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India burns UK’s tires – level 2 - News in Levels

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02-04-2025 07:00 Millions of old tires from the UK end up in India, but local factories don’t recycle them. They burn them. This process is called

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26-02-2025 15:00

Today's world is full of technology. We look at screens a lot. We do not write in hand so much anymore. Handwriting seems less important. But is it?

Experts say that writing in hand is very important, especially for children. Handwriting helps the brain develop well. Neat handwriting can even help children get better grades in school. Writing helps children connect letters with sounds. It is different from typing on a computer.

Writing with a pencil and paper may be better for memory. It helps improve thinking. So, handwriting is still important for children to learn and practice.

Difficult words: develop (to grow or change), neat (clean or smooth), improve (to make something better).

You can watch the original video in the Level 3 section.

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Why is handwriting important - level 1 - News in Levels

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26-02-2025 15:00 Today's world is full of technology. We look at screens a lot. We do not write in hand so much anymore. Handwriting seems less important.

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BBC Worklife Why are so many people so bad at what they do-1

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All things Hangman - Play, Strategize, Solve

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Learn how-to play Hangman or play now for free. Create a game and share with your friends. Find some strategies for guessing and choosing the best words.

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Raccoon Goes up a Building – level 3 - News in Levels

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26-12-2024 15:00 The story of a raccoon turned viral when it decided to climb up a 25-storey building in Minnesota, USA. It started its journey up on

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Spin the wheel - Spin the wheel to see which item comes up next.

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https://www.umimeanglicky.cz/cviceni-first-conditional

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24-01-2022 15:00

Four hundred chefs in Buenos Aires, Argentina, come together. They want to set a new world record. It is the record for the most pizzas made in 12 hours.

They use 3 tonnes of flour, 2.7 tonnes of cheese and 88,000 olives. They have 14 very big ovens. These ovens make six pizzas a minute.

In the end, the chefs set a new world record. They make 11,287 pizzas.

Difficult words: chefs (a professional cook), flour (a white material, which looks like sand, and is used for making pizza or bread), oven (a machine which gets hot to bake/make a pizza or other food).

You can watch the original video in the Level 3 section.

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Pizza-Making Record - level 1 - News in Levels

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24-01-2022 15:00 Four hundred chefs in Buenos Aires, Argentina, come together. They want to set a new world record. It is the record for the most pizzas

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Best news stories of 2024 – level 1 - News in Levels

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31-12-2024 07:00 This year is very exciting! In medicine, experts are testing a vaccine to help fight lung cancer. And a new treatment for cervical cancer

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New year-last year reflection, Fireworks reading, adjectivexadverbs B1-C1v3

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17-01-2025 07:00

Experts say that travel will be more expensive in 2025. Airlines are flying less, and cheap airlines have problems.

Some places, like Canada and parts of the US, are still cheaper to visit. People should visit less popular places like Sicily or Scandinavia rather than Paris or London.

If you want to save money, travel in spring or during less busy times. Apps like Skyscanner or Hopper can help you find cheap flights. If ticket prices go down after you book, you may get money back, but only with some tickets. It is important to plan and stay flexible. You can also spend less money on trips.

Difficult words: expensive (when something costs a lot of money), airline (a company which flies planes), flexible (able to change easily).

You can watch the original video in the Level 3 section.

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How to travel cheaply - level 1 - News in Levels

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17-01-2025 07:00 Experts say that travel will be more expensive in 2025. Airlines are flying less, and cheap airlines have problems. Some places, like

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06-01-2025 07:00

In Southern California, fireworks for New Year's Eve caused problems. The air in Los Angeles is not safe to breathe.

Fireworks make the air dirty. They put small objects and metals in the air. It is bad for health and for the natural world too. Fireworks can also start fires. Some areas, like the San Gabriel Mountains, are very dry and windy. Fires can spread quickly.

Authorities ask people not to use fireworks or anything that can make a fire. If someone has illegal fireworks, they could get a fine or go to jail.

Difficult words: spread (to move to a larger area), illegal (not allowed), fine (money you must pay if you break a rule).

You can watch the original video in the Level 3 section.

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Fireworks and the environment - level 1 - News in Levels

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06-01-2025 07:00 In Southern California, fireworks for New Year's Eve caused problems. The air in Los Angeles is not safe to breathe. Fireworks make the

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Experiments in Creativity with Dave Birss - Author, Educator, Public Speaker, Experimenter

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How to use story dice

As you can see above, you get five story dice (or nine dice, if you prefer), each with a random image on it. Your job is quite simply to turn these prompts into a story.

I recommend you try to work with the order they appear on the screen but if you're finding it tough, you can do some swapsies.

You also don't need to take the image literally. You can use the dice metaphorically or as representations of other concepts. For example, a slice of pizza could represent food in general, cutting a slice out of something, Italy, gooiness, a chef and a heap of other more obscure things. The job of the dice is not necessarily to provide you with literal objects to work with but concepts to nudge your thinking in fresh directions.

You may just want to dive in as soon as you see them, working from left to right as you try to incorporate each image into your yarn. Or you may want to be more strategic and work out the ending first, using the dice to work out how you're going to get to your big climax. Try different strategies to see what works best for you.

But let me give you an example. Imagine I was dealt these dice (I don't need to imagine because I just have been):

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Story Dice - a story ideas generator by Dave Birss

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Instant story ideas for writers, parents and storytellers. With this tool, you've always got a free set of story dice in your pocket or desktop.

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pracovní list - progress B1-C1 present perfect, dice story, hobbies

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14-04-2020 15:00

At a store in Cape Town, South Africa, food technicians turned maggots into ice cream. The employees make a juice from the maggots, add ingredients like cocoa, and put the insects into the ice cream-making machine.

An employee explained that this is good for the environment, as the maggots are normally thrown away or given to pigs. A professor said that people are willing to eat gourmet burgers made from insects, but they may not be willing to eat ice cream like this. He said that plant alternatives to dairy taste better and are culturally easier to stomach.

People who tried the ice cream said that it tasted like organic or vegan ice cream. The store wants to spread from South Africa to other parts of Africa, Europe, and then the United States.

Difficult words: maggot (a soft, legless larva of a fly or other insect which looks like a worm), stomach (digest or eat; understand or accept).

You can watch the video news lower on this page.

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Insect Ice Cream - level 3 | News in Levels

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14-04-2020 15:00 At a store in Cape Town, South Africa, food technicians turned maggots into ice cream. The employees make a juice from the maggots, add ingredients like cocoa, and put the insects into the ice cream-making machine. An employee explained that this is good for the environment, as the maggots are normally thrown away or given to pigs.

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past simple x present perfect 2 progress

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Wordwall - Create better lessons quicker

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Spin the wheel - Spin the wheel to see which item comes up next.

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02 Grammar based speaking activities When did you first, when did you last..

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50 years of Rubik’s Cube – level 3 - News in Levels

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18-11-2024 15:00 In 1974, Hungarian professor Erno Rubik invented a cube to help his students understand three-dimensional space. Soon, it became a global

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Robot saves grain – level 1 - News in Levels

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04-03-2022 15:00 Farmers do a lot of hard work. They keep grain in special towers. The towers can be more than 10 meters high. The work is not easy to

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Digital health – level 2 - News in Levels

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23-10-2024 15:00 Some Americans look at their smartphones and other screens such as computers or TVs for more than 8 hours a day. Many people sleep less

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01-10-2024 15:00 Squishmallows are soft stuffed toys that first appeared in 2017 and already won many awards. They are popular because they are soft,

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Opakování - minulý čas, čtení s porozuměním, porovnávání

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Police Help Ducks – level 2 - News in Levels

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25-09-2024 15:00 A police car stopped traffic on a busy street in Moscow, Russia. A family of ducks wanted to cross the street, and the police helped

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Reading + Past simple/continuous, although, but, so, because...

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Reading + Past simple/continuous, although, but, so, because...

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Algeria leather craft – level 2 - News in Levels

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24-09-2024 15:00 In the Casbah of Algiers, people like Boulachab Nasser make traditional crafts. Nasser is a leatherworker, and he learned his job from

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28-11-2022 15:00

A spider web is a net that spiders make. The net is sticky. Spiders use it for catching flies, beetles, and other animals.

The net is very strong. It is from silk. Silk is five times stronger than steel. Scientists study spider webs. It is possible that they will help in building in the future.

Also, scientists study other things. A computer program makes a 3D model of a net. It changes it into music. Scientists think that spiders can hear this music. It is very unusual. People cannot hear these sounds. Spiders can.

Scientists hope that one day, they will understand spiders.

Difficult words: sticky (when something stays on your hands when you touch it), silk (a very strong material which some animals make, and people use it to make clothes), steel (a strong metal), 3D (when something is not thin like a piece of paper, but it has a top and bottom, a front and back, and two sides).

You can watch the original video in the Level 3 section.

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Spider web music - level 1 - News in Levels

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28-11-2022 15:00 A spider web is a net that spiders make. The net is sticky. Spiders use it for catching flies, beetles, and other animals. The net is

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Days in Levels " Famous Days for Students of English

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We write about famous days in history in three different levels of English. We want to help you understand English more. Now all students can enjoy reading and listening.

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https://www.umimeanglicky.cz/vpisovacka-present-tenses-mix-2

https://www.umimeanglicky.cz/vpisovacka-past-simple-vs-continuous-2-uroven

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Rozdíl mezi minulým časem prostým a průběhovým spočívá v důrazu kladeném na průběh či délku činnosti.

Minulý čas prostý

Minulý čas prostý se používá pokud:

Opisujeme sérii událostí.
Yesterday, I went to the library, sat down and read a book.

Minulý čas průběhový

Minulý čas průběhový se tedy používá v následujících případech:

Pokud probíhá více činností zároveň.
He was watching TV while I was doing the dishes.

Když mluvíme o opakované činnosti v pozadí, kdy průběhový tvar může značit dočasnost nebo možnost změny vzhledem k ději hlavnímu.
Cathy was feeding her neighbours' dog every morning while they were on holiday. Then one day, the dog was gone.

Využití

Kontrast, který tyto dva časy tvoří, je důležitý, když mluvíme o dvou dějích, které nejsou zasazené stejně do minulosti. Například:

What were you doing when the police arrived?

V minulosti probíhala určitá činnost nebo děj, na kterou se dotazuje daná otázka. Trvání tohto děje je zdůrazněno použitím minulého času průběhového. Tento děj byl přerušen jiným, který se odehrál okamžitě. Pro ten použijeme minulý čas prostý.

Pro porovnání:

Marek was studying for his test while Camilla was listening to music.

I když jde o dva děje v minulosti, oba probíhaly ve stejnou dobu a navzájem se nepřerušily.

V následujícím případě jde taky o více činností v minulosti:

He walked to the bar and sat next to her.

Jedná se však o sérii událostí, proto je použitý minulý čas prostý. Předtím, než si vedle ní sedl, musel nejdřív k baru přijít.

Zdůraznění času

Určit, zdali je zdůrazněný čas, tudíž musí být použit minulý čas průběhový, je jednoduché. Stačí ve větě hledat konkrétní informace o čase: yesterday, in the morning, last week atd. Obecně se tímto způsobem popisují děje, které musí mít ze své podstaty nějaké trvání (nestanou se hned, jako např. kýchnutí, klopýtnutí, poslání zprávy, atd.).

Opakované děje

Může se zdát, že čas je zdůrazněn i v případě jako například:
They went to the cinema every Friday.
Nacházíme zde sice konkrétní časový údaj, ale v tomto případě (a jemu podobným) je důležitější slovíčko every. To zdůrazňuje, že jde o opakovaný děj a tudíž bude použit minulý čas prostý. Podobnou skutečnost indikují i slova jako always, koncovka -s na konci časového údaje ( Fridays, evenings, atd.), often, regularly a podobné.

Otravné děje

Pro mnohé je problematické určit, kdy jde o otravný děj (použije se minulý čas průběhový), jelikož jde o subjektivní záležitost. V některých případech je dobré sledovat, zdali není činnost ve větě okomentována spojeními it's annoying, I hate it, případně jinými negativními způsoby. Pokud se v textu nic podobné nenachází, třeba uvážit, jaké stavy a činnosti bývají nejčastěji otravné: ztrácení věcí, hlasitá mluva, opoždění, nesouhlas atd.

Pracovní list

Kromě níže uvedených interaktivních cvičení je k dispozici také pracovní list + řešení.

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Past simple vs. past continuous (střední) - online Vpisování

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Where is doner kebab from? – level 2 - News in Levels

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Svět práce (těžké) - online Anglická slovíčka: Výběr z možností

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Peníze (těžké) – online Anglická slovíčka: Výběr z možností

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Předpřítomný průběhový čas tedy použijete, když chcete popsat nějakou činnost, která trvá

dlouhodobě a nekončí v okamžiku, kdy o ní mluvíte. Pokračuje dál. Představte si ho jako tornádo,

které se pohybuje prostorem a nasává různé věci, které přenáší prostorem a časem.

Přesně tak tento čas funguje: nasává do sebe vaše znalosti a zkušenosti, přináší je do současnosti a

zároveň nevíme, kdy daná činnost skončí.

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