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A lot of travel talk in today’s class and in the middle of it the term ‘bucket list‘ came up. So –homework time, what’s on your bucket list? Minimum five items.
Here’s a little inspiration from Jack and Morgan 😉 and a little something else I spotted https://www.bucketlist.org/activity/
I’ve also managed to find a really good radio documentary from the BBC about someone perusing their bucket list
Sportlov class: Bucket lists, ambitions and goals
To those students I’ll be seeing this evening for a discussion on travel try watching this before you arrive…
I think perhaps this does link to our topic of Travel this week
The power of words…animated. Enjoy Carl Sagan’s Pale Bue Dot…
For a great article putting it into context and the complete transcript check here
A simple conversational style podcast again this week. This time from Canada (listen for the accent).
Last class…Relationships
In class this week we discussed ‘relationships’. I posted some related content on the Facebook page here. If you would rather not use facebook you’ll see links to the websites at the bottom of this blog post. There is a very good but tough podcast from the Freakonomics team and an interesting article from Brain Pickings.
They are difficult but they are not compulsory
FREAKONOMICS PODCAST What You Don’t Know About Online Dating
BRAIN PICKINGS ARTICLE What Mathematics Reveals About the Secret of Lasting Relationships and the Myth of Compromise
For our next class…Travel
For next week if you have time please visit the following website and listen to the podcast on ‘Travel Stories’. We will be focusing on travel and shall interview each other about our personal ‘travel stories’. The podcast should be inspirational and will of course help with your general English. Please think about you greatest travel experience so that you are ready to be questioned on Wednesday.
http://esl.culips.com/2014/05/learn-from-natural-english-conversation-travel-stories/
the weekly podcast
This week I’ve a recommendation from a B2 level student.
If you are using an Android system check Google Play or on the iPhone go to the App Store and look-up Fun English Lessons. You’ll also find out more about them and the guys behind them here
Despite the basic name of this podcast series, these podcasts cover a range of subject from ‘guys and girls’ to ‘sleep in’, ‘happiness’ and ‘green tea’. Each one is about the length of a daily commute– 9-19 minutes. A perfect daily dose of English. The stlye is very conversational and informal as each podcast is a chat between two friends.
I hope you enjoy them, let me know what you think, also please recommend any podcasts you believe English learners might find useful.
and other things 😉
Also in class this week the week spoke about the birth of words. Where do words come from? How do they evolve.? I recalled the fact that a man had created the word ‘genocide’ in order for a law to be created. Although I couldn’t remember his name one of my student, of course, could. Raphael Lemkin. As we also discussed how we describe a person’s character, I wonder exactly what the best word would be to describe such a man?
Another thought that came to my mind was how words evolve. How does a newborn baby first learn to speak? Luckily there’s a great TED talk on just this subject. How the team at MIT did it is brilliant…
Happy New Year ladies and gentlemen!
According to Oprah if we maintain a new regime – fitness, diet, English practice… For thirty straight days it will become a habit…
Well I’m not sure about this, I haven’t tried it yet, however as a teacher I do know that just as certain as piano practice will make you a better pianist, English conversation, listing or regular reading practice will greatly improve your English language ability.
Welcome back all, listening and vocabulary practice below. If you haven’t seen it yet I hope you enjoy the Adele parody 😉 see you soon…
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