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News and more for the Young

News and more for the Young

Listen to News | EnglishClub Each Tuesday EnglishClub publishes a short audio news report in easy English from the previous week. With this resource you can practise your listening, reading, writing and even speaking. Preview the vocabulary and read the gapfill text. Play the news report and try to fill in the blanks. Answer the comprehension questions by writing full sentences. Study the news story each week and watch your English skills grow! dateline: 08 April 2014: EU Satellite System Will Monitor Earth’s Health dateline: 01 April 2014: Tigers Slaughtered For Entertainment Purposes dateline: 24 March 2014: Twitter Blocked In Turkey dateline: 18 March 2014: Baby Hatch Closes In China dateline: 11 March 2014: No Trace Of Malaysian Airliner dateline: 04 March 2014: Man Wakes Up In Body Bag dateline: 25 February 2014: Political Crisis In Ukraine dateline: 18 February 2014: Winter Storms Hit Japan dateline: 11 February 2014: Olympic Dogs Saved By Billionaire dateline: 28 January 2014: Mother Gives Birth On Sled

ESL Listening Comprehension Exercises: Movie clips to practice English | ELL/ELT REMEMBER: We post new listening comprehension exercises every week in the ad-free PREMIUM EDITION of our website. Here's what you do: Click on the video you want to watch below.Watch the video, and pay attention to it! (You can pause and rewind the video.)Answer the listening comprehension questions below the video.Check your answers. Till The Hummingbird Project Silver Linings Playbook Away We Go Aftersun Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Emergency Licorice Pizza Adventureland End of the Tour Short Films | The Best Short Films

18 Animations of Classic Literary Works: From Plato and Shakespeare, to Kafka, Hemingway and Gaiman Yesterday we featured Piotr Dumala's 2000 animation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s classic novel, Crime and Punishment, and it reminded us of many other literary works that have been wonderfully re-imagined by animators -- many that we've featured here over the years. Rather than leaving these wondrous works buried in the archives, we're bringing them back and putting them all on display. And what better place to start than with a foundational text -- Plato's Republic. Staying with the Greeks for another moment ... Eight years before Piotr Dumala tackled Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment, Dumala produced a short animated film based on The Diaries of Franz Kafka. The animated sequence above is from the 1974 film adaptation of Herman Hesse's 1927 novel Steppenwolf. Italo Calvino, one of Italy's finest postwar writers, published Italian Folktales in 1956, a series of 200 fairy tales based sometimes loosely, sometimes more strictly, on stories from a great folk tradition. E.B.

Come Prendere Appunti con il Metodo Cornell 4 Parti:Preparare i FogliPrendere AppuntiCorreggere e Ampliare gli AppuntiUsare gli Appunti per Studiare Il metodo per prendere appunti Cornell è stato sviluppato dal Dr. Walter Pauk della Cornell University. Si tratta di un sistema molto usato per fare annotazioni durante una lezione o una lettura, e per ripassare e memorizzare quel materiale. Passaggi Parte 1 Preparare i Fogli <img alt="Immagine titolata Take Cornell Notes Step 1" src=" width="728" height="546" class="whcdn" onload="WH.performance.clearMarks('image1_rendered'); WH.performance.mark('image1_rendered');">1Dedica dei fogli esclusivamente agli appunti da prendere col metodo Cornell. Parte 2 Prendere Appunti Parte 3 Correggere e Ampliare gli Appunti Parte 4 Usare gli Appunti per Studiare Consigli Informazioni sull'Articolo

Understand what you read Free Stuff Here you can find links to free digital books and learning materials from around the internet. Click the images to find out how to download these resources. Free eBook library | Oxford Owl from Oxford University Press Welcome to our free eBooks collection, developed for children aged 3 - 11 years old. Help your young child learn to read with The Oxford Reading Tree (featuring our much-loved Biff, Chip and Kipper characters), watch your child develop their love of reading with Project X, or simply browse our range of over 200 eBooks for inspiration. All our free eBooks are tablet-friendly. Just register or log in above to start reading. If you'd like to learn more about how to support your child's reading, visit our 'Oxford Reading Tree levels' and 'Phonics made easy' pages. Browse the library sign up log in More books to support learning at home Biff, Chip and Kipper Our Read with Biff, Chip and Kipper series features the much-loved characters who have been helping children learn to read for over 30 years. Songbirds Levelled Phonics books from the fabulous Julia Donaldson, author of The Gruffalo. Read, Write, Inc. A step-by-step phonics programme to support reading. Bond SATs Skills Picking a dictionary

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