Today is Pancake Day or Shrove Tuesday, which is a special day celebrated in many countries around the world. On this day many people eat pancakes. If you want to know more about Pancake Day, and learn how to make pancakes, visit the following websites:
Gunpowder, treason and plot. I see no reason why gunpowder, treason Should ever be forgot...
Guy Fawkes' Night is celebrated by people across the UK. The 5th November marks the anniversary of Guy Fawkes' failed attempt to blow up the Houses of Parliament, King James I and the entire English government.
Luckily, the plot failed but why do people in the UK continue to celebrate such a violent event more than 400 years after the actual attempt?
If you want to know more about the gunpowder plot, read this text and listen to the radio programme.
Do you want to know more about the history of the nursery rhyme? Check out this website.
Seven famous football players, including Didier Drogba and Petr Cech, are interviewed about their life in England and learning English. Watch the video and read the transcript to find out what they said.
So, when did YOU start learning English? As usual, drop a comment below.
If you want more information on the First Conditional, listen to this episode of "The Flatmates". Then, read this information on the First Conditional, and finally, try this quiz.
Do you want to hear a scary story? Follow the illustrations and listen carefully as the story develops. This story is called 'The New Catacomb' and was written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Vocabulary is provided during the story, and there is a quick quiz at the end. If you want to read the unabridged story, visit the following website.
In Britain we call it a mobile phone. In Canada and the United States they call it a different name. Which of these names is not a name for a mobile phone?
a) cell phone
b) cellular phone
c) c phone
Click on the link below and listen to the programme for the answer!
Do you know this song? It's called Yellow and it's by Coldplay. Download this exercise and follow the instructions:
1.- Write the past simple of the verbs. 2.- Try to fill in the gaps. 3.- Listen to the song (minimize the window, so you don't read the lyrics). 4.- Finally, watch the video and check your answers. Good luck!!!
Then listen to this song by a man who is wondering what his life is going to be like when he's 64. You can click on the highlighted words to read a definition.
Enjoy it!!!
When I get older losing my hair, Many years from now, Will you still be sending me a valentine Birthday greetings, bottle of wine?
If I'd been out till quarter to three Would you lock the door, Will you still need me, will you still feed me, When I'm sixty-four?
You'll be older too, (ah ah ah ah ah) And if you say the word, I could stay with you.
I could be handymending a fuse When your lights have gone. You can knit a sweater by the fireside Sunday mornings go for a ride.
Doing the garden, digging the weeds, Who could ask for more? Will you still need me, will you still feed me, When I'm sixty-four?
Every summer we can rent a cottage In the Isle of Wight, if it's not too dear We shall scrimp and save Grandchildren on your knee Vera, Chuck, and Dave
Send me a postcard, drop me a line, Stating point of view. Indicate precisely what you mean to say Yours sincerely, Wasting Away.
Give me your answer, fill in a form Mine for evermore Will you still need me, will you still feed me, When I'm sixty-four? Whoo!
Do you know a programme called Screamer Radio? You can download it onto your computer (it's freeware, by the way) and with it, you can listen to radio stations from all over the world (in English and other languages). Visit their website: http://www.screamer-radio.com/
Here are some interesting karaoke videos. You can ask your family and friends to sing along ;)
On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918, the guns of Europe fell silent. After four years of terrible fighting, The First World War ended. This moment is still commemorated by millions of people in Britain every year.
A page on St George’s Day from an excellent online project on Britain created by teachers and students at a school in England. There are numerous other pages with information about England.
A page on the red deer, England’s largest wild animal, from the website of the British Deer Society.
