A pearl among BBC Drama of the Week

Listening English podcast sometimes can give you some extras.

That happened when I found “My Dear Bessie” audio material - one of BBC Drama’s episode.

You can read more about it here, but unfortunately it’s not available anymore.

Actually I found the material on BBC Drama podcast webpage (where podcast are accessible for everyone and for a little longer) - Drama of the Week. 

As I wrote before I found “My Bear Bessie” there and the podcast turned out to be a real pearl for me:

• First because it’s a real love story told by letters of two separated by Second World War.
• Second because the story is beautiful, full of warmth and passion and it’s a real proof that a true love exist.
• Third because in the podcast star Benedict Cumberbatch and Louise Brealey who you could see in the new adaptation of Sherlock Holmes (I like them both a lot).
• Fourth because I found much more materials about the story which made me really hooked on it.

Here you can find some of them:

http://www.simongarfield.com/pages/books/my_dear_bessie.htm - the book website

Some films with letters read by Sherlock Holmes stars:

So I strongly recommend you to check the podcast regularly. Maybe you, like me, find a real pearl, a material created for you (which suits your interests and needs perfectly). 

A word of the week – smug

Here is a mem which can be useful for remembering the word:

And here some other information:

A word of the week: SMUG
Category: aspects of character
You can find "smug" sentence examples in this dictionary:
http://sentence.yourdictionary.com/smug

Spelling can be easier than you think with my recent discovery

If you like me have problems with spelling, you’d be glad to know some new ideas of dealing with it.

I’ve found some interesting tips on The spelling blog which I think you also find quite useful.

http://thespellingblog.blogspot.co.uk/

Here are some examples of posts which can show you how good the material on the blog is:

Definitely this post is worth to see. You can find there some useful tricks and learn how to spell the word DEFINITELY and what to do to remember spelling other words too:

Learning to spell Definitely

 

You can find out how different difficult words  are spelt and how to remember that spelling:

10 commonly misspelled words -and how to remember them (1)

And last example. You can find here some rules, multimedia and some interactive tools which help you to remember them:

word beginnings

'i before e' rule - Stephen Fry and friends

 

There are so many interesting things that you just have to check it by yourself and find what is more important for you.

Thank you Johanna Stirling for that excellent blog.

Another word of the week mem

A word of the week: SLOB
Category: aspects of character

 You can also like it on Facebook fanpage

BBC podcasts rule

Maybe you don’t realise but I’m a big fun of podcasts. By listening to them I could improve my listening skills a lot. But I like them not only because of that. I like them mostly because they are interesting, eye-opening and informative.

I’ve been testing lately a new app created for podcast fans called Podcast Addict (I intend to write more about it in next posts). And I discovered some new podcasts which are worth listening to and subscribe.

This time my favourite podcast are more about serious staff (current affairs, facts, science):

Documentaries - http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/docarchive

Documentary of the Week - http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/r4choice

Science in Action - http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/scia

I also discovered some fictional materials, and these in my opinion, are the best:

Drama of the Week - http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/ptw

As you can see I prefer to listen to British accents, if you do like them as me try one or more of my propositions and enjoy listening!