This is a weekly selection of reading articles, free online exercises, YouTube videos, games, quizzes and resources for you to further improve your English language skills while having fun – ENJOY!
📜READING PICKS – Articles, blog posts, quizzes and more:
From BBC NEWS: Body clock scientists win Nobel Prize, by James Gallagher. Health and science reporter, BBC News website. Three scientists who unravelled how our bodies tell time won the 2017 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine.
The body clock - or circadian rhythm - is the reason we want to sleep at night, but it also drives huge changes in behaviour and body function.
The US scientists Jeffrey Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael Young will share the prize. The Nobel prize committee said their findings had "vast implications for our health and wellbeing". (Continue reading)
From BBC TRAVEL: The rarest fabric on Earth, by Meg Lukens Noonan & Tom Garmeson. The once-endangered vicuna is thriving in the Peruvian Andes, thanks to a bold plan to sustainably gather and sell its valuable fleece – and give locals a stake in its survival. (Go to full article)
🎬 VIDEO PICKS – Short and fun videos:
LESS-THAN-5-MINUTE VIDEOS:
Why do blood types matter? - Natalie S. Hodge (4:41 minutes)
- Alternatives to 'and' - Stop Saying (3:21 minutes)
- Linking words of contrast: BBC Masterclass (3:02 minutes)
- What is organizational structure? (2:27 minutes)
- Young Steve Jobs on how to hire, manage, and lead people (3:53 minutes)
- How to write descriptively - Nalo Hopkinson (4:41 minutes)
- The hidden meanings of yin and yang - John Bellaimey (4:09 minutes)
- Why doesn’t anything stick to Teflon? - Ashwini Bharathula (4:44 minutes)
- Visiting Daytona Beach (BEST Places to Eat in Daytona) Food Advice (4:41 minutes)
5-TO-10-MINUTE VIDEOS:
How does your body know what time it is? - Marco A. Sotomayor (5:08 minutes)
- 7 British English Food Idioms | Real English Vocabulary (6:12 minutes)
- How to Talk to a Partner so They Will Listen (5:24 minutes)
- BBC News Review: Cyber-attack: What is ransomware? (8:53 minutes)
- 9 Types of Intelligence (5:49 minutes)
- 10 American Phrases British Don't Understand | US vs UK (9:53 minutes)
- Visit Turku - What to See & Do in Turku, Finland (5:20 minutes)
A LITTLE LONGER BUT WORTH IT!
Biomedical & Industrial Engineering: Crash Course Engineering #6 (10:29 minutes)
- The Presocratics: Crash Course History of Science #2 (12:31 minutes)
- Visit Loire Valley - 5 Things to Love & Hate about The Loire Valley, France (10:42 minutes)
- PHILOSOPHY - Rational Choice Theory: The Prisoner's Dilemma [HD] (10:33 minutes)
- How to be polite in English, with Leandra King (19:23 minutes)
💬 VOCABULARY PICKS:
'Ensure' or 'insure'? (1:45 minutes)
💡 GRAMMAR PICKS – Assorted exercises and games:
BBC English Masterclass: Infinitives of purpose (3:44 minutes)
- Phrasal Verbs Fill in Exercise 2
- Have to, must, should – obligation, prohibition, necessity, advice (3 DIFFERENT EXERCISES)
- Adjective order (3 DIFFERENT EXERCISES + See: Grammar Pills: Order of Adjectives)
- Articles with idioms 4
- Articles with idioms 5
- Irregular Verbs - Mixed past tenses 1
- Irregular Verbs - Mixed past tenses 2
- Conjunctions Fill in Exercise 1 (Intermediate) (DRAG & DROP exercise)
- Quantifiers Fill in Exercise 1 (Advanced) (DRAG & DROP exercise)
- Prepositions of Time Exercise 1 (DRAG & DROP exercise)
- Prepositions of Time Exercise 2 (DRAG & DROP exercise)
- Prepositions of Time Exercise 3 (DRAG & DROP exercise)
MORE PICKS NEXT WEEK!
