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Welcome! This site is for students to practice their English and keep up to date with environmental issues.

TEN MINUTES OF ENGLISH A DAY!
You can find a mixture of reading, crosswords, videos and short English lessons: these will normally be vocabulary, but I may also treat you to some grammar!
There are now over 260 lessons on this blog. Look through the Blog archive, Post labels and Popular Posts to find what you want.

If you want to print a lesson, click on the lesson title and then look for the Print Friendly icon.

''Let nature be your teacher''
William Wordsworth, poet, 1770-1850

''Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift''
Albert Einstein, physicist, 1879-1955

''... to find the word, or words, by which [an] idea may be most fitly and aptly expressed''
P.M. Roget, lexicographer, 1779-1869

Monday 19 November 2012

Tales from the Wild Wood

There is a great series on BBC television at the moment about woodlands.
Write and woodsman Rob Penn has a year-long project in Wales to bring part of an abandoned woodland back to life.
The programme is being shown on the BBC4 TV channel. I know some of you may not be able to receive this, so I will try to find a way to make it available in the future.
It is a great programme for many reasons: the English is very good and understandable, so it is suitable for students learning English; also, the programme looks at many aspects of woodland management and the problems facing modern woodlands in Britain.
I hope you have the opportunity to watch it.



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Monday 5 November 2012

New blog

I have created a new blog which focusses on signs with bad English:
http://thesignsarebad.blogspot.cz/

Please have a look and let me know what you think!
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