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…
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