Some colleges reportedly plan to end a English test that has been part of their entrance process, a move that would seemingly reduce demand for English-language study.
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Despite not winning a English league title since 1968, Manchester City moved up the earnings rankings from 10th to third this year -- largely thanks to the oil-rich deep pockets of owner Sheikh Mansour.
Emily Nickerson served as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in a high school just outside of Madrid after graduating with a double major in English and Spanish.
Max Heller used a German-English dictionary and phrase book (on display) to write a letter in awkward English to a non-Jewish woman, Mary Mills, whom he had met years before at a Vienna dance.
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As a fluent English speaker in a country where that is decidedly not the norm, I was dreading a boring lesson.
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They move from a dusky English cottage to a neat suburban street, but behind them looms a surreal cityscape that suggests an H.
The typical hero is no longer a brooding English aristocrat with a large estate who, on a chance visit to a sick aunt, meets a lovely, lonely, virginal 17-year-old, says Charis Calhoon of the Romance Writers.
She spent her first year out of college learning the difference between British expressions and grammatical errors while a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in a high school just outside of Madrid.
Next to Morrison, Manzarek was the most distinctive-looking band member, his glasses and wavy blond hair making him resemble a young English professor more than a rock star, a contrast to Morrison's Dionysian glamour his sensuous mouth and long, dark hair.
And as a student he had worked during the holidays in various factories belonging to the Fiat group: on a car-production line in Poland, in a dealership in France and in a component factory in the English Midlands, where he boarded with a very ordinary English family.
Deadened with grief four years after the death of his wife, Arthur is dispatched to a remote English village to sort out a deceased woman's estate.
Ms Lagarde, a perfect English speaker, has never expressed a desire to run for president.
Arsenal's elimination means that for the first time since 1996, there will not be a single English team in the quarterfinals -- a fact not lost on Wenger.
But instead of making a movie about what the music meant, Curtis, aping the manner of a naughty English picture from about 1955, has made a movie about the sexual arrangements on board.
Flintoff and Neil Fairbrother (23) added 96 for the fourth wicket, followed by a useful 42 from Australian all-rounder Joe Scuderi, who has been granted a special English Cricket Board (ECB) registration as a non-overseas player because he holds an Italian passport.
The story begins with a research paper which compares English and Welsh hospitals during a period when the English were pushing waiting list targets but the Welsh did not, choosing to emphasise other priorities.
Ms. Johnson, 23, is a former English teacher who says she wants to shift to a career in business or entrepreneurship.
They played in the grip of a peculiarly English affliction: having swept into the tournament with a presumption of greatness a greatness inherited from a misty past that they were commissioned to recover they proved anxious and hesitant, quailing in the face of history, and losing on penalties.
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In 1602, a band of English built a fort on the island of Cuttyhunk.
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It will, he suggests, soon be possible to hold a conversation in English with a friend in Tokyo who is reading your words in Japanese.
In 1555 Czar Ivan the Terrible granted a group of English merchants a monopoly on the trade of furs, timber and cloth, thus establishing the Muscovy Company.
After a career in Hong Kong that earned him a cult following for work such as The Killer, A Better Tomorrow and Hard Boiled, he packed his bags in 1992 and set off for Hollywood with his family, an embryonic reputation, a smattering of English and a savvy production partner, Terence Chang.
The hotel is a converted English-style mansion, initially built in 1932 as a family home for toffee tycoon Sir David Duncan.
GCSEs in core subjects at secondary schools in England are being replaced by a new English Baccalaureate which will be awarded on the basis of a single end-of-term exam.
"I'm drawn to a full English, " he said, referring to the colloquial term for a fried breakfast.
"I loved the film, getting to know David O Russell has been great, but as a novelist and as a former English teacher who loves literature, part of the fun of reading a novel is creating that world in your mind, " says Quick.
She spoke a little English and when she finally understood she said they were welcome to come one at a time for a hot bath.
Meanwhile Aston Villa beat Blackburn Rovers 6-4 in a thrilling English League Cup semifinal second leg tie to go through 7-4 on aggregate and secure a Wembley final against either Manchester United or Manchester City.
The classes will be supervised by a high school English teacher, a middle school Math teacher, and former veterinary technician.
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