This website's almost too good to be true. It's packed full of sound investigative reporting. This is as serious you can get by today's TV journalism standards...You'll be able to find documentaries on almost every topic imaginable on this site. And to top it all up, all transcripts are available too!!! I just can't believe this is free!!!

http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/episodes

For those wanting to have a more in-depth insight into the (CEFR) Common European Framework of Reference  for Languages (CEFR).
http://www.coe.int/t/dg4/linguistic/Source/Framework_EN.pdf

Another good webpage to help you learn independently.
http://portal.ced.junta-andalucia.es/educacion/webportal/web/educacion-permanente/recursos/recursos-didacticos

Independent learning time!

Brilliant mind maps and reading and listening activities
http://www.engames.eu/dates-story-teenagers/
http://www.engames.eu/dates-chapter-2/

Jazz chants
http://www.onestopenglish.com/skills/listening/jazz-chants/mp3-files-and-recording-scripts/
http://www.onestopenglish.com/skills/listening/jazz-chants/mp3-files-and-recording-scripts/recording-script-14-i-twisted-my-ankle/149694.article
http://www.onestopenglish.com/skills/listening/jazz-chants/mp3-files-and-recording-scripts/jazz-chants-14-i-twisted-my-ankle/149693.article

Videos (reviews and articles) for C1 organized by topic

3b book reviews, interviews and lectures 

Black Mamba Boy by Nadifa Mohamed 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8E7HLUaRF4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Rv5VBF54mI
Drive by James Sallis
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/oct/21/james-sallis-crime-salt-river
High Fidelity  Nick Hornby
http://www.theguardian.com/books/1995/mar/28/fiction.reviews
The Human Stain by Philip Roth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbqL2G_iQ-c&list=PL9156A37193921175&index=19


3b film reviews

Drive
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marshall-fine/movie-review-idrivei_b_959652.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxYjFNh_aIA
High Hidelity
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2000/jul/21/nickhornby
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60woEQroy0g
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2000/jul/21/comment
The Human Stain
http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9505E4D81430F932A05753C1A9659C8B63
The Inside Job
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMQ804MKkWI

3c money
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vS0hj4kiqsA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMQ804MKkWI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fbvquHSPJU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niNYQtU8GkY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEiCN57XhiI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvAf2gOvaiY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsrtB5lp60s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T69NDIcHOl8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7m9wfFnH6o

Brilliant webpage!

http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/word-games/verb-machine
http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/elementary-podcasts
http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/talk-about
http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/stories-poems

Learn by doing tips
http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/how/how-order-round-pub
http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/how-to
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjfM4Wrj9UI
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shim_Sham

Independing learning tools: websites...
Well, here's a good one.

http://www.manythings.org/ac/
http://www.manythings.org/lar/
http://www.manythings.org/wikipedia/22008.html
http://www.manythings.org/wikipedia/22006.html
http://www.manythings.org/vocabulary/games/w/words.php?f=adjectives_for_people_1
http://www.manythings.org/vocabulary/games/e/words.php?f=family_members
http://www.manythings.org/voa/stories/The_Tell-Tale_Heart_-_By_Edgar_Allan_Poe.html
http://www.manythings.org/voa/stories/The_Law_of_Life_-_By_Jack_London.html
http://www.manythings.org/fq/1/spelling.php?u=1
http://www.manythings.org/rs/sviodo.html

Paraphrase it, rephrase it, say it in your own words, break it down your own way, put it across as plain and simple as you can... or , maybe, twist it beyond recognition, embellish it, adorn it...whatever y'all do, though , u betta make sho' y'all keep ya rap flowing and ya tools sharp!

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/619/1/
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/exercises/28/12/33/answer
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/exercises/6/9/24/
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/exercises/6/9/24/answer

Videos for C1 organized by topic

1a work, personal motivation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rM9Btf-Ioos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL3CFtW8WE0

1b personality, family

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzS_k2_fdpk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36m1o-tM05g

1c language
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WLHr1_EVtQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0yGdNEWdn0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ah6WEo2y7do
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdUbIlwHRkY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Kvs8SxN8mc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_q9b9YqGRY

2a stories
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GTz_Jm9ZTY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VgmsUxVNUE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWwDeqorbH0


2b multitasking

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PriSFBu5CLs

As serious as you can get by today's TV journalism standards...transcripts available too!!!!!

http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/episodes/

money (3c)

http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/stories/2014/05/05/3995954.htm

family, religion (1b)

http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/stories/2012/03/29/3466537.htm

immigration (6c)
http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/stories/2011/10/20/3344543.htm

politics, environmental activism
http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/stories/2013/04/01/3725150.htm

These debates are a good way of getting familiar with sophisticated ways of interacting, negociating, expressing opinions, accepting others' views, rejecting others' arguments and so on. The topics they deal with are US foreign policy, technology, climate change or religion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3G4LA-QwR4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yx0CXmagQu0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyIQrS0Wqr0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmTLdSfHh_U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8qPtLmfwZ4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AntDHcgDEks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDD6XZ55TAI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOU306AvvHE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trSaVLbfspg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMraxhd9Z9Q

Free uni lessons!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!..On lots of different subjects!!!!!

Philosophy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVQKbQVc2_w

History
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZC8JcWVRFp8

Economics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yycGEFCNYE

Literature
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgyZ4ia25gg

Chemistry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSYEApgJkh0&list=PL3F629F73640F831D

Architecture and civil engineering
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hm-1Vc3JlWs

Physics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NK-BxowMIfg&list=PL5694B25F659D95B0

TED speakers on language acquisition...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0yGdNEWdn0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WLHr1_EVtQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a6vVIdQBd0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNmf-G81Irs

and CUSP speakers on business and enterpreneurship

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaZPBonUKBY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOpaIeKRo_w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yp4Z5uusd_I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVvGJKzxzEE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwxmdyC4F3U

 Confrontational film club???
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qxpBxVVKNE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCmrOzhoUcs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3QrNpxTzm0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY0diaHlC2w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sFwzpUGTpg

I can think of a particular student who will enjoy this...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V21JiiP-CvI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUcwytnlDsM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CwS60ykM8s

CAE practice tests.

Listening
http://www.examenglish.com/CAE/cae_listening.html

Speaking
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVRC3psIPU8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yde9HKd01k

 All skills
https://www.sprachzertifikate.info/pruefungsvorbereitung/pruefungsvorbereitung-cae.html

http://www.teachya.com/exams/cae/

http://www.englishspeaker.com/index%20-%20CAE.html

http://www.englishspeaker.com/index%20-%20CAE.html#anchor

http://hibernia-institute.cz/on_line_testy/cae/index.htm

http://www.english-online.org.uk/caefolder/caehome.php?name=Practice%20for%20the%20Cambridge%20Advanced%20English

http://www.ihbristol.com/free-english-exercises/esol

http://www.slideshare.net/larodry/cae-practice-tests-plus-2-22380462

http://www.slideshare.net/RaquelCanales/cambridge-cae-29770114

http://www.slideshare.net/larodry/cambridge-complete-cae

http://englishaula.com/en/cambridge-advanced-certificate-cae-use-of-english.php

https://www.teachers.cambridgeesol.org/ts/exams/academicandprofessional/cae

http://www.caeexam.com/Download.html

http://intranet.exeter.ac.uk/insess/CAEpractice.html

http://es.scribd.com/doc/37723398/CAE-Practice-Tests-Plus-2

http://todayschool.es/blog/advanced-cae-online-tests/

Here's a few interesting lonks to help you write a jaw-dropping 'for and against' essay...

http://www.eoilangreo.net/ana/ni2/writing/for_and_against.pdf
http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/skills/writing-skills-practice/and-against-essay
http://es.scribd.com/doc/60719740/Topics-for-For-Against-Essays
http://es.scribd.com/doc/12347970/For-and-Against-Topics-Alexander

Great video channel!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6L-zHNdy288&list=PLA5UIoabheFM281dIr4ojw9xOVoo9dOtw

Listening tests

http://englishaula.com/en/pet-exam-listening-cambridge-preliminary-english-test-video-lessons-practice-tests-exercises.php

Letters of complaint

http://www2.elc.polyu.edu.hk/cill/eiw/complaint_letter_constructor.htm

http://www.wikihow.com/Write-a-Complaint-Letter-to-a-Company
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/words/letters-of-complaint
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/media/words/assets/faulty-product.pdf
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/media/words/assets/unsatisfactory-workmanship.pdf
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/media/words/assets/disappointing-holiday.pdf
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/media/words/assets/leaking-radiator.pdf