🏆 ASIAN STUDENT IN SWITZERLAND

How to move to Switzerland - the country of chocolate, watches, mountains and banks? I sat down with my new Indian friend here in the best Swiss business school to talk about his experience of moving to a new place. Get all the tips from him!

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✔️ MATCHING HEADINGS TIP

Here is my tip for effectively answering the matching headings to paragraphs question on the IELTS reading test.

1. Skim read each paragraph and make a note of what the paragraph is about. It only needs to be a few words/phrases that sum up the paragraph. Remember, the first line of each paragraph is a topic sentence so it will give you a good idea of what the paragraph will be about.
2. Now read the headings. You will find it much easier to match the headings to the paragraphs because you already know what each paragraph is about.

Try this technique next time you are practicing this type of question and let me know if it works for you.

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🙈 IRREGULAR PLURALS

Some nouns have a plural form that is not created by adding '-s' in the end.

Mouse - mice
Louse - lice
Ox - oxen
Foot - feet
Tooth - teeth
Goose - geese
Man - men
Woman - women
Child - children
Person - people
Cactus - cacti
Formula - formulae
Analysis - analyses
Crisis - crises
Index - indices

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💥 3 STEPS TO FLUENCY

Here are 3 distinct things that I used to develop to get to English fluency. I also share practical strategies for all of them and you can download a free pdf of this lesson on YouTube! 🙌

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWgA1eDQIHU
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This video has a free pdf transcript of the lesson downloadable from the link in the description box of it on YouTube. I really want to know your opinion on that.

📓 NEW IDIOM

I BEG TO DIFFER
(formal) used to say firmly that you do not agree with something that has been said.

💬 I'm sorry, headmaster, but I beg to differ. Students at this school should have more access to financial aid and scholarships, not less.

💬 I beg to differ, but I am seldom consulted when such decisions are made.

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​​📕 BOOK: 'DRIVE-THRU DREAMS'

Name: Drive-Thru Dreams: A Journey Through the Heart of America's Fast-Food Kingdom (2019)

About: With wit and nuance, the author reveals the complexities of fast-food industry through heartfelt anecdotes and fascinating trivia as well as interviews with fans, executives, and workers. He traces the industry from its roots in Wichita, where White Castle became the first fast food chain in 1921 and successfully branded the hamburger as the official all-American meal, to a teenager's 2017 plea for a year's supply of Wendy's chicken nuggets, which united the internet to generate the most viral tweet of all time.

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🌐 COMMON ENGLISH MISTAKES

1. Wrong: I have visited Australia last weekend.
Problem: "have visited" - Present Perfect tense, which is only used when the time of an action is not stated. Here, on the contrary, we know the precise time - last weekend - so Past Simple must be used.
Correct: I visited Australia last weekend.

2. Wrong: She’s married with a dentist.
Problem: The idiom is "to be married to", all the changes to it are wrong.
Correct: She's married to a dentist.

3. Wrong: I must to call him immediately.
Problem: "Must" is a modal verb, there is no "to" after it. The same applies to "can", for example: "she can drive".
Correct: I must call him immediately.

4. Wrong: Every students like the teacher.
Problem: "Every" is used only with a singular form of a noun, otherwise it's impossible.
Correct: Every student likes the teacher.

5. Wrong: I enjoyed from the movie.
Problem: The preposition "from" is used to indicate a source of something. For example, "I got this balloon from a street seller". The street seller is a source of the good (balloon). Here we don't receive anything material from the movie, instead, we feel emotions. The preposition "from" here is not used.
Correct: I enjoyed the movie.

6. Wrong: I look forward to meet you.
Problem: Remember that we always use gerund after "to look forward to".
Correct: I look forward to meeting you.

Don't forget to google the rules that you didn't know to read more about them and remember them better 🙌🏻

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🔖 5 IDIOMS FOR IELTS READING

Check out the cool 5 idioms in the video with examples! You can either use them in your own speech or recognize in some IELTS Reading texts.

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​​⭐️ WSE HERO - JULY 2019

I want to celebrate people who have been World Speaks English members for a long time, have contributed to its development, participated in live streams, courses, and our discussions in the community chats. All of them - WSE Heroes - have a unique story to tell.
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Meet Danagul from Kazakhstan! She claims she found the right person at the right time, meaning me and the WSE YouTube channel 🙌🏻 She follows this study blog for several reasons, one of them - to continue learning English and getting prepared for IELTS. She appreciates that all materials and sources are credible at WSE. She also took part in the Rocket Speed IELTS Preparation course and found that the course was well-structured for people with limited time, which was essential as she was preparing for her final exams at school. She claims that WSE YouTube videos helped a lot, especially the map tutorial for listening, as the method turned out truly efficient for her. And of course - much motivation is what she drew from the community 💪🏻

Finally, the took IELTS and her results were enough to get admitted to a university in Spain! 🎉🇪🇸
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Congratulations for becoming the WSE Hero of the month, Danagul! We love celebrating outstanding community members 🎉

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​​📚 INSTANT READING PRACTICE

Read the paragraphs on the photo, solve True/False/Not Given question, send your answers to @wsecommunity

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Answers ⬆️
1. True
2. False
3. Not given
4. True
5. False

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​​✅ FORMAL WORDS FOR IELTS WRITING

This book is filled with lexical resource (read: words) that will be useful for your IELTS essays. The author also gives high and low lexis alternatives.

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​​🖋 FREE ONLINE WRITING TASK 2 EVALUATION

I will evaluate one of the essays online on my instagram at 7 pm CEST today. Join to learn about IELTS Writing evaluation procedure and what makes a good band score! Here - www.instagram.com/d_sandmartin

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🎪 GRAMMAR: HAD BETTER

How to express that you prefer one specific action over another? Use had better!

We use had better to refer to the present or the future, to talk about actions we think people should do or which are desirable in a specific situation. The verb form is always had, not have. We normally shorten it to ’d better in informal situations. It is followed by the infinitive without to:

 It’s five o’clock. I’d better go now before the traffic gets too bad.
The democratic movement had better concentrate on the immediate issues of the economy and security. 

The negative of had better is had better not (or ’d better not):

 I’d better not leave my bag there. Someone might steal it.

The question form of had better is made by inverting the subject and had. This means the same as should, but is more formal:

 Had I better speak to Joan first before I send this form off? What do you think?

Negative questions with had better are more common than affirmative ones:

 Hadn’t we better ring the school and tell them Liam is sick?

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📰 READING PRACTICE

The life flies by, sometimes people don't even have time to stop and look around. The author of this article asked the elderly about their mistakes and happiness, so that we can learn.

P.S. Don't forget to write down separately all the new words with translations.

https://medium.com/s/story/what-its-like-to-be-90-something-368780082573

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