Happy St Patrick's Day!

Watch this video if you want to learn more about this festivity.

Read and watch a short video about the parade in Birmingham (the third biggest one in the world).

*Remember to have a look at old posts about the same topic.

Drunk Man Utd fan calls the police

Just for fun! Listen and read this phone conversation. A drunk and upset fan speaks some real English when he calls the police to complain about Manchester United. Listen to the funny audio and read the full transcript.

Does travel broaden the mind?

Listen to this podcast.

Fill in the gaps in these sentences (one word in each gap). Check your answers in ‘comments’.

1.       Melissa thinks the more you _____________, the more different _____________ you encounter and learn about them and _____________ the differences.

2.       They both agree that you learn nothing on the _____________.

3.       When you get there, you do the _____________ things: look at the nice _____________, take a few _____________, try the _____________...

4.       She did backpacking around _____________. They did about _____________ countries in 1 month and she thinks by the end of it they stopped _____________ it in.

5.       He travelled around South America for 3 and a half or 4 months and he was just _____________.

6.       ‘You learn about _____________’. She thinks this cliché is true. You learn about what you are _____________ of.

7.       He was water rafting and he learnt he could _____________ under water.

8.       She thinks travel broadens your mind considering travel as in taking yourself _____________ very different to what you know, putting yourself in another _____________, with another _____________, in another place.

9.       He thinks for travel to broaden your mind you have to _____________ and _____________ there. You basically have to be an _____________ _____________.

Tour Guide Speech

Listen to a tour guide (don't read the script) and take notes. Then listen and read.