Online Dictionaries

1. The Alpha Dictionary 
This portal features links to hundreds of foreign-language dictionaries and glossaries, as well as numerous specialty dictionaries and glossaries covering specific subjects like chocolate, jewelry, and weather, and more resources like thesauruses and collections of quotations.

2. The Free Dictionary

Nickelback - Photograph

Look at this photograph 
Everytime I do it makes me laugh 
How did our eyes get so red 
And what the hell is on Joey's head

An English proverb

The devil finds work for idle hands -  if someone has nothing to do they'll soon do bad things

A mania for learning English

Jay Walker is fascinated by intellectual property in all its forms. His firm, Walker Digital, created Priceline and many other businesses that reframe old problems with new IT. In his private life, he's a bibliophile and collector on an epic scale

Cliff Richard and the dogs of love

Ian Mitchell

Moscow, Russia

Today I was trying to explain to a small group of lively and interesting students who work at a major multi-national company in Khimki how the word “bachelor” is used. I said that if you were talking of a 70-year old man and

How to learn tenses - ALL tenses!!

The most effective way to learn English grammar! In this lesson for all levels, James teaches  a way to learn all tenses in English without getting complicated. A simple, clear way to learn each tense. You can use this method for other topics, too!

Alcoholic Vervet Monkeys! - Weird Nature - BBC animals

This is the sleepy island of Saint Kitts in the Caribbean.Three hundred years ago, vervet monkeys were brought here from West Africa along with slaves serving the rum industry. Escaped monkeys acquired a taste for alcohol by eating fermented sugar cane left in the fields. Today they satisfy their thirst by raiding local bars.