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Today's Picture: Student Learning Centre Staff endeavouring to make a good impression on new students in our Star Wars Outfits
‘Endeavour’ is a more formal way of saying ‘try’ to do something.
The company is endeavouring to increase its overseas sales through an aggressive marketing strategy.
Click on this link for more examples and interactive exercises: http://www.academicenglishgenerator.com/try.htm
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Which of these sentences uses 'endeavour' INCORRECTLY?
We’ve agreed to endeav...
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http://martinmcmorrow.podOmatic.com/entry/2008-02-20T21_12_12-08_00
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Today's photo: Carme Chacon, the Spanish Minister of Defence, reviewing the troops Source: http://www.am.com.mx/NotaNueva/Fotos/Reales/LEON2.140408.jpg
‘Convey’ is to give or communicate a feeling, impression etc. When you listen to some music, it conveys different feelings to you. A company has to try to convey a strong and clear message to consumers about their brands ‘Convey’ can also mean to carry, but normally it’s used in the sense of ‘carrying’ information – in other words to communicate a mess...
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http://martinmcmorrow.podOmatic.com/entry/2008-04-28T20_24_48-07_00
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Today’s photo: Shadow on the beach, Waiheke Island, May 2008
Part 1: Today's word
If something is complex, it is not simple and that means it can be hard to understand. In other words, it has many parts and normally takes a long time to study. ‘Complex’ can be used in a neutral way, but is sometimes negative, when a person wants to say something should be simple, but isn’t. Very often the structures, models and theories that you come a...
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http://martinmcmorrow.podOmatic.com/entry/2008-06-09T17_06_33-07_00
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Pills |
| The Combined Oral Contraceptive Pill (COCP), often referred to as the birth-control pill, or simply "the Pill", is a combination of an estrogen (oestrogen) and a progestin (progestogen), taken by mouth to inhibit normal female fertility. On October 15, 1951, a young Mexican chemistry student Luis E. Miramontes, working under the direction of Carl Djerassi and the director of the Mexican chemical company Syntex, George Rosenkranz, was the first person to synthesise the compound used to produce the (first)... |
http://swampsoundsystem.podOmatic.com/entry/2008-08-12T09_39_40-07_00
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Autumn 2008 |
| Welcome to the third episode of BizPodEast, our business podcast full of news from organisations across the East of England. The team at Mosaic Publicity will be gathering audio from businesses in Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire, for a pod show with a difference. If you haven’t already subscribed, then make sure you do as BizPodEast will now be coming to you quarterly throughout the year. BizPodEast is presented by Mosaic Publicity Director Kevin Bentley, who spent... |
http://podcast-training.podOmatic.com/entry/2008-09-02T09_18_36-07_00
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