I Spy: Dorm Room
What hidden things are lying around this dorm room? You will definitely learn some new vocabulary and practice your English here!
Morning Walk
The sun is coming up from behind the far-away mountains, but it’s hiding behind a thin layer of clouds and fog. This keeps the air in the morning cool, and a layer of fog is spread out over the river valley. It’s the perfect time for a refreshing morning walk. Now, there’s an old man…
Fishing at the Lake
Learn about physical, mental, and emotional recovery while practicing some new English vocabulary related to fishing at the lake!
Drones
There are a lot of useful words we can learn about drones! See this free lesson to add them to your vocabulary!
Mountain Climbing
She is just a silhouette. Behind her are fluffy, white clouds, lit up by the early morning sun rising over the mountains in the distance, while she is a dark shape. She is mountain climbing, alone. This woman got up in the middle of the night to start her climb. The weather in the afternoon…
Elephants
He’s a calf. He’s the perfect meal for a pride of lions or a pack of wild dogs. Actually, he’s a week’s worth of meals! That’s why he’s staying very close to his herd, in-between an adult and an adolescent. Why is a calf big enough to be a week’s worth of meals for a…
Waiting for the Train
Warm on the inside, cold on the outside. Cold on the outside, and cold on the inside. The people standing on the platform at the Briercrest train station had very different feelings waiting for the train. The common feeling amongst them all was the anxiety of waiting for the train. Blink and you’ll miss it,…
Racing Down the Track
There’s something special about car racing. Unlike running, horse racing, boat racing, and most other forms of racing, car racing isn’t just going straight as fast as possible (well, usually). Car racing has uphills and downhills, sharp lefts and sharp rights, speeding up and slowing down, blocking and passing. That’s why you’ve never seen a…
Skate Park
Jake was drinking his fourth bottle of water. It was hot! They were having a big heatwave, so temperatures had been high for days, and they were going to stay high. He was at a skate park. Just an hour earlier, he and his friends were sitting around in the AC with nothing to do. …
Where’s my house? (My Neighborhood)
Can you find my house? I’m going to describe my neighborhood, and you have to look at this top-down view of it to figure out which house is mine. You think that’s easy? Well, let’s see how easy it is. Pay attention to the clues! My house is in a new neighborhood. Our neighborhood has…
