SPORT (intermediate video and activities)

Ths video shows an inspiring story of tenacity. Watch it and answer the questions.

• Where does the story take place?
• Who are the protagonists?
• What are the favourite pastimes around them?
• What dream do they have?
• What difficulties do they find?
• How do they overcome them?
• Was it easy?
• Did they have support?
• What opportunity came for them?
• Did they accept it?
• How did it go?
• What happened after that?

These questions are for you:

1.  Do you have a dream?

2.  What would you do to make it come true?

Click below to play a game on extreme sports offered by the British Council :

Click on the picture for more on extreme sports.

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WORLD BOOK DAY

In 1995, UNESCO established the 23rd of April as the International Day of the Book. It was first observed by booksellers in Spain in 1923, because Cervantes had died on the 22nd in the year 1616.

Let's celebrate the day with an excellent video about a new entertainment 'gadget': The BOOK.

Enjoy!

FOOD & FLAGS (elementary)

How many flags do you know?
Take this quiz and find out!

Click on the picture to start.

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION (intermediate)

What do you look like?
What would you like to look like?

If your answer was the same for both questions, you are satisfied with your appearance. But that is not often the case. Most people would like to have a smaller nose, bigger eyes or a flat stomach. They would like to be taller or look like a famous model or singer. These are days of an intense cult to the body, and that makes many go to the gym or even undergo cosmetic surgery to get the body of their dreams.

How far can one go? Take a look at the following video.

Can you describe her? (hair and hairdo, eyes, lips, waist, clothes, etc.)

Give your impressions about her appearance.

(You can find information on how to describe people here and here).

WHO AM I? 2

Take a look at the following image and guess the character. Can you guess its history by looking at the words on the picture?
Try to write a text about it using at least 20 of the words you find in the cloud.

ENGLISH SPEAKING COUNTRIES quiz

How many questions can you answer correctly? Click on the image to start the quiz.

PROVERBS & SAYINGS 5. Guess the meaning!

"After a storm comes a calm"

What does it mean? 

Is there a similar proverb in your language?

Click on the picture and find out.

If you like proverbs and sayings, click here to learn some more.

WHO AM I? 1

Can you guess who I am?

Tell about me using at least twenty of the words in my picture.
One big clue for you: this year marks the 125th anniversary of his birth.

You can move your cursor over the words to enlarge them. This way you'll get to see the small ones, too.