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Entry 13 TOEIC exercises practice

TOEIC exercises practice Date:  March 2th of 2020. Activity:  Resolve the test IELTS Skill:   listening and thinking Summary script Part 1 Announcing the closure of a newspaper Tomorrow's issue will be the last one for our newspaper. We all knew this day was coming, and it is a sad day. We lost almost $20 million last year, and the owners have tried to sell the paper but no one wants to buy it in this economy. I want to thank all of you, all the editors, writers, photographers, page designers, printers -- everyone who helped make this paper a city institution for the past 150 years. It's been a pleasure and an honor working with you and supervising you. As you've heard, we will continue to have an online news site with a staff of 25. This re-designed website will begin tomorrow. We hope that it will help fill the gap left by the departed print product. Meanwhile, we have one more issue to put out. Let's get to work and make it the best it can be. Answe...

Entry 12 TOEFL iBT® sample

 TOEFL iBT® sample Date:  March 2th of 2020. Activity:  Resolve the test IELTS Skill:   Reading and answering Summary script On Walden Pond 1   During his lifetime, Henry David Thoreau wrote over twenty books—travel books, books of poetry, and collections of essays—but none has had such a lasting influence as  Walden , an account of the time he spent in a tiny house on the shore of Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts. Born in 1817 in Concord, Thoreau graduated from Harvard University in nearby Cambridge, Massachusetts. When he returned to Concord, he worked for his father, who manufactured pencils, and tutored the children of writer Ralph W. Emerson, Thoreau’s friend and mentor. Thoreau then decided to move to a relatively isolated one-room cabin in the woods just outside of Concord on land owned by Emerson. Thoreau began clearing the land and building the cabin in the spring of 1845 and, perhaps significantly, he chose to move in on July...

Entry 11 TOEIC sample

Entry 11 TOEIC sample Date:  March 2th of 2020. Activity:  Resolve the test IELTS Skill:   Reading and answering Summary script In first part, only I complete the word in the phases. it had been grammar and alse the form correct for each phases. Part 2 letter. Dear Mr. Harris, Thank you for your letter, which I received today. I can only apologize for our failure to respond sooner to your e-mail concerning the faulty batteries which we sent you ten days ago. We have clearly fallen short of our usual  6   A averages B regulations C rules D standards  of customer care in this case. There can be no excuses, but I will at least offer an explanation. When you made your complaint we were experiencing difficulties  7   A about B beside C for D with  our computer network, and your complaint was one of a number of things which got lost in the system. Of course, the batteries  8   A will be B have been ...

Entry 10 IELTS sample listening

 IELTS sample listening  Date:  March 2th of 2020. Activity:  Resolve the test IELTS Skill:   listening and answering Summary script Part 1 Tutor Hello you two, have a seat … OK. So, you’re going to tell me about the presentation you’re preparing for next week’s marketing seminar, right? Jack That’s right. We’ve drafted this plan for you to look at. Tutor OK, thanks. Perhaps you could just talk me through it, could you? Sarah, do you want to begin? Sarah Yes. Well, we’re going to compare the websites of two bicycle companies … Tutor Right … And they’re called Hills Cycles and Wheels Unlimited? Sarah Yes. And first of all, we’ve compared the content of each site, and the presentation. Then we’ve done an evaluation of each one. Tutor OK … And did you find much difference between the two websites? Jack? Jack Quite a bit, yes. Wheels Unlimited has a lot more pages, for a start … Both companies show their catalogue – I mean pictur...

Entry 9 IELTS sample reading

 IELTS sample reading paper 1 Date:  March 2th of 2020. Activity: Resolve the test IELTS Skill:  Reading and answering Summary script The coral reefs of Agatti Island A   Agatti is one of the Lakshadweep Islands off the south-west coast of India. These islands are surrounded by lagoons and coral reefs which are in turn surrounded by the open ocean. Coral reefs, which are formed from the skeletons of minute sea creatures, give shelter to a variety of plants and animals, and therefore have the potential to provide a stream of diverse benefits to the inhabitants of Agatti Island. B  In the first place, the reefs provide food and other products for consumption by the islanders themselves. Foods include different types of fish, octopus and molluscs, and in the case of poorer families these constitute as much as 90% of the protein they consume. Reef resources are also used for medicinal purposes. For example, the money cowrie, a shell known locally as...

Entry 8. Book "Moby Dick" chapter 1,2.

Entry 8. Book "Moby Dick" chapter 1,2. Date:  February 20th of 2020. Activity:  Read Moby dick Skill:   Learning and understanding Main ideas: Search in the sea of dreams. Secondary ideas. - Describe the situations of point of view about life - Try to understand some success in the story - Imagine the connection about your actual real life. Summary: In effect, these chapters narrates the Ismael´s life he find him in the coffin warehouse that the sea was his life, his passion. So he was a commodore to a ship and search that the whaling voyage, he saw believed that the wharves as Indian Isles by coral reefs should be his travel. he defined himself as a habitat of sea. he explained that always traveled as a passenger, but later he traveled as a sailor, in the same way, he never imagine in the urbane work he considered with a perdition. So he worked with a merchant sailor on a whaling voyage. Finally he formed part of program of Providence in United Sta...

Entry 7. Movie "A Star Is Born"

Entry 7. Movie "A Star Is Born" Date:  February 20th of 2020. Activity:  Watch movie: A star is born Skill:   Listening and watching Main ideas: Love and music for grown and supporter the lives. Secondary ideas. - Understand the fame in a singer. - Analyze the social problematic about addictions - Search the relationship the love and apologies. Summary: Suddenly, the movie is a story of singers. In effect, Jack was a important singer of  hardcore and he sing with the hurt in the concerts. So he borned in Arizona, the town across he started his career, he met to a woman singer of club Ally. Both they were loving but the jack´s addiction was worst the drink, and later the drugs for he felt these things help him for front facing his fears. On the other hand, Ally became in a famous singer of pop, the people begin to love her. The time past, they married, but Jack was a sick by drugs and drink he was seriously bad. Finally, Ally won a grammy and Jack...