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Cartoons Our cartoons are divided into the following categories: animals, boys and girls, Christmas, doctors, family, food & drink, horror, leisure, sport and others. Listen to the jokes and laugh!
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Science Read articles that help you to keep up-to-date with the science that’s shaping our society and bringing a new dimension to everyday life.
your texts
Your texts See dozens of texts sent in by our users. Read others' comments, opinions and anecdotes in response to our magazine articles, as well as their stories and poems.
grammar answers
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Grammar More than 90 answers to questions sent in to us by our users. From adjective order to imperatives to participles to question tags to zero conditionals.
grammar games
LearnEnglish Central Grammar Games Did you know that you can learn grammar and have some fun at the same time? That you can practise conditionals and enjoy it? These games guarantee it!
in history
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History See reports on 75 historical events, each with an accompanying interactive activity and organised by date or event
links
Links Find sets of carefully selected links covering more than 120 different topics, from agriculture to explorers to jokes to the olympics games to youth culture
magazine
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Magazine Read more than 175 articles with accompanying language activities about topics from acupuncture to ecotourism to iguana farming to rock 'n' roll grandads.
poems
LearnEnglish Central Poems See more than 80 poems, each with activities, written by famous poets such as Wordsworth, Shelley and Blake, as well as others by the not so famous.
polls
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Polls See the results of more than 50 polls in which our users have given their opinions about aspects of this website, as well as more general topics of interest.
culture
Culture We look in depth at different aspects of the arts and culture of the United Kingdom, such as living in the UK, food, music, dance, holidays and more.
word games
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LearnEnglish Central Word Games Play more than 150 word games ... from adjectives to zoo puzzles, from business to wordplay, from dogs to dinosaurs ... to help you practise your vocabulary.
stories
LearnEnglish Central Stories See more than 80 stories, each with activities, written by our resident writer, Chris Rose, as well as famous writers such as Aesop, Anthony Burgess or George Orwell.
themes
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Themes See 150 themes, from assassination to youth culture, each with some or all of the following: articles, stories, poems, cartoons, polls, trivia, history, science, and links.
trivia
Trivia See more than 140 trivia topics, each one featuring people, history, numbers, films, songs, things, recipes, wordplay, literature, proverbs, quotes & dates.
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