To those students I’ll be seeing this evening for a discussion on travel try watching this before you arrive…
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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…
When I asked students to write about someone they admired one wrote about Malala Yousafzai. Here her father talks movingly about not only his daughter and family, but also about certain universal truths…
In this short (4.24 mins) talk TED speaker Jay Walker talks about mania and the world’s thirst for English.
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Today we discussed certain characteristics that people possess. From sharp to dull, sociable to pessimistic– we spoke about ourselves, friends, famous people and qualities we most value in people.
In class ‘kindness’ was mentioned several times, it reminded me of this dramatic speech made during Charlie Chaplin’s ‘The Great Dictator’. I hope you enjoy it.
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