Dear friends! Welcome back to Englishtips! Did you miss us? We surely missed you all! We are glad to be able to re-launch after a 3-day downtime. Those of you following our updates on our Twitter already know that we had to switch off our servers until we could settle some legal issues. Luckily, the downtime is over and we’re back online - with a lot of new ideas and enthusiasm! Thank you for being with us!
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Nice to be back, isn’t it? :) Stay with us for a looooong-long Englishtips time of your life! Truly yours, ENGLISHTIPS_admin
Using Englishtips (or, actually, getting notified when something you like has been added) just got more convenient!
Most of you already know what RSS is, and many of you are using it to get latest updates from websites without actually visiting them. We have RSS, too, but until today it was just one channel - all Englishtips submissions. We have now added a section in the tabbed menu above, where you can choose the specific CATEGORY RSS you want to receive updates from - for example, onlyGrammar', or only 'For kids'.
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UPDATED 5 MAY 2009: ANIMATED RSS BANNERS ADDED FOR YOU TO USE!
This is one of the first books I made. I would say it's an intermediate to advanced ESL reader. It's a compilation of short stories taken from Rong-Chang, I added a few pictures and put it together in a crisp and clean pdf file. It's basically a reading comprehension book with exercises and the teacher can improvise with some conversation questions based on the stories. Each section has some vocabulary which can be translated to a native language or used to make sentences with. There are Dictation exercises and a crossword puzzle based on the story after each story. I threw in a few grammar exercises.
Headway Pre-Intermediate English series has a new edition, "the third edition" - that I've made available after searching for it everywhere! Tests booklet added Thanks to ylia2003 !
