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Ten activities to practise listening fluency in the English classroom Kasia Piotrowska, winner of the British Council's TeachingEnglish blog award, has collected her favourite listening tasks, games and online resources. More than half of the time we spend communicating is devoted to listening, according to Chris Battel and his book Effective Listening (ASTD Press, 2006). That makes listening one of the most important language skills to master. My learners often say that it is challenging for them to follow news, songs, or TV series in English. Moss Graffiti: The Coolest DIY Project Ever Contemporary artists have discovered that street art is not only beautiful to look at, but that it can also be soft and smooth to the touch. Moss graffiti is eco-friendly as it doesn’t use any aerosols; what the “painting” needs is just a dash of water to thrive. Here is a recipe for how to make your own moss graffiti. Just bear in mind that choosing the right space for street art is very important too, as, in any case, vandalism is a crime.

How to Find Tardigrades (Water Bears) in Your Own Backyard – Microcosmos Tardigrades, also known as Water Bears or Space Bears, are incredible members of the microcosmos that can be found just about anywhere in the world. These eight-legged invertebrates are only 0.1-1mm long, yet they are certainly the world’s toughest animals! Just how tough are they? They have been shown to survive temperatures as low as -272°C and as high as 151°C (Rahm, 1923, 1924, 1926), pressures 6 times greater than those at the bottom of the deepest ocean trench on Earth(Seki & Toyoshima, 1998), over 1000 times the human lethal dose of heavy ion and gamma radiation (Horikawa et al. 2006), and more.

Soap Opera Drama – A Lesson on Intonation – Get creative Soap Opera Drama – A Lesson on Intonation Lesson based on a video directed by the teacher Level(s): (A2) Pre-Intermediate / (B1) Intermediate Aimed at: Teenagers/young adults/adults Aims: Listening for gist and specific information/how to use and understand different intonation patterns in accordance to attitude/ Predicting

Canadian couple who owns Solitude Taxidermy poses for romantic photo with lion they shot and killed in South Africa, horrifying animal rights activists, Daily Mirror and PETA A Canadian couple who went on a recent hunting trip in South Africa horrified animal rights activists after posting a photo of themselves kissing behind a lion they had just shot and killed. The image of Darren and Carolyn Carter, who own Solitude Taxidermy in Alberta, was posted on the Legelela Safaris Facebook page. It is unclear if this was the same safari the couple was on when they shot and killed the lion. Legelela Safaris appears to have disabled their Facebook page, so the original post is no longer visible. The couple also disabled their company's Facebook and Instagram page, as well as its website. The image of them kissing with their trophy kill went viral after being picked up by the U.K.'

ESL Lesson Plan on Student Protests - Breaking News English Lesson 1. WORD SEARCH: Look in your dictionary / computer to find collocates, other meanings, information, synonyms … for the words... 'student' ________________ ________________ ________________ ________________ ________________ ________________ ________________ ________________ and 'protest'. ________________ ________________ ________________ ________________ ________________ ________________ ________________ ________________ • Share your findings with your partners. • Make questions using the words you found. • Ask your partner / group your questions. Brain 11 Right brain The Right "Animal" brain The right brain is the "animal brain" and analyzes the environment for all the sights and sounds useful for survival. In essence, animals are 100% "right-brained." Humans have kept the animal talents on the right side, but have modified the left brain for language and tool use. The following is a summary of talents found in the right brain. Each talent is a complex network of different processes beyond what is mentioned here, but injuries or strokes in these areas would result in serious loss of these specific talents.

10 Best Free Listening Websites with Quizzes to Practise for Listening Exams So what do you do to practise listening for exams? Growing up, I never had the opportunity to do any extra practice to improve my listening skills. We didn’t have the Internet and the thousand possibilities it offers to learners of any language nowadays. The teachers had an old tape player that sometimes stopped and started on its own and old tapes that ended up sounding distorted and most of the times unlistenable so if you wanted to get better at listening, you just listened to the radio and struggled to understand the lyrics and sing along. Not that I ever complained.

Eleven intervention strategies for underachieving L2-listeners (Co-authored with Dylan Vinales of Garden International School) 0.Introduction Your students have not done well in their listening mocks.