The perfect place for a pint! 700-year-old Norfolk pub named best in Britain... while Yorkshire watering hole is top for food

A charming village pub with roots going as far back as the 14th century is raising a glass in celebration after it was named the best in all of Britain.

The Rose and Crown in Snettisham, Norfolk, was awarded the prestigious Pub of the Year title in the latest edition of the Good Pub Guide thanks to glowing reviews from its loyal customers.

More than 5,000 pubs from across the country were vying for the title that was claimed by Anthony and Jeanette Goodrich, who have been running the 700-year-old pub for nearly 20 years. 

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Best in glass: The Rose and Crown in Snettisham, Norfolk, has been named Pub of the Year

Readers of the annual pubgoer’s bible raved about The Rose and Crown for its food and drink, and they praised its three period bars and dining hall.

Mr Goodrich paid tribute to his staff, saying they are one of the key elements of the pub’s success.

2015 GOOD PUB GUIDE WINNERS 

• Pub of the Year: Rose and Crown, Snettisham, Norfolk
• Dining Pub: Pipe and Glass, South Dalton, Yorkshire
• New Pub: Church Inn, Mobberley, Cheshire
• Own Brew Pub: Church Inn, Uppermill, Lancashire
• Beer Pub: Nag's Head, Malvern, Worcester
• Whisky Pub: Sligachan Hotel, Sligachan, Isle of Skye
• Wine Pub: Woods Bar and Restaurant, Dulverton, Somerset
• Unspoilt Pub: Square and Compass, Worth Matravers, Dorset

The award for Inn of the Year went to Jeremy and Vanessa Lee for their refurbishment of the New Inn

2015 GOOD PUB GUIDE WINNERS 

• Town Pub of the Year: Old Harkers Arms, Chester, Cheshire
• Country Pub: English Partridge, Bighton, Hampshire
• Inn of the Year: New Inn, Cerne Abbas, Dorset
• Value Pub: Ring O' Bells, Lathom, Lancashire
• Licensees of the Year: The Mainey family, Crown Inn, Roecliffe, Yorkshire 
• Brewery of the Year: Woodfordes, Norwich
• Pub Group of the Year: Provenance Inns (Durham Ox, Crayke, Yorkshire)

He said: ‘They all take immense pride in being part of The Rose and Crown team, and this award is a great endorsement of their dedication and hard work. 

‘To keep The Rose and Crown a proper local drinking pub at heart has been our guiding principle throughout.

‘We are first and foremost a pub, albeit one serving great food and with delightful bedrooms, and that is what gives The Rose and Crown its very special atmosphere.’

The quintessentially English pub overlooks the village cricket green and there are rumours that it opened in the 1300s to serve workers who were building a nearby church.

The 2015 edition of the Good Pub Guide, released on Thursday, celebrates the very best of Britain’s drinking establishments. Winners were recognized in more than a dozen national categories.

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Scotland's first £1,000-a-night hotel closes for good...

The Atholl was previously known as Scotland's most expensive hotel

In Edinburgh's West End, it charged four times more than nearby hotels 

Property will now go back on the market as four individual flats

Scotland's most expensive hotel has closed just two years after owners spent £5 million on the initial project.

The Atholl, located in Edinburgh's posh West End, broke barriers when it became the first Scottish hotel to charge £1,000 per night in April 2012.

Despite high expectations on the luxe property, the uber-expensive hotel proved to be just too excessive - at nearly four times the rate charged by nearby five-star hotels.

The Atholl Hotel has permanently closed its doors just two years after the initial £5 million investment

Rooms at The Atholl broke the £1000-a-night barrier and were the first to charge that much in Scotland

The luxe hotel offered Michelin-starred dining from Albert Roux and an award-winning garden

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Day to night: The Atholl was located on Atholl Crescent, which is one of the poshest areas of Edinburgh 

With the Georgian building's high price tag came Michelin-starred dining by Albert Roux, Hermes wallpaper favoured by the likes of Victoria Beckham, and an award-winning garden.

However, owner and Edinburgh businesswoman Alison Davies announced today that The Atholl has closed its doors for good. 

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Ideas on where to look for material when teaching BE online

Ideas for material for my BE classes.... my favourite stuff : D

I teach business English online for some time now, so I thought it was about time I wrote a blog post about where I look for my material. These suggestions are geared towards boosting the speaking skill. I will not talk about material available in print, my focus is on material I access online. The websites that I use are open and offer their material for free. I am not going to give you any lesson plans but I do have some VERY simple warmer tasks/ideas and some ideas for follow up activities.

One of the benefits of teaching online is that it is easy to go from one page to another as you can send different links to your learner based on his needs and by just pressing a button! So, here goes! I hope you enjoy going from one website to the other!

Material for open/conversational sessions

Very often I have lessons that are more laid back and engage my students in conversations about their interests or kinda work-related issues. Since my learners are attending business English sessions, I do try to use material that is more business English friendly. So, where do I go to look for articles and what are some of my favorite articles?

                          Articles/reading material

BBC news http://www.bbc.com/news/

I think the language is easy to understand and I like the business tab. Some of my favourite articles from here: 

Change offices from sitting to standing: http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26937454
Warm up questions: What do you think about standing up while working instead of sitting down? Do you have stand up desks in your office? What are the benefits of having them in your office?
Follow up task: Send a memo to your colleagues informing them that your company has decided to order stand up desks. Mention why the company has reached this decision (use information from the article) and briefly describe the stand up desks.

BBC capital:http://www.bbc.com/capital

Nap pods at work: http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20140108-daydream-believers
Warm up questions: What kind of facilities would you like your company to offer its employees in terms of well-being? What do you think a nap pod is?

Jobs for smart but lazy people (this one causes quite a stir). http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20140228-jobs-for-the-smart-but-lazy
Warmer; Start with this quote which appears at the end of the article.
 "I will always choose a lazy person to do a difficult job, because he will find an easy way to do it’."

The Guardian:

Top ten satisfying jobs: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/21/top-10-most-satisfying-jobs
Warmer: Get your learners to list the top three most satisfying jobs/top three factors that make a job satisfying. If you are having a one to one session, get your learner to make this list and you, the teacher, make one too. Once the lists are ready, have a short debate about satisfying jobs and what makes a job a good one or not. Then read the article and... do whatever you want to with what's in it : ).

Work from home: http://www.theguardian.com/small-business-network/2014/apr/24/how-to-lead-workforce-works-from-home
Warmer: Tell your learner he is the manager of a company that has decided to get its workers to work from home. How would he/she set this up? What are some of the difficulties and what are the benefits of such an idea?
Follow up: get your learner to make a PPT presentation introducing the idea of working from home and the steps that need to be taken for this to work.

Speaking about non job related issues

Good spinoff for book conversations:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_books
Even if you do not want to use this with your learners, do have a look at the top 5. Have you read them?

and something about health and well being:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/health/sc-health-0321-10-things-nutritionist-

I like this article because it gives ten tips on how to boost your metabolisms and you can get your learners to summarise the paragraphs into bullet points whilst also telling you if they follow these tips or not.

Of course,there are loads of other websites where you can find interesting articles like Forbes, The Wall Street Journal and so on, but most of the time I use the Guardian and the BBC. There is also a cool (am I allowed to say cool, now that I am writing a materials blog post?!? Sure!) site called newsmap http://newsmap.jp/. This site is updated regularly and you can send your learners the link and then a big collage of news from around the world appears and they can choose the article they want to read.

                                                                                                      Screen shot of newsmap

                                       Videos

Everybody knows Youtube of course. this is the place to go to for free videos. One of my favourites is this documentary. It is one hour long, so I suggest you tell your learners to watch it as homework (WHAT? Homework?). The video is quite surprising for my German and French learners and it does generate a lot of discussion about internships, inequality in education etc. It is also a great way to start a discussion about different cultures and the job scene. I have prepared a simple lesson plan for this video (I will upload it in a blog post in the near future ...... hopefully).

Who gets the best job? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bD7U8kqI8A

Another website with loads of videos which can be used with your BE students is The Australia Network http://australianetwork.com/businessenglish/ . You need some time cause there are many videos connected to conducting meetings, business socials/small talk etc. Click the tab The Business of English and watch the videos with your learners.

That's all for now. I do know that there are loads of articles/videos you can use with your learners but I wanted to share the ones I use.

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