A few interesting webpages to keep you busy for the duration of your nine English speaking lives


BERKLEE (musical life)
http://www.berklee.edu/video
THE MOTH (real life stories)
 http://themoth.org/
OPEN CULTURE (audiobooks life)
http://www.openculture.com/2012/10
YALE(psycological life, post-colonial life, popular science )
http://www.youtube.com/user/YaleUniversity#g/c/003CE0429CAE4E19 ()
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwsj9AZnaaE&feature=edu&list=PLACAA5E35D77BA4B0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vq6u4RFf7ck&list=EC27FAF837577D180A&feature=plcp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAQN6EPU7hc&feature=edu&list=PLACAA5E35D77BA4B0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmKWhPbYwaE&feature=edu&list=PLACAA5E35D77BA4B0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyGEMsmcm54
HARVARD (quantum life)
http://athome.harvard.edu/programs/jmr/#
http://athome.harvard.edu/programs/sst/
http://athome.harvard.edu/programs/sst/video/sst1_5.html
http://athome.harvard.edu/programs/sst/video/sst1_3.html
DEF POETRY JAM (poetic life)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuH-ZMrlie0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuAbGJBvIVY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4Xu0LW7ilo
STAND UP (not exactly PC fundamentalist humorous life)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ktBQ51iGWw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACA0OBB9Qc4&playnext=1&list=PL3F3F2DBBC3010312

Very interesting videos to work on conjunctions linking words and syntax in general.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSU2hZXhr8U&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5Reec7NtvY&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoUCYCaoHno&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=El-Gr22YUCQ&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZRVaVJMWAk&feature=relmfu

Brilliant vocab videos! Try to repeat the definitions and examples along with the reader.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tb3AsHQy0rw&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-19j66HoWJE&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KltDgdNf2sU&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuGUs6Z1oQQ&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eVOhw3FTFw&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y-DW3BzHW8&feature=relmfu


Same thing minus a proper voice plus helpful visual input and synonyms!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbNjrKaabFI&feature=related

Amazing photo description opportunities galore!
http://www.worldpressphoto.org/gallery/2012-world-press-photo
http://www.worldpressphoto.org/photo/2012-ilvy-njiokiktjien-ci-2?gallery=2634
http://www.worldpressphoto.org/photo/2012-paolo-woods-dl-3?gallery=2634&photographer=2976
http://www.worldpressphoto.org/photo/2012-john-moore-pns2-aj?gallery=2634
http://www.worldpressphoto.org/photo/2012-emiliano-larizza-aes2-ll?gallery=2634

LOST HOMEWORK VIDEOS!

For some reason I decided it was a good idea to delete the vids i told you to watch this weekend. Silly me! Here they are, though! Watch them and jot down as much useful vocab as you can. There are piles of brilliant adjectives, descriptive vocab, fillers, etc. Next week you'll be describing your own photo so make sure you prepare for it. NO READING, NO LEARNING BY HEART, THOUGH!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cILpO4oesXI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iC8I180SL9M&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfkBUsT_lC4&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UNetMeE4SM&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRccmsqTqDE&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duyvgIhWQzU&feature=relmfu

 SARAH KAY!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0snNB1yS3IE&list=PLDFBC4DBF7976778A&index=2&feature=plpp_video

What's on the menu today?

For starters, you can give your eyes and ears a bit of our exotic vocab salad. here's a brilliant couple of vids brimming with descriptive words.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wY1oFuh_AeQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCC1YCgB9Jo&feature=edu&list=PL82CAF3F170641910


Our main course today is...




surprise surprise...











more marinated body idioms
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJqCMZiZDn0&feature=edu&list=PL82CAF3F170641910
Alternatively you can revel on this vid which features all you need to know to describe charts,  trends and so on, to wit: juicy verb adverb collocations, exotic-tasting verbs, heavily spiced phrasal verbs, and a few alternative recipes and an over-enunciating teacher-chef!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1uAImH4GwA&feature=relmfu
To top it all up, here's a clip you can use to practise describing urban landscapes.
http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=36314216#editor/target=post;postID=5409618596162573237

OOZY Juicy webs if you're after a good old list of examples for words, idioms, collocations, phrasal verbs, set phrases, etc.

blink/ in the blink of an eye
http://www.linguee.es/espanol-ingles/search?source=auto&query=blink
http://www.wordnik.com/words/blink
blush
http://www.linguee.es/espanol-ingles/search?source=auto&query=blush
http://www.wordnik.com/words/blush
 frown/ frown lines
http://www.linguee.es/espanol-ingles/search?source=auto&query=blush
grit one's teeth
 http://www.linguee.es/espanol-ingles/search?source=auto&query=grit+one%27s+teeth
 http://www.linguee.es/espanol-ingles/search?source=auto&query=grit+her+teeth
keep your ear to the ground
http://www.linguee.es/espanol-ingles/search?source=auto&query=+keep+your+ear+to+the+ground
lose face
http://www.linguee.es/espanol-ingles/search?source=auto&query=lose+face
http://www.wordnik.com/words/lose%20face

A1 fun for this week! Verbs with he Pink Panther and another Real English vid.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NfyXBL8YAk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmeXwJxWJLg&feature=relmfu

the homework vid about body language you're supposed to be working on
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VV1cMmCKxmY

a bit more on discussion language, turn-taking, agreeing and disagreeing, debates and so on.


http://www.englishpond.com/speaking/Communication%20and%20daily%20English/turntaking/index.html
http://www.englishpond.com/speaking/Communication%20and%20daily%20English/agreeingaudio/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Schools_Debating_Championships
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_1-YCbVip4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rh34Xsq7D_A&feature=related


let's get stupidly serious...
http://www.psy.herts.ac.uk/pub/SJCowley/docs/timing.pdf
http://anthro.ucsd.edu/~jhaviland/AudVid/AudVidReadings/Simplest_Systematics_for_Turn-Taking_%28Language%29.pdf
http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/encap/research/networks/flarn/whatis/index.html

...on the practically unfathomable difference between organized and well-organized people...

http://www.english-test.net/forum/ftopic12326.html
http://petenut99.tripod.com/transferableskills/id3.html

a whole lot of audiobooks...promises are made not to be broken, someone said
http://www.openculture.com/freeaudiobooks
http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/books/

a few of this bigthink series. let's see what you make out of these:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTl_xjOyZsc&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWRumo75pgc&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGedFY6UHLo&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8SOQEitsJI&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hByJBdQXjXU&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbvDYyoAv9k&feature=relmfu