HKDSE English Language

More than a thousand of spoken English phrases to help you speak like a native. 1500句常用短句助你說一口地道(美式)英語

Rebecca is a novel by English author Daphne du Maurier (1938). Level : IELTS 6 - 8 / CEFR B2 - C1

美國口音(亦可作為TOEFL托福考試練習)，一分鐘聽力練習，速度快 It’s more bad news for ______, but good news for the fight against food-borne ______: a compound in garlic is ______ ______ at fighting Campylobacter, bacteria that ______ cause intestinal ______. The work is in the Journal of Antimicrobial ______. Campylobacter causes problems in part because its cells produce a ______ that holds them together in a biofilm. This biofilm ______ to food and food ______ ______, helping ______ spread. And it protects the bacteria from ______. Researchers tried ______ Campylobacter jejuni with two ______ ______, as well as with diallyl sulfide, the compound ______ from garlic. The ______ did some ______. But the garlic compound worked faster and was a hundred times as ______. It quickly ______ the biofilm, and killed the bacteria, ______ by ______ the functions of ______. Eating garlic won’t ______ Campylobacter. But diallyl sulfide could one day be used to clean ______ used for food ______, and to stop

Very British Problems，一個第4頻道(Channel 4)的有趣電視節目，是練習英語聽力和口語的好材料。對那些準備(要聽英國口音的)高階英文考試，如IELTS雅思、劍橋CAE和CPE的學生特別有用。當然考DSE的同學亦可以此作為練習聆聽的素材。該節目會有一些著名的英國面孔，講的是英國人日常生活上古怪和尷尬的事情。 第一集著重英國人如何與其他人打交道 : What are the rules of small talk? How many times can you ask someone to repeat themselves before giving up and hoping for the best? And what does James Corden mean when he offers to help wash up? 第1集的英語文本內容(transcript)可以在這裡找到。 第4頻道提供了一個小測驗 "How Awkwardly British Are You?" 。縱使你不是英國人，也可試試看，你可以了解英國人多一點。

能正確地、自然地及適量地使用idioms可增強你在Writing 及Speaking papers的表現。這個post 有16個有關犬隻的idioms, 你知道它們的意思嗎？答案附有例句供參考。

A woman's terrifying dream turns into reality. Chiller by EF Benson. Stars Rosalind Ayres. Introduced by The Man In Black, Edward De Souza.

A compelling psychological thriller with fraudulent identity at its heart. Alice moves into a converted Victorian house and rents the top floor. The landlord lives below. Both tenant and landlord are not who they say they are, and as each discovers the truth, it's clear one of them is going to die.