intro

Welcome! This site is for students to practice their English and keep up to date with environmental issues.

TEN MINUTES OF ENGLISH A DAY!
You can find a mixture of reading, crosswords, videos and short English lessons: these will normally be vocabulary, but I may also treat you to some grammar!

There are now over 260 lessons on this blog. Look through the Blog archive, Post labels and Popular Posts to find what you want.

If you want to print a lesson, click on the lesson title and then look for the Print Friendly icon.

''Let nature be your teacher''
William Wordsworth, poet, 1770-1850

''Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift''
Albert Einstein, physicist, 1879-1955

''... to find the word, or words, by which [an] idea may be most fitly and aptly expressed''
P.M. Roget, lexicographer, 1779-1869

Monday 28 March 2016

London's giant floating solar farm

Level: intermediate B1

Please click the 'Print Friendly' icon at the bottom of the page if you want to print this exercise.

Europe's biggest solar farm has started generating electricity. Watch this short (three-minute) BBC video about it and then answer the following questions:


1) How long did it take to build the solar farm?
2) The energy produced is roughly the equivalent of how many homes?
3) According to Angus Berry, Thames Water are committed to increase their use of renewables to how much of their demand by 2020?
4) How many roofs in the UK have solar panels?
5) How much of the UK's electricity needs comes from solar?


Answers below!








1) Three months
2) 1,800
3) 33%
4) 900,000
5) 2%