What are the different meanings of the word light? Use the word in sentences to bring out the different meanings.

Stress and Intonation

You have been asked by a Tourist Travel Magazine to introduce your City/Town/Village to foreign visitors. Write a physical description, including the location, layout, geographical and architectural features. Some reference to history may be appropriate. Your description must make your area sound interesting and attractive as a tourist destination. Write in 200 words.

Substitute the word nice in the following paragraph. Change sentence construction, if necessary.

It was a nice morning.

We went out for a nice picnic to a nice park near our house.

The food was nice and we played nice games.

We enjoyed the nice outing.

Try to write the following sentences in simpler English: 

a. The duty of a clerk is to check all incoming mail and to record it.

b. The current focus of the medical profession is disease prevention.

c. A shortage of tellers at our branch office on Friday and Saturday during rush hours has caused.

4. Customers to become dissatisfied with the service.

e. She has the ability to influence the outcome.

f It is necessary that we take a stand on this pressing issue.

Homophones

Here is a beginning for a paragraph (of definition). Complete the paragraph by explaining both the positive and negative sides of liberty as you perceive it.

In the dictionary, liberty is defined as freedom from external restraints or compulsion. The definition is not incorrect but is too narrow, because liberty means freedom from having to do something, as well as freedom to do something. In this sense, liberty may be said to possess two sides a positive and a negative.