Modern Apartment Tour & Two Short Stories: Fear of Being Late & The Mink Coat
My Modern Apartment in the City Center
I live in a flat in the center of town. The house is equipped with a modern kitchen and one modern bathroom. It also has a small living room, two bedrooms, a roomy dining room, and a small basement.
Welcome Inside
When you walk in, you are in the hall. There is a long corridor in front of you, and some doors on the right and the left.
The Right Side
- The first door on the right is the kitchen.
- Next to the kitchen is the dining room.
The dining room is the largest part
Read MoreEnglish for Careers Unit Test Vocabulary and Grammar Review
Unit Test Level 1: Vocabulary (Page 1)
1. Match the words (1-8) with their definitions (a-h).
- employees
- make a living
- full-time
- work overtime
- supportive environments
- part-time
- available
- charge
- earn enough money to live
- people who are paid to work for a person or company
- for only part of the day or week
- work more hours than you are usually paid for
- able to be used or obtained
- ask an amount of money for something, especially a service or activity
- working or operating the whole of the usual time
- places where people
My Family and Other Animals: A Corfu Adventure
CHAPTER 9. Ulysses
In the summer, my new tutor, Peter, arrived. He was a tall, handsome young man from the University of Oxford. At first, he taught me math and English grammar. But finally, Corfu Peter worked his magic. He discovered that we could study mathematics at the beach. It was also decided that I could learn English grammar by writing an hour a day.
I wrote a journal of my observations of nature. For English class, I decided to write a book. Every morning, I spent a happy hour adding another
Read MoreMastering Nouns & Verbs: From Everyday Actions to Powerful Presentations
Noun-Verb Transformations
Common Examples
Management – Manage, Production – Produce, Performance – Perform, Improvement – Improve, Removal – Remove, Develop – Development, Solve – Survival, Appraise – Appraisal, Reduce – Reduction, Agree – Agreement, Assist – Assistance, Define – Definition, Disappear – Disappearance, Explore – Exploration, Explain – Explanation, Encourage – Encouragement, Guide – Guidance, Refuse – Refusal, Resist – Resistance, Pay – Payment, Satisfy – Satisfaction, Deny – Denial,
Read MoreEnglish Grammar and Vocabulary Exercises
3. True or false? 1. There are likely… F. They don’t say anything about it./ 2. People fail to… T. People always make takes about, than help them./ 3. The idea that shopaholics… T. They are middle-class women and some men, not only women.
1) a) The smallest part in of a living structure that can operate as an independent unit /b) A part of the body such as the heart or liver /c) If you feel a bit sick,
Read MoreIrregular Verb Conjugations
Base Form, Simple Past, Past Participle, Spanish Equivalent
| Base Form | Simple | Participle | Spanish |
| go | went | gone | ir |
| grow | grew | grown | crecer |
| hang | hung | hung | colgar |
| have | had | had | tener |
| hear | heard | heard | oír |
| hide | hid | hidden | esconder |
| hit | hit | hit | golpear |
| keep | kept | kept | guardar |
| know | knew | known | saber |
| lay | laid | laid | dejar |
| lead | led | led | dirigir |
| learn | learned/ learnt | aprender | |
| leave | left | left | salir |
| lend | lent | lent | prestar |
| lose | lost | lost | perder |
| make | made | made | hacer |
| mean | meant | meant | |
| meet | met | met | reunirse |
| overcome | overcame | overcome | superar |