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!
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?
Are you an internet addict? How your life would be without internet? High school students from southern California and New York visited Mission Local and asked residents what life would be like without the internet.
😎 Try it! Watch the video and use it to start a class discussion about advantages and disadvantages about using internet at class, at home, at work… You can divide the class into several groups, each group can create a presentation about the item and what they think about it, and then show it to the class. Try to create a good atmosphere and respect and listen other classmates’ opinion.
Milions of people are hooked on sudokus. In a sudoku you have to complete a puzzle of numbers from 1 to 9.
😎 Try it! It is believed that Sudoku was originally an American game, not Japanese. If you want to know more about sudokus, listen and read this abstract. After listening and reading, try to answer the questions you’ll find in the comment attached. If you want to play a sudoku you only have to click on the picture above.
The War of the Worlds was an episode of the American radio drama. It was performed as a Halloween episode on October 30, 1938 and directed and narrated by Orson Welles. The episode was an adaptation of H.G.Wells’ novel The war of the worlds. Although was a performance of the book, many listeners thought that an actual Martian invasion was in progress!!
😎 Try it! Read more about The war of the worlds by clicking on the link above, listen to the original radio broadcasting and then imagine you are a radio newsreader and try to do your own version of this broadcast. What are you going to talk about? How? How will you impress your listeners? Write and perform a dialog with your classmates.
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Avril Lavigne is a Canadian pop singer who started making records at the age of 16. One of her most famous hits is ‘Skater boy’ or ‘Sk8ter boy’ in modern slang. The abbreviations are quite common in slang as well as in sms messages.
Try it! After listening the song, can you translate (transl8) the abbreviations?
| active8 | 4 | 2 |
| gr8 | b4 | g2g |
| l8r | 4eva | ur |
Do you know any other sms abbreviations in English?
Welcome to my virtual English school!! In this site you will find some activities and resources to do in order to improve your skills. The resources will be organized by levels, skills to practise and types of activities. Read the 8-) 'Try it!' at the end of each post and try to do the activity. I start with a video just for fun. After all, you will see that learning English is cool!!
8-) Try it!: Can you transcribe this dialogue? Try it! and then review it.