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 TRAVEL: How France created the metric system, by Madhvi Ramani. It is one of the most
important developments in human history, affecting everything from engineering
to international trade to political systems. (Continue reading)
From BBC CAPITAL: Can you make money selling your data? By Sam Harrison. Tech giants make billions from our data, but what if there was a way to claw some of that control back – and make some money in the process? (Continue reading)
🎬 VIDEO PICKS – Short and fun videos:
LESS-THAN-5-MINUTE VIDEOS:
Why is yawning contagious? - Claudia Aguirre (4:28 minutes)
- 6 Types of Loneliness (1:29 minutes)
- How does your brain respond to pain? - Karen D. Davis (4:57 minutes)
- How misused modifiers can hurt your writing - Emma Bryce (3:20 minutes)
- Ireland | Galway City (4:10 minutes)
5-TO-10-MINUTE VIDEOS:
Body Language in an Interview - 3 Tips (9:05 minutes)
- How An Igloo Keeps You Warm (5:16 minutes)
- Vampires: Folklore, fantasy and fact - Michael Molina (6:56 minutes)
- What is the psychology of envy? [Interview] (7:48 minutes)
- How NOT to give COMPLIMENTS: British English Speaking Practice (6:30 minutes)
The Silk Road and Ancient Trade: Crash Course World History #9 (10:30 minutes)
- Introduction to Astronomy: Crash Course Astronomy #1 (12:11 minutes)
- 10 Foods under $1 in Saigon, Vietnam - Street Food Dollar Menu (13:57 minutes)
- Phrasal Verbs and Expressions about FOOD (10:17 minutes)
Learners' Questions: Assure, ensure, insure (3:22 minutes)
- Make or Do?
- -ed/-ing adjectives – adjectives from verbs (3 DIFFERENT EXERCISES)
- Farther, farthest or further, furthest? (Brief explanation from Cambridge Grammar Today) ⇒ Exercise: Quiz: Further & Farther
- Collocations 2 (Some words are often used together: Click on the buttons until you find the correct collocation)
- Adjectives to nouns - Match nouns to adjectives
- Adjectives to nouns - Match nouns to adjectives 2
Learners' Questions: 'When', 'if' and 'in case' (3:06 minutes)
- Past simple, past continuous, past perfect (3 DIFFERENT EXERCISES)
- Comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs (3 DIFFERENT EXERCISES)
- Quiz: Adjective or Adverb?
- Word order 2 (Click on the correct answer)
- Phrasal verbs 1 - missing preposition
- Out (Phrasal Verbs)
MORE PICKS NEXT WEEK!
