(2NI) More about shopping

Only 20% of British high street shops remain vacant
A survey suggests that the British high street may not be declining by as much as had been feared, following the collapse of big names including Woolworths, HMV and Oddbins.

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-26894762

(2NB) Easy Dialogues

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/course/emw/unit-4

Big Ben 'bongs' to be silenced for £29m refurbishment

Britain's most famous clock tower is to fall silent so that urgent repair work can be carried out at a cost of £29m.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-36138203

Shakespeare Words

The Bard is credited with inventing several hundred English words. Test your knowledge of Bard-influenced corporate lingo – and Iron Maiden songs.

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20160422-spot-the-real-shakespeare-words-and-the-fakes

(2NB) Food & Restaurants

https://elt.oup.com/student/englishfile/elementary/b_vocabulary/bank14/vocabulary14_01?cc=global&selLanguage=en

http://www.parapal-online.co.uk/picture_dict/vegetables.html

http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/word-games/restaurant

Prince: his 10 greatest songs from Head to Cream (and Purple Rain in between)

Choosing the 10 best songs by the most ludicrously prolific – and riotously diverse – artist of the rock’n’roll era seems on the face to it to be flatly absurd. Where would you start? How could you possibly stop?

http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2016/apr/21/prince-10-best-purple-rain-1999-when-doves-cry

(2NI) Shopping

Taste of home: The enduring popularity of expat food shops

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-35531937

(2NI) Home

In The Digital Human: Home Aleks asks what turns a space into a place and whether we really need bricks and mortar anymore, when home can be anywhere you can go online.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b076bz3l#play

(2NB) House

http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/grammar-vocabulary/vocabulary-exercises/bedroom
http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/grammar-vocabulary/vocabulary-exercises/living-room
http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/grammar-vocabulary/vocabulary-exercises/bathroom
http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/grammar-vocabulary/vocabulary-exercises/kitchen

(2NI) Like or As?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/learnit/learnitv63.shtml

http://www.bristol.ac.uk/arts/exercises/grammar/grammar_tutorial/page_19.htm

http://www.better-english.com/grammar/aslike.htm

http://www.usingenglish.com/quizzes/257.html

(2NI) House

Have you ever visited a celebrity's house?
What was it like?
Did you enjoy the visit?

Here you have Sir Walter Scott's Home in Scotland and Shakespeare's family homes in Stratford-Upon-Avon.

ps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhbdfZyg1Wo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhbdfZyg1Wo

(2NB, 2NI) Lyrics training

Learn English in a fun way with the music video and the lyrics of songs.

http://lyricstraining.com/play/james-morrison/undiscovered/HofqYNAlCo#!playme

April Fool's Day: 10 stories that look like pranks but aren't.

April Fools' Day (sometimes called All Fools' Day) is celebrated every year on 1 April by playing practical jokes and spreading hoaxes. The jokes and their victims are called April fools. People playing April Fool jokes expose their prank by shouting April Fool. Some newspapers, magazines, and other published media report fake stories, which are usually explained the next day or below the news section in small letters. Although popular since the 19th century, the day is not a public holiday in any country.

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35941556