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October 15th (1 New)

Designing and Selling Inventions- Passive Voice added to Lesson Plans on October 15th

October 9th (1 New)

Verb Patterns- Sentence Completion Guessing Games added to Lesson Plans on October 9th

October 4th (1 New)

Past and Future- Opposites Reversi Memory Game added to Lesson Plans on October 4th

October 1st (3 New)

The 100 most useful acronyms for EFL learners added to Articles on October 1st
Opinions on Travel Vocabulary with Collocations added to Lesson Plans on October 1st
It is likely ____. added to Language Polls on October 1st

September 29th (2 New)

Blackout
added to Slang on September 29th
Fawlty Tower
added to Cockney Rhyming Slang on September 29th

September 25th (1 New)

The 100 most useful abbreviations for EFL learners added to Articles on September 25th

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Corporation
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Past, Present and Future Listening added to Lesson Plans on September 22nd

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