Watch this video and answer these issues:
- Why is breakfast important?
- Name different kinds of bad breakfast
- Name different kinds of bad habits in relation to breakfast
- Make a list of healthy menus for breakfast. How can you prepare them?
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Healthy breakfast
Watch this video and answer these issues:
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English level B1
This is my website for English level B1, where you´ll find grammar explanations, vocabulary, worksheets, videos and links to online exercises, reading and pronunciation. This is the link.
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Environmental problems
Watch Severn Suzuki, member of the Environmental Children´s organisation (ECO), speaking at the UN Earth Summit in 1992
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United Kingdom
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United Kingdom
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The United Kingdom
The United Kingdom consists of four countries:
- England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland
Do you want to know something about the Union Jack, as the national flag of the United Kingdom is called?
THE UK
- The United Kingdom consists of four countries: England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Great Britain consists of The United Kingdom and The Republic of Ireland
This is its flag
Edgar Allan Poe
This year we celebrate Edgar Allan Poe´s bicentenary. Here you can read his biography:
Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19th 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts and died on October 7th in Baltimore, Maryland. He is a famous short-story writer, poet, critic and editor known for his cultivation of mystery and the macabre.
His mother was English and she was an actress. His father was American and he was an actor too. After his mother died in 1811, when he was only two years old, he was grown up by John Allan, a Richmond merchant and his wife, but they never adopted him.
From 1815 to 1820 he lived in Scotland and England, where he was given a classical education and then moved to Richmond again. Then he studied at the University of Virginia for 11 months, but his guardian got angry with him because he had lost money by gambling at the university and he had to drop out. So he came back to Richmond to find her girlfriend engaged to another man.
Then he went to Boston and in 1827 he published a pamphlet of poems, Tamerlane. As he was very poor he was forced to join the army under the name of Edgar A. Perry. When her foster mother died, Allan took him out of the army and helped him enter the Military Academy at West Point. Meanwhile Edgar published a second book, El Araaf, Tamerlane and other poems.
In 1831 he got himself dismissed from the Academy by being absent from all the drills and classes for a week and went to New York, where he published a book , Poems. He then returned to Baltimore to live with his aunt and started writing prose tales. Five of these appeared in the Philadelphia Saturday Courier in 1832.
With the December issue of 1835, Poe began editing the Southern Literary Messenger for Thomas W. White in Richmond; he held this position until January, 1837. During this time, Poe married his young cousin, Virginia Clemm in Richmond on May 16, 1836. She was only 13.
Poe was dismissed from his job in Richmond, apparently for drinking, and went to New York City. Drinking was in fact a problem in his life.. While in New York City in 1838 he published a long prose narrative, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, combining (as so often in his tales) much factual material with the wildest fantasies. In 1839 he became coeditor of Burton's Gentleman's Magazine in Philadelphia. There a contract for a monthly feature stimulated him to write “William Wilson” and “The Fall of the House of Usher,” stories of supernatural horror.
Later in 1839 Poe's Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque appeared (dated 1840). He resigned from Burton's about June 1840 but returned in 1841 to edit its successor, Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine, in which he printed the first detective story, “The Murders in the Rue Morgue.” In 1843 his “The Gold-Bug” won a prize of $100 from the Philadelphia Dollar Newspaper, which gave him great publicity. In 1844 he returned to New York, wrote “The Balloon-Hoax” for the Sun, and became subeditor of the New York Mirror under N.P. Willis, thereafter a lifelong friend. In the New York Mirror of January 29, 1845, appeared his most famous poem, “The Raven,” which gave him national fame at once. Poe then became editor of the Broadway Journal, a short-lived weekly magazine , in which he republished most of his short stories, in 1845. His The Raven and Other Poems and a selection of his Tales came out in 1845, and in 1846 Poe moved to a cottage at Fordham (now part of New York City), where he wrote for Godey's Lady's Book (May–October 1846) “The Literati of New York City”—gossipy sketches on personalities of the day, which led to a libel suit.
The year 1846 was a tragic one. Poe rented the little cottage at Fordham, where he lived the last three years of his life. The Broadway Journal failed, and Virginia became very ill and died on January 30, 1847. After his wife's death, Poe perhaps yielded more often to a weakness for drink . He was unable to take even a little alcohol without a change of personality, and any excess was accompanied by physical prostration. Throughout his life those illnesses had interfered with his success as an editor, and had given him a reputation for intemperateness that he scarcely deserved.
In his latter years, Poe was interested in several women. They included the poetess, Mrs. Sarah Helen Whitman, Mrs. Charles Richmond, and the widow, Mrs. Sarah Elmira Shelton, whom he had known in his boyhood as Miss Royster.
The circumstances of Poe's death remain a mystery. After a visit to Norfolk and Richmond for lectures, he was found in Baltimore in a miserable condition and taken unconscious to a hospital where he died on Sunday, October 7, 1849. He was buried in the yard of Westminster Presbyterian Church in Baltimore, Maryland.
In personal appearance, Poe was a quiet, shy-looking but handsome man; he was slightly built, and was five feet, eight inches in height. His mouth was considered beautiful. His eyes, with long dark lashes, were hazel-gray.
Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19th 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts and died on October 7th in Baltimore, Maryland. He is a famous short-story writer, poet, critic and editor known for his cultivation of mystery and the macabre.
His mother was English and she was an actress. His father was American and he was an actor too. After his mother died in 1811, when he was only two years old, he was grown up by John Allan, a Richmond merchant and his wife, but they never adopted him.
From 1815 to 1820 he lived in Scotland and England, where he was given a classical education and then moved to Richmond again. Then he studied at the University of Virginia for 11 months, but his guardian got angry with him because he had lost money by gambling at the university and he had to drop out. So he came back to Richmond to find her girlfriend engaged to another man.
Then he went to Boston and in 1827 he published a pamphlet of poems, Tamerlane. As he was very poor he was forced to join the army under the name of Edgar A. Perry. When her foster mother died, Allan took him out of the army and helped him enter the Military Academy at West Point. Meanwhile Edgar published a second book, El Araaf, Tamerlane and other poems.
In 1831 he got himself dismissed from the Academy by being absent from all the drills and classes for a week and went to New York, where he published a book , Poems. He then returned to Baltimore to live with his aunt and started writing prose tales. Five of these appeared in the Philadelphia Saturday Courier in 1832.
With the December issue of 1835, Poe began editing the Southern Literary Messenger for Thomas W. White in Richmond; he held this position until January, 1837. During this time, Poe married his young cousin, Virginia Clemm in Richmond on May 16, 1836. She was only 13.
Poe was dismissed from his job in Richmond, apparently for drinking, and went to New York City. Drinking was in fact a problem in his life.. While in New York City in 1838 he published a long prose narrative, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, combining (as so often in his tales) much factual material with the wildest fantasies. In 1839 he became coeditor of Burton's Gentleman's Magazine in Philadelphia. There a contract for a monthly feature stimulated him to write “William Wilson” and “The Fall of the House of Usher,” stories of supernatural horror.
Later in 1839 Poe's Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque appeared (dated 1840). He resigned from Burton's about June 1840 but returned in 1841 to edit its successor, Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine, in which he printed the first detective story, “The Murders in the Rue Morgue.” In 1843 his “The Gold-Bug” won a prize of $100 from the Philadelphia Dollar Newspaper, which gave him great publicity. In 1844 he returned to New York, wrote “The Balloon-Hoax” for the Sun, and became subeditor of the New York Mirror under N.P. Willis, thereafter a lifelong friend. In the New York Mirror of January 29, 1845, appeared his most famous poem, “The Raven,” which gave him national fame at once. Poe then became editor of the Broadway Journal, a short-lived weekly magazine , in which he republished most of his short stories, in 1845. His The Raven and Other Poems and a selection of his Tales came out in 1845, and in 1846 Poe moved to a cottage at Fordham (now part of New York City), where he wrote for Godey's Lady's Book (May–October 1846) “The Literati of New York City”—gossipy sketches on personalities of the day, which led to a libel suit.
The year 1846 was a tragic one. Poe rented the little cottage at Fordham, where he lived the last three years of his life. The Broadway Journal failed, and Virginia became very ill and died on January 30, 1847. After his wife's death, Poe perhaps yielded more often to a weakness for drink . He was unable to take even a little alcohol without a change of personality, and any excess was accompanied by physical prostration. Throughout his life those illnesses had interfered with his success as an editor, and had given him a reputation for intemperateness that he scarcely deserved.
In his latter years, Poe was interested in several women. They included the poetess, Mrs. Sarah Helen Whitman, Mrs. Charles Richmond, and the widow, Mrs. Sarah Elmira Shelton, whom he had known in his boyhood as Miss Royster.
The circumstances of Poe's death remain a mystery. After a visit to Norfolk and Richmond for lectures, he was found in Baltimore in a miserable condition and taken unconscious to a hospital where he died on Sunday, October 7, 1849. He was buried in the yard of Westminster Presbyterian Church in Baltimore, Maryland.
In personal appearance, Poe was a quiet, shy-looking but handsome man; he was slightly built, and was five feet, eight inches in height. His mouth was considered beautiful. His eyes, with long dark lashes, were hazel-gray.
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