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Is Greed Ever Good?
Years ago a great movie on the 80s excesses in the US was released, Wall Street, a story of a corporate takeover artist who took over one company at a time. Small stuff compared to the financial engineering that brought down … Continue reading
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Impersonal passive structures
We have just done some practise on this type of sentences we find mostly in the written language when reporting in newspapers and magazines. They are used when we report information we are not totally sure about and therefore we … Continue reading
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What Would You Do If…?
What Would You Do? is an American television programme broadcast on ABC since 2009. The show is about setting up everyday scenarios and then capturing people’s reactions. Often people speculate on how they might act in a difficult situation, but … Continue reading
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Some more Exercises on Conditionals
The following expressions can be used instead of IF: Result Condition Provided/ providing that I would stop working provided that I won enough money As long as I would work on Saturday as long as you paid me extra Even … Continue reading
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The lottery of life and conditionals
As we are talking about conditional sentences you may like to see this website which allows you to compare the standard of living between all the countries in the world, so you can see how your life would be different … Continue reading
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Mixed conditionals
Unreal conditionals (type II + III) sometimes can be mixed, that is, the time reference of the if clause may be different from the one of the main clause. Past –> Present If I had taken an aspirin, I wouldn’t … Continue reading
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Conditionals Quick Revision
“If I do my homework, I’ll get good grades. If I get good grades, you’ll send me to university. If I go to university, I’ll graduate and get a job. If I get a job, I might get fired. If … Continue reading
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Crime: vocabulary and debates
Have your ever been the victim of a crime? Have you ever witnessed a crime? Have you ever committed a crime? As you can check in the ppt below, crime is a tricky area as there are a number of … Continue reading
Death penalty
Whether you would ever face the death penalty will depend in which country you choose to commit your crime. Of the 193 independent states that are UN members (or have UN observer status): 41 (21%) maintain the death penalty in … Continue reading
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Crime and punishment
The justice system sets the broad framework for criminal punishment and judges, and in some cases juries, usually have some disgression and latitude as to the exact terms of the punishment. There is a huge diversity of punishments in different … Continue reading
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