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:
From BBC FUTURE: The new phones that are stuck in the past, by Peter Rubinstein. These sleek, downgraded cell phones are meant to promote mental wellbeing – by turning the clock back to the pre-smartphone era.
… After several years of tinkering, Neby invented the solution to his mobile obsession: another cell phone. But unlike his Blackberry, this one was specifically designed to promote healthy behaviour by being used as little as possible. With this idea in mind, Neby’s company Punkt was born.
It now stands as one of several start-ups aimed at tempering advanced technologies with a return to good old-fashioned humanity, providing an escape route from the anxiety and addiction of smartphones. Because these secondary devices do little more than make calls, owners say they have rediscovered the freedom they had before their iPhones were surgically attached to their palms. (Continue reading)
From BBC CAPITAL: Are you guilty of 'cyberloafing'?, by Emily Lowe-Calverley and Rachel Grieve. A spot of online shopping, checking out your holiday snaps on Facebook: if you break up your work day with non-work online activities you may be guilty of 'cyberloafing'.
Cyberloafing – engaging in non-work online activities while “on the clock” – is a modern form of counterproductive workplace behaviour ...
Cyberloafing can lack malicious intent, but not always ... So, who is likely to cyberloaf, and why? (Continue reading)
🎬 VIDEO PICKS – Short and fun videos:
Cyberloafing can lack malicious intent, but not always ... So, who is likely to cyberloaf, and why? (Continue reading)
🎬 VIDEO PICKS – Short and fun videos:
LESS-THAN-5-MINUTE VIDEOS:
BBC Masterclass: Advanced Learner Mistakes - go, come, bring and take (3:26 minutes)
- BBC ENGLISH: Stop Saying: Answering negative questions (3:06 minutes)
- The Egyptian Book of the Dead: A guidebook for the underworld - Tejal Gala (4:31 minutes)
- How memories form and how we lose them - Catharine Young (4:19 minutes)
- Disagreeing - 10 - English at Work gives you the language to disagree (3:58 minutes)
- This is Sparta: Fierce warriors of the ancient world - Craig Zimmer (4:27 minutes)
- Learners' Questions: Using the word 'though' (2:43 minutes)
News Review: Money spent on time makes you happy (8:14 minutes)
- Basque - A Language of Mystery (8:56 minutes)
- What Does Your Search History Say About You? (5:00 minutes)
- How Is KISSING Different Around The World (6:46 minutes)
- 10 Psychological Facts About Human Feelings (6:25 minutes)
- The Silk Road: Connecting the ancient world through trade - Shannon Harris Castelo (5:19 minutes)
- Visit Europe - 10 Things That Will SHOCK You about Europe (10:12 minutes)
A LITTLE LONGER BUT WORTH IT!
Meet Your Master: Getting to Know Your Brain – Crash Course Psychology #4 (12:33 minutes)
- Top 20 Happiest Countries To Live In The World (13:47 minutes)
- Netflix: How a $40 Late Fee Revolutionized Television (12:52 minutes)
- Talking on the Phone in English – English Phone Vocabulary Lesson (11:47 minutes)
💬 VOCABULARY PICKS:
💡 GRAMMAR PICKS – Assorted exercises and games:
- Quiz: Phrasal Verbs - Take
- Mixed Articles 1
- Mixed Articles 2
- Avoiding double negatives 1
- GERUND or INFINITIVE? 2
- Tag questions 2
- Quiz: Countable or Uncountable - 2
- Time prepositions exercise 1
- Time prepositions exercise 2
- Place prepositions exercise 1
- Place prepositions exercise 2
- MODALS (Couldn't/Might Not) (Which alternative is correct? Click on ‘Answer’ to see the correct response.)
- Quiz: Many or Many of
MORE PICKS NEXT WEEK!
