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English Articles for Upper-Intermediate and Advanced Students. This is a collection of articles written by Fullspate and intended to be interesting to read and equally interesting to discuss. Newer articles or revised articles are listed in the first section below.
The Fullspate EFL materials for students and teachers interested in the ECPE include: An overview of the Michigan ECPE exam. Advice about the ECPE speaking test. An ECPE Survival Guide. An analysis of ECPE grammar questions. An online ECPE GCVR practice test*.
Aaron Ralston's Story. Aaron Ralston, a 27-year-old mountain sports fanatic from Colorado in the United States, found himself in dire straits* alone in a canyon* in the desert when a 500kg rock came crashing down the canyon to smash his right hand and trap it against the canyon wall. A terrible accident, but the situation was made all the more ...
As John Stepek put it in Money Week recently: "The only way to stop future crises is to prevent the level of leverage in the system from reaching the point where it becomes dangerous." Leverage ratios above a sensible limit need to be banned.
Ray Kurzweil - one of the prophets of artificial intelligence - predicts that within two or three decades we will have nanotransmitters that can be injected into the bloodstream. In the capillaries of the brain they would line up alongside the neurons and detect the details of the cerebral electronic activity.
About Fullspate: - Fullspate is actually one man with a PhD and a laptop who grew tired of the bland contents of EFL coursebooks, decided to write slightly more engaging stuff for his English students, and then thought it might be nice to share them online. Then subsequently packed it in.