Learning English

Word on the street

2011-12-10T20:11:00.000+01:00

http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/word-street

The BBC and the British Council have co-produced this new English Language teaching programme.
10 episodes filmed in different places in the United Kingdom

As they say:
"Word on the Street looks at how English works in everyday life and presents lively aspects of young British culture. Each half hour episode is filmed in a different place in the UK and features drama, interviews and reports to help you improve your English language skills".

Click here to go to Word on the street

Resources for English as a Second Language

2011-09-08T16:51:00.000+02:00

As they say : "UsingEnglish.com provides a large collection of English as a Second Language (ESL) tools & resources for students, teachers, learners and academics. Browse the grammar glossary and references of irregular verbs, phrasal verbs and idioms, ESL forums, articles, teacher handouts and printables, and find useful links and information on English. Topics cover the spectrum of ESL, EFL, ESOL, and EAP subject areas"
Click here to go to "Using English.com".

Going away this summer?

2011-07-30T19:03:00.001+02:00

BBC offers "Quick Fix phrases in 40 languages". You can learn and take essential holiday phrases in 40 languages with you on your mp3 player and as a print-out.
You can also learn all UK languages, Gaelic, Welsh, Irish and of course English
By the way, have a look at the section " Don't try this abroad" about common language mistakes, it's really funny

Click below to go to the site

BBC Quick fix phrases

Breaking News English

2011-06-12T21:45:00.000+02:00

Learn English with the latest news from all over the World. More than 1.400 lessons based on Business , Environment, Health, Lifestyle, Technology , Famous people, World News, etc...

Warm ups, before, while and after reading/listening exercises, speaking activities, writings and even homework .

Click below to go to the site

Breaking News English

MEMIDEX, free on line dictionary, thesaurus and more

2011-04-08T23:12:00.002+02:00

This is the best free on line dictionary and thesaurus I have ever seen.

Try it, it's great!!

Dictionary/Thesaurus:

As they say ,
Memidex is a free online dictionary and thesaurus
Memidex reaches a new total of 12.5 million external reference links, including over 5.4 million definition references, 5.3 million audio references, and 1.8 million etymology references.
Each audio reference has a button to play the audio directly from the Memidex web page.
Click on this link to go to MEMIDEX

English Speak.com

2011-02-15T16:42:00.004+01:00

Learn spoken English for free

Englishspeak.com is a free and award winning new system for learning to speak English. The program contains lessons that give special attention to English pronunciation and everyday language. With over 100 lessons, Englishspeak.com provides a large amount of audio content. Users have access to two different speeds of playback for each item.

Click here to go to: English Speak.com

100 Sites to learn about Anything and Everything

2011-02-15T13:11:00.004+01:00

Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies

This is an alphabetical list of websites which provide information and/or instruction about a wide range of subjects. The websites cover a wide range of informational and educational topics and include general reference resources, how-to guides, wikis, how-to videos, podcasts, courses, lessons, tutorials (including open courseware), e-books as well as other reference resources and places to ask questions both online and on your mobile.

The resources are suitable for learners of all ages: students as well as workplace learners and lifelong learners - as well as teachers, educators and trainers.

Visit also :

100 places to learn a language online

Book2 : 50 Languages for free

2011-01-03T19:29:00.002+01:00

Book2 - Learn languages online for free with 100 audio (mp3) files!

book2 contains 100 lessons that provide beginners with a basic vocabulary. With no prior knowledge, you will learn to fluently speak short sentences in real-world situations in no time. The book2 method successfully combines audio and text for effective language learning

Click on your country or click on your native language

Click here to go to Book2

Do you need to teach or learn Maths in English? Here's Math TV.

2010-10-25T13:06:00.003+02:00

If you need to learn or teach Maths in English (CLIL) you will probably need to know how to say some terminology in English.
Here you have Math TV

Thousands of videos covering Basic Mathematics, Algebra, Trigonometry, and Calculus
Open your free account and start listening.
Click here to go to Math TV

SOZO EXCHANGE-VIDEO ENGLISH LESSONS

2010-09-07T23:50:00.002+02:00

Video lessons, 6 episodes , origin and meaning of English Idioms,pronunciation practice, on line listening quizzes, how to improve pronunciation and listening skills. Everything's free and it has a forum to share and exchange ideas.

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Click here to go to SOZO

Letter Generator.- ReadWriteThink

2010-05-31T11:41:00.002+02:00

This website has a lot of free resources for teachers and students , from lesson plans to interactive grammar games and tools. I have chosen one of the lesson plans because is especially useful for my students worried these days by the Selectivity Exam ( University entry test in Spain)This is the Letter Generator, as they say : "The Letter Generator is a useful tool for students to learn the parts of a business or friendly letter and then compose and print letters for both styles of correspondence."
These resources are provided by ReadWriteThink.org, a website developed by the International Reading Association, the National Council of Teachers of English, with support from the Verizon Foundation.

Click here to go to the Letter Generator

Click here to go to readwritethink.org

Lyrics training

2010-05-13T20:02:00.025+02:00

A teacher told me about this site after another talk about "Using blogs in the classroom", and it's great.

As they say, " Lyrics Training is an easy and fun method to learn and improve your foreign languages skills like English through the music and lyrics of the songs."

First listen to the song, then fill in the blanks according to the level you have chosen, beginner, intermediate or expert. You can't advance if you don't complete the lyrics properly, but you can listen to the song as many times as needed just by clicking intro.
More than 470 songs from Cat Stevens to Lady Gaga, or from Metallica to Alicia Keys, all kind of music to choose.

Click here to go to Lyrics Training

English Listening Lounge ELL

2010-05-09T20:31:00.002+02:00

As they say: "Listening is a natural way to learn English; it is fun and it works. You can study when you want: anytime, and any place. The passages are real people, speaking real English, talking about what interests them. There are passages for everyone: easy passages for beginners, and more difficult passages for advanced students."
You can choose the domain, the level, the topic, or choose the passage directly .
You can answer the comprehension questions, check the answers and listen to the passages again but reading the transcripts.

Go to English Listening Lounge and start listening

PREZI - The zooming presentation editor

2010-05-09T14:19:00.006+02:00

Prezi is a new tool to create stunning presentations. It's free for teachers and students and it's really easy to use. I have done this one about the Passive Voice in just a few minutes This is just a demo to show you that everybody can create new presentations. have a look and try to use it , it's worth.
You can watch it screen by screen just clicking on the arrow at the bottom or use the auto play in full screen, clicking on "more" at the bottom right corner.
Go to http://prezi.com/ to register and create your own presentation.

The Passive Voice on Prezi

IT'S WORTH KEEPING AN EYE ON THAT BLOG

2010-05-06T22:28:00.002+02:00

I have received this award from two different blogs "Mis clases" by Ana Concejero and "Anna's blog" by Anna Morales, both teachers of English
I must say it has been an honour to be remembered by colleagues and bloggers when thinking about blogs which are worth visiting.
Thank you very much for considering this blog . I'm sure we are all working with ICT with the same objective, to improve our students skills learning English
This award is part of an initiative called "Vale a pena ficar de olho nesse blog", which means "It's worth keeping an eye on this blog". The chosen blog has to copy the picture, with a link to the blog from which it has received the award . Then write ten more links to the blogs which are well worth a visit.It's difficult to limit the list to ten blogs but I'll do my best
*) Català.cat.
*) Real English
*) Free Technology for teachers
*) Ad Lib English Blog
*) APAC ELT Network
*) Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the day
*) Batxillerat Collaborative Class Blog
*) Gazpacho is not tomato soup
*) Dores e delicícias de ser professor
*) Think and Dream in English

"English Language Listening Library Online (ELLLO)

2010-04-26T22:58:00.003+02:00

A colleague from Sitges ( Thanks a lot) told me about this site after one of my talks to teachers on "How to use Blogs in the classroom" and after testing it I must say it's one of the best sites in the net to practice Listening.
Todd Beuckens has created this site with more than 1000 listening activities with accents from all over the world, including videos, interviews, news, songs, talking points, listening games, etc. with comprehension exercises, quizzes, and lots of different activities. Using naturally spoken English

Take the tour by clicking here to know how it works and its contents

Click here to go to www.elllo.org

"Learn English while watching videos"

2010-03-12T11:03:00.006+01:00

http://www.englishcentral.com/en/videos

Learn English while watching videos.- A speech recognition platform that allows you to practice SPEAKING with any video you choose and then get INSTANT FEEDBACK on how well you are doing

Click here to go to English Central

ESLJOKES.-The funniest way to learn English

2010-02-20T23:56:00.012+01:00

Alison Wooder an ESL/ELT teacher, teacher trainer, writer and co-founder of ELTpublishing has created this great site where you can learn English while laughing with the jokes.

Each joke is followed by a grammar explanation and exercises on the grammar and key vocabulary from the jokes.

Click here to go to ESLJOKES.NET

Real English video lessons

2010-02-06T22:35:00.001+01:00

A great site done with methodology, with more than 50 video lessons, where you can first watch the video without subtitles as a listening exercise, then you can do the exercises and later you can watch the same video again but this time with subtitles.
With real dialogues, interviews to native speakers, grammar and lots of useful exercises. Wisely directed by Mike and Valérie Marzio and where everything is free and everybody can get free-access.

Click here to go to Real-English

TED ideas worth spreading

2009-09-09T16:25:00.016+02:00

Talks about Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED), Business, Science, Culture, Arts and Global issues

Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world
As they say:" On TED.com, we make the best talks and performances from TED and partners available to the world, for free. More than 450 TEDTalks are now available, with more added each week. All of the talks feature closed captions in English, and many feature subtitles in various languages. These videos are released under a Creative Commons license, so they can be freely shared and reposted."
Now available in العربية, Deutsch, हिन्दी, ไทย, Русский, and more ….
The TED Open Translation Project brings TEDTalks beyond the English-speaking world by offering subtitles, interactive transcripts and the ability for any talk to be translated by volunteers worldwide.

Click on the link bellow.
http://www.ted.com

How to write an essay

2009-06-18T23:29:00.006+02:00

Ana Concejero has done a great job to help you to write an essay.

Writing Tips

View more OpenOffice presentations from anarosaleda.

Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab

2009-06-18T22:23:00.006+02:00

Hundreds of Listening Quizzes for all levels

Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab

And Randall's Video Snapshots: for ESL/EFL students. 30 high-frequency topics video clips in natural unscripted speech

Click here to go to Randall's Video Snapshots

Learn English Second Life for Teen

2009-06-13T15:05:00.005+02:00

Want to learn English and visit the UK for free?
visit Britishcouncil4teens
or click bellow.

Summercat by Billie the vision & the dancers

2009-06-12T18:33:00.011+02:00

A great song from 2004 from the disc " I Was So Unpopular In School and Now They're Giving Me This Beautiful Bicycle" by Billie the vision & the dancers that thanks to this TV advert is going to be very popular this Summer in Spain. Enjoy the Mediterranean sea and the freedom of our islands this Summer but remember that alcohol can't make you more popular, successful or attractive. Happy Holidays
Visit their website, it's worth it, you'll be surprised by the method to get their songs. http://www.billiethevision.com/music.php

Lyrics | Summercat lyrics

English Club

2009-06-02T20:38:00.005+02:00

As they say, "Welcome to English Club, a site to help you learn English or teach English as a second language. Access to all pages is free. You'll find everything from lessons for students to jobs for teachers, including interactive pages like forums, games, quizzes, chat, help and friends.

I specially like "The learning English video project". Have a look at it and enjoy.
Click on the link bellow

EnglishClub.com

From Youtube

2009-05-28T08:59:00.013+02:00

VIVA LA VIDA
The song that FC Barcelona team manager Josep Guardiola has used to motivate his football players, hope it works with our students too. They have won the Spanish League, the king's Cup and the UEFA Champions League 2009.
Congratulations Barça!!

Click here to watch the video with subtitles

English Listening lounge

2009-05-28T08:57:00.003+02:00

Welcome to the English Listening Lounge. Listening is a natural way to learn English; it is fun and it works. You can study when you want: anytime, and any place. The passages are real people, speaking real English, talking about what interests them. There are passages for everyone: easy passages for beginners, and more difficult passages for advanced students. The English Listening Lounge is inexpensive and is a very effective way to learn English. If you listen often your English will improve.

http://englishlistening.com/

Lyrics Mode

2009-02-28T18:04:00.007+01:00

Specially placed here for my 4th ESO students reading "Romeo and Juliet" on these days. Enjoy Taylor Swift's "Love Story"

As they say, Lyrics Mode offers us "Song lyrics archive with more than 650,000 lyrics for more than 25,000 artists"

Lyrics | Taylor Swift lyrics - Love Story lyrics

Interactive English

2009-02-16T23:32:00.006+01:00

Aurora Gil has created this interactive website thinking in her students. Hope she doesn't mind to share it with us
Easy, intermediate and advance grammar exercises and games. It also has some very interesting issues to think and work with them, themes like : Child labour, anorexia and bulimia, domestic violence, global warming, clitoridectomy and immigration.

If you understand Spanish there are also guides for students and teachers, anyway you can go directly to the menu page and start working. Enjoy it!

Interactive English

A funny way to learn English

2009-01-21T22:10:00.005+01:00

Lots of songs in English with their Lyrics. Some of them even translated into Spanish.
Enjoy them.

Subinglés .com

Acapela.tv game

2009-01-06T19:59:00.013+01:00

Acapela.tv has a game where you can listen to your own written messages and send them to your friends in 17 languages and some more varieties of English, French and Spanish. Enjoy it!!

Click here to go to Acapela. TV

British & American Phonetics

2009-01-05T00:23:00.004+01:00

Tim Bowyer offers us online pronunciation guides to 9 varieties of the English language and 9 other languages. Instant sound. Pronunciation samples by over 40 native speakers. All 1,000+ pages free. Just click on the links bellow.

British English
American English
FonetiKs.org

EF PodEnglish Channel

2008-12-27T22:57:00.008+01:00

As the creators say: "EF podEnglish improves your English with bite-sized 5 minute videos. Perfect for beginners, intermediate and advanced students, these video lessons are as good as having an English teacher in your pocket! Created by EF & Englishtown, the world's largest language school. Enjoy!"

EF podEnglish Channel in YouTube

Learn English with subtitled songs from youtube

2008-12-18T21:11:00.014+01:00

You can learn English as
Elton John did, with "Sacrifice"
or as Guns and Roses, "Knocking on heaven's door" or perhaps you prefer to do it as Lionel Richie and Diana Ross with "Endless love" or even as Britney Spears does asking your "Baby , one more time", but don't forget to say: "Thank you for the music" as Abba did, but as James Blunt says, always remember that "You are beautiful"
Enjoy this selection of songs from Youtube
Or, if no one of the links works, try this funny versión that Youtube still allows

University conversation Guide

2008-12-07T17:16:00.003+01:00

A University Phrase Book created by the Catalan Language Service at the University of Barcelona to give foreign students a tool in any comunicative situations.
Apart from the English Catalan guide you can also find guides in some languages like Japanesse, Chinesse, German, French, Italian and others

University Conversation Guide

Flow English Podcast

2008-11-23T15:15:00.002+01:00

Idioms for your slang English learning or as the Author says: for your slang English curiosity or appetite.
Thanks to Chris Moses for his great job

Flow English Podcast

Better @t English

2008-10-25T21:25:00.004+02:00

Better @t English: Free English lessons to help you learn English vocabulary, idioms, slang, grammar, and more!
Real English conversations, interviews,videos, tips and tools for EFL and ESL learners.

Better @t English

Better @t English videos

More than English

2008-10-11T20:48:00.005+02:00

Free lessons of English, with listenings, videos and, if you are registered, even tests to check your knowledge of the language.
A website specially thought for Spanish speakers who want to learn English

More than English

New Wikispace

2008-10-05T21:53:00.007+02:00

Today I've started a new Wikispace to share the posts and the articles with everybody using this platform.

So if you want to have a look, just click on the link below.

Enjoy it!

Mamma Mia songs

2008-10-01T21:00:00.017+02:00

Would you like to sing Mamma Mia songs?
Here you have a scroller to sing the songs while listening them

Enjoy It!!

By the way , if you haven't seen the film yet, Hurry up, Don't miss Meryl Streep's performance, She's great!!
Click on the links below:

Lisa Stokke - I Have a Dream lyrics

Or let's start with "Dancing Queen"

Song lyrics | Dancing Queen lyrics

Learn English by watching videos

2008-06-28T13:35:00.005+02:00

Why don't you try to learn English by watching a video with the audioscript next to it? For example, Natasha Bedingfield's unwritten video clip with the lyrics and the video at the same time.
There are hundreds of videos to choose.
As the webmasters say, "This is the premier community for English learners where you can watch fun videos, meet people, improve your English and contribute" "and, besides,IT'S FREE."

Click on Yappr.com

The successful computer class

2008-06-27T18:41:00.016+02:00

Well this is an article I wrote for the Mac Magazine (Macmillan English Language Teaching).If you want to read it, just click on fullscreen on the top of the page and wait a second for the new screen. Enjoy it.

The succesfull computer class Mac magazine 12

Reading comprehension texts with questions and dictionary

2008-06-24T17:41:00.003+02:00

Reading comprehension texts, with questions on the text and a very useful dictionary, all in one, everything in the same screen.
You can practice your "selectivity" exams with these texts.
If you want to know the meaning of a word, just double-click on it and the dictionary entry will appear at the bottom

Reading comprehension texts

English Grammar Secrets

2008-06-24T17:14:00.013+02:00

English grammar lessons for self study or to consolidate your lessons.
The authors, Caroline and Pearson Brown, recommend that you read the grammar explanation on the first page of the lesson and then do the exercises, thinking all the time about the rules in the grammar explanation.

English Grammar Secrets

Looking for free programs?

2008-04-17T22:36:00.004+02:00

Go2 Web 2.0 http://www.go2web20.net/ offers you all kind of programs and services to do more or less everything in the net, from online storage http://www.fileqube.com/
to an easy way of web publishing http://clip2net.com/
To upload your music to an online audio library that allows you to listen to your tracks and playlists from any computer connected to the internet http://www.tunesbag.com/
or a revolutionary tool for connecting and communicating with people that share your interests
http://www.frrvrr.com/

And the best thing, everything for free.
Everything at
http://www.go2web20.net/

Vaugham Radio

2008-03-27T09:08:00.005+01:00

As they say, This is "The world’s premiere radio station for English learning."

Here you have "live"programs in English, 24 hours a day, and lots of extracts of the Cloverdale's corner

http://www.vaughanradio.com/podcast.asp

You can also receive free lessons of English every 15 days in your E-mail

http://www.vaughanclassroom.com/

Cambridge Dictionaries Online

2008-03-26T00:13:00.003+01:00

Spanish - English dictionary

Write the word in the box below and click on "search"

Many things to learn English

2007-12-05T21:46:00.003+01:00

As it is said in the Web Site description, this web site is for people studying English as a Second Language (ESL) or English as a Foreign Language (EFL). There are quizzes, word games, word puzzles, proverbs, slang expressions, anagrams, a random-sentence generator and other computer assisted language learning activities.
I strongly recommend this site to all my students.
Just click on the link to go to the main page
http://www.manythings.org/
Or listen to some of the hundreds of listenings from The Voice Of America while reading the audioscrip

Or "play" with the activities for beginners
http://www.manythings.org/e/easy.html

Enjoy it!!

Idioms and proverbs

2007-11-17T19:39:00.001+01:00

An idiom is a combination of words that has a meaning that is different from the meanings of the individual words themselves. It can have a literal meaning in one situation and a different idiomatic meaning in another situation. It is a phrase which does not always follow the normal rules of meaning and grammar.
A proverb is a short saying or sentence that is generally known by many people. The saying usually contains words of wisdom, truth or morals that are based on common sense or practical experience. It is often a description of a basic rule of conduct that all people generally follow or should follow. Proverbs can be found in all languages

http://www.idiomconnection.com

Want to talk to someone in English?

2007-11-17T19:03:00.001+01:00

If you want to talk to someone in English, many people would like to speak English with YOU! Join this network of teachers and students from around the world, and start speaking English right away!
http://www.speak-english-today.com/

The podcast website for people learning English

2007-10-31T22:18:00.007+01:00

This link drives you to a great place ." Listen to English" a podcast website for learning English. Here you will find listenings about very interesting themes.

http://www.listen-to-english.com/

You can also do exercises, quizes and read the texts while listening them

Who said learning is boring?

2007-09-28T23:27:00.003+02:00

Perhaps the most original web to learn English I have ever seen.
As they say " Who said learning is boring?"
http://www.anglesonline.org/

Learn English for free with Mansion Ingles

2007-09-28T22:55:00.003+02:00

http://www.mansioningles.com/

http://www.mansioningles.com/listening00.htm

Looking for a dictionary?

2007-09-27T23:28:00.002+02:00

In this link you will have 101 dictionaries in one

http://www.onelook.com/

or use one of the best dictionaries online
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/Default.asp?dict=S

More GAMES to learn English and other languages

2007-09-15T22:07:00.001+02:00

Click on this banner to enjoy learning English while playing games

Let's play

2007-08-01T14:51:00.001+02:00

Hangman

Hangman
provided by The Free Dictionary

Useful websites

2007-06-19T23:03:00.002+02:00

Here you have a selection of useful websites with exercises that can help you to improve your English
*) http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/ (British Council)
*) http://www.britishcouncil.org/languageassistant-arc-essuk.htm (Essential UK)
*) http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/try/plans/superhero/superhero.shtml (Listening/reading comprehension)
*) http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/index.shtml ( listenings)
*) http://englishlistening.com/ (listenings Am En)
*) http://yahooesp.englishtown.com/home/portal.asp ( daily lesson)
*) http://es.launch.yahoo.com/v/ ( video clips)
*)http://www.lyrics.com/( songs and lyrics)
*) http://webquest.org/ (Everything about webquest,University of San Diego)
*) http://www.xtec.es/ies-joan-coromines/angles/biwq/index.htm
*) http://members.aol.com/eslkathy/esl.htm#new (Exercises)
*) http://www.isabelperez.com/( lots of useful links and exercises)
*) http://usuarios.lycos.es/englishweb( links to exercises)
*) http://eslus.com/esl/resource.htm#general (lots of links to practical exercises)
*) http://www.eslcafe.com/ ( Quizzes, chat ,...)
http://www.apac.es/

Enjoy Your City

2007-02-22T23:15:00.002+01:00

During the course 2007/2008 you will have the opportunity to do the "credit" Enjoy your city again.
In this "credit" students do an English guide of our village and upload it into the Internet.
Here you have some of the links to the websites done by your mates some years ago, from 1997 to 2000.

Enjoy your city

1) http://www.xtec.cat/ies-dperramon/departaments/idiomes/enjoy/a_index.htm
2) http://gotoarenysdemunt.galeon.com/index.html
3) http://touristicguide.galeon.com/index.html
4) http://touristguideadm.galeon.com/index.html
5) http://yourholidaysinarenys.galeon.com/
6)http://infoarenys.galeon.com/index.html
7)http://galeon.hispavista.com/arenysdemuntweb/index.html

Enjoy them

Exchange with Denmark

2007-02-18T12:39:00.001+01:00

From this link you can see and download photographs of the exchange with Denmark that we did during the course 2001-02.
The quality is not the best but digital cameras were not as good as they are now. Enjoy them.
http://fotos.hispavista.com/exchangedenmark

If you want to come back to this blog again, just clik on the top left arrow as many times as necessary.

First time blogging

2007-02-14T07:39:00.003+01:00

The aim of this blog is to offer my students a new tool to learn English while enjoying their favourite activity, the Internet. It's sometimes difficult to open a new way to get your students motivated when learning but I think it is worth the effort .
This blog pretends to be an experimental cyberspace to try new methods to promote writing, reading listening and even speaking among students, not just talking about their things but also about themes of general interest.
So feel free to add your comments to the posts and have a nice day.