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How 2 txt spk – Text slang in SMS messages and chatroom shorthand

txtspk

     A recent survey in the UK reveals that seven in ten Brits -and nearly half of youngsters- are fed up of  text slang.
    Millions of text messages are sent every day and Britons admit to using abbreviations and text slang, but they hate receiving it. Most people (71%) would prefer a properly written text message. 
    Britons have become the [...]

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Extra! Extra! – Using Online Newspapers in the Classroom

The use of authentic material, such as news articles, in the ESL/EFL classroom has turned the newspaper into a powerful tool for encouraging participation and effective sharing of opinions and knowledge, since it covers a wide range of current topics.
In addition, online newspapers provide a unique opportunity of getting inmediate issues of interest to students. [...]

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Learning English the Fun Way (Part 2)

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Shakespeare 2.0

William Shakespeare

     PlayShakespeare.com provides online editions of Shakespeare’s plays following  the First Folio of 1623 (and Quartos where applicable) and the Globe Edition of 1866 as sources for the texts on the site. They have re-edited and updated these versions to reflect the editorial standards of their own scholarly team, therefore you can rely on the quality and [...]

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