The Common European Framework? We don't need bureaucrats to tell us what to teach! | Oxford University Press

I find this article extremely interesting. I agreed with it before I even came across it. We cannot teach as we think we should because we are restricted by exam regulations coming from ignorant bodies somewhere "out".
The Common European Framework? We don't need bureaucrats to tell us what to teach! Oxford University Press

April Fool's Day

April 1st is approaching, here are some fool quotes:
"Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me."
"You can fool some of the people all the time, and all the people some of the time but you cannot fool all the people all the time." (Abraham Lincoln)
"A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes." (Bruce Willis)
"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise knows himself to be a fool." (Shakespeare)

The loudest cat in the world

Click on this link to watch and listen to Smokey purr.

Match the decibels with what they refer to. A) 20 B) 65 C) 70 D) 92

i) an average cat's voice
ii) a washing machine
iii) Smokey's purr
iiii) Smokey's purr from 6.5 feet's distance
True or false?
Smokey is unfriendly.
It purrs as loudly as a truck engine.
It doesn't annoy its owners.
The Guiness Book of Records had a category for the loudest cat.

Check this article for the correct answers. http://news.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474979157842

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Football Rivalry. Listening task from BBC 6 Minute English.
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