Find out all about contemporary culture in the UK and improve your listening skills at the same time!

	UK Culture Find out all about contemporary culture in the UK by listening to this series of podcasts http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/uk-culture. This material is recommended for intermediate and advanced learners.

Want to do some extra listening practice?

Then try out http://www.elllo.org/     = English Listening Lesson Library Online

Activities include multimedia, free MP3 files, vocab tasks, language notes, print page and more!

Happy listening!

Check out this new app!

Cool Speech is an app for listening and pronunciation. It provides intensive listening practice, and teaches fluent pronunciation, using recordings of spontaneous speech. It is suitable for upper-intermediate and advanced students of English, who need to understand everyday speech and to speak clearly and fluently in everyday situations.

http://www.speechinaction.com/coolspeech.htm

I just can't remember vocabulary!!!!! My memory is terrible!!!!!

This is a frequent thing said by students and you know what........it's not always true!

THINGS TO THINK ABOUT WHEN TRYING TO REMEMBER NEW VOCABULARY:

Where do you put your new vocabulary? On a piece of paper in your file? Back of your bus ticket? On the back of your hand? In a special book? On an Excel spreadsheet? Or are you someone who points to your head and say "it's all up here.... I don't need to write it down"?

You would be surprised that most of you can remember a lot of new words every week........ but what happens in one month when you are trying to remember that piece of vocabulary but just can't?

Do you know where it is?

Will you spend 4 hours trying to find it in all of your notes?

....or will you know exactly where it is and you find it easily?

Many of you may be the people who can't find it so forget about it and therefore loses the chance to use that word again. What a shame! All you needed to do was organise a vocabulary notebook so that you put all new words and you will know exactly where to go when you are looking for that word in the future.

OISE Bristol has created vocabulary notebooks for all of you and all you need to do is go to the student desktop in SAC and go to the folder VOCABULARY NOTEBOOKS and you can print one out there and then.

Try one out and tell me what you think!

Tony

Useful website for self study!

Hi everybody! Check out this really useful website - great for practising grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation and reading skills in Self Access : )
http://elt.oup.com/student/englishfile/?cc=gb&selLanguage=en

My Perfect Day Out in Bristol

During my perfect day in Bristol, I would go for a walk in the morning. Before that,I would have a big breakfast.Also I would go sightseeing and I would have a look around a museum. Next,I would go to the theatre. Before that, I would have lunch out. Then,I would go shopping in Cabot Circus,and I would play football with Saudi Students in Bristol.In the evening I would go to the cinema and I would have a nice meal,then I would go to home. 

 

Ali Assery

My perfect day out in Bristol

My perfect day out in Bristol would be to go to Cabot Circus to buy some shoes.
I would  have a good lunch.
After I would go to the Aquarium and Stonehenge to shightseeing.
Lastly my perfect day evening out in bristol, i would go to the Icerink and then probably just
chill out in a pub at restaurant, go home having had a perfect evening.

Ma EunYong

My perfect day out in bristol

Hi everybody,

On my perfect day in Bristol I would go to visit the cathedral, the Bristol museum, the university, the Clifton Suspension Bridge and the center to sightsee. After that, I would meet my friends to eat a big lunch. Following that, I would play rugby on the Downs to do sport. Then, I would spend the rest of the afternoon shopping in Cabot Circus to buy new clothes. And then, for the evening I would drink beer, have a party and dance in a nightclub with all my friends.

Paul JAUDON    

My Perfect Day Out in Bristol

Hello!

What kind of day would it be? Chilled out or action-packed?
How would you start your day? Where would you go?
What would you do after that? Who would you meet?
How would you spend the rest of your afternoon?
Would you do something exciting in the evening? What time would your perfect day end?
Would you do it all again the next day?

Look forward to reading your posts!
Jo