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This poem by Tennyson is a classic New Year's poem, filled with good wishes and hopeful pleas. Read the post to find out more about its structure and metre, and you can also do a short vocabulary exercise.
Nikolaus Lenau was the nom de plume of Nikolaus Franz Niembsch Edler von Strehlenau, a poet who is now considered one the most important voices of Late-Romantic literature in German. A portrait of Lenau by Matevลพ Langus Born in Csatรกd in the Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Lenauheim in the Banat region of western Romania) in 1802, …
Enid Blytonโs book series The Famous Five turns eighty this year! Still much loved by children all over the world and translated into numerous languages, the series describes the holiday adventures of brothers Julian and Dick, their sister Anne, cousin George (Georgina, that is), and Georgeโs pet dog Timmy.
[This post has been written with ESL/EFL students in mind, CEFR level B2 and above.] Do you like reading books? What kind of books do you like best? Do you prefer fiction or non-fiction? In this post weโll go over the vocabulary that you can use to discuss books, from the words for different genres …
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