Learning Through Conversation

Winter blues

The image of the blue skies, the snow on the trees, it looks very attractive, but it's not really the case, is it? Winter is difficult...
Jul 04,2015

Follow the flame

7,300 of the torchbearers are just everyday people, people chosen by their community for making some kind of contribution; for example they're charity workers, or they're voluntary workers, teachers chosen by their school pupils. So basically the torchbearers are people who have helped other people i..
Jul 04,2015

Please, sir

I teach two 55 minute lessons then there's a half hour break, then another two 55 minute lessons. Then there's lunch and sometimes in the afternoon another two lessons...
Jul 04,2015

British icons: the cuppa

Tea was first grown and drank in China and the Chinese started drinking tea almost 5,000 years ago...
Jul 04,2015

Spring is in the air

If you're living in the Northern Hemisphere we want you to leave the city and head to the countryside because spring is here...
Jul 04,2015

In a lather

I think the first thing we discovered it's not too hard. But more importantly it's a great way to use up our extra olive oil...
Jul 04,2015

The 5 senses

We're talking about senses. The sense of sight, smell, taste, hearing and touch...
Jul 04,2015

Back to school

I think the summer holidays were too long and I wanted to get back to school and, yes, meet all my old friends again...
Jul 04,2015

The tipping point

Everest's covered in tonnes of rubbish that the climbers have left behind. ..
Jul 04,2015

The royal family

Queen Elizabeth the Second and her husband Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, married 64 years ago and in that time she’s had four children and eight grandchildren...
Jul 04,2015