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Chess in Prisons, Part 2: Middlegame
Carl Portman, Manager of Chess in Prisons (English Chess Federation), Tom Dart, Sheriff, Cook County (Illinois, USA), and Dr Mikhail Korenman, Director of Cook County Jail Chess Program talk about the many benefits of introducing chess...
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Guess Who I Am
Miss Palomine hosts a game show called Guess Who I Am. The student is challenged to answer questions about the penny, the nickel, the dime, and the quarter.
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Match That Shape
Miss Palomine hosts a game show called Match That Shape! The student must match shapes by size, by kind, and by picking shapes that are congruent.
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Match the Groups
Miss Palomine hosts a game show called Match the Groups! The student is shown three groups of objects. By counting how many objects are in each group, he plays Match the Groups!
All Ears English
2003 - How to Up your English Vocabulary Game
Are you ready to run up your All Ears English listening time? Let's get into it! How can you use the phrasal verb run up in 3 different ways? Find out today.
All Ears English
2030 - Get Off to a Flying Start With Today's Episode
Did you get off to a slow, rough, or flying start in your current job? Today find out how to talk about beginnings in English at work or in your social life.
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How gaming is good for you - 4 Mental Benefits
How gaming is good for you. In this video I discuss 4 ways video games affect your behavior and how video games have an emotional impact. Video games also improve your cognitive skills such as attention, spatial skills, visual processing...
All Ears English
1856 - There's No Rhyme or Reason! How to Say It Doesn't Make Sense in English
Why are there so many stars? Why is the sky blue? Are there some questions you just can't answer? Learn what to say in these situations in English today
All Ears English
1927 - How to Build Relationships Over Close Competitions in English
Have you been invited to an election watch party where the candidates are neck and neck? Or a sporting event with your colleagues where you have to comment on how close the game is? Find out exactly what to say in these moments in...
Curated Video
Raccoon Scores New Toys!
Our first thought was, "How can we make this into a game?" And that's just what we did! Some wonderful supporters sent Ringo fun toys in the mail and we had him test them out to determine which ones he liked best!
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Splendid Symmetry
To illustrate the concept of symmetry, Miss Palomine begins with some simple paper cut-outs. She and her friend then demonstrate to the student how to play the Symmetry Game.
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What Kind of Sound is That?
Miss Palomine hosts a game show called “What Kind of Sound is That?” Besides identifying the sound, the student must determine if the sound is loud, soft, high, or low.
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Getting in Touch
Miss Palomine discovers that her cup is leaking, thanks to her sense of touch. She tells the student that her hands helped her find out what had happened. She and the student then begin a discussion of all the information he can learn...
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The Blue Square
Miss Palomine introduces the shape of the week, the square, and the color of the week, blue. She sets up a game of checkers to show an example of squares.
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That's the Way the Ball Bounces
Miss Palomine talks about the different balls used in various sports and games. She gives examples of the different ways we move balls and the ways balls move.
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Go with the Flow
Miss Palomine shows examples of three types of matter – gas, liquid, and solid. She then describes the differences among them. She focuses on the properties of liquids, and asks the student to help her identify liquids from a list of...
The Guardian
Secondary ticketing: how it works, the law, pitfalls and the future
A Guardian investigation has uncovered evidence of football tickets being sold illegally in vast quantities, thanks to an alliance between professional touts and websites that escape the law because they are based overseas. Through...
The Guardian
Are computers killing the mystery of chess?
Chess is enjoying something of a renaissance, thanks to the Netflix series The Queen's Gambit – along with it being a game well-suited to Covid lockdowns.Yet many chess-lovers contend its lure is simultaneously being killed off by...
The Guardian
Why do so many black people love kung fu movies?
Kung fu references crop up a lot in black culture - Jim Kelly in Enter the Dragon, Wesley Snipes' Blade films and hip-hop artists like Wu-Tang Clan. This translates to the UK too. Josh Toussaint-Strauss watched a lot of martial arts...
The Guardian
The art of sport photography with Ryan Pierse
It is Friday night at the historic Sydney Cricket Ground where Collingwood are taking on Sydney. Getty’s chief photographer Ryan Pierse is running up and down the sidelines, looking for the perfect frame. ‘You need to know the sport back...
The Guardian
Frozen out: the US interpreters abandoned on Europe’s border
Ahmad and Mati served the US military as interpreters during the war in Afghanistan, but like many others who did so they haven’t been granted visas to emigrate to the US. With their lives threatened by the Taliban, they joined migrants...
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Paris: where street basketball meets hip-hop
Quai 54 is the biggest street basketball championship in Europe, played in the centre of Paris against a backdrop of the Champs-Élysées and the Eiffel Tower. Iman Amrani had courtside access to the event and went to explore the...
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Guess The Animal By Sound! | New Keeper!
Meet our new Animal Keeper during this fun new game called Guess The Animal By Sound! Who will win this blindfolded test of listening and knowing the animals? Who is this new keeper? Watch to find out!
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Game Time With Our Picky Porcupine!
Will he lick it? Kemosabe the prehensile tailed porcupine rates random household items by sniffing, touching, or licking. Enjoy!