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 FUTURE: The pill can make the body store more fat – and gain less muscle, by Zaria Gorvett. Many women believe that the pill can cause weight gain. Research hasn’t found this – but it has found that it can change body shape (and fat storage) in other surprising ways. (Continue reading)
From BBC NEWS: Introducing BBC Reel This week, we launched our new video platform that will be the global home for the BBC’s best factual digital output. Here you can find some of the interesting characters and deeper human stories featured on Reel. (GO TO BBC REEL)
From BBC TRAVEL: The most expensive down in the world, by Meg Lukens Noonan. Just south of the Arctic Circle, a few dedicated Norwegians are keeping the tradition of sustainable eiderdown farming alive – and are making some of the world’s most coveted duvets. (Continue reading)
🎬 VIDEO PICKS – Short and fun videos:
LESS-THAN-5-MINUTE VIDEOS:
Polite questions: Stop Saying (2:29 minutes)
- BBC Masterclass: Words used to connect ideas – so to speak, I mean... (Discourse Markers 2) (3:38 minutes)
- Too Many Choices? God Dammit (3:57 minutes)
- The myth of Prometheus - Iseult Gillespie (4:46 minutes)
- The Poop Cycle (3:12 minutes)
- How we conquered the deadly smallpox virus - Simona Zompi (4:33 minutes)
5-TO-10-MINUTE VIDEOS:
Do you lead a sedentary lifestyle? Watch 6 Minute English (6:14 minutes)
- HOW TO: Say ‘no’ to invitations (6:00 minutes)
- News Review: Racial inequality in the UK (7:44 minutes)
- Are you a body with a mind or a mind with a body? - Maryam Alimardani (6:09 minutes)
- How in vitro fertilization (IVF) works – Nassim Assefi and Brian A. Levine (6:42 minutes)
- Why Are Rolex Watches So Expensive? (7:01 minutes)
A LITTLE LONGER BUT WORTH IT!
Visit America - The DON'Ts of Visiting The USA (14:04 minutes)
- Attending a Meeting in English - Useful English Phrases for Meetings - Business English (14.03 minutes)
- The MOST INSANE Street Food in Thailand! (17:12 minutes)
- 17 Things Flight Attendants Want You to Know (13:33 minutes)
- Disease! Crash Course World History 203 (11:36 minutes)
💬 VOCABULARY PICKS:
Learners' Questions: Using 'actually', 'in fact' and 'well' (2:24 minutes)
- Quiz: Above & Over (Brief explanation: ABOVE or OVER? From Cambridge Grammar Today)
- Quiz: No & Not (Brief explanation: No or not? From Cambridge Grammar Today)
- Opposites Matching Exercise 3 (DRAG & DROP exercise)
- ESL Vocabulary Quiz (Multiple choice exercise: Choose the correct words to complete the sentences.)
- Feelings & Emotions
- Personal Feelings
- Idioms - exercise 11
- Amount / Number
💡 GRAMMAR PICKS – Assorted exercises and games:
BBC English Masterclass: Gerund or infinitive? (4:19 minutes)
- gerund-infinitive exercise
- Gerund and infinitives - ing & to
- phrasal verb exercise: be
- Quiz: Phrasal Verbs - Look
- conditional exercise
- Been or Gone Error Exercise (Look how 'been' and 'gone' are used in these sentences. Is each sentence correct or not?)
- Conjunction Test 9
MORE PICKS NEXT WEEK!
