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The zoo is not just for children, exotic animals can help grown-ups get some perspective on their lives, says Alain de Botton.
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The Beckhams are about to welcome their fourth child into the world, rumoured to be a girl, after three sons. So what it's like to swap muddy football socks and dinosaurs for all things pink?
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A detailed look at Rupert Murdoch's global media conglomerate, News Corporation, and its UK newspaper arm, News International, which has been hit by further phone-hacking allegations.
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Reading is the most challenging paper for many IELTS candidates and indeed it can be difficult. Some of the texts are really tough and the questions can be tricky, but time is the real problem. How can you read and process 3 texts of 800-900 words in 60 minutes? One answer is skimming, another is scanning and it is this that I am going to look at in this article. Done well it can save you vital time, done badly it may be a waste of time. It is a skill that does need a little learning.
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The number of illegally downloaded films in the UK goes up nearly 30% in five years, new figures seen by Newsbeat suggest.
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One in three of us have felt 'overwhelmed' by new technology, researchers from Cambridge University find.
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Track how Asian economies compare with the UK and the US on key indicators like GDP and life expectancy.
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Two very prominent cases of copying in doctoral theses prompt soul-searching, but is plagiarism on the rise?
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As a recent report made to the UN states that internet access is part of our human right to expression, will this cause governments to re-think their laws on internet access?
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Parents need much more help to protect children from online porn, a review commissioned by the prime minister is to say.
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Last winter's flu outbreak claimed more than 600 lives in the UK, with the majority of deaths among the under-65s, official figures show.
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Modern life is 'producing a generation of weaklings', claims research as physical strength declines in 10-year-olds...
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Australia unveils plans to slap a tax on carbon emissions for the country's worst polluters, in one of the biggest economic reforms in years.
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Not only is oldstream UK media tearing itself apart right now, previously picked on figures are getting their own back too. For the benefit of non-UK readers, “mincemeat” is also known as “ground beef”, and that is exactly what comic Steve Coogan makes of former deputy features editor for News Of The World, Paul McMullan, on last night’s BBC Newsnight program’s round table discussion concerning the phone-hacking scandal, the closure of NotW by Rupert Murdoch, and his still possible takeover of the BSkyB TV network.
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As newspaper bosses decide to close the News of the World amid increasingly damaging allegations of phone hacking and corruption, the BBC takes a look at the key questions it poses.
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When the final mission of the space shuttle Atlantis takes off, it will end an era of manned space exploration.
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The focus in this lesson is to give you some practice ideas for one specific reading skill: scanning. It follows my earlier lesson on how to scan more effectively. The focus this time is on how to use scanning as a skill in IELTS and to avoid some common mistakes from scanning ineffectively. The central message is that you need to learn how to combine 3 different reading skills:
the ability to skim a text quickly – to see how it is organised the ability to scan for information – to see where the answer comes the ability to read closely for meaning – to get the right answer
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I'm recommending you follow this story because the texts in the IELTS Reading test are often on topics related to the natural world, travel and transport (although they won't refer to current events like the Volcanic ...
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www.engvid.com Learn how to use the news to learn English. Improve your vocabulary and comprehension by listening to the news on TV and radio, or reading English news on the net or in newspapers and magazines.
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Overweight people in Arizona face paying $50 (£31) fines if they don't follow a dietary regime laid down by their doctor. Is that fair?
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User numbers fall in US, UK, Canada, Norway and Russia – although total is still climbing towards 700 million.
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A new report on "the unpaid economy" in 29 countries finds that out-of-work fathers still do less work around the home than their employed partners.
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An independent report on the sexualisation of children is recommending a number of tough measures to help protect youngsters.
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New York is introducing an outdoor smoking ban. Could the UK and other countries follow suit?
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