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英语听力精选进阶版 7955
To agree with someone means to agree with something the person has said. You can also agree with an idea. When we use agree with in a sentence it usually has the structure: subject + agree with + object. For example: I completely agree with you. 2) A
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英语听力精选进阶版 7956
There has been a lot of research on this topic and there are many different language learning strategies so you have to find what works best for you. There are lots of sources of new language; these might include TV or radio programmes, movies, songs
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英语听力精选进阶版 7957
This week's question comes from Sola in China who wants to know how to write better business emails. Being able to write good work or business emails in English is an important skill in today's globalised economy. But where do you begin? We've prepar
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英语听力精选进阶版 7958
This weeks question comes from a listener who would like to know the difference between the words rise and raise. The main differences between these words are as follows: 1. Transitive vs Intransitive Raise is a transitive verb and when used in a sen
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英语听力精选进阶版 7959
Listen to this week's programme to hear Li and William tackle Wong's question with help from a very special guest. Whether or not we put 'the' before 'most' depends on several things. Both Wong's example sentences above are examples of superlatives.
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英语听力精选进阶版 7960
Fei Yang has emailed us with this weeks question. She wants to know the difference between its and its. Its This is two words joined together usually it and is. The apostrophe takes the place of the i in is. This kind of word is called a contraction.
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This weeks question is from Zhu Jun Jun who wants to know how to use verbs with ing. There are many ways to use the verb+ing but in this weeks programme we focus on how to use verb+ing in the continuous tense. The present participle Verbs can take ma
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This weeks question is from Tong Zhang who wants to know how to correctly use the word holiday. This word can be a little confusing as people use it in a lot of different situations. It can take on many meanings. Here are some of the most common ways
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英语听力精选进阶版 7963
This weeks question is from Du Min and it is about the meaning and usage of the English idiom a hundred and one things. The idiomatic part of this phrase a hundred and one can be used instead of the words too many or lots of. In the UK, idioms form p
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This weeks question was sent to us by Jojo from Guangdong saying she had seen sentences with the phrases six foot six and five four in them. They were wondering what this meant and if it was a way to talk about height. Jojo guessed correctly that thi
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英语听力精选进阶版 7965
The words 'choose' and 'select' are both very common verbs with nearly the same meaning. However, 'select' has a slightly narrower meaning and is used less frequently than 'choose'. Both words can mean to pick one thing or person from a group. For ex
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Ricky wrote to us asking if we could explain the meaning of the phrase bring it on. BBC Learning English language expert Catherine Chapman explained that it is a commonly-used phrase in English, but mainly in spoken English. It is a modern informal c
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This week's question comes from Ricky in Xi'an who wants to know more about intonation in English. As he points out, intonation is different from pronunciation, and is an important part of learning to speak like a native speaker. But it's also quite
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This week our question comes from Peter in Beijing. He wants to know the difference between the words quote and offer. Quote Example: Can you give me a quote? When you give someone a quote it is the price you would charge to do a piece of work. You m
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Qimley has a question for us this week about accents. She wants to know how to identify an American accent from a British one. It's important to say there isn't an easy answer to this. In Britain there are so many accents and some are similar to Amer
