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Sixty-second lectures
Every spring and fall, SAS (University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences) faculty take a minute out on Locust Walk to share their perspectives on topics ranging from human history and the...
View ArticleBusiness Innovation Factory
The Business Information Factory has an annual conference where they invite creative thinkers and, like TED Talks, they put the videos online for viewing. They look pretty interesting. For example,...
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Explore your memory
Stretch your memory with fun challenges like Explore your Memory. Your answers will help University of Edinburgh experimental psychologists with their research.Most people will not be able to get...
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Teacher of teachers
What should teachers be like? Finne Cherian, a teacher in Canada, explains. Take a listen as he talks about the essential things a teacher should do in the classroom. Especially a teacher of...
View ArticleMerriam-Webster on YouTube
This is a real find for advanced English students which I discovered through Random Idea English.Merriam-Webster has a YouTube channel with very short (two minutes or less) videos on various aspects of...
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Great Questions
Great Questions is an interesting site for advanced English students to develop their listening and speaking skills. It is a section of Story Corps, a site whose mission is to provide Americans of all...
View ArticleFrontline
Frontline is a website that develops investigative journalism. Contains extended interviews, videos, transcripts, teacher's resources, and additional material related to its weekly...
View ArticlePISA -Measuring student success around the world
A test the whole world can take...It's a breathtaking concept -- but for the OECD, it's a very real way of finding out how well-prepared today's students are to participate in society. If you're not...
View ArticleThe commercial campus
Corporations are hiring students to promote their brand on campus. At the University of North Carolina, American Eagle helps first-year students move-in, while Target hosts the inaugural party.Watch...
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Tribute
Tribute is the best-known cinema magazine is Canada. If you visit their website, you will find a throve of cinema-related stuff that might be of interest for the advanced English learner in search of...
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Why You Can't Work at Work
Why You Can’t Work at Work is a presentation by Jason Fried, co-founder of Big Think, a forum where top experts explore big ideas for the 21st century.In his talk, which comes complete with...
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The spelling bee
This is a demanding game from EFL Classroom 2.0, where our spelling and listening and vocabulary skills will be put to the test.The way you play is really straightforward and it is explained in the...
View ArticleSteve Job's legacy
Technology editor from The Guardian Charles Arthur looks back at the career of the driving force behind Apple, Steve Jobs. Jobs was the single-minded visionary who revolutionised three industries:...
View ArticlePronunciation poem
This is an anonymous poem about how strange English spelling is. Joanne Rudling commented on it on one of her recent blogs posts.Self-study activity:Read the poem aloud to find out for yourself how...
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Experimental school
Read this The New York Times lengthy article by Clifford J. Levy, who is a deputy metro editor of the Times. He won a Pulitzer Prize for international reporting for his coverage of Russia in 2011.For...
View ArticleOccupy Wall Street
This is a video on the Wall Street protests that I found on ESL Writing.Rob White suggests some activities for us to do with the video, as you can try them if you wish:1. Describe some of the daily...
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NFB
TheNational Film Board of Canada is a website where you can watch films about arts, the world, biographies, history. Many of the films are only available under subscription or registration, but there...
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Do lectures
Do lectures is an impressive site Russell Stannard informed about in his November newsletter.This is what Do lectures say about their site:The idea is a simple one— that people who Do things can...
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Best Christmas movies
The Huffington Post has made a selection of the best Christmas movies. Their choice includes It's A Wonderful Life, Elf, A Muppet Christmas Carol, A Christmas Story, Home Alone, The Santa Clause,...
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Name that thing
Name that thing is a vocabulary online game from Merriam-Webster Dictionary I learnt about through ESL Writing.Just a word of warning: This is tough. Good luck!
View ArticleThe chaos of English pronunciation
This is a fun poem about the chaos of the English language by Gerard N. Trenité. There are many different versions of this poem. This poem was first published as an appendix to his book Drop your...
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Top 10 Thanksgiving movie scenes
Thanksgiving is a long way off now, but at the time of this celebration Time magazine published an interesting slideshow presenting their choice of the top 10 Thanksgiving movie scenes. The scenes...
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Now I know
Now I Know is a new project from the video production company Sprinkle Lab. The purpose of Now I Know is to record and publish short videos of successful entrepreneurs sharing lessons they've learned...
View ArticleIf I should have a daughter
A performing poet since she was 14 years old, Sarah Kay is the founder of Project V.O.I.C.E., teaching poetry and self-expression at schools across the United States."If I should have a daughter,...
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Confusing words
I have sometimes mentioned Random Idea English, as one of the leading blogs on the net for advanced English learners.It was through Random Idea English that I came across this resource from the...
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