Films that moved us (literally)

Would you like to know more about the country where The Lord of the Rings was shot?, if you've seen the film you will probably know that NZ has beautiful landscapes but what else do you know about this remote country?, do you know that it is the land of extreme sports?, that it is the birthplace of bungie-jumping? You don't know what bungie-jumping is?, then you really can't miss this site!
Browse through NZ's Official website and see if you can answer this questionnaire:

NZ Questionnaire

Publish at Scribd or explore others: Study Guides, Notes, School Work esl new zealand

Fix you by Coldplay

Here you have the video and lyrics of a beautiful song by the famous British band Coldplay. Hope you enjoy it!

www.quedeletras.com

Phrasal verbs game

Review again some of your phrasal verbs with this matching game

Click here for full screen version

Word stress patterns

Classify the words under their correct stress pattern

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Bits of Fry and Laurie

If you want to have some fun, watch these hilarious sketches by Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry from the 80s at YouTube.
If you find them difficult to follow, you can find the scripts at: Scripts of Laurie and Fry

Fables: The Hare and the Tortoise

The Hare and the Tortoise is a famous fable by Aesop, dating back to the 6th century BC
You are first going to read the fable and try to fill in the gaps with the correct words, click here for the exercise:

Thehareandthetortoise.htm

Then, you may want to read it again, check if it has any sense and see if you can pronounce all the words. If there are any unknown words you can look them up at Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary but if there are just a few words you don't know how to pronounce, you can listen to them as many times as you want at Howjsay.com

When you think you are ready, you can listen to me reading the fable and check your answers here: The Hare and the Tortoise or go to AesopFables.com to read and listen to it



Finally I recommend you visit this website: Fables from Aesop and listen to a very nice adapted online version of the fable by Tom Lynch.

You can download audio-files with many fables (and many other books!) at Librivox, which you can copy on a CD or store in your MP3 player to later listen to them

Pronunciation 2: Key or pin?

Visit the BBC Pronunciation page, go to videos and click on the sound board to watch the videos about the long and short i; then go to units and select unit 1 to learn more about these two sounds and do some exercises