PHRASE FRENZY: Christmas idioms

Phrase Frenzy - Christmas

Watch this video and try to work out three English idioms from the pictures you see. But be quick, you only have 15 seconds per phrase.

Course: The Experiment

The Experiment is a collection of short series that are a little different to our usual programmes - but still help you improve your English. The first series, We say - You say, shows how your language can help you remember English expressions.

Students challenging their brain in our Christmas Pub Quiz. Such a lovely morning!

Here you have some videos for real pub quizzes:

Smartphonepub quiz - SpeedQuizzing

Pub Trivia Australia

Brooklyn Bar Trivia International

Pub trivia night in Ottawa

Pub Choir is a phenomenon that started in Brisbane a year ago, but the fascination of uniting hundreds of strangers to learn a pop song as a collective voice is expanding nationally.

BBC News Story: Pub Choir

Pub Choir #11 - ZOMBIE (the Cranberries)

Walk Around a Real English Pub - True 'England' Special

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LISTENING + SCRIPT

My dear students, here you can find different websites where you can practise listening on your own. Some of the websites include exam practice exercises. Others, however, only provide the videos but you can read the script at the same time, which, as you all know, it's good practice for your learning. Just click on the words TRANSCRIPT, SCRIPT, TEXT or something similar and get ready to improve your listening skill! PBS NewsHour (American English) ABC The World Today (Australian English) CNN Students News (American English) NPR (American English) Click on TOPICS VOA News (American English) Future Radio (British English) BBC Learning English (British English) Here you have a link to a list of British radio stations . Before choosing one, please have a look at the information about the location so that you can have a go at different accents. Listening + script + exercises: http://www.examenglish.com/CAE/ http://www.instant-practice.com/...

Big Brother, the thought police, the two minutes’ hate, doublethink, unperson, 2+2=5 and the ministry of truth.

"It was a bright cold day in April," goes the first line of 1984, "and the clocks were striking thirteen" George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four opening sentence. Another 35 years have elapsed since then, and Nineteen Eighty-Four remains the book we turn to when truth is mutilated, when language is distorted, when power is abused, when we want to know how bad things can get. Nothing but the truth: the legacy of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four (The Guardian)