Showing posts with label C1 fun. Show all posts
Showing posts with label C1 fun. Show all posts

Monday, November 18, 2013

Friday, October 18, 2013

Amy Winehouse's stuff dissected!!!If you can´t quite understand what your favourite artists are on about, this might prove useful.


http://rapgenius.com/Amy-winehouse-intro-stronger-than-me-lyrics

Thursday, January 10, 2013


 Three clips from a very juicy documentary

The English people are systematically taught is not the english most UK natives speak
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEsI2t-mvZk

English as the language of the Empire and Lingua franca
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xzt2p1jRiro

Dated slang and slang that made it into the 21st century
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qub-s7e55k


 Naughty mockumentary on the history of the English language
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rexKqvgPVuA

Thursday, February 09, 2012



Another of the Guardian's treasures waiting to be discovered is its city walks podcast. You can download the audio files for free!!!

Author Ian Rankin takes you around Edimburgh!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/audio/2007/jan/10/cityguides885


Dickens's London audio tour. There's a map to go with it!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/audio/2011/nov/24/dickens-audio-tour-david-copperfield
http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-files/Guardian/documents/2011/09/22/dickens_walk.pdf

Poet Roger McGough's vision of his hometown.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/audio/2006/nov/27/cityguides880

Steve Bell's Brighton
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/audio/2006/dec/21/cityguides882

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

For hip hop lovers who struggle daily to unfathom the seemingly unfathomable! Make sense out of the sometimes marvelously creative twististry of rhymes.

http://rapgenius.com

Friday, September 09, 2011

The new enfant terrible of Scottish comedy (Not for political correctness adherers!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvOQxeQKrdw

A classic (between-bracket-warning still applies): Billy Connoly
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDhETFcgWTE&feature=related

A bit of Scottish fun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kuZICFk_is

Mr. Foul-Mouthed Scott vs. Mr. Razor Sharp Big Words
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebviKewRtvc&feature=related