9.26.2014

Mike's plans for the weekend

Listen to Mike talking about his plans for the weekend. Try the game and the questions before reading the script (it's quite easy!).

Because I'm Happy

Sing along


THE EUROPEAN DAY OF LANGUAGES

1. Click here to read about this day.

2. Click here and have a look at an infographic about speaking English in Europe.

3. Click here and try a Europe Trivia Quiz. 

9.21.2014

Scotland votes 'No'

I. Listen and read this short report about the Scottish referendum (there's some vocabulary explained).


II. Watch this piece of news up to 1’10” and complete these sentences. You may need from one to three words in each gap. Check your answers in ‘comments’.


The newsreader says that “for now that dream is (1) _______________”.
The final result is (2) _______________ Yes, (3)_______________ No. It produced (4)_______________ from backers of the union and (5) _______________ from those who believed Scotland could do better.
This morning Alex Salmond put a (6) _______________ on defeat accepting what he called the (7) “_______________”.  But this afternoon he announced that he would soon (8) _______________.

“For Scotland (9)_______________ continues and the dream should (10) _______________.”