Watch Mojo

A great site with loads of videos for you to watch. This one is about eating healthy (AM for healthily) during Christmas, but there are other videos about yoga, burning calories,  gluten-free snacks etc: http://watchmojo.com/index.php?id=9037
I recommend one about the band Queen, which is under the MUSIC category.

Prince Charles and rainforests

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

Derek Sivers

INTO CITY

A lot of people all over the world tend to go to cities because all the best jobs are there: http://www.elllo.org/english/0550/573-City.htm

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

Brian Cox

For those of you who enjoyed "Wonders of the solar system".

Thanksgiving in the USA today

6 minute English

This is a BBC programme that helps people from around the world to improve their English. Someone has written the scripts and we can all take advantage of that. Try this one about poetry - and remember, there are more on YOUTUBE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNaDRZBrT_o.

Visual Comedy

You can watch this programme by Rowan Atkinson on the basic principles of visual comedy. Just go HERE and find the different parts it has been divided into: "Laughing matters 1, 2, 3, 4...".
Enjoy it!!

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. 

I lost my heart in....Stockholm

The social network

Have you heard about the film `The social network´, about the beginning of Facebook? Watch the trailer and fill in the gaps, then submit your answers and see how many words you got right: Click HERE.

Tommy McHugh

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.

Phonetics

For those of you who love English phonetics. Here you can practise with phonemes, symbols, sounds... play a game of hangman, pelmanism, quizzes, or just remember the phonemic chart: http://cambridgeenglishonline.com/Phonetics_Focus/

The human brain

Here are three pieces of news from the BBC.LEARNING.ENGLISH site which you might find interesting:
- Scientists hope to record dreams
- Working protects against dementia
- Multitasking harmful for productivity

Types of intelligence

Children & Learning:
Types Of Intelligence

Podcasts

This is a fantastic site to practise listening. The activities come in three different levels so try with level 3 because the others will be too easy for you: http://www.podcastsinenglish.com/index.shtml