Fining parents

A discussion on Five News about fining parents over their children's absence from school.

Truancy

Here's the video we watched in class. Below you can find some vocab to help you understand it.



supply teacher: a teacher employed to replace other teachers when they are absent
kit: clothes and equipment needed for a sport
uncommunicative: not willing to talk or to give information
boundaries: the limits of an activity or experience
standards: principles of propriety, honesty, and integrity
let someone have their way: allow them to have or do what they want

Stand up straight!

This is the listening we did the other day about posture.
Many of us do not stand, sit or walk correctly and according to research, people in the UK have the worst posture in Europe. Join Rosie and Kate as they discuss the problems a bad posture can cause and hear from an expert about how we should be walking.

Download the audio
Read the transcript

Spain's Stolen Babies

Katya meets the heartbroken families in Spain searching for their children and the trafficked babies, now grown up, searching for their biological relatives and their true identities.
Listen to the report from the BBC World Service: Download audio

Find out more about this news here

Psycho & Poltergeist

Since we've been talking about horror films, here's the trailer for Hitchcock's
Psycho and Spielberg's Poltergeist.

This is the first reading for this course. Click on the title to find some information about the book and also read an extract from the novel, Sushi for Beginners by Marian Keyes.

Secrets of Body Language

Body language is a form of non-verbal communication, which consists of body posture, gestures, facial expressions, and eye movements. Humans send and interpret such signals almost entirely subconsciously.
In this documentary we can see examples of famous people's body language.