Water your lawn or you'll be fined

http://www.treehugger.com/clean-water/no-good-deed-california-couple-tries-conserve-water-during-drought-gets-500-fine-brown-lawn.html

Organizing at home

http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/home/cleaning-organizing/personal-organizing-secrets?src=spr_FBPAGE&spr_id=1443_93545370

Instagram in the EFL classroom

http://busyteacher.org/20572-instagram-esl-classroom-8-great-ways-to-use.html

Linking words and exercises

http://www.agendaweb.org/grammar/conjunctions-english-exercises.html
www.smart-words.org/linking-words/linking-words.pdf
http://en.islcollective.com/resources/printables/worksheets_doc_docx/linking_words_multiple_choice/conjunctions-intermediate-b1/50139

IELTS vocab

http://www.ieltsspeaking.co.uk/ielts-vocabulary/

TIME vocab

http://www.ielts-exam.net/vocabulary/IELTS_Vocabulary_Expressions_with_time/819/

IELTS links

IELTS buddy:
http://www.ieltsbuddy.com/ielts-practice.html
http://www.ielts-exam.net/

Personality adjectives

http://www.esolcourses.com/content/exercises/grammar/adjectives/personality/more-words-for-describing-personality.html
http://englishworldbysandraluna.blogspot.hu/2014/04/personality-adjectives.html
http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=2941

A microchip inside everybody's hand?

http://conservativeledger.com/nbc-news-americans-will-microchipped-less-3-years/

Fake news - Gwyneth Paltrow

http://www.theshovel.com.au/2014/06/18/gwyneth-paltrows-new-diet-nothing-but-your-own-bullshit/

Family on benefits?

http://www.theshovel.com.au/2014/09/08/family-reliant-on-government-hand-outs-to-have-second-child/

How social media changes our brains

Politically incorrect terms

http://www.languagemonitor.com/politically-incorrect/top-politically-correct-buzzwords-of-2012/

9/11

9/11 in numbers
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/aug/18/usa.terrorism

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/ten-interesting-facts-you-probably-didn%E2%80%99t-know-about-9-11.html#MDaHer6

A city freezes for a minute every year

http://sfglobe.com/?id=2288&src=share_fb_new_2288

Laniakea: Our home supercluster

Strange home ads

Not a nice site name, but brilliant for picture description or to start a discussion.
http://geccodejoakecod.444.hu/

Nail houses

http://gizmodo.com/the-stubborn-nail-houses-that-refuse-to-get-demolishe-1631053177

Sent home from school for having wrong shoes

http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2014/09/03/100-pupils-sent-home-for-having-wrong-shoes/