to boulder-sized fragments. Gravel is an important commercial product‚ with a number of applications. Many roadways are surfaced with gravel‚ especially in rural areas where there is little traffic. Globally‚ far more roads are surfaced with gravel than with concrete or tarmac. The sand and gravel industry is in a unique situation insofar as land development is concerned. It utilizes heavy earth moving equipment‚ and often has large volumes of earth material unsuitable for marketing available for creating
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Five Reasons Not to Join the Peace Corps Many travelers have considered—even just for a moment—joining Peace Corps. The allure of two years abroad and the chance to integrate into new and exciting cultures has tempted some 200‚000 volunteers into a life of service in 139 different countries. Whether it’s a post-college move or a mid-career shift‚ Peace Corps provides a unique way to experience places in a way no typical trip allows. Sure‚ a sense of adventure and a bit of independence are requirements
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try to guess what the text might be about. a. Task 1: Reading for gist. Before distributing the text‚ I will tell students that they have one minute to read the text and decide what the article is about. After students read the article‚ they first share their opinion in pairs and then we have a short class discussion. Reading for gist teaches students to extract the main idea from the text in a short amount of time and allows them to practice reading skills. b. Task 2: Reading for
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Cambridge CELTA Written Assignment Two Skills –related tasks Word count: 1082 I acknowledge that this paper is my own work. Trainee: Mileva Genadieva Signature: Date: 18.02.2013 Receptive skills: According to J. Harmer in his book The Practice of English Language Teaching‚ “receptive skills are the ways in which people extract the meaning from the discourse they see or hear”. In the following text “Playing with your food” the main skill that is being
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to observe and interview is Krasimira. She lives and works in Sofia. Krasi is 50‚ and has Master Degree in "Radio and Television". She used to work in BNT as Head of the Technical Department. Nowadays‚ she works in her own company of advertising‚ marketing and publishing. PREVIOUS LANGUAGE EXPERIENCES She had been studying English since she was 14. She was taught the basics of the English language. She had been studying English by herself and had taken different language courses intensively. She
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What are the reasons for lying ? It is well known that the lie of the most common habits of the people ‚ which may last with them forever . This bad habit emerging in most cases of fear ‚ especially in childhood ‚ punishment can attain this because they do wrong or sins ‚ or for trying to achieve the goals and objectives of the illegal ‚ the purpose of which ‚ of course‚ the protection of self- punishment . Lying directly connected to other habits such as theft and fraud . In any case ‚ people resort
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The numbers are overwhelming: Over the next 17 years‚ 350 million rural residents (more than the entire U.S. population today) will leave the farm and move to China’s cities. That will bring the Chinese urban population from just under 600 million today to close to 1 billion‚ changing China into a country where more than two-thirds of its people are city dwellers‚ says Jonathan Woetzel‚ a director in McKinsey’s Shanghai office. The change will reverse China’s centuries-old identity as a largely rural
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CELTA WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT 1 LANGUAGE RELATED TASKS Look at the sentences below and identify the following: the verb form and structure the meaning (contrast the vocabulary items in number 4) possible student difficulties (in terms of form‚ meaning and phonology) a likely context through which you could teach the language (who says this sentence to whom and why?) check questions you might ask to check understanding (think about this in relation to your answer for b)‚ your analysis of the function/meaning)
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Report on “Flow past cylinder (in 2D) at different Reynolds numbers” 1 Contents 1 Abstract ............................................................................................................................................................ 3 2 Introduction ................................................................................................................................................... 3 3 Theory.....................................................................
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Assignment 2 Rubric: Language related tasks On the next page is a typical text that you might get students to read in class. It contains some useful language. Look at the items from the text in the box below. Choose two of the grammar structures and two of the items of lexis and for each of them do the following: analyse the meaning‚ describing how you would check students’ understanding. Use concept checking questions and some other clarification techniques if necessary‚ e.g. timelines‚ personalisation
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