🎧 Focus (listening)🎧

Benefits➕:
🎧 Improve your concentration while listening ;
🧠 Exercise your short-term memory ;
👂Become a more attentive listener .

❗️INSTRUCTIONS: Listen to the recording carefully and then match the facts with the correct subjects. Make sure you can hear the tone clearly.

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❗️INSTRUCTIONS: Listen to the recording carefully and then match the facts with the correct subjects. Make sure you can hear the tone clearly.

📌 Subjects:

⭕️ CAWDOR —

⭕️ EDINBURGH —

⭕️ STIRLING —

☑️ Facts:
Castle Rock ;
Castle Hill ;
17th century ;
St. Margaret's Chapel ;
largest banquet hall ;
Macbeth ;
Green Lady ;
ghost in blue dress ;
nine skeletons ;
Napoleonic wars ;
Green Lady ;

💠 Brevity (writing) 💠

Benefits➕:
💬 Learn to express yourself clearly and concisely ;
💠 Avoid redundancies in your writing ;
👁 Keep your reader's attention by writing more directly .

❗️INSTRUCTIONS: Read the sentence and remove an unnecessary word(-s) to make the sentence more concise. All or part of the selection can be removed without changing the sentence's meaning.

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❗️INSTRUCTIONS: remove unnecessary word or set of words.

1️⃣ The consensus of opinion favored holding a school fundraiser.

✅ Answer: 🔰 The unnecessary word(-s) here is (are) < ... of opinion ... > .
TIP: Consensus means "a generally accepted opinion", so of opinion is unnecessary.

☑️ The consensus of opinion favored holding a school fundraiser.

2️⃣ She planned to get currency at an ATM machine in the airport.

✅ Answer: 🔰 The unnecessary word(-s) here is (are) < ... machine ... > .
TIP: ATM stands for "automated teller machine", so the word machine is unnecessary.

☑️ She planned to get currency at an ATM machine in the airport.

3️⃣ The cacophony of noise coming from the train tracks forced riders to cover their ears.

✅ Answer: 🔰 The unnecessary word(-s) here is (are) < ... of noise ... > .
TIP: A cacophony is "a harsh, noisy sound, so of noise is unnecessary.

☑️ The cacophony of noise coming from the train tracks forced riders to cover their ears.

4️⃣ He's vacillating back and forth about attending the concert.

✅ Answer: 🔰 The unnecessary word(-s) here is (are) < ... of noise ... > .
TIP: Vacillating means "wavering between options", so back and forth is unnecessary.

☑️ He's vacillating back and forth about attending the concert.

5️⃣ We postponed our departure because the snow event caused roads to close.

✅ Answer: 🔰 The unnecessary word here is < ... event ... > .
TIP: Snow is already an event, so event is unnecessary.

☑️ We postponed our departure because the snow event caused roads to close.