IELTS WRITING _ TASK 1
The graphs below summarise the results of a survey carried out by the Department of Health about the overweight population in Britain with projections. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant. Sample: The given three column graphs provide Brit populationwho suffer obesity with projection and obese children […]
IELTS WRITING _ TASK 1
The pie graphs show greenhouse gas emissions worldwide in 2002 and the forecast for 2030. The column chart shows carbon dioxide emissions around the world. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant. Sample: The graphs give past and future data concerning worldwide carbon dioxide emission. As can […]
Irregular Verbs
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Irregular-Verb Chart
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The Pyrenees
Of all Europe’s mountain ranges, the jagged and often snow-capped Pyrenees, 435 kilometres long, have functioned most effectively as a barrier to human movement. Unlike the Alps, the Pyrenees have no low foothills or hospitable valleys to ease access into and through their heights. Rather, the Pyrenees rise abruptly from the flanking plains of France […]
Sphinx
A sphinx is a legendary monster with a human head and a lion’s body. In ancient Egypt, where the idea originated, the head was usually a portrait of the reigning pharaoh. It also represented the sky god Horus. The Egyptians always pictured their kings as calm and stately, with wide-open, staring eyes. The lion’s body […]
Yankee
Perhaps the best-known of all national nicknames is Yankee. Yet the origin of this famous name for Americans is a mystery. Scholars once thought it came from Yengees, which was supposed to be the way the American Indians pronounced the word English, or its French equivalent, Anglais. Another theory is that a Dutch nickname Yankey […]
Even Better Than Today’s Textiles
People living long ago on the hot coastal strip of Peru created some of the world’s most beautiful textiles. Archaeologists have found an amazing quantity of these in “mummy bundles” tucked away in tombs. These ancient people of the Andean region, like those of Egypt, believed the dead needed articles from this life to use […]
Joaquin Murieta
Was he a hero or a villain? Did he really exist at all? In the early 1850s, Mexican immigrant Joaquin Murieta was real to Californians; he was wanted, dead or alive, for robbery. He was a hero to Mexicans who resented the prejudice they faced in the United States. Some scholars today believe his story to […]