BBC Learning English
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Words in the NewsPolice in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka say thousands of garment factory workers, who want higher minimum wages, have blocked roads and attacked shops and factories....
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Good and bad smilesIs there a good and a bad smile? Yvonne and Kate discuss their own smiles and agree that Yvonne probably has what is called 'the...
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Passenger plane crashes in PakistanA passenger plane with more than a hundred and fifty people on board has crashed as it was coming in to land at Islamabad airport....
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The Flatmates on YouTubeEpisode 53: The morning after: It's the morning after the BBQ - who's not feeling too good...and why?
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Khmer Rouge prison chief found guiltyKhmer Rouge prison chief found guilty, Words in the News, 26 July 2010
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I had been playing Hide & Seek Vocabulary with a 7 year old boy (close your eyes, and when you open them find the missing object from the table and ask for it). His mother told me the next week that the boy had been playing basketball with his two older brothers. The ball rolled away and the boy asked without hesitation, “Where is my ball?” He didn’t even realize that he had asked in English. |
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Gift = poison gift = Geschenk |