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Useful Expressions for your phone calls

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TODAY’S PHRASE: On the right track

Are you on the right track?

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If you are on the right track, you are doing or thinking something in a way which could lead to a good outcome.

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Reading:Cinque Terre: on the trail of Italy’s famous five

After storms devastated Italy’s Cinque Terre three years ago the paths joining the area’s picturesque towns are open again. Our writer swoons over these amazing coastal hikes

Vernazza, Cinque Terre Liguria ItalyVernazza, one of the five stunning coastal towns in the Cinque Terre national park, Luguria, north-east Italy.

In the late afternoon, the small, medieval town of Vernazza, on the Italian Riviera, is as perfect as Italy gets. With the daytrippers gone, the scene is impeccable, a Hollywood filmset, rolling every gorgeous, romantic Italian cliche into one. Up in the hills, winegrowers tend to their vines. In the piazza, flat-capped farmers, swept into corners by the last rays of sun, gather to talk and smoke. Pizza cooks over a wood fire in a restaurant. The town florist bursts into spontaneous operatic song. A couple kiss on a street corner. It’s so romantic, so iconically Italian, that it’s surreal.

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Idiom of the day

Don’t count your chickens before they hatch

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Don’t rely on it until your sure of it

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Reading: Why Are Black Bear Attacks Up in Florida?

A woman was grabbed in her garage by a black bear, and officials kill five animals. An expert tells us why.

bearA sign warns motorists near Orlando, Florida, of the possibility of bear crossings. Both the bear and human populations are increasing in the state.

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10 Useful Phrasal Verbs

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Paradise islands in Asia

Deserted beaches, treehouses with a sea breeze and snorkelling in crystal clear waters … our readers recommend idyllic islands in Asia where you can live out your escapist fantasy

Pom Pom Island, Malaysia.Pom Pom Island, Malaysia … ‘The feeling of wading into glass-like waters and finding oneself among giant green turtles has to be experienced’.

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Tongue Twisters

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Betty Botter bought some butter, but she said «this butter’s bitter! But a bit
of better butter will but make my butter better» So she bought some better
butter, better than the bitter butter, and it made her butter better so ‘twas
better Betty Botter bought a bit of better butter!

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Reading: Panel’s Warning on Climate Risk: Worst Is Yet to Come

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YOKOHAMA, Japan — Climate change is already having sweeping effects on every continent and throughout the world’s oceans, scientists reported on Monday, and they warned that the problem was likely to grow substantially worse unless greenhouse emissions are brought under control.

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Reading: Top 5 budget restaurants, bars and cafes in Liverpool

Liverpool is known for its music and football but the food scene is vibrant, too. This budget eats guide to the city highlights a raft places where you can eat well for under £10

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The Garden at FACT

Arts space and cafe LEAF was included in  Guardian Travel’s first «budget eats» guide to Liverpoool,  in 2008, and is still going strong, albeit at a new address. In the meantime, owner Natalie Haywood has branched out at the media arts centre, FACT, and at Oh Me Oh My, a weekday cafe in a grand, Grade II-listed property opposite Liverpool’s  totemic Liver Building. LEAF and FACT are natural allies – way beyond their preference for upper case logos – and last year cemented their union when LEAF opened the Garden cafeteria at the centre.

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Phrasal Verbs of the day

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Idiom of the day

A Taste Of Your Own Medicine

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When you are mistreated the same way you mistreat others.