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 CULTURE: The world’s most beautiful libraries, Cameron Laux. If like the writer Jorge Luis Borges you believe that Paradise is a library, fasten your seatbelt and prepare to be transported to heaven on earth. (Continue reading)
Article from BBC FUTURE: The ‘quiet eye’ of elite concentration, by David Robson. The way in which athletes can maintain their focus even under high pressure can help doctors, and it is of increasing interest to the military. (Continue reading)
Article from BBC CULTURE: The world’s most beautiful libraries, Cameron Laux. If like the writer Jorge Luis Borges you believe that Paradise is a library, fasten your seatbelt and prepare to be transported to heaven on earth. (Continue reading)
Article from BBC FUTURE: The ‘quiet eye’ of elite concentration, by David Robson. The way in which athletes can maintain their focus even under high pressure can help doctors, and it is of increasing interest to the military. (Continue reading)
🎬 VIDEO PICKS – Short and fun videos:
LESS-THAN-5-MINUTE VIDEOS:
- Why English is so hard to learn: adjective order (2:49 minutes) ⇒ See also: Grammar Pills: Order of Adjectives
- Learners' Questions: Adjective order (2:17 minutes)
- Why do we feel nostalgia? - Clay Routledge (4:08 minutes)
- London | Tower of London (4:02 minutes)
- Is a tomato a fruit or a vegetable? (1:25 minutes)
- 5 American Words That Are Rude In Britain (3:48 minutes)
- Can You Erase Bad Memories? (3:32 minutes)
- Are You Normal? (3:17 minutes)
- Goleman Six Leadership Styles (3:54 minutes)
- Where do superstitions come from? - Stuart Vyse (5:10 minutes)
- The benefits of a bilingual brain - Mia Nacamulli (5:03 minutes)
- The 71 Most AMAZING Innovations of All Time (6:41 minutes)
- 6 Minute Vocabulary: How to use linking words (6:06 minutes)
- Telling someone what to do - 52 - English at Work shows you the ropes (6:06 minutes)
- Top 10 Best Airports in The World (9:29 minutes)
- The myth of Icarus and Daedalus - Amy Adkins (5:08 minutes)
- Visit Las Vegas - 10 Things That Will SHOCK You About Las Vegas (11:32 minutes)
- British Accents: MANCHESTER / MANCUNIAN (11:15 minutes)
- Humor and culture in international business | Chris Smit | TED x Leuven (14:42 minutes)
- How to stay calm when you know you'll be stressed | Daniel Levitin (12:20 minutes)
- Idioms - exercise 4
- Idioms - exercise 5
- Health and Medicine - Words
- Health and Fitness - Collocations
- Collective Nouns (List of official names of groups of things) ⇒ Collective Nouns Game
- Synonyms Matching 1
- Antonyms Matching Worksheet 5
- Health Problems (List of common types of health problems)
💡 GRAMMAR PICKS – Assorted exercises and games:
- EITHER/OR, NEITHER/NOR, TOO 1
- ARTICLE or NO ARTICLE? 1
- Articles with idioms 1
- First or second conditional? 1
- GERUND or INFINITIVE? 1
- Tag questions 1
- Quantifiers: More, most, the most 1
- Adjective or Adverb? (Are these sentences correct?)
- Time Prepositions 1
- Little / Few - Exercise
- A Little / A Few - Exercise 4
- Verb 'To Be' - Phrasal Verb Quiz (Choose the correct definition for each phrasal verb.)
- Quiz: Phrasal Verbs - Bring (Choose the correct answer.)
MORE PICKS NEXT WEEK!
