Try these speed reading exercises to improve reading. You can also learn something about the news. There are reading texts at different levels. You can choose the reading speed of each text. If one ...

Try these discussions to improve your speaking and listening. There are 20 questions in each activity - 10 for Student A and 10 for Student B. You can print out the worksheet. You can listen to the ...

Researchers from University College London have created the world's thinnest spaghetti.

If you are interested in communicative language teaching and pronunciation, you might like to take a look at my dissertation (downloadable as PDF): "What is meant by communicativeness in EFL teaching?

A scientist said robots will be more intelligent than humans by 2029. The scientist's name is Ray Kurzweil. He works for Google as Director of Engineering. He is one of the world's leading experts on ...

Free, ready-to-use EFL / ESL lesson plans on the latest breaking news -in 7 levels. New lessons uploaded twice a week. Each lesson includes a 27-Page PDF containing ...

A team of engineers has created a super-thin material that could help keep buildings cool. The team is from the University of Colorado Boulder in the USA. Engineers from the university developed the ...

People in Beijing cannot see the sun. The air is full of smog (a mixture of smoke and fog). The smog is so thick that it blocks the sun all day. People really miss seeing the sun. Beijing's leaders ...

A new project in the UAE will teach one million people computer coding for free. People will learn how to code apps and software. The UAE's Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum ...