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Help with creating "Unusual New Year Wish"
Автор темы: Oleksiy Markunin
Lori Cirefice
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love it! Dec 2, 2011

matt robinson wrote:

We post ideas and you'll log them and present them as yours?

You're a star and deserve a prize for thinking outside the (Christmas) box.

I wonder if there are three men wise enough to help you on this site, though.

I always associate Christmas with fruit. Apples and oranges, nuts, raisins, dates, and of course the Queen's peach.

You can probably find a whole host of old chestnuts on the web, too.







[Edited at 2011-12-02 08:23 GMT]


especially you'll log, brilliant!
 
Oleksiy Markunin
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Well, Dec 2, 2011

My variant so far,

"A span New Year!A spotless slate on which to write your cravings and expectancies.
We wish you to hone your English attainments even further.
We hope your lore of the foreign language will be limitless.
And may Santa bestow upon thee only novenary in IELTS."

It is dedicated to students of English who are going to take an IELTS exam.
Does it sound too awful? Or do we have a light at the end of the tunnel?
I hesitate most ... See more
My variant so far,

"A span New Year!A spotless slate on which to write your cravings and expectancies.
We wish you to hone your English attainments even further.
We hope your lore of the foreign language will be limitless.
And may Santa bestow upon thee only novenary in IELTS."

It is dedicated to students of English who are going to take an IELTS exam.
Does it sound too awful? Or do we have a light at the end of the tunnel?
I hesitate most of all about "novenary". Is it appropriate to use it here? Should it be in a plural form? (Nine is the best score in IELTS exam, so I wanted to include some fancy bookish word).

Again, any comments are much appreciated. ▲ Collapse
 
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