Work from home

You can click HERE to read the article from the Daily Mail of 10th July 2010

Education in Finland

More on the topic we talked about in class yesterday: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/4035401.stm

Spaniards in Germany

Many Spaniards are considering emigrating to Germany to look for work there. Read this story from the BBC site: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12359897

Paying for a sandwich via mobile

This and other technology stories on the BBC site: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology/

Email language

A really interesting article from the BBC page about how emails open and sign-off nowadays: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12247262

Board games

What board games do you normally play at Christmas? Read this article from The Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/dec/17/board-games-christmas

The nation's happiness

British prime minister David Cameron wants to measure the nation's happiness, not just the GDP. But how? Read this article from the Guardian newspaper: http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/joepublic/2010/nov/30/david-cameron-measuring-national-happiness

Tall people earn more

Check out this story here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/wordsinthenews/2009/05/090518_witn_tall.shtml

The shadow of the sun

That's the title of an absolutely wonderful book by Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski. This book is a collection of essays spanning four decades. Each essay could stand in itself as a single book but together they form a unique portrait of Africa. Read one of the stories HERE. 

Your story

This is the BBC site where you can find more information about this TV programme: http://www.bbc.co.uk/my-story/.
If you're interested in Anne's story, click HERE for the pdf file.

Books and Life

"Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talk that would describe it as interesting are obliged  to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence". E.M. Foster, 1879-1970: A Passage to India, 1924


"Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't...Books make sense of life. The only problem is that the lives they make sense of are other people's lives, never your own." Julian Barnes, 1946 -, Flaubert's parrot, 1984

Is `mind mapping´ the fast track to learning?

You can read this article from THE TIMES and find out:
http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/body_and_soul/article3458729.ece

Spanish, not Mexican

This is so funny. From THE ONION: http://www.theonion.com/articles/restaurant-turns-out-to-be-spanish-not-mexican,1438/

Low-slung trousers

Should wearing low-slung trousers be banned? Someone considered that possibility, but it was dropped in the end: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/8660976.stm

Planes grounded in Northern Europe

Here's the latest on the volcano eruption and the ash cloud: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8623534.stm

Today's top story

A volcano has erupted in Iceland, causing airspace in some countries to close down. Read it here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8621581.stm

Torture on French TV

Absolutely shocking! But, to tell you the truth, the results are something I could expect, so (sadly) no surprise for me at all: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8573755.stm

BBC activities

- Grammar (regret): http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/radio/specials/1748_gramchallenge4/
- Listening and vocabulary: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/wordsinthenews/2010/03/100305_witn_air_traffic.shtml
- Conversations: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/radio/specials/1210_how_to_converse/

Anti-gay senator IS gay

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8556852.stm

Get up earlier!

A short but interesting article in today's GUARDIAN: http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/mar/05/bild-open-letter-greece-papandreou