THE ACT OF TERRORISM IN BOSTON

LISTEN TO THE NEWS, WITHOUT LOOKING AT THE SCRIPT, TO SEE HOW MUCH YOU UNDERSTAND.
THEN LISTEN AGAIN, READING THE SCRIPT, TO CHECK HOW MUCH YOU UNDERSTOOD.

GREEN IS GREAT:THE EDEN PROJECT

Watch the video and answer the questions.

Validation - An amazing story

"Validation" is a fable about the magic of free parking. Starring TJ Thyne & Vicki Davis. Writer/Director/Composer - Kurt Kuenne. Winner - Best Narrative Short, Cleveland Int'l Film Festival, Winner - Jury Award, Gen Art Chicago Film Festival, Winner - Audience Award, Hawaii Int'l Film Festival, Winner - Best Short Comedy, Breckenridge Festival of Film, Winner - Crystal Heart Award, Best Short Film & Audience Award, Heartland Film Festival, Winner - Christopher & Dana Reeve Audience Award, Williamstown Film Festival, Winner - Best Comedy, Dam Short Film Festival, Winner - Best Short Film, Sedona Int'l Film Festival.
Don't miss it!!

Listen & learn - with Mercedes and Richard 2

This is the second part of the interview with Mercedes Milá and Richard Vaughan. Get fun and learn with them!

Listen & learn - with Mercedes and Richard 1

Have you ever heard Mercedes Milá speaking English? Here you can listen to her and learn with Richard Vaughan. Enjoy it!

Practice your listening 38

Kiwi Adventure
Monica gives some tips on what to do when visiting her country.
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Practice your listening 37

Farm Life
Todd and Monica discuss the allure of life on the farm.
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Practice your listening 36

Long Life
Monica and Todd discuss the secrets of having a long and healthy life.
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6 Minute English - Movie science

Learn and practise useful English language for everyday situations with the BBC. Your weekly instruction manual for saying or doing something in English is published every Wednesday. Each programme is six minutes long and contains examples and explanations to help you improve your knowledge of the English language across a wide range of topics.

This week:

Movie science - Callum and William discuss the topic of science in films. Should a good film have good science? They hear from scientist and writer Professor Sidney Perkowitz who outlines his views.

Practice your listening 35

Tai Chi
Monica talks about the increasingly popular exercise of Tai Chi.
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6 Minute English - Learning to drive

Learn and practise useful English language for everyday situations with the BBC. Your weekly instruction manual for saying or doing something in English is published every Wednesday. Each programme is six minutes long and contains examples and explanations to help you improve your knowledge of the English language across a wide range of topics.

This week:

Learning to drive - Callum and Kate discuss learning to drive and hear a report from Japan about how driving schools are having to change to survive in a climate of decreasing birth rates.

Practice your listening 34

Next Step
George and Crystal discuss job options for college students.
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6 Minute English - Journey to Mars

Learn and practise useful English language for everyday situations with the BBC. Your weekly instruction manual for saying or doing something in English is published every Wednesday. Each programme is six minutes long and contains examples and explanations to help you improve your knowledge of the English language across a wide range of topics.

This week:

Journey to Mars - Callum and Kate learn about an experiment taking place in Moscow in which six men will spend 500 days together in an imitation spaceship. The experiment aims to simulate the routine for a group of astronauts on a journey to the planet Mars.

Practice your listening 33

Grad Plans
George and Crystal discuss jobs and life after college.
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6 Minute English - Science seals

Learn and practise useful English language for everyday situations with the BBC. Your weekly instruction manual for saying or doing something in English is published every Wednesday. Each programme is six minutes long and contains examples and explanations to help you improve your knowledge of the English language across a wide range of topics.

This week:

Callum and Kate discuss a project taking place in Antarctica in which elephant seals are helping scientists to predict what might be going to happen to Australia's Great Barrier Reef.

Vau Classroom - A ten-point exercise

Lesson 91

6 Minute English - Tiny monsters of the Highlands

Learn and practise useful English language for everyday situations with the BBC. Your weekly instruction manual for saying or doing something in English is published every Wednesday. Each programme is six minutes long and contains examples and explanations to help you improve your knowledge of the English language across a wide range of topics.

This week:

Tiny monsters of the Highlands - Callum and Finn discuss the Scottish Highlands and the 'tiny monsters' that live in the area and like to dine on tourists.

Practice your listening 32

The Break Up
George gives Crystal advice on how to break up with someone you like.
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6 Minute English - Quarter-life crisis

Learn and practise useful English language for everyday situations with the BBC. Your weekly instruction manual for saying or doing something in English is published every Wednesday. Each programme is six minutes long and contains examples and explanations to help you improve your knowledge of the English language across a wide range of topics.

This week: 

Quarter-life crisis - Callum and Kate learn about the expression "quarter-life crisis" and how it compares to the more well-known "mid-life crisis".

Are they the same thing or do the young have different crises to the middle-aged?

Just incredible!!!

The male opera singer who sings like a castrato

Jacek is rehearsing the role of Anfione in Niobe at the Royal Opera House

Jacek Laszczkowski is one of a tiny handful of men who can sing the parts originally performed by castrati, male singers castrated before puberty.

In 17th and 18th century Italy, about 4,000 boys were castrated each year, from the age of eight upwards, to fill the demand for opera singers and soloists with choirs in churches and royal palaces.
The practice was made illegal in Italy in 1870.
However, Jacek Laszczkowski's natural soprano voice happens to have the same quality as the castrati.
The BBC's Claire Bolderson asked him to define the way he sings.
Go to this link to listen to him singing... It's difficult to believe it's a man who's singing...