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Verify your level of English Competence: Writing In this article, Information is provided on the enormous cost of the space programme. Should we spend money on exploring space? Write an essay for your point of view (170 - 200 words) Title: Which countries spend the most on space exploration? In: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/01/which-countries-spend-the-most-on-space-exploration/ The US has the biggest budget for space exploration by far, spending over six times more than China, according to OECD figures for 2013. From the first moon landing to the International Space Station, the US government agency NASA has been leading space exploration since its creation in 1958. US spending on space-related research saw a dramatic increase during the height of the space race with Russia, from 0.1% of GDP in 1958 to more than 4.4% in 1966. This increase coincided with the global race to reach the moon when US President John F. Kennedy promised that the US wou...

Verify your level of English Competence: Listen Characters: Bob Bob's Wife (Susan) Mary Part One: Scene. 1 Mary and Susan went shopping and bought clothes for a special event. They have arrived at Mary's house, where Bob is reading the press. The friends are going to ask Bob about the clothes they have just bought, but maybe Bob will not come out very well. Please, listen carefully to this conversation and answer the questions in writing. You can listen to it twice if necessary. Listen the audio and answer the questions: Questions: 1.What did Mary and Susan buy new clothes for? 2. What does Bob ask about the clothes? 3. What's the answer? 3. When they ask for Bob's opinion, what's his first answer? 4. What do the girls ask Bob? 6. Why does Susan get angry? 7. What does Bob do when he gets angry with his wife? 8. Do you remember the sweater's colour? 9. Do you think this exercise is good to learn...? ...

Verify your level of English Competence: Speaken Describe the picture (Min. 1 min. Max 2 Min.) Example of answer:

Verify your level of English Competence: Reading & Vocabulary Reading and Use of English Exercise 01 For questions 1-8, read the text below and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits each gap. There is an example at the beginning (0). Example: O A branch B item C piece D part Checking your mobile phone How often do you check your phone? For many of us, our phone is an essential (0) part of everyday life, but apparently we are spending an increasing amount of time checking it for information without being (1) of doing so. Research in Helsinki shows that phone checking (2)                        lasts less than 30 seconds on each occasion, and usually (3)                     of opening a single application such as social media. The study also found many users check their mobiles throughout the (4)       ...

Skill: Reading & Vocabulary Exercise 01 1 D 2 B 3 A 4 D 5 C 6 A 7 B 8 C Exercise 02 9 on 10 as 11 them/these/solve 12 to 13 spite 14 in 15 all 16 account Exercise 03 17 products 18 increasingly 19 consumers 20 loyalty 21 manufacturers 22 profitable 23 disageement 24 unhealthy Exercise 04 25 any trees | were left/still standing 26 how high | that building 27 much difference between 28 say (that) | he was sorry 29 find (so) attractive | about 30 to succeed | in winning Skill: Writing Over the last few years many countries have suffered from financial crises and many people are becoming refugees because of war and the effects of climate change. However, we are still sending rockets into outer space and some people even want to send humans to Mars. It cost billions of pounds to send humans to the moon and governments have spent billions of pounnds on the International Space Nation. In my opinion, w...

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I am going to start saying that it is very difficult to me to think what I will do with my life in 10 years because I am very happy doing the things what I am doing now, but in this essay, I will try to change my mind. First of all, I think that I will be living in a big city like Madrid or Barcelona. Also, I believe that I will be working in a hospital or in a private clinic seeing that I would like to be a doctor.  Furthermore, I strongly believe that in 10 years I will do a lot of sport, playing golf or working in a gym and I think that I will travel a lot because I like to know other cultures and other different places in the world .  Finally, I also believe that in ten years I will have a stable partner but I still wouldn´t like to have children because I will only be 27 years old  and as I would like to go out at night with my friends. In short, I would like to have a relaxed life with a stable job, enjoying my friends and my ...

Historical Event In my opinion, the most important historical event was the invention of Internet. The Internet is the union of all the networks and computers distributed all over the world. The Internet has certainly changed our everyday life. There are so many changes that it is difficult to list them. We can make bank transactions without going to the bank. We can deal with the administration paperwork without going to the office. We can see all kind of entertainment contents. We can get in touch with people through the social media. We can ask for an appointment with our doctor. We can study online. It is certainly changing our lives. Internet was the result of an experiment of the United States Department of Defense in 1969, that took shape in the development of “ARPAnet”, a network that linked universities and high technology centers with contractors of that department. It was aimed at exchanging data between scientists and the military. Nowadays, it has ...

Oxfanm Intermon Oxfam is an NGO organization that born helping poor people in Africa for more that 70 years. I Would like to go Africa to help poor people and to reduce poverty in third world countries. I would like to go for several months because I think that if I work hard every day, I will be able to improve the poor lifestyle which these people face. In my opinion, I could help them by offering them food, clothes, books… Oxfam has several work areas: Conflict & Emergencies, Gender Justice, Food and Gender Future of Agriculture, Inequality and essential services. I Like Oxfam because it is not an organisation to give alms, But work together with partners and local communities for the development of more than 50 countries. They promote many interesting activities like the fair trade. The fair trade is a solidarity trade system whose objective is to improve market access for the most disadvantaged producers and to change the unfair rules of int...

This list is not sorted by preference, I do not really know what's will be the first item that I will achieve. 1. Visit New York, because is my favourite city in the world. New York is the city of the great buildings, it is the economic centre of the USA where it can be enjoyable, the best musicals and theatre plays, match of NBA, museums like the Metropolitan, etc. Also I would love to live the famous Christmas in New York. I've seen its streets so many times in the movies that it looks like I've been in New York really. 2. I Want to graduate at the University. I am working hard in order to get a job that allows me to have a full life, However, the first thing is to finish my studies and then to be able to travel USA, UK, Australia                                                       or China. 3. Becoming...