Our tailor-made English learning websites provide access to interactive videos, audio, animations (动画)and games. Find out more about our LearnEnglish website, LearnEnglish Kids website, LearnEnglish Teens website and LearnEnglish with Timmy.

LearnEnglish website

Our LearnEnglish website is designed for adult learners of English. Improve your English through videos，podcasts (播客)and games. You can also interact with other learners.

LearnEnglish Kids website

LearnEnglish Kids is for children who are learning English as a second or foreign language. Children can have fun learning English through games, songs, stories and other activities. Teachers can use many of the resources from the site in the classroom. There is also a support section for parents looking to help their children learn English outside of the classroom.

LearnEnglish Teens website

Our LearnEnglish Teens website is designed for 13-to-17-year olds.You can find top tips to pass your exams, practise your English grammar and improve your vocabulary through interactive videos, games and exercises. Read about life in the UK and share your opinions with other teens.

LearnEnglish with Timmy

Children aged 6 years and younger can now play exciting games and listen to English words to learn about numbers, colors, shapes and food with Timmy and his friends. The app is developed by the British Council in collaboration with Aardman Animations, the creators of Shaun the Sheep and Timmy Time.

My wife has watched me write, blog and make speeches for a few years now. I’ve encouraged her to do her own video blog (vlog), too, because she is always watching them, but she hasn’t been interested in the spotlight.

Now that enough time has passed, she is ready to go for it! Angelika is a great cook, so she is going to do a cooking show. I am just thrilled that she has found a passion to pursue in a way that works for her.

I’m smart enough to step back and let her go at her own pace. I know that being there for emotional support or however she needs me is important. Now that my wife will have a studio worthy of her talents and personality, she will only make the kitchen look better.

Part of me hopes that I will spend the rest of my life watching and tasting her creations. When you start to express your creative drive, it can be a wonderful ride. When the love of your life takes the ride with you, and starts to drive, it’s pretty cool way to travel through life.

I am at my best when being creative, whether in front of a keyboard or a live audience. I have always encouraged creative answers to life. There is always more than one right way to do something.

Yes, public attention in our social media world has become a marker of success, but it means more when you are sending a positive message. Helping people enjoy their lives a little more is a big deal.

This project will not just make her happy but make us closer. I am aware that this is her project, not mine. I will answer any questions she asks but be careful about offering unwanted advice. What she doesn't know she will learn. You never want to take that process away from anyone.

If you visit Rwanda’s capital city of Kigali, you’ll see how the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the city. There are dozens of hand-washing basins at the city’s bus stations that allow passengers to wash their hands before getting on the bus. Layla Mc Cay, director of the Centre for Urban Design and Mental Health in the AUAS? told the BBC, “If everyone was washing their hands actively, we would see a reduction in all types of infection.”

In fact, every time there is a serious disease outbreak somewhere in the world, city planners come up with new ideas to fight it. Pandemics have been shaping our cities for a long time.

In 1854, for example, a cholera (霍乱) outbreak in London, UK led to the design of modern sewers (下水道).At that time, Londoners’ drinking water came from groundwater. It was heavily polluted by wastewater. The sewer system separated the wastewater from the groundwater. This stopped the spread of cholera.“By sewering certain towns in England, the death rate from lung diseases alone was reduced by 50 percent,” George Pierson wrote in his book The Separate System of Sewerage.

In New York,US,tuberculosis(肺结核)killed many people in the early 1900s. One reason was the overcrowded conditions in apartment buildings. Eventually the New York government made laws that required all apartments to have air shafts, windows, running water and indoor toilets.

During this year’s pandemic, Mayor of Paris Anne Hidaogo introduced the idea of decentralizing the city——every neighborhood should have a mix of stores, homes, offices, and other important buildings. Every basic need should be just a 15-minute walk away. This would reduce crowding on public transportation and prevent the spread of disease.

Do you have devices(装置)in your home like cell phone, Wi-Fi network, computer, microwave oven, Bluetooth, electrical, electrical wiring...?All these devices produce radiation(辐射)that is dangerous for you and your family’s health. How can you reduce such harm to your health?

Bio Safe is a proven safeguard that prevents radio-frequency radiation from reaching your body. It absorbs the electromagnetic waves before they can get to you. Put it on the back of your phone or any device that produces radiation and get rid of radiation forever.

Basically, Bio Safe is a small chip that is produced with a unique combination of minerals. This material has been designed to absorb and practically get rid of the electromagnetic waves produced by mobile phones and other telecommunication devices. Sticking the Bio Safe chip onto the back of your mobile device significantly reduces the heat produced by electromagnetic fields. This heat is what makes the radiation a lasting health risk. An increase of body heat could cause more cell changes in structure, which leads to cancer.

Recently conducted studies have shown that Bio Safe reduces electromagnetic radiation and the heat produced by tested phones up to 99.95% in germ-free laboratory conditions. Further testing showed that Bio Safe is able to reach 80% with any kind of phone in any environment, which makes it one of the most effective products on the market.

What makes Bio Safe so special?

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4.It’s a simple, one-step solution. Just place the Bio Safe label on the device.

When you let an idea, image or desire control your thoughts or feelings, that is obsession. You may not realize that you obsess more than you know.    16    In other words, if someone obsesses over positive, encouraging ideas, then truly amazing things can happen.

However, if one’s devotion turns to obsession and it has taken over, the obsession will have a negative effect on daily activities and your relationships and make you exhausted physically and emotionally.    17    

Learn about some thought-stopping techniques. Identify when you’re having the obsession in mind, and consciously stop yourself and think about something else.     18    Besides, you may as well write the obsession down and figure out how much time and money you have devoted to it.

    19     Spend some time with your thoughts, keep a journal and take a closer look at what that activity or hobby means to you and what it would happen if you could not do it Keep track of your behavior and the negative results this obsession brings on.    20    Talk to your friends and family and get response.

If you still feel like you can’t control it, and not doing it begins to give you anxiety and stress, please ask a professional for help.

Every Saturday, my mom and dad picked me up from school in a yellow car. What happened last time stayed_______in my mind.

As I slid into the back seat as usual, my dad tried to_________the car. It gave several dry_________,and then the engine stopped turning over. My dad sat in _______, and my mom turned around, asking me what we should do. Eight years old, I, without_________,told her that we had to wait for a yellow butterfly to touch the car_______it would work again. She only smiled, and then she_________with my dad what to do next. Finally, dad attempted to go to the nearest_________for help. I remember him carrying a container of gas,_________up the car and________ the car wouldn’t start. My mom then got out of the car, waving to stop a taxi.__________taking us home, the driver squirted (喷，洒)some gas on the engine, which seemed to do the__________--our car started right away.

Along the way, I fell into a sound sleep. Suddenly, mum__________ me all excited and let out a cry, her voice full of__________.Opening my eyes, I turned to where she was__________.

Fluttering around the rearview mirror (后视镜)was a tiny yellow butterfly.

A young Tibetan herdsman,     36    name transliterates as Dingzhen in Mandarin, has become a national heartthrob in China after millions of netizens became    37    (fan) of his “clean eyes and pure smile”.

About two weeks ago, a photographer went to Li tang    38    (take) some pictures, and he accidentally shot a video of Dingzhen. In the video, Dingzhen was captured walking in front of his home and    39     (smile) shyly towards the camera. The photographer posted the video on Douyin, and it soon gained two million likes and more than 100,000 comments. Some netizens commented that “the young man’s eyes are full    40    stars and are as pure    41    the blue sky behind him”.

Dingzhen’s sudden popularity made him get    42    large number of fans on China’s social media platforms. When Dingzhen registered a new account on Douyin on November 19, he gained nearly 2 million followers overnight, and his first video    43    (view) about 14 million times in a day.

However, some net users worried that his sudden hit would make his life disturbed, as many netizens have    44     (eager) dug up all the details they can find about the young man. Some entertainment companies intend to employ him. However, Dingzhen refuses and determines to make a living on    45    (he) own.