Listening: Coffee cups. Plastic, reusable, recyclable?
BBC 6-minute English investigates coffee cups. They are often made of plastic so can’t be recycled. Level: medium • Category: listening; vocabulary • • • • • • • • • • • • In just six minutes, you can pick up some really useful vocabulary and get used to hearing people speaking in English. […]
Is your speaker spying on you?
BBC 6-minute English investigates smart speakers. They listen and respond to our every command but do they know too much about us? Level: medium • Category: listening; vocabulary • • • • • • • • • • • • In just six minutes, you can pick up some really useful vocabulary and get used […]
Myths debunked!
Did Paul McCartney die in 1966? Was Walt Disney cryogenically frozen? Should you think twice before performing Macbeth? Level: higher • Category: listening • • • • • • • • • • • • On the cover of The Beatles’ Abbey Road, Paul’s out of step with the others and he’s not wearing any […]
How we really say «have»
Contraction is a key part of speaking English with natural pronunciation. But does it matter if you contract? Level: higher • Category: pronunciation, speaking • • • • • • • • • • • • Spanish speakers like to speak with clear vowel sounds because that’s how Spanish works. If I try to persuade […]
BBC Lingohack
Keep up with the news and develop your vocabulary with BBC Lingohack! Level: basic • medium • Category: listening; vocabulary • • • basic • • • • • • medium • • • The BBC Learning English website has a lot of learning resources so it’s not easy to know where to start. Some of […]
The Day of the Triffids
Read, listen and watch as the world is taken over by man-eating plants in John Wyndham’s science fiction classic, The Day of the Triffids. Level: medium • higher • Category: reading, listening • • • medium • • • • • • higher • • • “When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday […]