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Post 8: Anxiety & depression

Dear All, share what you have discussed with each other in the thread.

Post 7: Ways to improve your vocabulary mastery

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Dear All, I'd like to discuss with you some useful techniques for learning new vocabulary and since your brain is not a blank slate, here is my plan for our today's class. First, I'd like to ask you to discuss in your groups of 2 or 3 your favourite technique for memorizing, recollecting and brushing up your vocabulary. Share your answers in the thread. Next, I'm inviting you to read the artile about some strategies for learning vocabulary which are associated with what is known as spaced repetition learning strategies: https://www.lingualift.com/blog/language-spaced-repetition-learning-srs / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leitner_system Have you used a similar strategy? If yes, can you share your experience with us by first discussing it with each other and then sharing it in the thread. After that I'd like to ask you to share the list of dictionaries you use on a regular basis and explain your reasons for your preferences. Still after that, I

Post 6: Reasons for choosing articles to read and examples of useful expressions

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The article I'm interested in is about the students from the Liverpool Univesity  and a party they had: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/oct/24/liverpool-john-moores-university-student-society-homeless-themed-fancy-dress And here is a short link to it:  horturl.at/eBL26   It would be great if you started using it when you include the links to articles in your works.  Here is my list of expressions I've found useful and/or interesting to consider because they give me an idea : fancy dress guidelines:  is used in  the following context  "A students’ union has been forced to introduce fancy dress guidelines after a student society held a homelessness-themed party."   Also, you can find some useful example of a grammar point. Here is my example: "We have recently been   made aware  of the annual tramps’ night out fancy dress social held by our trampolining society,” a spokesperson said." PS  Here ia  a short l

Post 5: The Citation Machine

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Dear All, Are you aware of the necessity to acknowledge the resources, such as web-site pages, articles from online resources, images you come across on the web as well as music clips and similar materials? Do you know how to do it or rather what informaton you need to provide? I'd like to help you with this and share a tool The Citation Machine that can help you do it easier and correctly too. Follow the link above to access it. And below is an example of what this tool does: I've found an article about abortion that really caught my attention. It is the article 'Shrouded in shame': the young women on either side of Ireland's abortion debate' published in The Guardian (30.01.2018). Here I just added the link to the article, clicking on which will take you to the corresponding page. However, you should know about two ways you need to provide a reference to the reading selection you refer to in your writing: a) in-text: here it is short and in