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 CAPITAL: Your vocal quirks could be costing you jobs, Video by Kat Sud, Maeve Burke and Bowen Li, research by Debbi McCullough. These vocal tendencies can cost you at a job interview, but is it fair to judge people based on these vocal habits? (Continue reading)
Article from BBC FUTURE: The dangerous diseases hidden in caves, by Zaria Gorvett. The rescued Thai boys faced infectious organisms underground and are now in quarantine – but which diseases could they have been exposed to, and how serious are they? (Continue reading)
🎬 VIDEO PICKS – Short and fun videos:
Article from BBC CAPITAL: Your vocal quirks could be costing you jobs, Video by Kat Sud, Maeve Burke and Bowen Li, research by Debbi McCullough. These vocal tendencies can cost you at a job interview, but is it fair to judge people based on these vocal habits? (Continue reading)
Article from BBC FUTURE: The dangerous diseases hidden in caves, by Zaria Gorvett. The rescued Thai boys faced infectious organisms underground and are now in quarantine – but which diseases could they have been exposed to, and how serious are they? (Continue reading)
🎬 VIDEO PICKS – Short and fun videos:
LESS-THAN-5-MINUTE VIDEOS:
- London | British Museum (3:45 minutes)
- The neuroscience of imagination - Andrey Vyshedskiy (4:48 minutes)
- Learners' Questions: Verb Patterns - full and bare infinitives (2:42 minutes)
- Commonly confused words (2:38 minutes)
- Learners' Questions: Using 'suppose' and 'supposed to' (3:07 minutes)
- 'I' or 'me'? (2:05 minutes)
- DIFFERENCES BETWEEN AMERICAN AND BRITISH GROCERY STORES (UK VS USA GROCERY STORES) (4:39 minutes)
- Vulnerability with Brene Brown (3:02 minutes)
5-TO-10-MINUTE VIDEOS:
- BBC 6 Minute English | THE MEANING OF CLOTHES | English CC | Daily Listening (5:58 minutes)
- Visit France - 10 Things That Will SHOCK You About France (9:27 minutes)
- Flight attendants Cabin crew service training (7:01 minutes)
- 8 Confusing Word Pairs Native Speakers Get WRONG (9:16 minutes)
- Talk about food expertise in 6 minutes (6:26 minutes)
- NORTHERN vs. SOUTHERN accents | British English Pronunciation (6:47 minutes)
- Looking for a job? Highlight your ability, not your experience | Jason Shen (6:30 minutes)
- 5 Minute Biographies Season 2, Episode 1 - Theodore Roosevelt (12:42 minutes)
- How to Talk About Food - Adjectives to Describe Food in English - Spoken English Lesson (12:24 minutes)
- How language shapes the way we think | Lera Boroditsky (14:12 minutes)
💡 GRAMMAR PICKS – Assorted exercises and games:
- Gerunds and Infinitives Exercise 4
- Make or Do Exercise 2
- Would and used to – past habits and repeated actions (2 EXERCISES)
- used to/to be used to exercise
- Mixed Articles 1
- Mixed Articles 2
- Articles with idioms 2
- Articles with idioms 3
- Prepositions Exercise 2
- Phrasal Verbs with the verb COME – Exercise (Choose the correct preposition.)
- Preposition 'OUT' - Phrasal Verb Quiz (Choose the correct definition for each phrasal verb)
MORE PICKS NEXT WEEK!
