The megafires of California – Part 1 Drought, housing expansion, and oversupply of tinder make for bigger, hotter fires in the western United States Wildfires are becoming an increasing menace in the western United States, with Southern California being the hardest hit area. There’s a reason fire squads battling more frequent blazes in Southern California…
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IELTS Reading Test – Crop-growing skyscrapers
Try the questions yourself before you check the answers and explanations, and THEN analyse the vocabulary. The words in this text come up SO OFTEN in IELTS, so you absolutely have to know them! Crop-growing skyscrapers Do the test, check your answers and explanations, and THEN analyse the vocabulary! The words in this text come…
IELTS Topics: Free public transport
Should public transport be free? Read about an experiment in Estonia to find out what happened when they made buses and trains free in the capital city, Tallinn. Click here to read the full article. There’s some great vocab here that will improve your Writing: The Language of Cause and Effect – it ‘fosters + noun’…