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All The Foods I Was Given During The Holidays

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  All The Food I Was Given During The Holidays   I live alone and I love it this way. I sometimes prepare decent meals for myself, but I NEVER cook anything on holidays. I just go about with my days eating whatever there is to eat.   This doesn’t mean though that my tummy gets left out during those festivities. Below are the foods given to me, as in delivered to my door and village gate, during the holidays.  NOTE: These pictures are unedited, the colors are not enhanced. I never post "instagrammable" pictures. I always use a very simple camera phone and I take pictures of objects, foods, etc. as they appear, as they register on my lens.    December 24- December 25 Foods given by my landlady  roasted chicken and I don't know the other two side dishes--but I ate them and they tasted really good.  Obviously, it's salad---but I don't know what salad it is.  It was really yummy. pan-de-sal stuffed with homemade ham the ever smiling, undefeated bee from th

TOEIC Lecture Part 12

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Students of   English as a Second Language , or   ESL,   also take   English exams .  These exams include  TOEIC ,  TOEFL ,  EIKEN ,  IELTS ,  OPIc ,  and other English exams. Here is another  TOEIC  question for your practice! The  style of explanation given in this post is  for those people who are not yet so familiar with English words and English sentence constructions. Thank you very much, let's all enjoy learning  TOEIC Part 12 ! This question should be very easy to answer even for those who are not so familiar with answering TOEIC questions. The board members meet only ___________, usually only when there is a problem. a. occasion b. occasions c. occasional d. occasionally -Gakken TOEIC   We have to put an adverb in the blank. This is an adverb of frequency . This answers the question How often . Among the four choices, which is an adverb ?   If you say it’s Choice D, occasionally , then you are right!  Get to know more about us; visit our website!   ht

TOEIC Lecture Part 11

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As I have mentioned so many times, countless of students of English as a Second Language , or ESL , also take English exams .  These exams include TOEIC ,  TOEFL ,  EIKEN ,  IELTS ,  OPIc ,  and other English exams. Here is another TOEIC question for your practice! Again, I would like to state that the explanations given in this post are for those people who are not yet so familiar with English words and English sentence constructions. Thank you very much, let's all enjoy learning TOEIC Part 11 !     ___________ of the proposed plans by the chamber of commerce involves an annual agricultural exhibition.   a. Someone b. The one c. One d. As one -from Gakken TOEIC   The blank requires a subject. Subject means the topic of the sentence. All of the choices, from Choice A to D, can be used as subjects because all of them are pronouns . To determine the right subject, check the verb . There are so many words after the blank, so how do we determine the verb? Look a