16 December 2011
13 December 2011
12 December 2011
11 December 2011
10 December 2011
9 December 2011
8 December 2011
15 November 2011
13 November 2011
11 November 2011
How to Make Coleslaw
7 November 2011
3 November 2011
31 October 2011
29 October 2011
28 October 2011
27 October 2011
Science Nation - Music and Creativity
24 October 2011
15 October 2011
10 October 2011
Penguin Man
Fill in the gaps with the correct form of the verbs in brackets (past simple, present perfect, present perfect continuous)
One day, Alfred David’s wife ________________ (1-tell) him that he walked like a penguin. Since then, his identification with the creatures _____________ (2-become) almost total. For the past twenty-five years he ______________ (3-walk) around in a penguin suit. People in his home town in Belgium long ago ______________ (4-accept) this harmless eccentric as part of the scenery.
All this time, he ______________ (5-collect) penguin objects, and so far he ______________ (6-accumulate) over two thousand. A few years ago he ______________ (7-open) the European Museum of the Penguin.
As far as anyone knows, he ______________ (8-never go) to Antarctica but this ______________ (9-not stop) him frim making friends among the penguin population. Since his fascination ______________ (10-develop) he ______________ (11-buy) tons of fish to feed his ’friends and family’ in the local zoo. If he looks more and more like one it could be because he ______________ (12-eat) too much raw fish himself.
(from Clockwise Upper-intermediate
http://elt.oup.com/catalogue/items/global/adult_courses/clockwise/upper-intermediate/?cc=global&selLanguage=en)
Penguin obsessed pensioner wants to be buried in Antarctic
(http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/bizarre/penguin-53923.html)
A Belgian man, who is obsessed with penguins, has revealed his wish is to be buried dressed in his black-and-white costume in the Antarctic so he can be close to the flightless birds.
A Belgian pensioner wants to be buried in the Antarctic, dressed in his penguin suit in a coffin decorated with the flightless birds.
Alfred David, 79, became obsessed with penguins after he developed a limp following a car accident in 1968, leading colleagues to dub him Monsieur Pingouin or Mr. Penguin and regularly wears a hooded black-and-white costume in homage to the creatures.
He said: "My ultimate dream is to be buried in a deep ocean close to where penguins live."
However, his obsession has cost him dearly as after setting up a museum with 3,500 items of penguin memorabilia and attempting to change his name to Mr. Penguin, Mr. David's wife dumped him.
He later donated the collection - which ranged from penguin lavatory paper to cups and toys - to a local soccer team to raise money for the club.
More:
http://mysendoff.com/2011/10/a-life-in-black-and-white/
In the last decade penguins have been making quite a cultural impact around the world.
For the last 40 years of David’s life, the man has been collecting penguin paraphernalia; everything from portraits of penguin to lavatory paper, cups and toys.
KEY:
1 - told, 2- has become, 3 - has been walking, 4 - accepted, 5 - has been collecting, 6 - has accumulated, 7 - opened, 8 - has never been, 9 - hasn't stopped, 10 - developed, 11 - has bought / has been buying, 12 - has been eating
9 October 2011
4 October 2011
Mika - Relax
Useful expressions, collocations, prepositions
take a ride
end up somewhere
scream for help
be lost
take it easy
play with fire
the last thing on my mind
blame something on somebody
"Relax (Take It Easy)"
Took a ride to the end of the line
Where no one ever goes.
Ended up on a broken train with nobody I know.
But the pain and the longing's the same.
Where the dying
Now I'm lost and I'm screaming for help.
Relax, take it easy
For there is nothing that we can do.
Relax, take it easy
Blame it on me or blame it on you.
It's as if I'm scared.
It's as if I'm terrified.
It's as if I scared.
It's as if I'm playing with fire.
Scared.
It's as if I'm terrified.
Are you scared?
Are we playing with fire?
Relax
There is an answer to the darkest times.
It's clear we don't understand but the last thing on my mind
Is to leave you.
I believe that we're in this together.
Don't scream - there are so many roads left.
Relax, take it easy
For there is nothing that we can do.
Relax, take it easy
Blame it on me or blame it on you.
Relax, take it easy
For there is nothing that we can do.
Relax, take it easy
Blame it on me or blame it on you.
Relax, take it easy
For there is nothing that we can do.
Relax, take it easy
Blame it on me or blame it on you.
Relax, take it easy
For there is nothing that we can do.
Relax, take it easy
Blame it on me or blame it on you.
(Relax)
It's as if I'm scared.
It's as if I'm terrified.
It's as if I scared.
It's as if I'm playing with fire.
Relax
It's as if I'm terrified.
Are you scared?
Are we playing with fire?
Relax
Relax
The Pursuit of Happiness
http://moviesegmentstoassessgrammargoals.blogspot.com/search/label/past%20continuous
6:27-12:30
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Fill in the gaps with the past simple or the past continuous:
Chris ______________ (phone) his wife when the bus ______________ (arrive).
Chris ______________ (run) when the guy ______________(start) to talk about the sports game.
Christopher ______________ (play) in the kindergarden when his dad ______________ (come) to pick him up./
Vitamin D - Video
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-15165497
useful expressions:
measure their vitamin D level
behaviour
figure
take supplements
pale skin
don't seem to be able to
people should be aiming for
some level of uncertainty
essentially
may also need to consider that
excrete
fortified foods
overdose
who should be taking extra supplements
in terms of their risk of cancer
sunburn triples the risk of melanoma
never getting sunburnt
28 September 2011
26 September 2011
25 September 2011
18 September 2011
5 September 2011
3 September 2011
Fox in socks - extreme tongue-twister
Dr Seuss - Fox in Socks (Animated Book) by mar-touf
(https://www.facebook.com/5percangol)
Fox in Socks by Dr. Seuss
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Fox
Socks
Box
Knox
Knox in box.
Fox in socks.
Knox on fox in socks in box.
Socks on Knox and Knox in box.
Fox in socks on box on Knox.
Chicks with bricks come.
Chicks with blocks come.
Chicks with bricks and blocks and clocks come.
Look, sir. Look, sir. Mr. Knox, sir.
Let's do tricks with bricks and blocks, sir.
Let's do tricks with chicks and clocks, sir.
First, I'll make a quick trick brick stack.
Then I'll make a quick trick block stack.
You can make a quick trick chick stack.
You can make a quick trick clock stack.
And here's a new trick, Mr. Knox....
Socks on chicks and chicks on fox.
Fox on clocks on bricks and blocks.
Bricks and blocks on Knox on box.
Now we come to ticks and tocks, sir.
Try to say this Mr. Knox, sir....
Clocks on fox tick.
Clocks on Knox tock.
Six sick bricks tick.
Six sick chicks tock.
Please, sir. I don't like this trick, sir.
My tongue isn't quick or slick, sir.
I get all those ticks and clocks, sir,
mixed up with the chicks and tocks, sir.
I can't do it, Mr. Fox, sir.
I'm so sorry, Mr. Knox, sir.
Here's an easy game to play.
Here's an easy thing to say....
New socks.
Two socks.
Whose socks?
Sue's socks.
Who sews whose socks?
Sue sews Sue's socks.
Who sees who sew whose new socks, sir?
You see Sue sew Sue's new socks, sir.
That's not easy, Mr. Fox, sir.
Who comes? ...
Crow comes.
Slow Joe Crow comes.
Who sews crow's clothes?
Sue sews crow's clothes.
Slow Joe Crow sews whose clothes?
Sue's clothes.
Sue sews socks of fox in socks now.
Slow Joe Crow sews Knox in box now.
Sue sews rose on Slow Joe Crow's clothes.
Fox sews hose on Slow Joe Crow's nose.
Hose goes.
Rose grows.
Nose hose goes some.
Crow's rose grows some.
Mr. Fox!
I hate this game, sir.
This game makes my tongue quite lame, sir.
Mr. Knox, sir, what a shame, sir.
We'll find something new to do now.
Here is lots of new blue goo now.
New goo. Blue goo.
Gooey. Gooey.
Blue goo. New goo.
Gluey. Gluey.
Gooey goo for chewy chewing!
That's what that Goo-Goose is doing.
Do you choose to chew goo, too, sir?
If, sir, you, sir, choose to chew, sir,
with the Goo-Goose, chew, sir.
Do, sir.
Mr. Fox, sir,
I won't do it.
I can't say.
I won't chew it.
Very well, sir.
Step this way.
We'll find another game to play.
Bim comes.
Ben comes.
Bim brings Ben broom.
Ben brings Bim broom.
Ben bends Bim's broom.
Bim bends Ben's broom.
Bim's bends.
Ben's bends.
Ben's bent broom breaks.
Bim's bent broom breaks.
Ben's band. Bim's band.
Big bands. Pig bands.
Bim and Ben lead bands with brooms.
Ben's band bangs and Bim's band booms.
Pig band! Boom band!
Big band! Broom band!
My poor mouth can't say that. No, sir.
My poor mouth is much too slow, sir.
Well then... bring your mouth this way.
I'll find it something it can say.
Luke Luck likes lakes.
Luke's duck likes lakes.
Luke Luck licks lakes.
Luck's duck licks lakes.
Duck takes licks in lakes Luke Luck likes.
Luke Luck takes licks in lakes duck likes.
I can't blab such blibber blubber!
My tongue isn't make of rubber.
Mr. Knox. Now come now. Come now.
You don't have to be so dumb now....
Try to say this, Mr. Knox, please....
Through three cheese trees three free fleas flew.
While these fleas flew, freezy breeze blew.
Freezy breeze made these three trees freeze.
Freezy trees made these trees' cheese freeze.
That's what made these three free fleas sneeze.
Stop it! Stop it!
That's enough, sir.
I can't say such silly stuff, sir.
Very well, then, Mr. Knox, sir.
Let's have a little talk about tweetle beetles....
What do you know about tweetle beetles? Well...
When tweetle beetles fight,
it's called a tweetle beetle battle.
And when they battle in a puddle,
it's a tweetle beetle puddle battle.
AND when tweetle beetles battle with paddles in a puddle,
they call it a tweetle beetle puddle paddle battle.
AND...
When beetles battle beetles in a puddle paddle battle
and the beetle battle puddle is a puddle in a bottle...
...they call this a tweetle beetle bottle puddle paddle battle muddle.
AND...
When beetles fight these battles in a bottle with their paddles
and the bottle's on a poodle and the poodle's eating noodles...
...they call this a muddle puddle tweetle poodle beetle noodle
bottle paddle battle.
AND...
Now wait a minute, Mr. Socks Fox!
When a fox is in the bottle where the tweetle beetles battle
with their paddles in a puddle on a noodle-eating poodle,
THIS is what they call...
...a tweetle beetle noodle poodle bottled paddled
muddled duddled fuddled wuddled fox in socks, sir!
Fox in socks, our game is done, sir.
Thank you for a lot of fun, sir.
29 August 2011
27 August 2011
25 August 2011
IKEA - small spaces
Useful expressions:
there's only so much
what if there was...
what if we get
what if we tried sg different
up here
stool
storage
bunk bed
communal table
cozy little nest for two
works for everyone
to make the most of...
no matter how much/little
shrink
The space you've been looking for: it's been right there, all along
Mobile phones in the past
http://www.gateway-online.net/gateway/page/SampleContent
24 August 2011
20 August 2011
Travel article about Budapest
8 August 2011
28 July 2011
26 July 2011
25 July 2011
About Addiction and Amy
Russell Brand's tribute: 'For Amy'
(from http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html)
When you love someone who suffers from the disease of addiction you await the phone call. There will be a phone call. The sincere hope is that the call will be from the addict themselves, telling you they’ve had enough, that they’re ready to stop, ready to try something new. Of course though, you fear the other call, the sad nocturnal chime from a friend or relative telling you it’s too late, she’s gone.
Frustratingly it’s not a call you can ever make it must be received. It is impossible to intervene.
I’ve known Amy Winehouse for years. When I first met her around Camden she was just some twit in a pink satin jacket shuffling round bars with mutual friends, most of whom were in cool Indie bands or peripheral Camden figures Withnail-ing their way through life on impotent charisma. Carl Barrat told me that “Winehouse” (which I usually called her and got a kick out of cos it’s kind of funny to call a girl by her surname) was a jazz singer, which struck me as a bizarrely anomalous in that crowd. To me with my limited musical knowledge this information placed Amy beyond an invisible boundary of relevance; “Jazz singer? She must be some kind of eccentric” I thought. I chatted to her anyway though, she was after all, a girl, and she was sweet and peculiar but most of all vulnerable.
I was myself at that time barely out of rehab and was thirstily seeking less complicated women so I barely reflected on the now glaringly obvious fact that Winehouse and I shared an affliction, the disease of addiction. All addicts, regardless of the substance or their social status share a consistent and obvious symptom; they’re not quite present when you talk to them. They communicate to you through a barely discernible but un-ignorable veil. Whether a homeless smack head troubling you for 50p for a cup of tea or a coked-up, pinstriped exec foaming off about his “speedboat” there is a toxic aura that prevents connection. They have about them the air of elsewhere, that they’re looking through you to somewhere else they’d rather be. And of course they are. The priority of any addict is to anaesthetise the pain of living to ease the passage of the day with some purchased relief.
From time to time I’d bump into Amy she had good banter so we could chat a bit and have a laugh, she was “a character” but that world was riddled with half cut, doped up chancers, I was one of them, even in early recovery I was kept afloat only by clinging to the bodies of strangers so Winehouse, but for her gentle quirks didn’t especially register.
Then she became massively famous and I was pleased to see her acknowledged but mostly baffled because I’d not experienced her work and this not being the 1950’s I wondered how a “jazz singer” had achieved such cultural prominence. I wasn’t curious enough to do anything so extreme as listen to her music or go to one of her gigs, I was becoming famous myself at the time and that was an all consuming experience. It was only by chance that I attended a Paul Weller gig at the Roundhouse that I ever saw her live.
Close friends: Russell knew Amy before she was famous and has written a touching tribute to her. Pictured her at the Q Awards in 2006
Close friends: Russell knew Amy before she was famous and has written a touching tribute to her. Pictured her at the Q Awards in 2006
I arrived late and as I made my way to the audience through the plastic smiles and plastic cups I heard the rolling, wondrous resonance of a female vocal. Entering the space I saw Amy on stage with Weller and his band; and then the awe. The awe that envelops when witnessing a genius. From her oddly dainty presence that voice, a voice that seemed not to come from her but from somewhere beyond even Billie and Ella, from the font of all greatness. A voice that was filled with such power and pain that it was at once entirely human yet laced with the divine. My ears, my mouth, my heart and mind all instantly opened. Winehouse. Winehouse? Winehouse! That twerp, all eyeliner and lager dithering up Chalk Farm Road under a back-combed barnet, the lips that I’d only seen clenching a fishwife fag and dribbling curses now a portal for this holy sound. So now I knew. She wasn’t just some hapless wannabe, yet another pissed up nit who was never gonna make it, nor was she even a ten-a-penny-chanteuse enjoying her fifteen minutes. She was a fucking genius.
Shallow fool that I am I now regarded her in a different light, the light that blazed down from heaven when she sang. That lit her up now and a new phase in our friendship began. She came on a few of my TV and radio shows, I still saw her about but now attended to her with a little more interest. Publicly though, Amy increasingly became defined by her addiction. Our media though is more interested in tragedy than talent, so the ink began to defect from praising her gift to chronicling her downfall. The destructive personal relationships, the blood soaked ballet slippers, the aborted shows, that youtube madness with the baby mice. In the public perception this ephemeral tittle-tattle replaced her timeless talent. This and her manner in our occasional meetings brought home to me the severity of her condition. Addiction is a serious disease; it will end with jail, mental institutions or death. I was 27 years old when through the friendship and help of Chip Somers of the treatment centre, Focus12 I found recovery, through Focus I was introduced to support fellowships for alcoholics and drug addicts which are very easy to find and open to anybody with a desire to stop drinking and without which I would not be alive.
Now Amy Winehouse is dead, like many others whose unnecessary deaths have been retrospectively romanticised, at 27 years old. Whether this tragedy was preventable or not is now irrelevant. It is not preventable today. We have lost a beautiful and talented woman to this disease. Not all addicts have Amy’s incredible talent. Or Kurt’s or Jimi’s or Janis’s, some people just get the affliction. All we can do is adapt the way we view this condition, not as a crime or a romantic affectation but as a disease that will kill. We need to review the way society treats addicts, not as criminals but as sick people in need of care. We need to look at the way our government funds rehabilitation. It is cheaper to rehabilitate an addict than to send them to prison, so criminalisation doesn’t even make economic sense. Not all of us know someone with the incredible talent that Amy had but we all know drunks and junkies and they all need help and the help is out there. All they have to do is pick up the phone and make the call. Or not. Either way, there will be a phone call.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2018385/Amy-Winehouse-told-mother-Janis-I-love-drank-death.html#ixzz1T72Pa7gS
23 July 2011
22 July 2011
21 July 2011
16 July 2011
11 July 2011
Have you ever seen a penguin come to tea - silly camp song
Penguin Song from Rhonda Albom on Vimeo.
The Lyrics to the Penguin Song
Have you ever seen a penguin come to tea?
If you look at me, a penguin you will see.
Penguins, attention
Penguins, begin / salute.
Right arm.
Have you ever seen a penguin come to tea?
If you look at me, a penguin you will see.
Penguins, attention
Penguins, begin / salute.
Right arm. Left arm.
Have you ever seen a penguin come to tea?
If you look at me, a penguin you will see.
Penguins, attention
Penguins, begin / salute.
Right arm. Left arm. Right foot..
Have you ever seen a penguin come to tea?
If you look at me, a penguin you will see.
Penguins, attention
Penguins, begin / salute.
Right arm. Left arm. Right foot. Left foot.
Have you ever seen a penguin come to tea?
If you look at me, a penguin you will see.
Penguins, attention
Penguins, begin / salute.
Right arm. Left arm. Right foot. Left foot. Bum out..
Have you ever seen a penguin come to tea?
If you look at me, a penguin you will see.
Penguins, attention
Penguins, begin / salute.
Right arm. Left arm. Right foot. Left foot. Bum out. Tongue out..
Have you ever seen a penguin come to tea?
If you look at me, a penguin you will see.
Penguins, attention
Penguins dismissed.
10 July 2011
4 July 2011
Joan Osbourne - If God was one of us
If God had a name, what would it be
And would you call it to his face
If you were faced with him in all his glory
What would you ask if you had just one question
And yeah yeah God is great yeah yeah God is good
yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
What if God was one of us
Just a slob like one of us
Just a stranger on the bus
Trying to make his way home
If God had a face what would it look like
And would you want to see
If seeing meant that you would have to believe
In things like heaven and in Jesus and the saints and all the prophets
And yeah yeah god is great yeah yeah god is good
yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
What if God was one of us
Just a slob like one of us
Just a stranger on the bus
Trying to make his way home
He's trying to make his way home
Back up to heaven all alone
Nobody calling on the phone
Except for the Pope maybe in Rome
And yeah yeah God is great yeah yeah God is good
yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
What if god was one of us
Just a slob like one of us
Just a stranger on the bus
Trying to make his way home
Just trying to make his way home
Like a holy rolling stone
Back up to heaven all alone
Just trying to make his way home
Nobody calling on the phone
Except for the Pope maybe in Rome
3 July 2011
Cliff Richard - Summer Holiday
We're all going on a summer holiday.
No more working for a week or two.
Fun and laughter on a summer holiday.
No more worries for me and you.
For a week or two.
We're going where the sun shines brightly.
We're going where the sea is blue.
We've seen it in the movies.
Now let's see if it's true.
Everybody has a summer holiday
Doing things they always wanted to.
So we're going on a summer holiday
To make our dreams come true
For me and you.
We're going where the sun shines brightly.
We're going where the sea is blue.
We've seen it in the movies.
Now let's see if it's true.
Everybody has a summer holiday
Doing things they always wanted to.
So we're going on a summer holiday
To make our dreams come true
For me and you.
Hmmmmmm, hmmmmmmm...
Hmmmmmm, hmmmmmmm...
Hmmmmmm, hmmmmmmm...
28 June 2011
24 June 2011
18 June 2011
situations - short videos - British council
http://www.youtube.com/user/BritishCouncilLE#p/c/BE2FFB1F87DBA48A/0/bPfU_Cch1Vc
How to greet someone
How to pay a compliment
How to order a round in a pub
How to understand the differences between British and American English
How to ask someone where they got that...
How to tell if your boyfriend is a slob
How to understand the difference between Britain and the UK
How to turn down an invitation
How (not) to chat someone up in a nightclub
How to ask someone to repeat something
17 June 2011
16 June 2011
A video about the UK fashion chain Primark
24 May 2011
23 May 2011
12 May 2011
Mobile phones - harmful effects
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/are-mobile-phones-wiping-out-our-bees-444768.html
Are mobile phones wiping out our bees?
Scientists claim radiation from handsets are to blame for mysterious 'colony collapse' of bees
11 May 2011
Boy in skirt - article and video
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-13362700
A Cambridgeshire boy has worn a skirt to school in a protest against what he said was "discrimination".
Chris Whitehead, 12, was angered by rules at Impington Village College, near Cambridge, that do not allow boys to wear shorts in hot weather.
The year-8 pupil said he researched the policy, found a loophole in the rules and turned up to school in a skirt.
Following his demonstration, the school has pledged to review the policy.
2 April 2011
Tom's Diner by Suzanne Vega
And it's easy to understand!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0rfun22H9Y&feature=related
I am sitting In the morning
At the diner On the corner
I am waiting At the counter
For the man To pour the coffee
And he fills it Only halfway
And before I even argue
He is looking Out the window
At somebody Coming in
"It is always Nice to see you"
Says the man Behind the counter
To the woman Who has come in
She is shaking Her umbrella
And I look The other way
As they are kissing Their hellos
I'm pretending Not to see them
Instead I pour the milk
I open Up the paper
There's a story Of an actor
Who had died While he was drinking
It was no one I had heard of
And I'm turning To the horoscope
And looking For the funnies
When I'm feeling Someone watching me
And so I raise my head
There's a woman On the outside
Looking inside Does she see me?
No she does not Really see me
Cause she sees Her own reflection
And I'm trying Not to notice
That she's hitching Up her skirt
And while she's Straightening her stockings
Her hair Has gotten wet
Oh, this rain It will continue
Through the morning As I'm listening
To the bells Of the cathedral
I am thinking Of your voice...
And of the midnight picnic
Once upon a time
Before the rain began...
I finish up my coffee
It's time to catch the train
29 March 2011
Twitter - 5th b.day
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/twitter/8383646/Twitter-the-story-of-the-real-first-tweet.html
28 March 2011
10 hand gestures to get right
19 March 2011
6 March 2011
19 February 2011
Google Me Trailer
someone who looks exactly like someone else
Ok, then what is a googleganger?
Plain White T's - 1, 2, 3, 4
1 2, 1 2 3 4-
Give me more lovin' than I've ever had,
Make it all better when I'm feelin' sad,
Tell me that I'm special even when I know I'm not,
Make it feel good when I hurt so bad, Barely gettin' mad,
I'm so glad I found you; I love bein' around you.
You make it easy, it's easy as 1,2- 1,2,3,4
There's only 1 thing 2 do 3 words 4 you- (I love you) I love you
There's only 1 way 2 say those 3 words and that's what I'll do -
(I love you) I love you.
Give me more lovin' from the very start,
Piece me back together when I fall apart,
Tell me things you never even tell your closest friends-
Make it feel good when I hurt so bad, Best that I've had,
I'm so glad I found you, I love bein' around you.
You make it easy, it's easy as 1,2- 1,2,3,4
There's only 1 thing 2 do 3 words 4 you- (I love you) I love you
There's only 1 way 2 say those 3 words and that's what I'll do -
(I love you) I love you.
(I love you) I love you.
You make it easy, it's easy as 1,2- 1,2,3,4
There's only 1 thing 2 do 3 words 4 you- (I love you) I love you
There's only 1 way 2 say those 3 words and that's what I'll do -
(I love you) I love you.
(I love you) I love you
1, 2, 3, 4
(I love you) I love you
(I love you) I love you
5 February 2011
The Sketch Show UK - English class
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfVLTKktt3A
- EFL blog
- 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