This week we recommend:

• A New Year is a new beginning so stay inspired and motivated with this quote from Meister Eckhart.
• Let's start the party season with 8 Words for Celebration from Dictionary.com
• For those who enjoy winter weather, we recommend 10 Science Experiments to Do in the Snow from How Suff Works.
• If you are looking for great reads, try Bill Gates' My Favorite Books of 2016.
• Stay productive this year with our Daily Planner.

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This week we recommend:

• Stay motivated throughout the week with this quote from Bernard Roth.
• Dr. Samantha Boardman's A MERRY MANIFESTO: 9 TIPS FOR A HAPPIER HOLIDAYS is simply a must-read.
• Do You Know When to Capitalize the Seasons? Find out at Dictionary.com.
• If you are curious what yummy dishes are prepared for Christmas watch Anglophenia's Christmas Dishes From Around the World.
• Have fun with our Winter Words bundle.

Happy holidays!

This week we recommend:

• Stay motivated throughout the week with this quote from Maya Angelou.
• Teachers have to do it as part of their parofessional life but "Is it rude to correct people's grammar?" Read this article by Kate Kershner from HOW STUFF WORKS and find out.
• At Mayflower, we advocate the use of modern technologies in English language learning but we also respect other points of view on the subject. Read this article from "Womankind" magazine and learn why "Smart schools ban comupters".
• Next Friday, 16 December, all Star Wars fans are going to celebrate the release of "Rouge One: A Star Wars Story". In the meantime, watch this film and listen to George Lucas and other crew members telling a fascinating story about the lightsaber.
• For those who are new to "Star Wars" series, we recommend our quiz on characters from the movie.

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This week we recommend:

• Stay motivated throughout the week with this quote from Zig Ziglar.
• Watch Ze Frank's inspirational video in which this online performance artist, composer, humorist and public speaker shares his "Notes on Friendship".
• Last week, 3rd December, we celebrated Joseph Conrad's birthday. Visit OPEN CULTURE and enjoy a free, audio book version of "Heart of Darkness", one of Conrad's most famous novels.
• Master the art of e-mail writing with this military-based system presented at Lifehacker.com.
• Brace yourself, winter is coming! Download our Winter Words Bundle for some vocabulary practice.

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This week we recommend:

• Stay motivated throughout the week with this quote from G. B. Shaw.
• It is Stephen King's birthday on Wednesday (21st September) and we are going to celebrate it with two quizzes: How Well Do You Know Stephen King? and Stephen King's Book Titles .
• For those who are not that fond of King's writing (do they exist?), we have prepared some exercises based on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.
• If you are a bookworm and want to know how much time it took to write some of the most famous novels, check out this infographic from Printerinks.
• Visit Open Culture fantastic website and listen to F. Scott Fitzgerald reading from Shakespeare's Othello.

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This week we recommend:

• Stay motivated throughout the week with this quote from William Shakespeare.
• What does a tomato have to do with procrastination and time management? The answer to this question is on our blog.
• Interesting facts about the month of September can be found at Dictionary.com.
• Master the art of punctuation with this exercise from our writing resources.
• Watch this video from Today I Found Out to learn why we knock on wood.

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This week we recommend:

• Stay motivated throughout the week with this quote.
• For busy teachers and eager students, we have prepared two sets of activities: Vocabulary Challenge and Vocabulary bundle.
• How good is your spelling? Check it with Dictionary.com's quiz.
• Master the art of sentence writing with Simplicity or style: what makes a sentence a masterpiece?, a hilarious article from AEON by Jenny Davidson, a professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University.
• A picture is worth a thousand words. Unleash your creativity and productivity with doodles, sketchnotes and graphic records with our Learning Styles series.

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This week we recommend:

• Stay motivated throughout the week with this quote from William Wordsworth.
• If you are a busy teacher visit our Resources page for some free materials.
• Our last holiday destination is the Pacific Northwest; travel to western North America with ELEMOTION Photo.
• Read this article from LIFEHACK.ORG and learn how art can help people stay mentally healthy.
• A picture is worth a thousand words. Unleash your creativity and productivity with doodles, sketchnotes and graphic records with our Learning Styles series.

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This week we recommend:

• Stay motivated throughout the week with this quote from Jim Rohn.
• Learn The art of looking interested in meetings with BBC's World Business Report.
• Our next holiday destination is the Great Canyon. It is a perfect place for those who prefer to explore areas located off the beaten track. We hope that Grand Canyon : Blink of Time, a time lapse by GOTM Films, will wake up an adventurer in you!
• 2016 Summer Olympic Games atarted last weekend. Try our Quizlet vocabulary practice and see if your favourite summer sports are included.
• While it is good for your body (and mind!) to practise some sport, you should know your limits. Too much exercise can be very destructive as Karin Jongsma proves in How people with sports addiction are like drug addicts, an article from Aeon.

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This week we recommend:

• Stay motivated throughout the week with this quote from John F. Kennedy.
• It's the beginning of August so read these Facts about the month of August collected and presented by students from Woodlands Junior School in Kent.
• "Having a sense of self-efficacy goes hand in hand with well-being", writes Dr. Samantha Boardman in her article I Think I Can. Visit her page Positive Prescription to read the whole article and boost yourself with positive energy.
• Visit the most picturesque corners of English-speaking countries: our next holiday destination is The Giant’s Causeway. Located in Northern Ireland, the place is famous for its unusual rock formations and was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1986. Legend has it that the Causeway is the work of a giant named Finn McCool, who built it in order to get to Scotland.
• Boy/girl, man/woman, mother/father... Recognize some more pairs of male and female words and practise English with our quiz.

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This week we recommend:

• Stay positive throughout the week with this quote, and book title, from John C. Maxwell.
• As Abigail Chandler proves in her article from the Guardian, it's never too late to catch up with the books we didn't manage to read in our childhood. Read her article, Reading Roald Dahl for the first time as an adult - a whizz-bang trip to childhood, and browse through your bookshelves for some youth literature.
• Speaking of children's stuff and Roald Dahl, don't forget to book tickets for Steven Spielberg's latest film: The BFG. In case you didn't know, the BFG stands for the "Big Friendly Giant".
• Our next holiday destination is The Highlands: A Scottish Journey. Enjoy stunning photography and marvellous storytelling by Sam Oakes.
• Most parents, not to mention teachers, know that children have a short attention span and keeping them busy can sometimes be quite a challenge. Try our Missing Letters activity and keep energetic kiddos busy with English, at least for a while.

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This week we recommend:

• Stay motivated throughout the week with this quote from Ken Robinson.
• Are you a happy-go-lucky sort of person? If you do not know this expression, visit our Idiom Feed section to check its meaning.
• If you are still looking for something interesting to read this summer, browse through Amazon's Summer Reading 2016 recommendations.
• Our next holiday destination is Wild Alaska: a perfect place for those who cannot stand the summer heat. Watch a movie by GALAXIID and enjoy the views.
• The pen is mightier than... Complete our Famous Writers quiz and find out what some of the most famous writers had studied before they pursued a career in writing.

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This week we recommend:

• Stay motivated throughout the week with this quote from William Wordsworth.
• Check our infographic for some information about the benefits of learning a language, and feel inspired to pick up one, or more.
• If you have not seen Eddie the Eagle film yet, we strongly recommend it. In the meantime, however, find some time to read Franz Lidz's article Whatever Happened to Eddie the Eagle, Britain’s Most Lovable Ski Jumper? from Smithsonian and learn about the life of this one-of-a-kind ski jumper.
• Our next holiday destination is Canada. Travel across The True North with Will Lindsley aka "Man and Drone".
• Practise your English vocabulary with our Travelling by plane quiz.

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This week we recommend:

• Stay motivated throughout the week with this quote from George Addair.
• This Monday is the Fourth of July. However, some people claim that Americans should celebrate on the second of July. Listen to this programme to find out why.
• Have you heard of "Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland"? Well, meet Larry the Cat and learn about his life at 10 Downing Stree.
• Our next holiday destination is Wales. We are inspired by Chris Davies' film A Mountain Bike Adventure: Wales.
• Practise your English vocabulary with our Summer words quiz.

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This week we recommend:

• Stay motivated throughout the week with this quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson.
• Do not let the prospect of spending summer holidays at home ruin your life. There are, at least, 9 Ways to Pull Off a Vacation at Home.
• To the nine ways of spending summer holidays at home, we are eager to add one more: Explore the world's greatest art collections but without a horde of tourists or long queues. In this TED Talk Amit Sood, the director of Google's Cultural Institute and Art Project, explains how one can do it.
• Think twice before you reach for a cold Coke on a hot summer day. Here is why.
• Our next recommendation for the upcoming summer holidays is Ireland.

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This week we recommend:

• Stay motivated throughout the week with this quote from Zig Ziglar.
• According to Antonia Case, the author of The lost art of leisure, "to engage in purposeful purposeless, and to do it well, is a skill that takes time and practice". Read her article from the Womankind magazine to learn what leisure really means.
• Check these facts about the month of June.
• We know that we are very late in the game, but recently we have had so much fun listening to and watching James Corden's Carpool Karaoke that we want to share our favourite episode with you.
• Our next recommendation for the upcoming summer holidays is the Gold Coast of Queensland Australia.

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This week we recommend:

• Stay motivated throughout the week with this quote from Norman Vaughan.
• Listen to Malcolm Gladwell explaining what choice, happiness and...spaghetti sauce have in common.
• For over forty years, Noam Chomsky's idea of a language instinct dominated the world of linguistics. However, Vyvyan Evans, Professor of Linguistics at Bangor University in Wales, UK., claims that the idea is completely wrong. In this essay he explains why.
• Is it possible to remember 90% of what we learn? It seems that accelerated learning is the key to success, and you can find more details about this effective method here.
• Our next recommendation for the upcoming summer holidays is the English Lake District.

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This week we recommend:

• Stay motivated throughout the week with this quote from Maya Angelou.
• As spring and summer are the most popular wedding seasons, check if you know these unusual wedding words.
• On numerous occasions, Oscar Wilde criticised and ridiculed the Victorians. Well, he might have been right; check here why.
• If you are curious How Walking in Nature Changes the Brain, read this article by Gretchen Reynolds.
• Throughout summer months we'll be presenting our favourite holiday destinations, you are welcome to be inspired! Our first recommendation is California.

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This week we recommend:

• Stay motivated throughout the week with this quote from Mark Twain.
• If you you want to know what can here you can watch a short video from the capmaign featuring this amazing woman.
• Americans celebrate Memorial Day today, read about the origin of this holiday here.
• If you think that physics is boring, watch Bubble Circus.
• Last week we started practising long vowels with BBC's pronunciation guide. Let's continue with Part 2 this week.

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This week we recommend:

• Stay motivated throughout the week with this quote from the famous Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw.
• On 28th May we remember Dr Maya Angelou, the author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, who passed away in 2014. A year erlier, she took part in a fantastic campaign marking Cole Haan's 85th anniversary; here you can watch a short video from the capmaign featuring this amazing woman.
• If the words BCE/CE and BC/AD leave you thoroughly perplexed, read this explanation and be puzzled no more.
• Master the art of resolving conflicts with Marshall Rosenberg's Nonviolent Communication (NVC) model.
• If you are not a native speaker of English, you probably realize that English pronunciation can sometimes be a real pain in the neck. But do not give up! These tips will help you practise long vowels.

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This week we recommend:

• Stay motivated throughout the week with this quote from Napoleon Hill.
• If you are curious which book blew Bill Gates away, visit his blog and get inspired.
• Let's learn some American slang!
• Are you good at detecting lies? Watch this presention and find out why developmental researcher Kang Lee claims that it is good when children start to lie.
• Celebrate Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's birth anniversary, May 22nd, with our Sherlock Holmes stories puzzle .

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This week we recommend:

• Stay positive throughout the week with this quote from Kat Caverly.
• Find some company for your next lunch. In this article dr Samantha Boardman explains the importance of eating together.
• Speaking of meals, improve your English vocabulary and learn the difference between dinner and supper here.
• The world's first modern-style celebrity was ... Listen to this BBC recording and see if you guessed correctly.
• "Does grammar matter?". Watch the film by Andreea S. Calude to find out.

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The long May weekend is in full swing (at least here in Poland), so we have chosen a couple of less serious activities for this week:

• Stay motivated throughout the week with this quote from George Horace Lorimer.
• Listen to Ben Saunders, an Arctic explorer, talking about the importance of going outside.
• With so many fresh fruit and vegetables, spring seems to be the perfect season to start thinking about a healthy lifestyle. If you are not sure about the benefits of it, read this article about a balanced meal plan.
• Get ready for the summer film releases with this list.
• The other day we have recommended the film "Wild Scotland" by John Duncan, now it's time for his "Beautiful Scotland". The movie is simply stunning!

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This week we recommend:

• Stay motivated throughout the week with this quote from Daniel Defoe.
• "Robinson Crusoe" was published on 25th April in 1719 and has been immensly popular ever since. It is no 2 on The Guardian's list of "The 100 best novels". Read this article by Robert McCrum in which he discusses the novel's phenomenon.
• Which form is correct: earth or Earth? Find out at dictionary.com and if need be, improve your spelling.
• Try these body language tricks from lifehack.com and see what happens.
• Who doesn't know Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven? If you want to discover how it was written, than search no more. Just listen to the legendary Jimmy Page.

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As 23rd April marks William Shakespeare's birth and death anniversaries, our To-Do List this week is all about the bard.

• Stay motivated throughout the week with this quote from.
• What do you know about Shakespeare? Try our quizzes here.
• Read this review of Macbeth's latest production, starring Marion Cotillard and fenomenal Michael Fassbender.
• Listen to David Gilmour's beautiful interpretation of Sonnet 118.
• Many words and phrases that are now used in the English language first appeared in Shakespeare's plays and poetry: accommodation, addiction, cold-blooded, dwindle, eyeball, fashionable, multitudinous, watchdog, to name but a few. The bard, however, is also famous for a variety of insults that he coined. If you want to learn more about them, watch Insults by Shakespeare a short film by April Gudenrath.

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