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Saturday, 23 January 2016

Waste

Why are we wasting so much food?
 Award-winning author Tristram Stuart argues that food waste is a global scandal.


Another good National Geographic video and an interview to Tristam Stuart

Monday, 18 January 2016

Blue Monday

Good morning! In case you didn't know, today is Blue Monday, the unhappiest, most depressive day of the year

READ what you can do to beat Blue Monday

( I think there is a mismatch with the dates. In any case, it's the third Monday of January)

So if you are feeling blue, just  keep calm and get through Blue Monday!

Wednesday, 13 January 2016

Fluent

Twenty-year-old Alex Rawlings has won a national competition to find the UK's most multi-lingual student. The Oxford University undergraduate can currently speak 11 languages - English, Greek, German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Afrikaans, French, Hebrew, Catalan and Italian. WOW!





L3 WATCH : an interview with Alex Rawlings with interesting tips for language learning.
- Avoid direct trnslations (concentrate on how to express an idea)
- Don't learn vocabulary in isolation. Learn words in context

Monday, 11 January 2016

A sad loss

Two days after releasing his last album...

Thursday, 7 January 2016

Missing woman found alive...after 50 years!

Ok, so now we go for 3 minutes: Missing woman found alive

If you need the transcript, you can get it HERE

 Don't forget that you have to do a lot of listening!

English in a minute

Happy new year everybody, you can start getting ready for next week! English in a minute is a video collection of IDIOMS (idiomatic expressions that are often used in English)

Don't forget that you have to do a lot of listening!