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When a person doesn't like to take risks, he/she prefers to...
play it safe
This type of clause adds information to the main clause and often starts with a conjunction.
Subordinate clause
According to Chris Anderson, this is the number of ideas a speaker should have in a Ted Talk.
One.
BBC's show Are our kids tough enough? was about this.
It's a reality TV about Chinese teachers in British schools.
Once we've missed our lesson because we were watching the rehearsal of this theatrical performance.
The Tale of Fedot the Strelets
Another way to say 'traffic jam'
congestion
This can mean both single-word adverbs (e.g. quickly, perhaps) and longer phrases with the same function (e.g. on time, at the end of the day).
Adverbials
Sarah-Jayne Blakemore was talking about the adolescent brain and used this experiment as an illustration.
With shelves and objects that could be seen differently from different perspectives
The name of the first colored picture of the Earth taken during the Apollo 8 mission
Earthrise
We've celebrated Easter and read a poem about daffodils which was written by this English poet.
William Wordsworth ("I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud")
British way to say 'play hooky' (and its meaning)
play truant (to be regularly absent from school without permission)
Please provide an example of nominalization
Any will do, for example: The artist's creation was perfect and critics praised it. ---> The perfection of the artist's creation was praised by critics.
Chris Anderson mentioned Sir Ken Robinson in his talk, who specialized in this topic.
Education, schools, creativity.
The name of Roald Dahl's short story we've read
Man From the South
We've celebrated Queen's Jubilee that has this chemical element in the title. Name the element and its symbol on the periodic table of elements.
Platinum (Pt).
Trials and...
tribulations
What is an ellipsis?
Ellipsis is leaving out an element of a clause because the meaning can be understood without it and to avoid repetition (e.g. I learned to drive and <I> took the test when I was 17; The say it is really crowded in here. Yes, it is <crowded>).
This type of bus can travel above congested streets in China
Straddling bus
Ms Marvel is...
The first female Muslim-American superhero who have her own comic book series.
For Valentine's Day we've read William Shakespeare's sonnet about a summer’s day - with this number.
18
When you want the listeners to understand your point, you try to ... your idea.
convey
We use this type of questions to show surprise at a piece of information or to ask for repetition.
Echo questions.
Linda Cliatt-Wayman worked as a headteacher in a school in Philadelphia, this berry was in the name of that school.
Strawberry Mansion School
This is what the design by the laws of nature, by copying things from the natural world, is called.
Biomimicry
For International Women's Day we've compared girls' and boys' shirts from this online store.
H&M