📓 New Idiom

UNDER THE TABLE
a secret, hidden action.

💬 If you want to open a business in a country where there is a lot of corruption, you may have to make under the table payments to officials.

💬 I knew I couldn't rely on her, so we made an under the table deal with my roommates.

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​​✅ ADVANCED ENGLISH GRAMMAR PRACTICE

This book is filled with grammar practice on many different topics, allowing you to recall (or to learn) English grammar structures.

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​​👩‍🎓AUSTRALIAN SCHOLARSHIP

Charles Stuart University (Australia) offers a number of $5,000 and $10,000 tuition fee scholarships to new commencing international students enrolled in courses offered on Port Macquarie campus in Session 1 or Session 2, 2019.

Available degrees (Bachelor's): Accounting, Applied Science, Creative Art and Design, Criminal Justice, Environmental Science Management, Medical Radiations Science, Occupational Therapy, Paramedicine, Psychology

Available degrees (Master's): Customs Administration, Professional Accounting, Informational Technology

Eligibility criteria:
- High Academic achievements 75% or GPA 5/7 or 3/4 or equivalent.
- Community involvement and desire to be involved in the CSU Port Macquarie Community (1000 word essay).
- Applicant must hold an unconditional offer for a CSU course, delivered at CSU Port Macquarie.

Applications are open until:
- For Session 1, 2019 applications: 11:59pm (AEST time), 25 January 2019
- For Session 2, 2019 application: 11:59pm (AEST time), 15 May 2019

More info: http://futurestudents.csu.edu.au/help-with-costs/fees-and-costs/help-with-costs/scholarships/international/vice-chancellor-international-scholarship

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​​👩🏻‍🎓 UK SCHOLARSHIP

Eight scholarships at the University of Warwik (the UK) are available for students commencing MA study in Autumn 2019. The award will automatically be deducted from the winners' tuition fees.

The awards will be allocated as follows:
- Four x £5,000 awards for Home or EU candidates.
- Four x £10,000 awards for Overseas candidates.
- Part-time candidates will be considered; successful part-time awards will be distributed evenly across both years of study (eg, £2,500 in each year for a Home candidate).

Candidates must apply to the university and have paid their application fee no later no later than 26 April 2019. You must submit your application to the MA programme before submitting your scholarship application.

Check eligibility criteria and more information here: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/pais/study/studymasters/funding/paisscholarship/

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📣 SPEAKING PRACTICE

Grab a friend and start practicing this speaking sample from a recent exam

Section 1
– Where are you from?
– Do you work or study?
– What subjects do you study?
– Why did you choose these subjects?
– Do you have any plants in your house?
– Did you ever grow any plants?
– Why is it important to grow plants?
– Do you usually have a plan for everything?
– What are some things that you plan ahead?
– What do you plan for the next weekend?

Section 2
Talk about your favourite magazine or a book for 1-2 mins. Please say:
– What is the book about?
– When did you read it?
– Why do you like it?

Section 3
– Would you recommend this book to others?
– Do you read a lot in general?
– What is your favourite genre?
- What literature drives innovation?

Don't have a friend to practice? Don't worry, you can find a speaking partner in our chat @worldchatgroup or just talk to a mirror!

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🤖 AT / ON / IN EXAM

What is the correct preposition?
All of them are possible!

IN
The normal preposition is in. It is used when speaking about taking an examination or during an exam.
You are allowed to use a calculator in the exam.

AT
You use at, for example, for being present at an exam. This is when you think of the exam as an event (like at a concert, at the play (in a theatre)).
At the exam there was an invigilator, who walked around the room to see that no one cheated.

ON
We can use on the exam in the example "On the exam there was a question about xxxxx". This is short for exam paper and perhaps should not count, since we could also say in the exam. You can also "score high marks/in on the exam".

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📍 MAPS ON IELTS LISTENING

All the tips, tricks and strategies for solving the Map labelling questions on IELTS listening are already here! Watch the video - we are solving 3 maps together!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PC2JaLw4Y8

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​​👩🏻‍🎓 OXFORD SCHOLARSHIP

Oxford is proud to be able to offer a very high number of fully-funded scholarships each year, with over 1,000 available for courses starting in 2019-20. Clarendon is one of the biggest of the University’s scholarship schemes, offering around 130 new scholarships each year. Clarendon scholarships are competitive, prestigious and highly sought-after.

Whilst there are no quotas by course type, the majority of Clarendon scholars are working towards a DPhil (Oxford's name for a PhD). Scholarships are also awarded for two-year graduate degrees (such as the MPhil or BPhil) or one-year degrees (such as the MSc, MSt, MBA or MFE).

The University has one goal in mind when selecting Clarendon scholars: to choose the best students worldwide, as decided by experts in each student's field.

Check eligibility criteria and more information here: https://www.ox.ac.uk/clarendon/about/clarendon-scholarships?wssl=1

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📰 READING PRACTICE

Fifty years ago, the city-state of Singapore was an undeveloped country with a GDP per capita of less than US $320. Today, it is one of the world's fastest-growing economies. Its GDP per capita has risen to an incredible US $60,000, making it the sixth highest in the world based on Central Intelligence Agency figures.

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

https://www.thoughtco.com/singapores-economic-development-1434565

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Start on Monday, 7th of January
Happy New Year edition!

📓 New Idiom

TO TAKE STOCK OF SMTH
to think carefully about a situation or event and form an opinion about it, so that you can decide what to do.

💬 After two years spent teaching overseas, she returned home for a month to take stock of her life.

💬 Typically I take stock of the previous year on the 1st of January.

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​​😣 ATTENTION - FAKERS

This is how other channels treat my content. Please, beware of liars and carefully look who really produces quality content and who just steals it.

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🙄 MISUSED WORDS & EXPRESSIONS

1. Allusion – an indirect reference
Illusion – an unreal image

2. Being is not appropriate inside the phrase 'regard....as'.
Wrong: He regarded as being clever
Right: He regarded as clever

3. But is unnecessary after 'doubt' and 'help'.
Wrong: I have no doubt but that
Right: I have no doubt that

4. Compare to – to point out similarities between objects.
Paris has been compared to ancient Athens
Compare with – to point out differences between objects.
Paris may be compared with modern London.

5. Data and also strata, phenomena, media – are plural nouns. They are used with plural verbs.
Wrong: The data is misleading
Right: The data are misleading

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📰 NEWS IN ENGLISH

This site enables you to read the news in English and even listen to its audio-version. In the end of the news articles there are lists of difficult words. The articles are ranged from Beginner to Advanced levels.
A perfect way to keep up with the news!

https://learningenglish.voanews.com

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📓 New Idiom

BOB'S YOUR UNCLE
used to say that something is easy to do or use. An equivalent of "and there you have it".

💬 Just complete the form, pay the fee, and Bob's your uncle!

💬 You just put these parts together like this, and Bob's your uncle - you have a working model!.

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🙅🏻‍♀️ RESTRICTIVE and NON-RESTRICTIVE adjective clauses

Sounds tough, yeah? In the reality, it's a basic concept that we encounter in our daily speech.

The nonrestrive clause provides infomation (separated by commas) that doesn't restrict or limit the noun it modifies (Old Professor Legree). The commas signify that the adjective clause provides added, not essential, information. We can omit this information and still understand the sentence well.

 Old Professor Legree, who dresses like a teenager, is going through his second childhood.

Restrictive clauses, on the other hand, are not separated by commas and provide infomation that is essential for understanding the main idea of a sentence and that can't be omitted.

 An older person who dresses like a teenager is often an object of ridicule.

Don't mess up your commas 😉
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🌿 WEATHER WORDS YOU DIDN'T KNOW

Petrichor
You know how it smells outside after a rainstorm? Petrichor is the distinct scent of rain in the air. Or, to be more precise, it’s the name of an oil that’s released from the earth into the air before rain begins to fall.

Sastruga
This word sastruga (sastrugi in the plural form) means "ridges of snow formed on a snowfield by the action of the wind." It's beautiful in an open field, and a different kind of awe-inspiring in the parking lot you're supposed to plow.

Derecho
It is a widespread and severe windstorm that moves rapidly along a fairly straight path, and it is associated with bands of rapidly moving thunderstorms. In some instances, the media will refer to derechos as inland hurricanes!

Gloriole
We define gloriole as "a halo, nimbus, or aureole." When ice crystals are suspended in the atmosphere, light catches them causing a bright halo or even a rainbow.

Swullocking
You've probably experienced that hot, sticky, humid weather during the summer. And, that's just what swullocking means: humid weather.

Moonbroch
Have you ever looked up at the night sky and seen a large halo around the moon? This is what's termed a moonbroch, and it is a sign of an approaching storm.

Virga
The virga phenomenon is when you can see that it is raining, but it evaporates on the way to the ground and ends up changing back to water vapor before you can feel it.

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