TED ideas worth spreading

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

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

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

Summercat by Billie the vision & the dancers

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

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

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 listen to the song  with subtitles

English Listening lounge

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/

Interactive English

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

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

Subinglés .com

Acapela.tv game

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

Spanish - English dictionary

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

Many things to learn English

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

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?

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

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?

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

http://www.mansioningles.com/

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

Looking for a dictionary?

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

Click on this banner to enjoy learning English while playing games

Let's play

Hangman

Hangman
provided by The Free Dictionary

Useful websites

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

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

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

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.