This episode is my take on what I think is missing from the education curriculum - the essential skills all students should have in my opinion before they leave school. 
Please let me know in the comments your thoughts!

British English with Maria

Ep 7 - What they don't teach you at school....

Live, raw, and uncut footage of English learners. Can you spot the mistakes?

AngliaEnglish

Doing things we love

第14课  她买了不少衣服
一、听力  第一部分
1.开车
2.喝茶
3.买衣服
4.商店
5.苹果

第二部分
6. 男：昨天上午你去哪儿了？
女：我去学校学汉语了。
7. 男：你去商店买苹果了吗？
   女：没有，我买了不少菜。
8. 男：你看见张先生了吗？
女：看见了，他开车去医院了。
9. 女：这些是谁的衣服？
 男：丽丽的，她昨天买了不少衣服。
10.女：喂，请问，王小姐回来了吗？
男：没有，她一个小时后回来。

第三部分
11.我上午买了不少菜，中午做饭。
   问：她上午做什么了？
12.这些衣服很漂亮，都是张小姐的。
   问：这些衣服都是谁的？
13.王老师去学校了，她三点后能回来。
问：王老师什么时候能回来？
14.下午我和大卫去学开车了。
问：下午大卫做什么了？
15.我不爱喝水，不爱吃水果。
问：他不爱吃什么？

HSK1 第14课  她买了不少衣服

Enjoy the first podcast from Culture To Grow, which provides an environment that allows people to shed their current community or small interest groups and see things from a global perspective. This episode focuses on New Year's celebrations with guest speakers from Palestine, Mongolia, and Morocco.

Culture To Grow

Episode 1: New Year's Celebration -- Around the World

Gustavo A. Bécquer fue el gran abanderado del romanticismo en España. En sus poemas habla de la creación poética, el amor, la muerte… Estas seis estrofas que componen Volverán las oscuras golondrinas, de Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, son una oda a la fatalidad y al amor perdido.

Rincón literario

"Volverán las oscuras golondrinas" Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

Let's learn letter H words.
Repeat after me:
hat, house, hotdog, horse

Phonics The Alphabet 

Oxford Phonics World Letter H

In this episode we looked at 2 out of 3 of Edward Hall's cultural dimensions, which were Proxemics and Monochronic vs Polychronic Cultures. In part 1 we looked at the other dimension which was High vs Low Context Cultures.

More Than English Podcast

HALL'S CULTURAL DIMENSIONS (2/2): Proxemics & Mono/Polychronic Time | More than English Podcast #003

There's a video on TikTok in which a user takes a jar of seasoning called "Everything But the Bagel" and carefully separates the ingredients into small piles to find out the secret to the recipe.

The video has been viewed almost 2 million times — a sign of just how popular this seasoning mix, made by US company Trader Joe's, has become.

People like to put it on top of bagels and use it in lots of different meals.

However, fans of the mix have been finding out that it's not welcome everywhere in the world.

Signs have been posted at Incheon Airport in Seoul, telling passengers they can't bring jars of the seasoning into the country.

The reason is that one of the ingredients is banned in South Korea.

The mix contains things like sesame seeds, dried garlic, dried onion and salt — but poppy seeds are the problem.

Poppy seeds are banned in South Korea because they are narcotic-related items, according to the airport. The ban is not new but travelers have said that airports are now cracking down on the seasoning mix.

The seeds are also banned in a number of other countries, including Saudi Arabia and Singapore.

The poppy plant is used to make drugs like heroin and morphine, although the seeds don't contain any opiates.

However, the country worries that the seeds could be contaminated by opiates.

In fact, in the US, members of the armed forces have been advised not to eat products containing poppy seeds in case they affect the results of drug tests.

Drug tests can be very sensitive but experts say that it would be almost impossible to eat enough poppy seeds to feel any narcotic effect.

Practice Listening, Reading & Comprehension

Greece Uses Drones to Keep Sunbeds Off Beaches

Speaker 1: For me, having a dumbphone would be …dumb. I really like surfing the web on my phone to find out about things. If I hear the name of an actor I don’t know about, I can look them up, or if I‘m in a new place and I want to find a restaurant to go to, I can find somewhere easily. Plus, I love Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. I follow loads of celebrities and I love to watch concerts and live-tweet what is happening. Without my smartphone, my friends wouldn’t know what I was doing. It would feel very strange.

Speaker 2: I’m seriously thinking about getting a dumbphone. I hate how the battery on my smartphone is in control of my life. I always have to find somewhere to charge the phone when I’m out and I’m always worried about it. I also don’t like the way search engines record your history and use it to sell you things. I feel as though my attention is always taken away from everything I do with my smartphone because I use it so much. I was with a friend the other day and after a while, we were sitting there not talking, just looking at our phones. It was like our phones just killed the conversation. We didn’t even realize it was happening.

Speaker 3: I like the idea of a dumbphone. I’m just not sure if I would like it in practice. I travel a lot with my work, so it really helps being able to access my inbox when I’m out. If I didn’t, I would spend all my time in the office answering emails. I also have a favorite podcaster who I listen to all the time when I’m traveling. I can download his latest episode and pass the time when I’m on a flight or a train. I do enjoy being offline as I feel as though I am always using my phone to communicate, with email, Skype, phone calls, and text. But I think if I didn’t have access to the Internet most of the time, I would worry.