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Novels in the classroom: Book tips per language
An overview of novels in different languages. Here you will find titles of books in the following languages:
- French,
- English,
- German,
- Spanish,
- Russian,
- Italian,
- Turkish.
The list was drawn up by the language teachers of the Department of …
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America's Native Prisoners of War: Listening Test
This listening test comes from the TEDEd site to a TED Talk by photographer Aaron Huey about America's native prisoners of war . The presentation takes about fifteen minutes and the link to the video is included in the listening test.
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Studying: 20 quotes in Dutch and English
Many famous authors, scientists and artists express a piece of life advice in the form of a quote. Whether you're just starting your academic journey or nearing the end, we could all use some motivation when it comes to studying.
In this blog, 20 …
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Literary reading skill: Evaluation Rubric
Evaluation rubric in Excel for literary reading skills such as for a book review.
Evaluates the components:
- personal experience,
- interpretation,
- judgement,
- analysis,
- text level on different parameters.
The end result is a score out of 10, with good …
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Hurling: Listening comprehension
This is a listening exercise about the traditional Irish sport of hurling .
The fragment is a report from the American series 60 minutes sports in which the presenter interviews important figures from and around the sport of hurling and explains what …
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Color and happiness: Listening test podcast
This is a listening exercise on two podcasts:
- How color affects us ;
- What is the key to happiness?
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A Tale of Two Cities: Reading Test - Ace 4
Reading comprehension test on the content and vocabulary of the text A tale of Two Universities from Ace 4 unit 1 . (Pelckmans)
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Academic English: do's and don'ts
Most students have a good basic or even advanced knowledge of English. Yet writing in academic English is often a stumbling block for many. Academic texts are not just formal texts, they require a certain style.
In this article you will find ten tips …
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Conditionals: English if sentences (if clauses)
If I had ten million, I would ask the Queen to come for afternoon tea. If you had ten million, what would you do?
Those first two sentences are if clauses. With if sentences you indicate a condition in English; in Dutch you do that with als. Such …
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American and British English: The History and Differences
We are all confronted with English; both American and British English. Both are correct, but at school we learn British English. What exactly is the difference between British and American English? And how did these differences arise historically?
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Addictions: Telephone conversations
In class, the students came into contact with all kinds of formulas to have a telephone conversation in English. In the attachment you will find various situation cards that can be used as an exercise or to assess the oral interaction skills of …
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Misused English Proverbs: Blog Post
We all know some funny and erroneous English sayings and proverbs like unfortunately peanut butter or I fell with the door in house . But what are the right variants? In this article you will get the correct variant of some common erroneous …
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