CEFR B1; focus: mixed passive review across tenses, modals, negatives, questions, and agent phrases.
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Why “draconian” is named after Draco
Discover how an ancient Athenian lawmaker’s reputation for harsh punishments gave English a word for rules that seem far too severe.
Family Members Vocabulary Exercise
CEFR A1 family members vocabulary; 12 single-answer multiple-choice gap-fill items with audit fields.
The origin of “namby-pamby”
An eighteenth-century joke about poet Ambrose Philips became a dismissive word for people, ideas, or language seen as weak or too sentimental.
Conversation Repair Exercise
A2 ESL multiple-choice gap-fill exercise focused on conversation repair: asking for repetition, clarification, confirmation, and correcting misunderstandings.