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Soft skills: Chips
A domestic helper must develop many personal and professional skills. These sheets explain ten different soft skills, each of which in turn contributes to strengthening domestic helpers in the performance of their jobs.
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Vocabulary, food budget and logarithms
What do a writer's vocabulary and one's budget spent on food have to do with each other? Well, more than you might think! The mathematical relationship appears to be logarithmic.
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Dutch Week: Teaching letter for Sensitive Dutch
For the first time, deBuren and the Dutch Language Union are publishing a lesson letter for Dutch teachers in secondary education in the context of Dutch Week (30 September to 7 October). The lesson letter fits completely into the theme of the …
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Choosing freedom: Teaching package
'Artists are freebooters who only do what they feel like, regardless of social conventions or social usefulness': that is the opinion of many lay people in art. The reality is much more nuanced. Artists are children of their time, accept the …
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Academic English: do's and don'ts
Most students have a good basic or even advanced knowledge of English. Yet writing in academic English is often a stumbling block for many. Academic texts are not just formal texts, they require a certain style.
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Conditionals: English if sentences (if clauses)
If I had ten million, I would ask the Queen to come for afternoon tea. If you had ten million, what would you do?
Those first two sentences are if clauses. With if sentences you indicate a condition in English; in Dutch you do that with als. Such …
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American and British English: The History and Differences
We are all confronted with English; both American and British English. Both are correct, but at school we learn British English. What exactly is the difference between British and American English? And how did these differences arise historically?
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Misused English Proverbs: Blog Post
We all know some funny and erroneous English sayings and proverbs like unfortunately peanut butter or I fell with the door in house . But what are the right variants? In this article you will get the correct variant of some common erroneous …
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Present perfect continuous: Brief summary
The present perfect continuous , was that with to have added, or with being , or both? After reading this article, it will be clear to you when to use the present perfect continuous and how to form it.
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Present perfect simple: Brief summary
There are four present tenses in English, but when do you use which present tense? And more importantly, how do you shape those times?
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Present continuous: Brief summary
The present continuous is the progressive form of the present tense in English. That time indicates that something is happening for a certain amount of time. In other words, the emphasis is on the duration of an action. In this article you will get …
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Present simple tense: Brief summary
The present simple is not simple, but that is no tense in English. Adhv Harry Potter the conjugation is explained.
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