Showing posts with label b2 video. Show all posts
Showing posts with label b2 video. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Friday, November 30, 2012

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


Thursday, November 22, 2012

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

Friday, December 09, 2011

Wednesday, December 01, 2010

Friday, October 08, 2010

The BBC put together this amazing resource. This is a sound by sound approach to the English phonemic system which will surely help you out with your pronunciation.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/pron/sounds/

Tuesday, October 05, 2010


Interview with Amy Winehouse. She had just published her first album at the time. She was only 20 years old.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbsuC_Y3bmM&p=0ADA4C02DF4EB578&playnext=1&index=29

Live performance of her debut album hit Stronger than me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOLJx0qoiNs

Friday, October 01, 2010

Grammar based videos! Here's a few of them dealing with a variety of structures.

conditionals (2nd type)

conditionals (3rd type)

have/did

was/were

Thursday, September 30, 2010

Tuesday, September 28, 2010


Karl Pilkington: The funniest man on earth according to Ricky Gervais, the man behind such works as The Office and Extras.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzc-0TzEFS4&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUTH1coLIWE&feature=related