"You must do the things you think you cannot do."

A 30-day positive affirmation journey with Rose

Day 11

Learn some basic French vocabulary related to Christmas and the holidays!

Learn Basic French Podcast

Learn French: Joyeux Noël! (Merry Christmas)

Tea and the Industrial RevolutionA Cambridge professor says that a change in drinking habits was the reason for the Industrial Revolution in Britain. Anjana Abuja reports

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Alan Macfarlane, professor of anthropological science at King’s College, Cambridge has, like other historians, spent decades wrestling with the enigma of the Industrial Revolution. Why did this particular Big Bang – the world-changing birth of industry-happen in Britain? And why did it strike at the end of the 18th century?

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Macfarlane compares the puzzle to a combination lock. ‘There are about 20 different factors and all of them need to be present before the revolution can happen,’ he says. For industry to take off, there needs to be the technology and power to drive factories, large urban populations to provide cheap labour, easy transport to move goods around, an affluent middle-class willing to buy mass-produced objects, a market-driven economy and a political system that allows this to happen. While this was the case for England, other nations, such as Japan, the Netherlands and France also met some of these criteria but were not industrialising. All these factors must have been necessary. But not sufficient to cause the revolution, says Macfarlane. ‘After all, Holland had everything except coal while China also had many of these factors. Most historians are convinced there are one or two missing factors that you need to open the lock.’

C and D parts will be added below.

The Habits of Highly Effective English Communicators

IELTS READING & LISTENING & COMPREHENSION. Tea and the Industrial Revolution

En este episodio aprenderás a usar la entrada comprensible para mejorar tu español.

Spanish Shortcut

EP 23. ¿QUÉ ES LA ENTRADA COMPRENSIBLE?

So if you and your brother were bored and had nothing to do because it was raining outside, you might say to him, "I've been in the doldrums ever since the rain started."



English Vibes

Have You Ever Been 'In the Doldrums'?

Diferenças entre sotaques, palavras, expressões e gramática!

BRASILEIRIM DE CORAÇÃO

Diferenças entre Português do Brasil e Português de Portugal!

Estoy segura de que alguna vez has escuchado “Spain is different”, y los españoles también. En España tenemos algunas costumbres que para los españoles son super normales pero que para otras personas son un poco extrañas. En este episodio te comento algunas rarezas de los españoles.

Blanca to go 

35 – Cosas raras de los españoles

Transcript: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-yXZLuEYazD3tzVVJA9Eg81by-4XF498/view?usp=drivesdk

Teacher Joseph's Podcast

Shakespeare's Birthday (with transcript)

The verb to trigger and  news from the UK.
Transcript: https://drive.google.com/file/d/11jIY9mAnOb9pnMpO5TLjzZZDrG8YE0Yk/view?usp=drivesdk