Peerless

When I saw this article about Andrea Pirlo in today's Guardian, it reminded me of our discussion of the word "peerless" in last Thursday's class.

Suggested reading

The main purpose of this blog is to encourage you to do as much reading as possible...in English of course. I don't really mind what you read. It's important that it's something that you find interesting, but it would also be good if you chose texts that help you develop your vocabulary (i.e. nothing *too* easy). I will post links to good online resources, but if you find other sites by yourself, please share your own recommendations by making comments or posts on this site. As a starting point, I'd like to recommend the following:

• The Economist 
• New Scientist 
• The Guardian
• The Independent
• The Telegraph
• The BBC

 for listening practice, there are lots of interesting clips on the following sites:

• The Institute for Cultural Diplomacy
• TED

All of these links, and many more, can also be found on my Online Learning Resources Blog.

Finally, if like me you would rather read and talk about football than, well, most other subjects, there's plenty of intelligent football writing in the quality British newspapers (I tend to read the Guardian football pages over breakfast every morning), but there's also a great blog called The Swiss Ramble, which combines football and economics in a fascinating way (if you like that kind of thing).