A2 - Writing an application letter

Tips on Writing an Application Letter

A2 - Writing Formal Letters

How to write application letters

A2 - Writing. Assessment Criteria

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A2 - Listening Away from Home

For today's recording (Away from home),
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A2 - Lexical strategies for speaking - Key

For the key to 85 Lexical strategies for speaking, please click here

A2 - Filler

For the definition of filler in Wikipedia, pls click here.

A2 - B2 Women's Rights

http://www.unwomen.org/en/news/stories/2013/10/women-should-ads

Interesting ad for the defence of women´s rights.

A2 - Blood type compatibility

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20170787

Here's the article about blood type compatibility in Japan. Give me the good old star signs any day!?

A2 - Horoscope and personality

For the key to the adjectives in the horoscope game,
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A2 - Vocabulary key - Character and personality

Click here for the key to Unit 34 Vocabulary, Character and personality

A2 - Will - would

WILL AND WOULD: HABITS AND CHARACTERISTICS

        

Will and would can be used to talk about repeated and habitual behaviour. Will refers to the present. Would refers to the past.

 

When nobody's looking, she'll go into the kitchen and steal

biscuits.

He'll often say something and then forget what it was he said.

On Sundays, when I was a child, we would get up early and go

fishing.

He would never let anybody know what he was doing.

 

With a strong stress on will or would, the meaning becomes one of criticism.

 

You 'will keep forgetting things.

 And also:

Stressed would is used to criticise one action — the meaning is often 'that's typical of you'.

 

You 'would tell Mary about the party - I didn't want to invite

her.

 

Will is used to talk about the natural behaviour of things.

 

If you put a match to it, real amber won't melt, but imitation will.

Gold won't dissolve in hydrochloric acid.

A2 - "Frumpy" and the Duchess of Cambridge

How come the word "frumpy" is next to one of the world's most elegant women's name?
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A2 - New names

Read more about the new fashionable names in Britain.
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A2 - Entry Test recordings

Hi, here are the recordings for the A2 entry test Stress. 

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