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: A country that doesn’t want to be happy, by
Kate Leaver,
Finland
came out on top in the 2018 World Happiness Report, but what if its people
don’t agree? (Continue reading)
Article from BBC CAPITAL: The secret advantage of aiming low, by David Robson
Sports stars show us that it can sometimes pay to be a big fish in a small pond.
Watching nail-biting sports dramas play out this summer, you may struggle to see any parallel with your own career. What could a teacher, lawyer or engineer possibly learn from elite sports stars like a Raheem Stirling or a Simona Halep?
Yet some organisational scientists believe the rise of certain athletes – and footballers in particular – can offer success strategies for everyone, with some particular insights into a phenomenon known as the “Big-Fish-Little-Pond effect”. (Continue reading)
Article from BBC CULTURE: Five countries that set world culture, by Lindsey Galloway
Global influence is often measured by military, political or economic might. But for these countries, it’s their food, fashion or entertainment that most strongly impacts the wider world. (Continue reading)
🎬 VIDEO PICKS – Short and fun videos:
LESS-THAN-5-MINUTE VIDEOS
- Plato’s best (and worst) ideas - Wisecrack (4:48 minute)
- You're Not What You Think You Are (3:15 minutes)
- The history of tea - Shunan Teng (4:57 minutes)
- Amazing Facts to Blow Your Mind Pt. 2 (2:23 minutes)
- Amazing Facts To Blow Your Mind Pt. 3 (2:19 minutes)
- BBC Masterclass: Formal and informal English (4:07 minutes)
- BBC Masterclass: Be polite - how to soften your English (4:25 minutes)
- Customs at PQ International Airport (2:49 minutes)
- English: At the airport (1:42 minute)
- You Have Arrived (4:14 minute)
5-TO-10-MINUTE VIDEOS:
- The myth of Cupid and Psyche - Brendan Pelsue (5:32 minutes)
- The great conspiracy against Julius Caesar - Kathryn Tempest (5:57 minutes)
- BBC 6 Minute English - "Brain Training" with English Subtitle (6:05 minutes)
- DIFFERENCES BETWEEN BRITISH AND AMERICAN CULTURE (UK VS USA) (5:06 minutes)
- How Did You Get Here? (5:55 minutes)
- The Four Love Types: Explorer, Builder, Director, And Negotiator (6:16 minutes)
- Visit Denmark - 10 Things That Will SHOCK You About Denmark (10:20 minutes)
- London Accents: RP | Cockney | Multicultural London English (12:10 minutes)
- The Economics of Airline Class (11:37 minutes)
- 20 MORE Words Brits and Americans Say Differently (12:43 minutes)
💬 VOCABULARY PICKS:
- Vocabulary related to education (List of vocabulary items related to education) ⇒ Practice:
- Idioms - exercise 2
- Idioms - exercise 3
- Vocabulary Fill in Exercise 2
- Someone / Anyone
- Something / Anything
- Somewhere / Anywhere
- Prepositions of time Exercise 9
- Prepositions of time Exercise 10
- Articles with Geographical Names Exercise 1
- Articles with Geographical Names Exercise 2
- have to/must Quiz
- Relative Adverbs
- Participles
- Infinitive and Gerund
- Verb 'To Do' - Phrasal Verb Quiz – 1 (Choose the correct definition for each phrasal verb)
- Quiz: Phrasal Verbs – Do - 2 (Choose the correct preposition or particle for each phrasal verb)
- 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!
