or confirm information. In this case,question tags are often used to solicit input or confirmation to what we are saying. Using question tags well also promotes a understanding of the use of various auxiliary verbs. There arefive ways in which we normally use question tags and they are easily explained here.

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Singular and Plural Nouns

A noun names a person, place, thing, or idea.

Usually, the first page of a grammar book tells you about nouns. Nouns givenames of concrete or abstract things in our lives. Asbabies learn "mom," "dad," or "milk" as their first word, nouns should be the first topic when you study a foreignlanguage.

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TOEFL Vocabulary Words List ( Constantly Updated)

from A to Z

ABANDON: To give up completely - abandoned thesinking ship.
Synonyms: relinquish, forgo, forsake
ABASH: To lose self-confidence; to confuse, put to shame – abashedbefore the assembled dignitaries.
Synonyms: fluster, disconcert, discomfit,discompose

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IELTS test day advice

Prepare for your test day; success starts with IELTS
You will find the IELTS test centre staff friendly, welcoming and highly professional. They will make sure that the test is delivered fairly and securely. Follow their instructions carefully.

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Tips for the TOEFL Writing Section

1. Use present tense

• For facts and observations
  • Cars are essential for life in the U.S.
    Most people can benefit from higher education.
    
    
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Tips for Practicing TOEFL/TOEIC

We are currently developing tips for practicing for the TOEFL and TOEIC tests.
The following is a list of things you need to be aware of in preparing for the tests.

• Understand differences between the Computer-Based Test (CBT) and Paper Test

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The TOEFL Exam

Test Of English as Foreign Language.

The essential exam for entry to universities in the United States. Academic language.

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"Love VS Marriage"

Love is holding hands in the street

Marriage is holding arguments in the street

Love is dinner for 2 in your favorite restaurant

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A Rose for Emily

The story, told in five sections, opens in section one with an unnamed narrator describing the funeral of Miss Emily Grierson.

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This poem was nominated by UN as the best poem of 2009

When I born, I black
When I grow up, I black
When I go in Sun, I black
When I scared, I black
When I sick, I black
And when I die, I still black

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Robinson crusoe

When the story begins, the setting is England. Some of the action thereafter takes place at sea in various ships. Once the pirates capture Crusoe, the action moves to Sallee, a port in Morocco. After Crusoe's escape from there, the setting moves to the Canary Islands, until a Portuguese ship arrives. For the next few years, the novel is set in Brazil. Then Crusoe embarks on his ill-fated voyage. After the shipwreck, Crusoe washes ashore on an uninhabited island, where Crusoe spends the next twenty-eight years of his life; most of the novel takes place on the island during these years. After Crusoe is rescued from the island, the setting moves to England, via Lisbon and the land route through Spain and France to Calais. 

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The nature for me

Have you ever heard the songs of birds 

Have you ever seen the moon hugged the sea 

Have you ever danced on a rainy day

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Introducing Yourself & Replying

Introducing Oneself and Replying 

Introducing Oneself. 

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Questioning a Witness

to witness (verb):to see something happena witness (noun):a person who sees something happen


Witnesses are valuable to the police. A witness is somebody who is actually present when something happens and sees what happens. The police usually like to question all witnesses as soon as possible after a crime, accident or other event.

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Negotiations in English

One of the most important skills anyone can hold in daily life is the ability to negotiate. In general terms, a negotiation is a resolution of conflict. We enter negotiations in order to start or continue a relationship and resolve an issue. Even before we accept our first jobs, or begin our careers, we all learn how to negotiate. For one person it begins with the negotiation of an allowance with a parent. For another it involves negotiating a television schedule with a sibling. Some people are naturally stronger negotiators, and are capable of getting their needs met more easily than others. Without the ability to negotiate, people break off relationships, quit jobs, or deliberately avoid conflict and uncomfortable situations.

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Speaking versus Writing

The purpose of all language is to communicate - that is, to move thoughts or information from one person to another person.

There are always at least two people in any communication. To communicate, one person must put something "out" and another person must take something "in". We call this "output" (>>>) and "input" (<<<).

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What Is Speaking?

"Speaking" is the delivery of language through the mouth. To speak, we create sounds using many parts of our body, including the lungs, vocal tract, vocal chords, tongue, teeth and lips.

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Self-education and the steps to learn English

We offer you some important points that help English Language Learner to a strong start in learning English.

1- Language needs practice and effort to gain success.

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English Chat

May Allah`s peace , mercy and blessing be upon you 

I've got a site for Chat English

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'We teach life, sir'

RAFEEF ZIADAH is a Canadian-Palestinian spoken word artist and activist. Her debut CD Hadeel is dedicated to Palestinian youth, who still fly kites in the face of F16 bombers, who still remember the names if their villages in Palestine and still hear the sound of Hadeel (cooing of doves) over Gaza

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Pilgrimage

The performance of pilgrimage is a common feature of the three monotheistic religions. While Makkah is restricted to Muslims, the followers of these religions in call on the holy shrines in Jerusalem in great numbers.

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English for Science and Technology (EST)

English for science and technology (EST) is an important aspect of English for Special/Specific Purposes (ESP). It is addressed to (would be) scientists and technologists who need to learn English for purposes related to their specialized fields. These fields include a numerous range of studies of agriculture, engineering, chemistry and other sciences and their applications in real life. EST also includes a number of different situations in which scientists and technologists may find themselves engaged in such activities as report writing, giving instructions, or exchanging views informally in a social gathering or formally in a conference. This type of English involves the use of vocabulary items, grammatical forms and language functions common to the study of science and technology.

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English Teaching Objectives in The Arab World

The aims of English language teaching (ELT) in the Arab World could be seen as consisting of the following:
(1) General Aims: The teaching of English aims at: 

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The Holy Scriptures

Each one of the three monotheistic religions possesses its own collection of holy books. For the faithful – Jews, Christians, Muslims – these sacred documents constitute the foundation of their belief. They are the transcription of a divine revelation which was received directly from God, as in the case of Moses who received the commandments from Allah Himself, or indirectly as in the case of Jesus and Muhammad: the former stated that he spoke in the name of Allah,and the latter proclaimed that he transmitted to men the word of God imparted to him by Archangel Gabriel. For Muslims, the sacred book is Quran; for the Jews,it is the Hebraic Bible – The Torah, but for the Christians there are four canonic gospels...

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General English and English for Specific Purposes

English is used all over the world as a common means of communication, especially for science and technology, not only by native speakers of English in English-speaking countries such as the United Kingdom and the U.S.A. but also by non-native speakers of English in other countries who use English as a second or foreign language.

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English in the Arab World, second or foreign language?

When considering the status of a non – native language, it is useful to make a distinction between a second and foreign language.

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The true concept of religion

Throughout history religion has been abused and misunderstood. Some people....

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