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Acceptance to top US universities: Difficult but possible
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 05/06/2017
» Getting accepted to a top US university is not easy, but it is possible. Bangkok NIST student, Kengo Shigeta, describes a June 7th event that features 9 students who recently passed the admission process
Getting ready for Euro 2016
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 08/06/2016
» Following Euro 2016 in English is a fun and useful activity for English learners. Here, from my book "World Cup English" is what to expect from the pre-match stories you will see every day.
Online games industry: Fun, social and hiring
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 17/12/2015
» Bangkok Post Learning visits up-and-coming Garena, Thailand to find out what kind of people it takes to keep millions of online gamers glued to their computers and mobile devices.
True Beauty: a time-lapse by Saengthit Kamlangchai
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 16/09/2015
» In his most ambitious project yet, time-lapse photographer Saengthit Kamlangchai tours some of Thailand's lesser-known provinces and adds stunning night-time images of the Milky Way. Watch the HD video and read his explanation of how it was done.
Young Thai asks Obama an "interesting" question (video)
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 04/06/2015
» President Obama needed some time to collect his thoughts before answering an "interesting" question by young Thai Pensiri Bangsiri at a White House meeting on Monday. Where would he prefer to live and why if he were a Rohingya?
Bookbox: Easy stories with subtitles
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 05/05/2013
» Bookbox is a high quality website featuring animated and rather easy stories. Each story has English subtitles to make them super-easy to follow and you often have a choice of British or American English.
No, it didn’t’ happen, but what if…
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 10/03/2013
» The language of the past conditional seems difficult, but the concept is easy. Here are some video examples that you WILL understand.
What would the Earth be like without people?
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 03/03/2013
» A Scientific American animation considers the question of what would happen if suddenly all humans disappeared from the Earth. There are many examples of the unreal (we hope) conditional.
I wonder what would happen if…
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 02/03/2013
» A children’s cartoon provides some great examples of the unreal conditional, i.e, talking about imagined situations.
What could have happened?
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 25/02/2013
» We know what has happened, but we don't know what caused it. We all have our own ideas about the cause and express them freely. In English, this is a perfect opportunity to use the past forms of modal auxiliaries.