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The iceberg principle effect on language learning

The iceberg illusion

 

Bod Dylan teaches you about questions, nouns

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The states of the USA

01	Alabama	AL	Montgomery	Birmingham
02	Alaska	AK	Juneau	Anchorage
03	Arizona	AZ	Phoenix
04	Arkansas	AR	Little Rock
05	California	CA	Sacramento	Los Angeles
06	Colorado	CO	Denver
07	Connecticut	CT	Hartford	Bridgeport
08	Delaware	DE	Dover	Wilmington
09	Florida	FL	Tallahassee	Jacksonville
10	Georgia	GA	Atlanta
11	Hawai	HI	Honolulu
12	Idaho	ID	Boise
13	Illinois	IL	Springfield	Chicago
14	Indiana	IN	Indianapolis
15	Iowa	IA	Des Moines
16	Kansas	KS	Topeka	Wichita
17	Kentucky	KY	Frankfort	Louisville
18	Louisiana	LA	Baton Rouge	New Orleans
19	Maine	ME	Augusta	Portland
20	Maryland	MD	Annapolis	Baltimore
21	Massachusetts	MA	Boston
22	Michigan	MI	Lansing	Detroit
23	Minnesota	MN	St. Paul	Minneapolis
24	Mississippi	MS	Jackson
25	Missouri	MO	Jefferson City	Kansas City
26	Montana	MT	Helena	Billings
27	Nebraska	NE	Lincoln	Omaha
28	Nevada	NV	Carson City	Las Vegas
29	New Hampshire	NH	Concord	Manchester
30	New Jersey	NJ	Trenton	Newark
31	New Mexico	NM	Santa Fe	Albuquerque
32	New York	NY	Albany	New York City
33	North Carolina	NC	Raleigh	Charlotte
34	North Dakota	ND	Bismark	Fargo
35	Ohio	OH	Columbus
36	Oklahoma	OK	Oklahoma City
37	Oregon	OR	Salem	Portland
38	Pennsylvania	PA	Harrisburg	Philadelphia
39	Rhode Island	RI	Providence
40	South Carolina	SC	Columbia
41	South Dakota	SD	Pierre	Sioux Falls
42	Tennessee	TN	Nashville	Memphis
43	Texas	TX	Austin	Houston
44	Utah	UT	Salt Lake City
45	Vermont	VT	Montpelier	Burlington
46	Virginia	VA	Richmond	Virginia Beach
47	Washington	WA	Olympia	Seatle
48	West Virginia	WV	Charleston
49	Wisconsin	WI	Madison	Milwaukee
50	Wyoming	WY	Cheyenne

Different uses of SET

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Conditional sentences

 CONDITIONALS

The zero conditional

This conditional is used when the result will always happen.

IF	CONDITION	RESULT
If	Present simple	Present simple

We can use this type with laws and rules.

Examples:

1.- If you heat ice, it melts.

2.- If water reaches 100 degrees, it boils.

3.- If the sun goes down, it gets dark.

We can use when instead of if and the meaning doesn’t change.

And we can change the order of the two parts and the result is the same.

4.- I am happy when I eat.

5.- You get burned if you touch a fire.

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My most treasured possession

If I have to choose and object, this is, undoubtedly, my iPad.

It's almost always in my hands when I'm at home. I take it with me to bed, and the first thing I do when I wake up is to turn it on.

On its screen it is almost everything: the email messages, I get the social networks of my friends and acquaintances, the updated news of all the media, the music and videos of my favorite singers, the television program that I wasn't able to see the previous day, the applications to brush up my English, the books I'm reading...

The mobile phone is also significant to me. However, its screen is too small for my recently operated tired eyes.

Also, as an accessory to my iPad, I have some wireless earphones. Great. They allow me to listen to podcasts while I'm moving around the house and without having cables connected to the device. Moreover, at night, in bed, my partner and I don't bother each other... with is essential.

(Written as an essay for the EOI on 17/12/2018) 

Longleaf Pine Trees Give Us More than Just Wood

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Burned vs. Burnt, and other verbs like this

Only American English makes a distinction between the two. In other varieties of English, burnt and burned are both perfectly acceptable for the past tense of burn. It wasn’t always that way. Before the sixteenth century, burned was the only form. However, some people started adding T instead of -ed at the ends of verbs. The fad caught on a little in the United States and Canada, but not enough to become an established part of the language there. In the United Kingdom and other countries, the T was a hit. Here are some examples of burnt functioning as the simple past tense and past participle of burn...

(From Grammarly)

Others verbs following a similar pattern

	Clap	Clapped Clapt	Clapped Clapt
31	Dream	Dreamt Dreamed	Dreamt Dreamed
	Kneel	Knelt Kneeled	Knelt Kneeled
	Lean	Leant Leaned	Leant Leaned
	Leap	Leapt Leaped	Leapt Leaped
45	Learn	Learnt Learned	Learnt Learned
61	Smell	Smelt Smelled	Smelt Smelled
	Spell	Spelt Spelled	Spelt Spelled
63	Spill	Spilt Spilled	Spilt Spilled
	Spoil	Spoilt Spoiled	Spoilt Spoiled
	Strip	Stript Stripped	Stript Stripped
	Sunburn	Sunburned Sunburnt	Sunburned Sunburnt
69	Sweep	Swept Sweeped	Swept Sweeped
	Vex	Vext Vexed	Vext Vexed

From usingEnglish.com