Monday, December 07, 2009

Quite a good synonym game withdifferent levels. Play for a good cause. If you know some other English learners who may enjoy the game let them know!

www.freerice.com

You can also change the subject if you're tired of synonyms: English grammar, Geography, Italian vocab, etc.
http://www.freerice.com/subjects.php?t=486260126360

Wednesday, December 02, 2009

Amazing pictures of world leaders from all over the world with audio commentaries by the photographer.

http://www.newyorker.com/online/multimedia/2009/12/07/091207_audioslideshow_platon

Friday, November 27, 2009

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

More cooking stuff.

Surf the internet for long enough and you'll finally ride the wave you were so looking forward to find. Family relationships, thanksgivings, cooking, nice music, newyorkers. All bets are off!

Thanksgivings left-overs special.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCSkHErtGjM
Can a couple of Newyorkers cook tortilla de papas?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qtOU18g-BA

Monday, October 19, 2009

If you haven't checked this podcast out yet, have a go. You' ll probably find it both useful and entertaining. Once you get onto the vaughan radio web homepage click on podcast.

http://www.grupovaughan.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=96&Itemid=22

Thursday, October 15, 2009

Quite an interesting dictionary to check out new expressions, idioms and the like. An interesting feature of the dictionary is that if you look up a common verb such as know and click on idioms a comprehensive interactive list of idioms and collocations is displayed.


http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/know
http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/on+its+last+legs
http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/lost+for+words


Friday, September 25, 2009

Some biographical data about DMX. Funnily enough the lyrics of Who We Be run somehow parallel to his life.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Simmons
Great tool to create your own mind maps and practice definitions using two related words.
http://ninjawords.com/

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Some excellent online dictionaries:

Dictionary/thesaurus
http://www.merriam-webster.com/

For slang and informal English

http://www.urbandictionary.com/

Visual dictionary

http://visual.merriam-webster.com/

Monday, September 21, 2009

Here's a really interesting blog and some links I found in it. Have glance!

http://janebarden.edublogs.org/
http://www.telescopictext.com/
http://www.tuneintoenglish.com/

Wednesday, April 01, 2009

Can't insist enough on the benefits of this podcast.
http://www.vaughanradio.com/RSS/CACH.xml
Here's a list of games devised by the BBC for English kids to practice different skills. All of them can be useful for you lot. Have a go at state of debate (one of the last ones in the list):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/games/

Friday, March 27, 2009

There'll be a film projection sponsored by the language school on Monday. Those of you who want to attend can do so at 17:30 and 20:00. Our Monday class will be focused on cinema.

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

More listening practice for A1 CAL students.
http://www.mansioningles.com/listening00.htm


Stunning web brimming with very entertaining activities organized by semantic fields. Exercices revolve around short textsthat students have to listen to. Activities include listening, matching vocabulary, spelling words after listening to them, et cetera.

http://www.cdlponline.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=homepage

Friday, March 13, 2009

Friday, February 20, 2009

Some reading practice.
http://www.flo-joe.co.uk/fce/students/tests/tsindex.htm
http://www.flo-joe.co.uk/cae/students/tests/pt1index.htm
http://www.examenglish.com/CAE/English_in_Use.php
http://www.examenglish.com/CAE/useofenglish4.php
http://www.english-test.net/esl/learn/english/grammar/ai577/esl-test.php
http://www.english-test.net/esl/learn/english/grammar/ai576/esl-test.php
SOme reading practice

http://www.flo-joe.co.uk/cae/students/tests/pt1index.htm
Fantastic subtitled videos to help you practice listening and speaking with real native speakers from all over the world.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jx5oXvuL_Lw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNIDVh-7Lx4&feature=channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgRd7BnBnBA&feature=channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auRTQeR9IVo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCRN-kzyKlg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6ZrVmS1ue4&feature=channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW7Xd9xBWvY&feature=channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfvC299DpbU&feature=channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vR_yYTGBnKU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrTtUynukRI&feature=channel


Some listening tests from different webs.






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