Many of you will be in states, territories and countries where social distancing, self-isolation and lock-downs have rapidly become the new norm. While these are unusual times, we encourage all of you to stay active, both physically and mentally.
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Listening to the radio is an inexpensive way to improve your listening skills. We highly recommend using ABC radio as they provide a wide variety of programmes for you to choose from.
You can listen to programmes as they are broadcast ‘live’ on your radio. To help you find the ABC stations that have mainly ‘talking’ programmes, we’ve listed their frequencies for Brisbane and the Gold Coast:
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In any list, put commas between the items but “and” between the last two items, generally without a comma, e.g. I saw the boy and the girl together. I went to the shop to buy butter, meat, bread, jam and tomato sauce.
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because of (preposition), e.g. Because of the rain, the match was called off.
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Do you know the difference? These three words are homophones and they confuse many people.
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