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:
Pound for pound, Parmigiano-Reggiano can compete with almost any food for calcium, amino acids, protein and vitamin A – and is prescribed by doctors to cure ailments. It’s also a dairy product… that can be eaten by the lactose-intolerant. (Continue reading)
From March next year, commuters in Luxembourg will not be charged for trips on its trains, trams and buses. What’s the cost of such a move? (Continue reading)
BBC Reel: The amazing houses that build themselves At the touch of a button, these incredible homes of the future can self-deploy and build themselves in less than 10 minutes. (Go to videos + full article)
🎬 VIDEO PICKS – Short and fun videos:
LESS-THAN-5-MINUTE VIDEOS:
What Is the Sunday Evening Feeling? (4:58 minutes)
- Student Life – Academic writing (4:19 minutes)
- Study Skills – Reading difficult texts (3:07 minutes)
- How stress affects your brain - Madhumita Murgia (4:15 minutes)
- Learning Circles - Bus: Vocabulary and phrases to help you travel on a bus (2:35 minutes)
- Ireland | Guinness Storehouse (2:49 minutes)
- What Does Your Accent Say About You? (3:25 minutes)
5-TO-10-MINUTE VIDEOS:
How parasites change their host's behavior - Jaap de Roode (5:13 minutes)
- How to ... give bad news (6:03 minutes)
- The history of tattoos - Addison Anderson (5:16 minutes)
- Why We Need Global Solidarity More Than Ever with Elif Shafak (6:51 minutes)
- Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus by John Gray ► Animated Book Summary (6:41 minutes)
- Digital literacy – Presentations (5:26 minute)
A LITTLE LONGER BUT WORTH IT!
Inside The Lives Of North Korean School Children (12:31 minutes)
- Winter Holidays Around the World That Definitely Demand a Celebration (12:34 minutes)
- 10 WEIRD Holiday Traditions From Around The World (11:51 minutes)
💬 VOCABULARY PICKS:
Learners' Questions: Assure, ensure, insure (3:22 minutes)
- Collocations 1 (Some words are often used together: Click on the buttons until you find the correct collocation.)
- Historic or historical? (Click on “Next Test” for a new set of questions.)
- Economic or economical?
- Lightening or Lightning? (Both different from ‘lighting’= the lights that light a room, building, or street, or the quality of the light produced.)
- Jewelry or Jewellery?
- Collectable or Collectible?
💡 GRAMMAR PICKS – Assorted exercises and games:
Intermediate English grammar - Verb patterns, (verb + ing, verb + to) gerunds and infinitives (8:56 minutes)
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