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 and have fun – ENJOY!
📜READING PICKS – Articles, blog posts, quizzes and more:
From BBC FUTURE: Pork fat is rated as healthier than kale
In a list of the top 100 nutritious foods, pork fat came in eighth place – higher than peas, cabbage and kale. Apparently, pork fat is a good source of B vitamins and minerals.
The world’s most nutritious foods – After analysing more than 1,000 raw foods, researchers ranked the ingredients that provide the best balance of your daily nutritional requirements – and they found a few surprises. (Continue reading)
From BBC FUTURE: January is the best time of year to apply for a job, by Amanda Ruggeri and Miriam Quick. Google searches for "jobs" peak in January, but few people actually apply. Companies usually get their new hiring budgets for the year, and annual bonuses often pay out in December, so a lot of people wait until then to change jobs.
When it comes to life events like applying for a job, buying a house or even getting married, certain months are more advantageous than others. Want to ‘hack your year’? Here’s how. (Continue reading)
BBC Reel: A hairdresser created a substance that could withstand 75 nuclear blasts. Reported by Lee Johnson, produced, filmed and directed by Adam Proctor.
Maurice Ward invented a world-changing fire-resistant plastic called Starlite, refused to sell it or have it patented in fear of someone stealing the recipe, and died in 2011, taking the material’s secrets to his grave. (Continue reading)
🎧 LISTEN & READ the TRANSCRIPTS:
From BBC FUTURE: Pork fat is rated as healthier than kale
In a list of the top 100 nutritious foods, pork fat came in eighth place – higher than peas, cabbage and kale. Apparently, pork fat is a good source of B vitamins and minerals.
The world’s most nutritious foods – After analysing more than 1,000 raw foods, researchers ranked the ingredients that provide the best balance of your daily nutritional requirements – and they found a few surprises. (Continue reading)
From BBC FUTURE: January is the best time of year to apply for a job, by Amanda Ruggeri and Miriam Quick. Google searches for "jobs" peak in January, but few people actually apply. Companies usually get their new hiring budgets for the year, and annual bonuses often pay out in December, so a lot of people wait until then to change jobs.
When it comes to life events like applying for a job, buying a house or even getting married, certain months are more advantageous than others. Want to ‘hack your year’? Here’s how. (Continue reading)
BBC Reel: A hairdresser created a substance that could withstand 75 nuclear blasts. Reported by Lee Johnson, produced, filmed and directed by Adam Proctor.
Maurice Ward invented a world-changing fire-resistant plastic called Starlite, refused to sell it or have it patented in fear of someone stealing the recipe, and died in 2011, taking the material’s secrets to his grave. (Continue reading)
🎧 LISTEN & READ the TRANSCRIPTS:
- Budgeting ⇨ Liz Waid and Ryan Geertsma look at budgeting. They look at how to make a money plan, and how to know where your money goes.
- The History of Money ⇨ How did modern money develop? What are the earliest kinds of money? Christy Van Arragon and Katy Blake look at money.
🎬 VIDEO PICKS – Short and fun videos:
LESS-THAN-5-MINUTE VIDEOS:
Management tutorial: Exploring manager roles | lynda.com (4:28 minutes)
- Why Our Best Thoughts Come to Us in the Shower (4:02 minutes)
- What is fat? - George Zaidan (4:21 minutes)
- How to stop absorbing other peoples' energy (3:51 minutes)
- The science of spiciness - Rose Eveleth (3:54 minutes)
- Writing an email – 18 – English at Work has the words for perfect emails (4:03 minutes)
- A day in the life of a Roman soldier - Robert Garland (4:59 minutes)
5-TO-10-MINUTE VIDEOS:
How to... be vague (6:00 minutes)
- Talking on the phone – 15 – English at Work has the top tips for you (5:10 minutes)
- What Is The Most Common Crime In Different Countries? (6:36 minutes)
- Why do we dream? - Amy Adkins (5:37 minutes)
- Stop Being BORING in English | The 10 Most Amazing English Expressions In The World! ! (8:38 minutes)
- How to Talk About Your Free Time and Hobbies in English - Spoken English Lesson (9:09 minutes)
A LITTLE LONGER BUT WORTH IT!
Silent Letters: When NOT to pronounce B, D, and L in English (13:06 minutes)
- Visit Canada - 10 Things That SHOCK Tourists about Canada (12:55 minutes)
- Intro to Psychology - Crash Course Psychology #1 (10:53 minutes)
- SEX VOCABULARY | Learn English | British Culture (24:13 minutes)
💬 VOCABULARY PICKS:
Learners' questions: 'How are you' and 'how do you do'? (2:28 minutes)
💡 GRAMMAR PICKS – Assorted exercises and games:
- Apostrophe s (Are these sentences correct?)
- Conjunction 2 (Click on the buttons until you find the correct answer)
- Conjunctions (Click on the buttons until you find the correct answer)
- Prepositions
- a lot-much-many exercise
- at-on-in exercise
- Transitive and intransitive verbs 1
- Phrasal Verbs with PUT
- in case-unless exercise
MORE PICKS NEXT WEEK!
