Month: September 2009

Hitch a Ride

I think car-sharing is a great idea but sometimes it can be difficult to find someone to share with. That’s why I was interested in this article on the Reuters website about a new car-sharing service in Germany. There’s lots of interesting vocabulary related to travelling by car in the article, too. The first interesting …

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Capital Offence

Something I very often have to correct when I’m helping students with their writing is the overuse of capital letters. Obviously, we need to use a capital letter for the beginning of a sentence or a proper noun, however, using them for a whole or phrase is the written equivalent of shouting, especially when writing …

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Google Chrome

I have mentioned before that I’m a bit of an computer geek and that’s why I was interested to see this article about Google’s ‘Chrome’ web browser on the Reuters website. I have already tried it on my PC at work and found it really fast and easy to use. It works really well with …

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