Amusing facts

[Т А Кузнецова]

Amusing Facts.

 

Do you know that the Olympic torch weighs about 3 pounds or Baskin Robbins once made ketchup ice cream. This was the only vegetable ice-cream produced.

If you want to know interesting facts practically about everything, you’ll go to www.amusingfacts.com

This site gives opportunities for teachers to find some interesting facts and use them at the lessons.

There may be a question: how can teachers use it in ELT context. The answer is very simple: you want to juice your lessons with extra cross-curricular materials and give your students the possibility to explore the material.

The map of the site is very informative, so you can find material for every topic:

• Religion

• Health and body

• Animals and creatures

• Statistics

• History

• Art and literature

• Household products

• Science and technology

• Food and drink

• Legal

• Places

• People

• Business

• Sports

• Entertainment

• Geography and space

• Miscellaneous

More than that there are Fact articles.

You can also subscribe to this site and receive news letters with ready-made materials to be used at the lessons.

[Chupina]

Здравствуйте, Татьяна Александровна.Я новичок на этом сайте и мне все интересно,что связано с английским языком;и сайт,указанный вами в вашем послании ,думаю поможет мне разнообразить мои уроки и сделать их более интересными.Тем более,что у меня в кабинете есть все технические средства для этого.Спасибо вам.С уважением,ваша коллега.