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Unit 10: The indefinite article - in 90 seconds
Learn the most common sound in English to improve your pronunciation!

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  16. 16Wish
  17. 17Word stress
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  21. 21When and if
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  24. 24The future
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  27. 27Phrasal verb myths
  28. 28Conditionals review
  29. 29Used to - review
  30. 30Linking words of contrast

Session 3

Get up-to-date with the latest news and understand it too with Lingohack. Listen to and watch authentic BBC World News bulletins and learn key words and phrases that help you make sense of the news.

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Lingohack

Today's Headlines

Trump and Sanders win New Hampshire

Zuma in court for home improvement

Horses don't like 'long faces'

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Barreeffama agarsiisiBarreeffama dhoksi

The second vote of the US presidential election season, New Hampshire primaries – they've given victories to the outsider candidates the Republican Party battle won by Donald Trump, the Democrat's contest by Bernie Sanders.

South Africa’s Constitutional Court's considering whether the president Jacob Zuma should pay back some of the $23m of taxpayers’ money spent on refurbishing his private home. His lawyers say he will repay all improvements to his ranch that were not security related.

One particular animal species holds the title of man’s best friend but horses… they’ve been living alongside humans for 6,000 years. A new study shows that adapting to our world has changed the way they think because British scientists have discovered that domestic horses can recognise our facial expressions. The animals were measurably more stressed by angry faces.  

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Use one of the words or phrases from this Lingohack to complete the sentences. You may have to change the form of the word.

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End of Session 3

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Session Vocabulary

  • outsider
    (here) a competitor with little chance of winning

    refurbishing
    making changes to a building to improve it

    adapting
    changing behaviour to suit a new situation

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