Monday, 29 September 2014

Teen Entrepreneurs.

Here are the stories of two teenagers who set up their own business when they were still at school.

What difficulties did they encounter? How did they achieve success? What does it take to become a successful entrepreneur?







Thursday, 25 September 2014

EUROPEAN DAY OF LANGUAGES

How many European languages can you speak? How many languages are there? Some are spoken by millions, some are spoken by a few hundreds. 




And you thought you could speak a few languages!!




  1. Where does the word Polyglot come from?
  2.  Is Tim equally fluent in all the 20 languages? 
  3.  What about his parents? Can they speak any foreign languages?
  4.  What was the first language he learnt? 
  5.  'If you talk to a man in his second language, you speak to his brain; if you speak to him in his mother language you are talking to his heart'. Who said that?

Saturday, 20 September 2014

DYNAMO: MAGICIAN IMPOSSIBLE

Steve Frayne, better known as DYNAMO, is one of the world's best known magicians.Listen to him talking about his life  and career.







  • Get as much information as you can and then write an article about DYNAMO.
  • Look for videos of some of his tricks. Which do you find most fascinating?