“He speaks to me as if he was addressing a public meeting.”
(Queen Victoria talking about Benjamin Disraeli, her Prime Minister)
"It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." (Dumbledore)
"I believe people are in our lives for a reason. We are here to learn from each other." (Gillian Anderson)
"Tests make us all better learners." (Monica Geller)
"Come on, rules are good. They help control the fun." (Monica Geller)
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- This blog is for students and teachers of English as a foreign language. You can find links, pictures etc. that you might find useful and/or entertaining in your language learning/teaching. To find certain contents, use "LABELS" or "BLOG ARCHIVE" on the right.
Exciting websites
- Hungarian festival in NYC and Washington DC
- Adopt a word that has been eliminated from the Oxford dictionary :)
- Lots of e-books
- Test your brain - is the dancer turning clockwise or anti-clockwise?
- Guess where my accent is from
- Donate rice by doing a guiz - advanced
- The Earth Calendar
- isitchristmas.com
Article links
- "We have to scan 17 items per minute and CCTV will see if I stop smiling"
- 'Human tortoise' girl comes out of her plastic shell after 12 YEARS
- 'Will anyone sleep with my Down's syndrome son?'
- 10 Amazing Tech Gadgets you can't get here
- 10 imaginative excuses for being late
- 12 Unusual Food Museums
- 20 things you didn't know about ... death
- 20 things you didn't know about ... hygene
- 20 things you didn't know about summer (solstices)
- A tragedy that won't fade away - web privacy, death, drugs
- Ashton Kutcher's fashion advice
- Baby badger rescued
- Bad ideas in green tech (Newsweek)
- BBC Reality show - sewing clothes in India for a months
- Black and white twins
- Boy, 15, gets an exam pass - just for using the bus
- Boy, 6, takes the wheel after dad passes out
- Britain has a drink problem
- British woman arrested in Dubai after reporting rape is told to admit being drunk and marry her fiancé if she wants to be freed
- Cat who boarded same bus every day for four years killed in 'hit and run' (commuter cat :-))
- China 'spying on Skype messages'
- Disney's first ever black princess - looks white
- Doctor drills boy's skull to save his life
- Drug badly behaved children?
- Earth Hour 2009 around the world
- Emma Watson turns 18 and can get her hands on her own money
- English-speaking pupils are a minority in inner-city London primary schools
- Facebook attacked for ignoring 100 reports of 'grooming' and refusal to have panic button for users
- Fat people paid to walk their children to school
- Father's fury over children's 'pornographic' sweet wrappers
- Foods that help you sleep (and ones that don't)
- Friends Reunited murder
- Funny - hoax article about airline charging non-passangers
- Girls should not have to fear the world outside (Jycee Lee Dugard)
- Google Earth reveals 1000-year-old fishtrap
- Half-smoked cigar that Churchill stubbed out as he heard the Nazi army had reached Leningrad is sold for £4,500
- Henry VIII - mommy's boy? - graphology
- How did he do that? Derren Brown predicts lottery numbers on live TV
- How I lived on 1 pound a day
- Idiotic Ruling in Oxford Library - Nobody can reach the books
- Kindle eReader
- Laughing Baby vs. the YouTube commenters
- List finger replaced by...a USB drive
- Man killed by exploding mobile phone
- Michael Jackson becomes a Muslim
- Misspelled or mispelled?
- Mom lets son, 9, take subway home alone
- Most dramatic internet shake-up in 40 years to allow web addresses in languages from Arabic to Japanese
- Mothers are banned from looking after each other's children
- Mr and Mrs Slimming World
- MSNBC weird news
- Natalie du Toit - Amputee at the Olympics
- New Internet Craze
- Obama uses iPhone to win support
- Obsolete Technology: 40 Big Losers
- Old age starts at 27?
- Personal airbag saves life if avalanche hits
- Plaster going red before you do - sun protection
- Pregnant transsexual man!
- Recession causes more swearing
- Skeleton of younger sister of Cleapatra - murdered?
- Skull of giant sea monster found
- Smoking ban - less heart attacks
- Stupid US beer laws
- Thai PM ordered to quit over cooking show
- The Facebook Commandments
- The World’s Biggest Word Book Grows Again (Oxford English Dictionary)
- The YouTube rich list of the new stars making a fortune from their bedrooms
- Think yourself thinner
- Toddlers can no longer marry in Arkansas
- Too fat to work?
- Top 100 April's Fool Hoaxes
- Toughest cleaning questions answered!
- Tricky English Spelling and Pronunciation
- Unintentionally funny headlines
- Weird British Facts
- What famous people were like at school
- What it means to travel green
- White girl born Black
- Why no child is safe from the sinister cult of emo
- Why trusting pharmacists can be a health risk
Video links
- 10 things the government doesn't want you to know - by GA
- Ali the biggest loser (112 pounds)
- All 5-second movies in 5 minutes
- BBC World - Video and audio news
- BBC Worldwide on YouTube
- BBC4 Close-up Marianne Faithfull 1/5
- BBC4 Close-up Marianne Faithfull 2/5
- BBC4 Close-up Marianne Faithfull 3/5
- BBC4 Close-up Marianne Faithfull 4/5
- BBC4 Close-up Marianne Faithfull 5/5
- Bunny videos
- Fake English accents
- Friends - Thanksgiving Flashbacks
- Friends - The One That Could Have Been
- Friends thanksgiving 1992
- Friends Thanksgiving with Brad Pitt - season 8
- Global warming (National Geographic)
- Guess where my accent is from
- History of Scotland (Ep. 4, part 1)
- How BigMac is made
- How to be emo
- How to be English - making tea
- Kennedy's Assassination
- Letterman and De Generes discuss Oprah
- Little Girl, Big Heart - 7-year-old raising money for orphans
- National Geographic on YouTube
- Ready Steady Cook - GI food
- SchoolHouse Rock videos
- Thanksgiving 1956
- The Thanksgiving that almost wasn't Part 1
- The Thanksgiving that almost wasn't Part 2
- The Thanksgiving that almost wasn't part 3
- The world without us for 500 years
- Titanic - First class passengers
- Titanic - Frederic Fleet - Lookout
- Titanic - Violet Jessop - Stewardess
- Under One Roof - Reality show on a tropical island
- US food nutrition labels
- Videos with subtitles
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