I rise from my bed of sickness to pen you these lines...
Kidding aside I have really been what my Australian Cousins would call 'crook', but am hopefully recovered sufficiently to enjoy St David's Day, the Welsh National Day.
Climb onto our Magic Internet Carpet, and off we go:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOv6qwIandk

Why not try a tasty Welsh recipe today?

http://mashable.com/2015/02/26/st-davids-day/

 And whilst you  tuck in, listen to some great Welsh Music:

The largest Male Voice Choir ever, in the Millenium Stadium in Cardiff (an older recording):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nFE3VSBWG0

 And our very own favourites, Only Boys Aloud, this time with subtitles in English & Welsh:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwQu8aXl1b4


Hapus Dydd Gŵyl Dewi!

Good afternoon!
While I was looking for activities for next week I found some really exciting online things.
Macmillan has an excellent all-round site, but I have fallen  in love with this:
http://www.macmillandictionary.com/verb_wheel/

It's like a roulette wheel, or one-armed bandit, to help you practise your irregular verbs. Now that is fun!

Some groups have been listening to music to fill in the gaps in the lyrics. It is quite tricky. If you want to practise, try going to YouTube and then typing in the name of your favourite song then adding 'English subtitles'.
E.g.:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJjvtNWV990

(That has Spanish subtitles too!)

A strange story this week was that Russian fighters were flying over (or near) Cornwall. So the BBC has published a handy guide to recognizing Russian planes:
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-31537705

The BBC Magazine is always good anyway: short articles, Video links  and more.

Hope you all have a good week.

Welcome back everyone, and I hope it's not too late to wish you all a Happy New Year.
The snowdrops and cyclamen are already through in the garden. The cyclamen are particularly special as they are from Cornwall and I didn't really expect them to survive in this climate. Here's where I bought them many years ago:
http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/cotehele/
I planted them so they are the first thing I see when I open the door - a little bit of Heimat.

Some of us have been reviewing the present tenses this week. Here's some online practice for Eager Beavers:

http://www.grammar-quizzes.com/prestensum.html

I'm really excited about this afternoon as the second round of the Six Nations Championship is this weekend. This afternoon Wales play Scotland at Murrayfield:
http://www.rbs6nations.com/en/home.php

Here's a cute online Memory game to practise your sports vocabulary:

http://www.eslgamesplus.com/sports-vocabulary-esl-memory-game/

Have fun and Go Wales!