I seem to have spent too much time in traffic jams over the last few weeks. It's not all that much fun, but made me think you might enjoy some traffic vocabulary:

http://www.stickyball.net/?id=492
(There 's even a little test at the end to make sure you have learned everything.)


Let's hope you never get stopped by the Police, but you can print this vocabulary out to have with you, just in case:

http://www.englishclub.com/english-for-work/police-traffic.htm


And here's a TV documentary about a week in the life of the South Wales Police:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BIgSi6CbW4

Drive carefully and watch out for the Belisha Beacons!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belisha_beacon

We have been in election fever recently.  The Indian elections are overwhelming in terms of numbers: 814 MILLION voters! How did they work,  who was involved? See what the BBC has to say:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-26869578

This has brought back memories of my trip to India to visit Laura.  I was overwhelmed by the colours, the foods, by everything in fact. If you can, get hold of a DVD of the movie Monsoon Wedding, to give yourself a flavour:

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

And here's an easy-to-make recipe to nibbleonwhilst watching:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caFH9ciL0mI

And here you can watch the entire Gandhi movie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HT4BM7cgJw

Here's some useful vocabulary for elections:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjyAWlhALWk

I think that's enough to keep you busy; I'm off to watch my DVD box set of Broadchurch,  big winner at the BAFTAs yesterday:

http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2014/may/18/broadchurch-bafta-television-Awards

It's the day after the night before here, as somehow we got caught up in watching the Eurovision Song Contest.

Of course, it's not like it was in the good old days. It used to be  one of the highspots of my year as a little girl, I just loved all those Europeans!  And in those days, the Royaume Uni often won.
Here's Sandie:

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

And Lulu, doing her very best. Were skirts really that short?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ew43u2gS0Y

Unfortunately these days the UK has more practice being a plucky loser. Pardon me if I slip Englebert in here, I know he wasn't the youngest of candidates, but the song has class:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFNv9pjqZkk

For some more European practice try this BBC Quiz:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2316583.stm

This is a fun interactive map of Europe:
http://www.yourchildlearns.com/europe_map.htm

And if you're in the mood for  even more quizzes, these should keep you busy:

http://www.triviaplaza.com/geography-europe-quizzes/

Good morning everyone,
Rushing in to write to you all before before we go to the nursery in Armsen, highly recommended:

http://www.gaertnerei-oestmann-gruenerleben.de/

Yes, the last days have been spent in the garden - rediscovering all the old friends bursting through and sadly noticing what has not survived. How do plants simply disappear?
The plastic greenhouse is doing an excellent job, and the next project is to be pineapples. We have been wondering if we need male & female plants, and if so how choose between the sexes at Netto.
Fortunately we have plenty of insects buzzing around, which made me think you might enjoy some Insectalia.

Here are all sorts of fun things to do with a list on insect vocabulary:

http://www.manythings.org/vocabulary/lists/e/words.php?f=insects

Here's a nice online picture dictionary of insects. It's says 'For kids', but I thinkit's fine for us too.
http://englishwilleasy.com/english-through-pictures/insects/

And here a short Video from the BBC:

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140502-what-if-bees-went-extinct

Andjus in case that's not enough to keep you busy this week, here's a site to practise all sorts of things including prepositions.

http://www.eslgamesplus.com/sentence-monkey/

Enjoy!