WEEKLY PICKS - 6

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 TRAVEL: The Mysterious origins of Europe’s oldest language
When Francisco Franco banned the use of the ancient Euskara language, residents of the Basque Country fought to keep it alive. (Continue reading)

Article from BBC FUTURE: The people who cannot smile, by Neil Steinberg
Smiling is a fundamental part of how we interact with other people, but what if you were not able to do it? (Continue reading)

Article from BBC CULTURE: The Hitchcock film tooshocking to be made, by Nicholas Barber

Inspired by a real-life serial-killer case, Hitchcock’s vision for Kaleidoscope was deemed too gruesome and sexually explicit for its time.

For all of his phenomenal achievements, Alfred Hitchcock is probably best known for Psycho, and in particular the scene in which – spoiler alert – a man dressed in his dead mother’s clothes stabs a naked woman in a motel shower. Audiences in 1960 were traumatised. In a recent documentary about that one scene, 78/52, Peter Bogdanovich remembers the “sustained shriek” that filled the cinema when Psycho premiered in New York. But Hitchcock had an even more shocking film planned just a few years later. It would have been called Kaleidoscope. (Continue reading)

🎬 VIDEO PICKS – Short and fun videos:

LESS-THAN-5-MINUTE VIDEOS

• Learn ways to say... it's very hot (0:43 seconds)
• Everything Wrong With Android, Explained (4:07 minutes)
• You Are Not The Majority (3:20 minutes)
• The Science of Love (2:53 minutes)
• Can Money Buy Happiness? (2:49 minutes)
• Where did English come from? - Claire Bowern (4:53 minutes)
• How to COOK in ENGLISH (4:51 minutes)
• Why can't you divide by zero? - TED-Ed (4:50 minutes)

5-TO-10-MINUTE VIDEOS:

• Customs & Border Protection - Entering the U.S. (7:06 minutes)
• Travel English: How to go through customs at the airport (8:21 minutes) ⇒ Then, take a free quiz HERE
• How to Order Food in an American Restaurant - Travel English (9:35 minutes)
• Lithuanian Superstitions -Superstitions from Around the World (5:57 minutes)
• Learn to talk about broken hearts in 6 minutes! (6:36 minutes)
• BBC 6 minute English   Coffee addiction transcript video (6:08 minutes)

A LITTLE LONGER BUT WORTH IT!

• What British People REALLY MEAN with Joel and Lia (13:24 minutes)
• British Accents: MANCHESTER/ MANCUNIAN (11:15 minutes)
• How To Speak English Better| 10 Great Tips (11:46 minutes)

💬 VOCABULARY PICKS:

• Adverb Verb Collocation Games set 1 ⇒ Which adverb best goes with which verb? (When you finish, click on “Next Game” and get a full new set of pairs! There are 10 games.)
• Adverb Verb Collocation Games set 2 ⇒ Which adverb best goes with which verb? (When you finish, click on “Next Game” and get a full new set of pairs! There are 10 games.)
• Vocabulary Fill in Exercise 1
• Synonyms Matching Exercise 1
• Opposites Matching Exercise 1

💡 GRAMMAR PICKS – Assorted exercises and games:

• Countable and uncountable nouns
• but vs. and
• Either/Or and Neither/Nor
• Prepositions Exercise 4
• Phrasal Verbs with GET
• Phrasal Verbs with the verb GET – Exercise
• Test on Relative Clauses
• Infinitive or Gerund after verbs
• Preposition collocations exercise 1
• Quiz on Prepositions
• Gerund or Progressive

• Random Phrasal Verb Quiz (Test your understanding of phrasal verbs with these random phrasal verb quizzes. Each time you 'start again', it will show you a new quiz generated from a phrasal verbs database.)

MORE PICKS NEXT WEEK!