Five links on animals for kids

Kids love animals which is why it is a great way to get them excited about English, here are five useful links to get them started.

Here is an interactive board game the whole family can play. The chips and the dice move. For more advanced learners you can take this game further by asking them whether or not they like the animal they have landed on and get them to make the sound.

 

https://www.eslkidsgames.com/esl-board-games-interactive/animals

Here is a great game to help with spelling:

https://www.eslkidsgames.com/animals-vocabulary-game

A fun interactive video:

https://en.islcollective.com/video-lessons/animals-vocabulary-1

For more advanced learners this description game (animal category) can be good to learn characteristics of the animals:

https://www.gamestolearnenglish.com/describer/

 

Here there are games to practice spelling, grammar and vocabulary all on the topic of animals:

https://www.mes-games.com/animals1.php

 

There are many little things you could do at home to help your children learn animal vocabulary in English. Why not take a trip to the zoo and ask them how many animals they can name. Ask them to describe their favourite animal in English or their pets if they have any. Hearing parents speak English will also give them a little boost of confidence in trying out the language.

5 Links to learn numbers for Kids

Numbers can be quite confusing for children when they first start learning English, here are five useful links to get them started.

The numbers category on this game is a very good starting point as they will listen and read different numbers.

https://www.gamestolearnenglish.com/fast-english/

After some practice, monster numbers can be good as they will need to think a little faster.

https://www.gamestolearnenglish.com/numbers/

A fun interactive counting game:

How Many – Counting Game 

Here is a great video to learn numbers from 1 – 10 which includes lots of nursery rhymes and is interesting for children.

 

Help George count and find his animal friends in hide and seek:

https://pbskids.org/curiousgeorge/busyday/hideseek/

There are many little things you could do at home to help your children learn numbers in English. Start by asking them how many things we need. For example, at dinner time you could ask: how many forks do we need? Or how many chips are on your plate? When you are out in the streets you could ask: How many red cars do you see? Or how many bicycles do you see? All these questions not only teach them how to use numbers but help them learn new words too. Hearing parents speak English will also give them a little boost of confidence in trying out the language.

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Scientists Create Protein that Breaks Down Plastic

Plastic is ubiquitous. Water bottles, bags, food containers. It’s become a massive problem for the planet, for animals, for humans. Now, there might be some hope, a way to break it down before it takes over completely.

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A “Pac-Man” protein that gobbles up plastic and breaks it down could open the door to eliminating billions of tons of landfill waste. The enzyme destroys PET, which, in addition to accounting for 12% of all global waste, is ubiquitous in food and drink packaging as well as textiles.

The protein offers hope for solving global pollution by supercharging large scale recycling. Major industries would be able to recover and reuse products at the molecular level.

The enzyme reduces them into smaller parts—chemicals which can then be reassembled. In some cases, the plastics can be fully broken down in as little as 24 hours.

Artificial intelligence, machine learning, generated novel mutations to a natural enzyme called PETase that allows bacteria to degrade PET.

Experiments proved the effectiveness of the enzyme named “FAST-PETase” (Functional, Active, Stable and Tolerant PETase). Other alternative industrial processes for breaking down plastic are energy-intensive, but biological solutions, like this one, require much less.

Research on enzymes for plastic recycling has advanced during the past 15 years. However, no one had been able to figure out how to make enzymes that could operate efficiently at low temperatures to make them both portable and affordable at large industrial scale—until now.