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Our Learn English Page
started in July 2003 and was part of Airbus employee lessons. The page ncludes links to tests, videos and audio links on external websites. This selection of links has been researched carefully to help learners of English and to act as a useful CENTRALISED source of information. If a player is needed for the audio and video links, a link is provided to download sources. If you would like to add your ideas, or would like us to find something for you, just send us an E-Mail. Our Teachers section can be used to pass on tips and advice - please feel free to send an E-Mail with any details you would like to add. This page is not being updated and is set to be part of a new website |
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or continue, learning English, can you say the alphabet? This is essential, even for advanced learners of English. To speak without thinking, or saying "er" it helps to learn the alphabet in such a way that it is easy to remember |
| Take a pen and tap it on the table in front of you. Now read each seperate line below and tap the table with the pen for each letter, twice for "W" - take a very short break after you finish each line. Create a rythm for ABCDEFG then HIJKLMN then OPQRSTU and finish with VWXYZ remembering to tap twice for W. To listen how to say each letter, click on the alphabet below - link goes to British Council Pages (find something on YouTube - page sadly removed). When you have practiced speaking the alphabet and learning the rythm, try it without any help and we are sure you will notice the difference |
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" The bandage was wound around the wound.
" The farm was used to produce produce.
" The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse (British English).
" He could lead if he would get the lead out.
" The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
" Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.
" A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
" When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
" I did not object to the object.
" There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
" They were too close to the door to close it.
" The buck does funny things when the does are present.
" A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
" To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
" The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
" After a number of injections my jaw got number.
" Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
" I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
" How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
Let's face it - English is a crazy language.
There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England nor French fries in France.
Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat.
We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig. And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices? Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend, that you comb through annals of history but not a single annal? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it? If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Park on driveways and drive on parkways? Have noses that run and feet that smell? How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which an alarm goes off by going on.
English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race (which, of course, isn't a race at all). That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible? And why, when I wind up my watch, I start it, but when I wind up this essay, I end it? English is a silly language - it doesn't know if it is coming or going.
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| We use this this text for German learners of English who don't do their homework: |
| I was sitting in Southampton in a thick thicket of thistles while reading my thesaurus and eating a packet of Smith's crisps or Two to Toulouse at 2 minutes to 2 today please - (Joke) |
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| Langenscheidts Science Dictionary etc - English-German Deutsch-Englisch |
| Synonym Dictionary |
| Paper/Stationary Dictionary >> English-German >> German-English |
| The Oxford English Dictionary Online - British, Subscription based |
| German/English SAP Dictionary |
| Technische Wörterbücher - Technical Dictionaries |
| Dict.cc - very good online German & English dictionary > Other options/links |
| LEO, German, English, Dictionary or Click for short instruction |
| OneLook (Dictionary) - British/American |
| AllWords.com (Dictionary) - American |
| Cambridge (Dictionary) - British/American |
| Dictionary.com (Dictionary/Thesaurus) - American |
| Wordsmyth (Dictionary/Thesaurus) - American |
| WriteExpress (Rhyming Dictionary) - American |
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Webster's - US English |
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| English Prepositions |
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| This list is very important—you should know at least 90% of this list |
aboard
about
above
absent
according to
across
after
against
ahead of
all over
along
alongside
amid or amidst
among
around
as
as of
as to
as + ADVERB OF TIME
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as early as
as late as
as often as
as much as
as many as, etc.
aside
astride
at
away from
bar
barring
because of
before
behind
below
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beneath
beside
besides
between
beyond
but
by
by the time of
circa
close by
close to
concerning
considering
despite
down
due to
during
except
except for
excepting
excluding
failing
for
from
given
in
in between
in front of
in keeping with
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in place of
in spite ofin view of
including
inside
instead of
into
less
like
minus
near
near to
next to
notwithstanding
of
off
on
on top of
onto
opposite
other than
out
out of
outside
over
past
pending
per
plus
regarding
respecting
round
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save
saving
similar to
since
than
thanks to (because of)
through
throughout
till
to
toward or towards
under
underneath
unlike
until
unto
up
upon
up to
versus
via
wanting
while
with
within
without
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| English Conversation, Speaking & Listening Links for Practice |
| Learning English - Beyond the Postcard - the places and the people ... BBC... A series that looks at some not so well known features of some very well known places. There are audio and video passages for you to listen to and watch. There are also exercises to help you improve your English |
| Click here and listen to your text in English, German or French! Good listening practice! |
 Internet/VIdeo Conference Tips in English |
| Germany Today - 15 minute weekly online radio programme |
| Multimedia Links Page - Links using Real Player and Windows Media Player |
| BBC Radio 4 Audio Interviews Library - requires Real Player |
| Deutsche Welle English Live Television and Radio - more on News Page |
| Presentations and Public Speaking in English |
| First Hanseatic Toastmasters Club - Public speaking club in English in Hamburg |
| Presentations and Public Speaking - Search |
| The Importance of Speaking Practice |
| English Pronunciation - Audio - Good language practice - requires Real Player |
| English Pronunciation - Search |
| American English Pronunciation |
| Voices - BBC Voice Archive of Interviews from all over the UK |
| Voices - BBC: An example of what can be found using the VOICES link above |
| Video Nation - BBC Video Archive A-Z - Good language & accent practice |
| NEWS PAGE - see Audio-Video section - Good language practice |
| Listening / Speaking Links |
| Routes/Roots of English - BBC Audio |
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| Welcome to learners of English from Airbus. Please note: Airbus users will have to install Real Player to use the BBC audio and video links on the internal computers. The supplied plug-in does not usually work. Please ask the IT Hotline or the Administrator for further assistance, if the links still do not work. Please feel free to contact Chris Nicolls if you have any questions - use the contact page - please do not send any sensitive information and try to use private E-Mail addresses if possible, not airbus.com addresses - keeping in line with internal policies. We take no responsibility for any circumstances which go against these requests |
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| Management English |
| Business English Vocabulary - Presentations, Meetings etc |
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| Business English Vocabulary "Hangman" Games |
| Cambridge Business English Vocabulary Tests pdf Acrobat format - Print/Take Test |
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