CEFR B1; focus: verb to noun forms; 12 single-answer multiple-choice gap-fill items.
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Where “butter someone up” comes from
“Butter someone up” may sound odd, but its history links butter offerings for favor with the modern idea of flattering someone.
Passive Voice in Formal Writing Exercise
B2 Upper-Intermediate ESL gap-fill exercise focusing on passive voice in formal writing. Each item has one clearly correct answer.
Mixed Conditional Review for Meaning Exercise
CEFR B2; focus: mixed conditionals used to connect an unreal condition in one time with a result in another time.
Why we say “bury your head in the sand”
This common idiom means avoiding an obvious problem. Its image comes from an old myth about ostriches, not their real behavior.