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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
26.4.10
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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!!
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.
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!
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!!
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.
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!"
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
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.
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
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."
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.
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
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.
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/
Write the word in the box below and click on "search"
5.12.07
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
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
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/
31.10.07
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.
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.
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
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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.
