Essential Business English Vocabulary: Units 11-13
UNIT 11: Business Operations and Agreements
Key Terms and Phrases
At current exchange rates: The rate at which one currency can be exchanged for another at the present time.
Award a contract: To formally agree with a company to provide a service or complete a job.
Commission: To request someone to perform a specific task.
Course of action: The way something unfolds or a method of doing something.
Cross-fertilisation of ideas: The blending of ideas from different places or groups of people.
Cutting-edge
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Grammar – Option A
1) Relative Pronouns
Complete the text with the most appropriate relative pronoun. (5 marks)
Beltane is a festival (1) which is celebrated at the start of spring in many parts of the Celtic world. In Edinburgh, (2) where there is one of the largest Beltane celebrations, people gather on top of Calton Hill to light huge fires. Lots of participants are painted bright red, bang drums and dance through the night. The ancient Celts, (3) whose religion was connected to changing seasons,
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Analysis of “The Doll’s House” by Katherine Mansfield
Exploring Themes of Social Class and Childhood Cruelty
1. What details suggest that the narrator is entering into the minds of the children?
The narrator provides insights into the children’s thoughts and feelings, particularly in the final paragraph on page 1301. The girls’ immediate reactions and internal monologues, such as their admiration for the dollhouse’s opening mechanism, reveal the narrator’s access to their inner world.
2. Does the narrator
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Psycholinguistics
Understanding Language Acquisition
This fascinating field explores the amazing ability of children to learn and understand language.
- Children possess an innate universal grammar (UG).
- Chomsky argues that language acquisition happens when UG interacts with linguistic experience.
- Language acquisition is a learning process dependent on our intellectual capacity for problem-solving.
- All children, regardless of language or social conditions, go through the same stages of language acquisition.
Vocabulary Unit 1-2: English-Spanish Glossary
Vocabulary Unit 1-2
English-Spanish Glossary
A
- Above (Arriba/Por encima): Over, higher up than something.
- Account (Cuenta): An arrangement by which a person keeps his money in a bank.
- Acquaint (Conocimiento): To make someone know something well.
- Actually (Actualmente): In fact, something that happens or is currently happening.
- Add (Añadir): To put one thing with another.
- Along (A lo largo de): In or into the company of others.
- At (En, a, hacia): Used to show the place or position of something or someone.
Understanding the Novel: A Comprehensive Guide to its Elements and Structure
Understanding the Novelistic Genre
The novel, as defined by poet Dario Dario Villanueva, embodies “two freedoms: freedom of content and freedom of form.” This inherent fluidity makes it a constantly evolving and open genre. The only true rule of the novel is to transgress all rules, a principle that underpins any critical analysis or interpretation.
Defining the Novel
We can define the literary novel as a complex and typically lengthy narrative written in prose, creating an imaginary world. The word
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