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Video: ‘Landing on the Hudson’

This week’s video describes the miracle on the Hudson and how all of the passengers and crew members managed to escape without serious injury. And if…

Structure

Structure: ‘avoid vs prevent’

This time in our structure help we talk about the difference between avoid and prevent. These two verbs relate to similar, but not the same ideas.…

Video answers

Video answers: ‘Mig-25’

Here are the answers to last Friday’s video, enjoy! Suggested ICAO level for video: 5+ It was flown to Japan because its pilot wanted to defect…

Video

Video: ‘Mig-25’

This week’s video describes the Mig-25, the most powerful interceptor in the former USSR. Watch the video to find out more about it. Try to answer…

Structure

Structure: ‘Modals 8’

Modals and obligation In the diagram below we can see that both should and must can be used to talk about present or future obligations. Again,…

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