Saturday 18 February 2017
Thursday 16 February 2017
WRITING MYSTERY STORIES: 10 MYSTERY STORY IDEAS TO FOSTER YOUR IMAGINATION
CREATED BY VALANGLIA
STORY 1:
Wealthy, unmarried Anne Lamont is murdered, and she
leaves her entire fortune to a man she met two weeks before, putting suspicion
squarely on him. Detective Arnold thinks the man is innocent. He has a week to
make his case before this goes before a jury. But when he digs into Anne’s
background, he finds the sweet old matron wasn’t at all what she seemed. (To be continued by you).
STORY 2:
A headless corpse is found in a freshly-dug grave in Arkansas.
The local police chief, Arley Socket, has never had to deal with more than
missing gas cans and treed cats. His exploration of this weird murder digs up a
mystery older than the 100-year-old town of Jericho that harkens all the way
back to a European blood-feud. (To
be continued by you).
STORY 3:
Someone is murdering homeless people in Phoenix,
Arizona. Detective Sally Fortnight is determined to get to the bottom of it…
but what she uncovers may be more deadly than she could ever guess. (To be continued by you).
STORY 4:
It is the Cold War era. Private Eye Charles Nick
searches for a missing cryptanalyst, all the while dodging an obsessed FBI
agent who thinks Nick is a communist spy. The cryptanalyst, by the way, went
missing for a good reason: he might have cracked the latest Russian spy code,
and he’s running for his life. (To
be continued by you).
STORY 5:
1850’s England: elderly Doris and her six young wards
are caught in a storm and forced to ask for shelter at an enormous manor deep
in the English countryside. But all is not well in this home, and before
long, Doris faces a bizarre problem: the manor’s lord, Sir Geoffrey, claims his
estranged wife Alice is going to murder him that evening. Alice, meanwhile,
claims that Geoffrey is going to murder her. After dinner, both are
found dead, in the library, seated as if having a rational discussion, but dead
as mice. There is no obvious murder weapon, and quite possibly, the murderer is
loose in the manor. Doris is no detective, but she might as well figure this
out. Given that storm, help won’t be coming until it’s too late. (To be continued by you).
STORY 6:
Twelve-year-old Alexandra is a leader. She
runs her school’s newspaper, manages three after-school clubs (the book club,
the fencing club, and the junior stamp-collector club), and doesn’t have time
for nonsense. Which is why when she sees a man dressed all in black carrying a
manilla folder as he climbs out of her principal’s window, her determination to
get to the bottom of it knows no bounds. Look out, data-thief. Here comes
Alexandra! (To be continued by
you).
STORY 7:
David is a senior software engineer for a major tech
company, and he spends most days knee-deep in other people’s databases, trying
to figure out what they did wrong. One day, he happens across a piece of
malicious code designed to steal financial information. He reports it and
deletes it, but he comes across that same code again—in the database of a
completely different company. He finds it again; and again. And the fifth time
around, his manager drops a hint that the higher-ups think he’s the
best person to figure out who’s planting it. Undercover, they send him to each
of the company’s data centers: one in London, one in Boston, one in Dallas, and
one in Seattle. It’s going to be his job—socially anxious as he is—to interview
everyone and find out who’s planting that code and why. (To be continued by you).
STORY 8:
General March hires Detective Thomas to try to find
the person who’s been blackmailing March for the past twenty years. Thomas
tracks the miscreant down, but finds that the man behind the threats has been
dead for the past ten years. So who’s carrying on the blackmailing? And is the
secret that’s held March prisoner this long something that should stay a secret? (To be continued by you).
STORY 9:
Defense attorney Bob Larson enjoys his job. He likes
justice; he likes being right. Usually, he thinks right and wrong are really
easy to spot. Then he ends up representing a young Navy Seal who shot and
killed an elderly woman—and claims it was in self-defense. Who’s really
the bad guy?
STORY 10:
Sandra is a mystery-lover. She sees mysteries and
hidden conspiracies everywhere they aren’t, and her sister Carrie
laughs this off as a silly quirk… until Carrie is framed for the murder of the
man in the next apartment. Carrie’s DNA is somehow all over the place, though
she swears she’s never even been in that apartment before. No one thinks Carrie
is innocent but Sandra… and she has a limited amount of time to prove her
sister is innocent. (To be continued by you).
Wednesday 15 February 2017
Monday 13 February 2017
Tuesday 7 February 2017
KEEP IMPROVING YOUR LISTENING SKILLS: VIDEOS AND AUDIOS FOR EACH CEFR LEVEL (BY BRITISH COUNCIL LEARNING)
One more time we recommend you
some more pages to improve your listening skills with video/audio online exercises. All of them are downloadable too.
This time and again, we link you
to the British Council website, on its LearnEnglish
Teens section, which is one of the most comprehensive English learning
sites on the net, from our point of view.
Click on the links below to go
to the levels you want to work on:
- For videos + exercises based on CEFR B2 level, click on:
- For videos + exercises based on CEFR C1 level, click on:
- For audios and podcasts + exercises
based on CEFR A1/A2/B1/B2 levels, click on:
For a bit of orientation on those mentioned levels established by the CEFR (The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages) here you have an explanatory diagram:
ENCONTRADO EN: www.eaquals.com
Friday 3 February 2017
Thursday 2 February 2017
12 MOST BEAUTIFUL WORDS IN ENGLISH
English is a language with an unusual backstory, a
fascinating history and a vocabulary that’s unrivaled in terms of scale and
variety. While it’s no easy task to pick out the most beautiful words out of an
estimated total of 750,000 (yes, there are THAT many words in English!), we’re
never ones to shy away from a challenge. Do you have any more beautiful words
to add to this list? Just share them with us through our comments section
below!
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