Can you solve the prisoner hat riddle? - Alex Gendler (Ted Ed Lesson)

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The House. Basic Vocabulary

Modals: some exercises

You can practise what you have learnt about modals with these exercises: Exercise 1 Exercise 2 Exercise 3 Exercise 4 Exercise 5 Exercise 6 Exercise 7 Exercise 8 Exercise 9 Exercise 10

Can you solve the bridge riddle? - Alex Gendler TED ed

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Booking a Travel Ticket

Telephoning: Booking a Travel Ticket   by BEP

Booking tickets on the phone is a basic part of business travel. In this intermediate Business English Podcast, we will practice useful phrases and language for making travel arrangements on the telephone.
Viva is an Italian manufacturer of ladies’ apparel, or clothing. Marco and Francesca, Viva employees, are on a business trip. After visiting customers in the UK, they are now heading to Las Vegas in the United States to meet with their American distributor – the company that sells their product there. Marco calls a travel agent to book tickets for them.

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Listening Questions:
1) When does Marco want to leave and when does he want to return? Will he and Francesca be flying first class, business class or economy?
2) Does Marco ask the travel agent to “hold the fare” or does he pay for it immediately?
3) Does Marco need to pick up his and Francesca’s tickets at the travel agent’s office?

Shakespeare. Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, The Tempest

the Italian city of Verona, two families hate each other. Romeo is from the Montague family and Juliet is a Capulet, but they fall in love at first sight. This is their tragic love story. - See more at: http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/uk-now/literature-uk/shakespeare-romeo-and-juliet#sthash.TDh8CXxN.dpuf

Shakespeare - Macbeth

Shakespeare - Romeo and Juliet

Shakespeare - Hamlet

Shakespeare - Much Ado About Nothing

Shakespeare - The Tempest

- See more at: http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/uk-now/literature-uk/shakespeare-romeo-and-juliet#sthash.hX3bWutv.dpuf

the Italian city of Verona, two families hate each other. Romeo is from the Montague family and Juliet is a Capulet, but they fall in love at first sight. This is their tragic love story. - See more at: http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/uk-now/literature-uk/shakespeare-romeo-and-juliet#sthash.TDh8CXxN.dpuf

In the Italian city of Verona, two families hate each other. Romeo is from the Montague family and Juliet is a Capulet, but they fall in love at first sight. This is their tragic love story. - See more at: http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/uk-now/literature-uk/shakespeare-romeo-and-juliet#sthash.TDh8CXxN.dpuf

In the Italian city of Verona, two families hate each other. Romeo is from the Montague family and Juliet is a Capulet, but they fall in love at first sight. This is their tragic love story. - See more at: http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/uk-now/literature-uk/shakespeare-romeo-and-juliet#sthash.TDh8CXxN.dpuf

 William Shakespeare's plays have the reputation of being among the greatest in the English language and in Western literature. Traditionally, the plays are divided into the genres of tragedy, history, and comedy; they have been translated into every major living language, in addition to being continually performed all around the world.
 Click on the link below and enjoy Shakespeare.

http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/uk-now/literature-uk/shakespeare-romeo-and-juliet

If you want to read the original works, click on the link below.
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

January Blues ( Knee Socks by Arctic Monkeys)

There are lots of good reasons why people often feel down in January, whether teenagers or adults. But teenagers have extra triggers, such as exams and specific teenage stresses and turmoil.

The Christmas period often produces a feeling of anti-climax – either you had a great time and now it’s over or you didn’t, but it feels as though everyone else did. 

Whatever is dragging you down, simple strategies can help:
1.Understand that this is normal. 
2. Get as much daylight as possible.
3. Beware of New Year resolutions! 
4. Exercise
5. Identify your worries
6. Do something new
7. Read for pleasure
8. Eat properly
9. See a doctor if necessary
10. You are not alone

                                                               Adapted from The Guardian

Nicola Morgan

Sunday 18 January 2015