CNN Student News brings each day’s top news stories to middle and high school classrooms. You can watch some videos, read the transcripts, do some activities in class, take part in discussion forums and learn more about the news reading the extra information. You will practise your English as well as understand current events better.
😎 Try it! Click on the CNN picture, watch, listen, read, practise and learn!
😎 Try it! Click on Grammar Blast, choose your level and the quiz you want to practise, answer 10 questions and earn up 100 game points!
English grammar is quite logical so it is not very difficult to learn, but if you want to feel confident about grammar as well as to improve your oral or writing skills you have to practice it a lot!!
😎 Try it! Grammar bytes is an English web page where you can put into practice your grammar. You can complete some online exercises about irregular verbs, pronouns, the use of commas… Choose between different levels of difficulty. If your answer is correct, the prizes are really good…
Do you like horror stories? Then Edgar Allan Poe is your writer! He was an American writer, poet, editor and literary critic, best known for his tales of mistery…
😎 Try it! One of Poe’s best stories about crime was ‘The Tell-Tale heart’. Read the story or click on the video to listen as well as to watch the tale. Poe is one of the best American writers, hope you enjoy his tales but be careful about nightmares…
The BBC web page is a good link if you want to improve your English skills. The BBC podcast web page is one of the best ways to practise your listening.
😎 Try it! Go to the BBC podcast web page. Find a podcast by radio station or genre. Click on or look for the topics you like or you want to learn more about. Don’t be panic if you don’t understand all the words, try to catch the general meaning and go step by step.
You can listen to music, but sometimes is possible to read or even to watch music. Turn off the volume and let’s see it with Yellow Submarine, a 1966 song by The Beatles.
😎 Try it! Think of a song and work in pairs. Prepare a power point presentation only with the lyrics or images about the song and show it to the rest of the class. Without listening the music, will your classmates be able to guess the title or the rythm of your song?