Martin Luther King's Day

Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day. It is a United States holiday marking the birthdate of the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., observed on the third Monday of January each year, around the time of King's birthday, January 15.

King was the chief spokesman of the nonviolent civil rights movement, which successfully protested racial discrimination in federal and state law (at his time, for example, coloured people had to sit at the back of the buses, or had to give their seat to the whites, and there were segregated toilets for coloured and white people). He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. He was assassinated in 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee.

His most famous words were a speech he delivered in 1963, which goes "I have a dream..."


Try to complete his words as you listen to the speech.

... and happy new year!

Graphics & Myspace layouts

Merry Christmas...

Modal verbs

Revise the different uses of the modal verbs:

• can
• could
• may and might
• should
• must and have to

and also some computer and texting vocabulary.

Perfect tenses

Practise the present perfect simple and the present perfect continuous.

Can you tell the difference between

• present perfect simple and present perfect continuous?
• past simple and present perfect?

With these exercises you will!

Fashion

What to wear? That's the question every morning, because your look says a lot about you. Read this interesting text about different looks.

When you buy clothes, you should take into account the shape of your body - not all clothes will look good on you!This personalised style rule generator will tell you what suits you best.

If that's not enough, this style guide will give you some basic rules to look even better.

Finally, decide whether you are a fashion fan or a fashion slave.

End with this quiz and check your vocabulary: You are what you wear.

It's Thanksgiving!

Thanksgiving Day is a time to give thanks for the harvest and express gratitude in general. It is primarily a North American holiday which is celebrated with all the family gathered around a traditional dinner of turkey.
Watch this video to learn the origins of this celebration. Then you can try and do this quiz!