May
28
Presentations
May 28, 2006 | Comments Off
Those of you who have already started to prepare your assignment’s presentation may benefit from visiting this site. Give it a try and tell us how useful you find the exercise. Cheers.
May
18
Exams and sleep
May 18, 2006 | 2 Comments
Researchers from Australia and New Zealand have shown that being awake for 18 hours has negative effects on our mental performance.
Actually, being awake for 17-19.6 hours can affect our mental performance in the same way as blood alcohol level from 0.055 to 0.1%. As we all know, this means that driving a car is not [...]
May
16
Reading and listening
May 16, 2006 | Comments Off
I’d like to share a lovely website with you: it’s the Speak Up Magazine. You can find lots of texts that range from interviews with celebrities to discussions of food and travel. They are all accompanied with recordings of these texts. Some of them are quite easy to follow (suitable for those of you who [...]
