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• VOCABULARY:
  General vocabulary :
  Useful words and expressions for general conversations and special events, as well pronunciation pages.
  1. Abbreviations, acronyms and initialisms with their meaning.
  2. Adjectives ending in '-less'
  3. Adjectives ending in '-some'
  4. Adjectives beginning with 'well'
  5. Antonyms (words that are opposite in meaning to another)
  6. British slang (informal language in the UK)
  7. Binomial expressions (two words joined by a conjunction or preposition)
  8. Trinomial expressions (three-word expressions)
  9. Christmas vocabulary
  10. Collocations: adjectives-nouns
  11. Collocations: adverbs + adjectives
  12. Collocations: adverbs + verbs
  13. Collocations with 'beyond'
  14. Collocations with 'get'
  15. Collocations with 'go'
  16. Collocations with 'out'
  17. Confusing words (e.g. accept/except, coarse/course, lose/loose, waste/waist ...)
  18. Diseases, illnesses and sickness (medical terms and words with their meaning.)
  19. Easter vocabulary (words relating to Easter beliefs, traditions and celebrations.)
  20. Else: Words and phrases with 'else' and 'or else' in English.
  21. Euphemisms (expressions used to avoid being too blunt or harsh)
  22. Everyday phrases (short phrases and expressions used in everyday conversational English)
  23. Expressions for everyday situations (useful phrases to deal with common situations).
      • Advice: asking for and giving advice
        
      • Agreeing and disagreeing: ways to express agreement or disagreement
        
      • Apologies: making and accepting apologies
        
      • Bad news: announcing and responding to bad news
        
      • Clarifying information: checking that you have understood
        
      • Conversational expressions: phrases used in everyday conversation
        
      • Disappointment or frustration: ways to express disappointment or frustration
        
      • Decisions and choices: well-known expressions about reaching a decision
        
      • Encouragement or support: ways to encourage someone or show support
        
      • Excuses for being late: giving a reason for arriving late
        
      • Expressing concern: enquiring about someone and/or offering help
        
      • Get well soon: other ways of wishing someone well
        
      • Remembering, forgetting, saying "I don't know" : useful phrases
        
      • Ways to end a conversation
        
      • Ways to say "I'm bored" or "I'm tired"
        
      • Ways to say something is difficult or easy.
        
      • Ways to say "Thank you" - expressing gratitude
        
      • Ways to say "Happy New Year" - New Year greetings
        
  24. Expressions with 'all'
  25. Expressions with 'as'
  26. Expressions with 'can't'
  27. Expressions with 'change'
  28. Expressions with 'deal'
  29. Expressions with 'first'
  30. Expressions with 'good'
  31. Expressions with 'hand'
  32. Expressions with 'high'
  33. Expressions with 'just'
  34. Expressions with 'know'
  35. Expressions with 'matter'
  36. Expressions with 'meet'
  37. Expressions with 'mind'
  38. Expressions with 'money'
  39. Expressions with 'new'
  40. Expressions with 'once'
  41. Expressions with 'point'
  42. Expressions with 'stay'
  43. Expressions with 'time'
  44. Expressions with 'touch'
  45. Expressions with 'world'
  46. Expressions: two words (informal two-word expressions)
  47. Expressions with 'work' + 'as'-'at'-'for'-'in' (talking about jobs)
  48. Expressions with 'yourself'
  49. False Friends (Faux Amis) (appear similar but have a different meaning).
  50. Foreign words in English (words adopted from other languages)
  51. Formal vs informal letter writing
  52. Formal-informal expressions
  53. Golf vocabulary
  54. Halloween vocabulary
  55. Homonyms (homographs and homophones with examples of use)
  56. Hotels-rooms vocabulary (useful phrases)
  57. Informal contractions (in casual conversations)
  58. Invitations (ways to invite and accept or refuse politely)
  59. Latin words used in English
  60. Multiple-meaning words (words that have two or more meanings)
  61. Made of, from, with, out of, by
  62. New words in English (recently-coined words and phrases)
  63. Nouns ending in -hood
  64. Nouns ending in -ship
  65. Polite Requests (accepting or refusing)
  66. Political vocabulary
  67. Prefixes
  68. Negative prefixes
  69. Prepositional phrases (set phrases introduced by a preposition)
  70. Renting accommodation vocabulary
  71. Restaurants - food vocabulary
  72. Shopping vocabulary
  73. Silent letters (letters not pronounced)
  74. Similes and Metaphors with examples
  75. Suffix '-ish' (words ending in 'ish')
  76. Suggesting leisure activities (ways to make, accept or reject a suggestion)
  77. Synonyms (words that are similar in meaning to another word)
  78. Synonyms-Homonyms-Antonyms (comparative table)
  79. Thanksgiving vocabulary
  80. Travel and transport vocabulary
  81. Travel phrases : airport - train - bus
  82. Travel words: travel, trip, journey, tour, voyage, trek, hike, expedition...
  83. Trinomial expressions (three-word expressions)
  84. UK-US differences (different words and spelling).
  85. Useful phrases (useful phrases and expressions for everyday situations)
  86. Work and Employment vocabulary
  87. Words to use instead of others (replacing words to avoid repetition)
      
      
  • Environent vocabulary:
    •  page 1:  from 'acid rain' to 'deforestation' 
    •  page 2:  from 'desalination' to 'ground water' 
    •  page 3:  from 'habitat' to 'wind turbine'
      
      
  • New Words in English
    Words, terms and expressions that have entered the English language in recent years.
    
    • New words in English, page 1
    • New words in English, page 2
    • New words in English, page 3
    • New words in English, page 4
    • New words in English, page 5
      
      
  • Pronunciation
    
  Explanation concerning intonation, silent letters, stress in words and sentences, and in nouns and verbs.
  • intonation
  • silent letters
  • stress
  • stress noun-verb

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