...and a happy new year!

That's what everybody in English speaking countries will be singing at midnight 31st Dec. (and at 7 AM Jan 1st too) but few really know what the words mean. Its a traditional Scottish song, with words written by Scottish poet Robert Burns, probably inspired by some traditional verse. HERE is the translation into English.



So happy new year everybody!

Merry Christmas

... and a video for you to watch: The "pooper"?? what's that?  WATCH

Wishing you a merry, merry Christmas....

Beware of hypnotists!

Have you ever been hypnotised? Maybe you don't remember.... but this shopkeeper was robbed after the hypnotist thief had put him in a trance.


  CCTV footage (security camera video), shopkeeper (the owner and manager of a shop), spellbound (fascinated), bizarre (strange),unaware (when you do not know about something).

This video is taken from the very good website  'News in Levels'.  Level 2 can find a simplified version of the video HERE  ( but you might as well try the original vrsion!)

I think I might like to use hypnosis in class...

What are the British like?

What surprises you about the British? Rather a lot, it seems, according to the thousands of comments on a reddit thread!