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How to use 'over'

Average: 3.8 (76 votes)

'There time as University is now over.'

The word over can be used as in a number of ways as a preposition, adjective or adverb. Let's take a look at some of its more basic uses:

cynology

what is cynology???

High Intermediate Reading: The 380kg Teenager

Average: 3 (15 votes)

British television recently showed a programme on the plight of 19 year-old Texan teenager, Billy Robbins, who weighed an unbelievable 180 kg.
Officially the world’s heaviest teenager, Billy was housebound for 3 years after gorging himself on junk-food. At the peek of his food addiction he was eating 8000 calories each day.

happy ... and merry //

hello. greetings from me,(since this is my first time, is my greetings correct? Waiting

quite confuse with these:
we say "happy birthday, happy new year, happy holiday, happy sunday, etc.
but in christmas, why do we say "merry christmas"
what is the exact mean of "merry" and is it only be used in "christmas"?

can you give me examples of others to express our congrats ;;; Wink

Culture Lesson: Boston Chinatown

Average: 3.6 (11 votes)

Experience the sights, sounds, smells, and tastes of Asia right here in downtown Boston's very own Chinatown. It is one of the largest Chinese neighborhoods in America. Chinatown is a mixture of Asian cultures such as Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Malaysian, Cambodian, and Vietnamese.

Top 10 passwords

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Cultural Lesson: New York

Average: 2.9 (13 votes)

English nicknames for places

Average: 3.3 (24 votes)

Most counties and places have nicknames. A nickname is a second, unofficial name. For example, the nickname for New York is 'The Big Apple'.

Below you will can see seven nicknames; all you have to do is match them up to the correct places.

Does you hometown or country have a nickname? What is it?

Link: Puzzle - Can you read this?

10 Food idioms

Average: 3.4 (185 votes)

'The test was a piece of cake.'

A lemon

A lemon is something that you buy which turns out to have problems - it is defective / it doesn't work well.

'That second-hand car I bought was a real lemon. It broke down a week after I bought it.'

Upper Int: nouns from adjectives

Average: 1.6 (3260 votes)

 

'Free is the adjective; freedom is the noun'

Let's build up your vocabulary.  Complete each of the following sentences with the noun form of each adjective in brackets. For example: