This post offers you a selection of recommended free online exercises, games, videos and resources so that you can improve your English language skills while having fun! ENJOY!
📜READING PICKS – Articles, blog posts, quizzes and more:Article from BBC EARTH: The river that runs through the dawn of life, by Vivien Cumming. Every river has a story to tell and this one covers 500 million years.
Rocks
sculpted by the Coppermine River took us on a journey through 500 hundred
million years of Earth’s history, starting over 1.5 billion years ago when the
earliest multicellular life was beginning to emerge. By studying and
sampling the rocks along the riverbanks, and hiking into the wilderness using
drones to map the area, we hoped to expand our understanding of early life on
Earth.
The Coppermine River
winds its way through the high Arctic landscape, cutting the easiest path
through a remote part of the world until it reaches the Arctic Ocean and the
Inuit settlement of Kugluktuk, where we ended our journey. (Continue reading)Article from BBC FUTURE: How your age affects your appetite, by Alex Johnstone. Our relationship with food changes through our lives, and there are seven stages of life that affect how we eat.
Do you eat
to live or live to eat? We have a complicated relationship with food,
influenced by cost, availability and even peer pressure. But something we all
share is appetite – our desire to eat.
While hunger – our
body’s way of making us desire food when it needs feeding – is a part of
appetite, it is not the only factor. After all, we often eat when we’re not
hungry, or may skip a meal despite pangs of hunger. Recent research has
highlighted that the abundance of food cues – smells, sounds, advertising – in
our environment is one of the main causes of overconsumption. (Continue reading)🎬 VIDEO PICKS – Short and fun videos:
LESS-THAN-5-MINUTE VIDEOS:
- David Crystal - Which English? (2:58 minutes)
- Why The Moon Turns Red During A Total Lunar Eclipse (3:08 minutes)
- 5 different ways to use the word wish: BBC MasterClass (4:56 minutes)
- BBC Masterclass: Formal and informal English (4:07 minutes)
- Why Are You Always Tired? (3:03 minutes)
- How languages evolve - Alex Gendler (4:02 minutes)
- Music and creativity in Ancient Greece - Tim Hansen (4:45 minutes)
- Everything Wrong With The iPhone (3:46 minutes)
- How art can help you analyze - Amy E. Herman (4:49 minutes)
- Sample B2 Speaking Test 6 Mad about shopping/consumerism (5:56 minutes)
- The Impressionists (5:33 minutes)
- English at Work: 10 Phrasal Verbs for the Office (8:46 minutes)
- BBC News Review: Prince says: talk about your feelings (9:21 minutes)
- Academic English - Prof. David Crystal on standard vs. non-standard English (5:38 minutes)
- What is Emotional Intelligence? (5:28 minutes)
- Visit Germany - 10 Things That Will SHOCK You About Germany (11:28 minutes)
- Pre-Columbian Theater, Spanish Empire, and Sor Juana: Crash Course Theater #22 (12:03 minutes)
- The New Anatomy: Crash Course History of Science #15 (12:15 minutes)
- Why We Can't Invent a Perfect Engine: Crash Course Engineering #10 (12:54 minutes)
💬 VOCABULARY PICKS:
- Lightening or Lightning? (Brief explanation + top tips + short test!)
- Loose or Lose? (Brief explanation + top tips + short test!)
- Late, last, later, latter, latest (Choose the right word.)
- maybe and may be (Brief and clear explanation + quick interactive test! When you finish, click on “Next Test” for a new set of sentences)
- Beauty Salon (Things that happen at a beauty salon.)
- Beauty Salon 2 (Hair and Skin Care at a beauty salon.)
- Vocabulary Fill-in (DRAG + DROP) Exercise 3
- Linking Words of Contrast (However /Despite / Although)
- Linking Words of Reason (Because / Since / As / Due to / Owing to)
- Commonly confused words in English 1
- ARTICLE or NO ARTICLE? 2
- Articles with idioms 2
- Is 'To Do' Separable or Inseparable? - Phrasal Verb Quiz
- Some and Any Exercise 1
- Some and Any Exercise 2
- Prepositions Exercise 5
- Prepositions Exercise 6
MORE PICKS NEXT WEEK!
