Ideas worth spreading: Ted talks

Ziauddin Yousafzai, My gaughter Malala

Choose the language subtitles, you can also read the transcript for later study

The History of English

Watch the video: The History of English in 10 Ten Minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3r9bOkYW9s
 
Answer the questions.
What are the origins of the following words:
• names of four days of the week - ………….......………..............................………………….
• to give -……………………………………………..............................................................………..
• judge -…………………………………………………….....................................................………….
• cow -………………………………………………...........................................................................
• beef -…………………………………………………………....................................................……….
• alligator -……………………………………………………......................................................……..
• a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush -……………......…………………………………..
• acid -………………………………………........................................................................…………
• tonsil -…………………..............................................................……………………………………..
• yoga -……………….......................................................……………………………………………….
• zombie -…………………......................................................................…………………………..
• snuffbumble -………............................................................……………………………………..
• moose -…………………………............................................................…………………………….
• bottom line -………………………....................................................……………………………….
• to download -……….....................................................………….…………………………………
• BTW -……………………………………….....................................................................…………..
• FYI -………………………………………..........................................................................…………

Ebola Outbreak

Read all about ebola on bbc.com

Virginia Woolf

The stream of consciousness


Short Story:

A Haunted House

George Orwell

Animal Farm. Read and listen

Sandra Cisneros

The House on Mango Street

Cambridge online

Cambridge PET Do the test online 

Cambridge FCE Test online

Sandra Cisneros

Eleven, by Sandra Cisneros. Short story and activities

Cooking

Recipes from BBC Food

Dimension by Alice Munro

Read Dimension, the story by Alice Munro published on the 5th June 2006 in The New Yorker

Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?

Listening activities

* on spending money ( advanced)

if you want to do some more activities go to www.esl-lab.com and choose your level 

The dreaming : Aborigines stories of creation

* Dust echoes videos of the stories

Phonology

 *Pronunciation tips bbc learning English

* Interactive word recognition

* Phonemic chart

* Places in American or British English

 * Phonemic hangman

* More interactive sounds in a chart

Dorothy Parker

Dorothy Parker's biography

Telephone call

Telephone call analysis

Play with Phonetics

 A Cambridge English Online tool to play with phonetics.

Ask Sophie for help !

Audio narrations by famous people

Kate Winslet narrates Thérèse Raquin by Émile Zola

Discover Kate Chopin

American author Kate Chopin (1850–1904) wrote two published novels and about a hundred short stories in the 1890s. Most of her fiction is set in Louisiana and most of her best-known work focuses on the lives of sensitive, intelligent women. visit the website devoted to her work and learn more about her and her stories

 Listen to  podcast 1 about her and podcast 2

 Download The awakening and other short stories 

Read and Listen to Athenaise 

and A Pair of Silk Stockins

* The story of an Hour

Read “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin on Genius

Reading Short stories

 * Twenty Great American short stories

*  Short stories at east of the web 

* ESL stories with audio

Virtual Lit Fiction

Interactive fiction tutorial