Crazy sentence

Whoa!

Your friend just got engaged. She shows you her engagement ring, which is really big. You and your friend joke with each other a lot, so you make a funny comment about the ring. (PhraseMix)

Whoa! Look at the size of that rock!

An English Pronunciation Poem

An English Pronunciation Poem

I take it you already know 
Of tough and bough and cough and dough? 
Others may stumble but not you 
On hiccough, thorough, slough and through. 
Well done! And now you wish perhaps, 
To learn of less familiar traps?

Just for fun "Simon's Cat"

Driving Home For Christmas

British Pronunciation

The mind of the machines

Nature's Eternal Arms Race

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=louuer9PIVM

"Xmas" or "Christmas"?

 The origin and appropriateness of "Xmas."

Retailers have long been accused of secularizing Christmas by using "Xmas" in signs and

Predicting the future

Humans can be impatient sometimes. We just can't wait to see what will happen in the future, so we're constantly trying to predict it. Wouldn't you like to know what the world will be like in the year 2100? Will technology have changed people's lives for the better or worse? Who knows?

A Holly Jolly Christmas

One Trick Pony

A “one trick pony” is one of my favourite slang terms in spoken English.A “Pony” is an animal a bit similar to a horse.  In the old days,

Louis Armstrong - What A Wonderful World

http://mp3.cc/m/252233-lui-armstrong/4620840-what-a-wonderful-world/

I see trees of green, red roses too

I see them bloom, for me and you,
And I think to myself, 
what a wonderful world.

Winter term test 2012 (difficult)

Блок 1. Лексико-грамматический тест 

Task 1. For questions 1-17, read the text below and decide which word (A, B, C or D) best fits in the gap.

Kolb's learning styles

       D.A. Kolb (1984)  1…. a model of learning which  2… an important  3… on the way teachers

Winter Term Test 2012 (easy)

 Лексико-грамматический тест 

Task 1. Read the text below and chose the
 correct word for each gap. 

Kitesurfer Makes Channel Crossing

       Andy Ward, a kitesurfer from Dorset _(1)_ UK, 
has recently _(2)_ what is thought to be the first crossing
 from the Channel Islands to the cost of England. The 70-mile journey