Explore the amazing vintagey world of audioslides!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/audioslideshow/2012/nov/26/brief-history-of-global-capitalism-leo-panitch
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/audioslideshow/2012/oct/10/homelessness-mario-story-audio-slideshow

More juicy critical reviews

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNgfaYmzZbA&list=ELBijyEGVUMqc

Film and music reviews.

Written reviews.
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2012/nov/28/guardian-best-albums-2012-20-11
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/jun/03/angels-share-ken-loach-review

Podcast reviews.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/audio/2012/nov/29/popandrock-jessie-ware

Video reviews.
http://betchabottmdolla.blogspot.com.es/2012_04_01_archive.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/film+content/video
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/video/2012/nov/30/the-hunt-video-review

Picture reviews?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/gallery/2012/dec/01/10-best-screen-adaptations-pictures

A few interesting webpages to keep you busy for the duration of your nine English speaking lives


BERKLEE (musical life)
http://www.berklee.edu/video
THE MOTH (real life stories)
 http://themoth.org/
OPEN CULTURE (audiobooks life)
http://www.openculture.com/2012/10
YALE(psycological life, post-colonial life, popular science )
http://www.youtube.com/user/YaleUniversity#g/c/003CE0429CAE4E19 ()
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwsj9AZnaaE&feature=edu&list=PLACAA5E35D77BA4B0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vq6u4RFf7ck&list=EC27FAF837577D180A&feature=plcp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAQN6EPU7hc&feature=edu&list=PLACAA5E35D77BA4B0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmKWhPbYwaE&feature=edu&list=PLACAA5E35D77BA4B0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyGEMsmcm54
HARVARD (quantum life)
http://athome.harvard.edu/programs/jmr/#
http://athome.harvard.edu/programs/sst/
http://athome.harvard.edu/programs/sst/video/sst1_5.html
http://athome.harvard.edu/programs/sst/video/sst1_3.html
DEF POETRY JAM (poetic life)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuH-ZMrlie0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuAbGJBvIVY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4Xu0LW7ilo
STAND UP (not exactly PC fundamentalist humorous life)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ktBQ51iGWw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACA0OBB9Qc4&playnext=1&list=PL3F3F2DBBC3010312

Very interesting videos to work on conjunctions linking words and syntax in general.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSU2hZXhr8U&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5Reec7NtvY&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoUCYCaoHno&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=El-Gr22YUCQ&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZRVaVJMWAk&feature=relmfu

Brilliant vocab videos! Try to repeat the definitions and examples along with the reader.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tb3AsHQy0rw&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-19j66HoWJE&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KltDgdNf2sU&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuGUs6Z1oQQ&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eVOhw3FTFw&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y-DW3BzHW8&feature=relmfu


Same thing minus a proper voice plus helpful visual input and synonyms!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbNjrKaabFI&feature=related

Amazing photo description opportunities galore!
http://www.worldpressphoto.org/gallery/2012-world-press-photo
http://www.worldpressphoto.org/photo/2012-ilvy-njiokiktjien-ci-2?gallery=2634
http://www.worldpressphoto.org/photo/2012-paolo-woods-dl-3?gallery=2634&photographer=2976
http://www.worldpressphoto.org/photo/2012-john-moore-pns2-aj?gallery=2634
http://www.worldpressphoto.org/photo/2012-emiliano-larizza-aes2-ll?gallery=2634

LOST HOMEWORK VIDEOS!

For some reason I decided it was a good idea to delete the vids i told you to watch this weekend. Silly me! Here they are, though! Watch them and jot down as much useful vocab as you can. There are piles of brilliant adjectives, descriptive vocab, fillers, etc. Next week you'll be describing your own photo so make sure you prepare for it. NO READING, NO LEARNING BY HEART, THOUGH!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cILpO4oesXI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iC8I180SL9M&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfkBUsT_lC4&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UNetMeE4SM&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRccmsqTqDE&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duyvgIhWQzU&feature=relmfu

 SARAH KAY!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0snNB1yS3IE&list=PLDFBC4DBF7976778A&index=2&feature=plpp_video

What's on the menu today?

For starters, you can give your eyes and ears a bit of our exotic vocab salad. here's a brilliant couple of vids brimming with descriptive words.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wY1oFuh_AeQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCC1YCgB9Jo&feature=edu&list=PL82CAF3F170641910


Our main course today is...




surprise surprise...











more marinated body idioms
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJqCMZiZDn0&feature=edu&list=PL82CAF3F170641910
Alternatively you can revel on this vid which features all you need to know to describe charts,  trends and so on, to wit: juicy verb adverb collocations, exotic-tasting verbs, heavily spiced phrasal verbs, and a few alternative recipes and an over-enunciating teacher-chef!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1uAImH4GwA&feature=relmfu
To top it all up, here's a clip you can use to practise describing urban landscapes.
http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=36314216#editor/target=post;postID=5409618596162573237

OOZY Juicy webs if you're after a good old list of examples for words, idioms, collocations, phrasal verbs, set phrases, etc.

blink/ in the blink of an eye
http://www.linguee.es/espanol-ingles/search?source=auto&query=blink
http://www.wordnik.com/words/blink
blush
http://www.linguee.es/espanol-ingles/search?source=auto&query=blush
http://www.wordnik.com/words/blush
 frown/ frown lines
http://www.linguee.es/espanol-ingles/search?source=auto&query=blush
grit one's teeth
 http://www.linguee.es/espanol-ingles/search?source=auto&query=grit+one%27s+teeth
 http://www.linguee.es/espanol-ingles/search?source=auto&query=grit+her+teeth
keep your ear to the ground
http://www.linguee.es/espanol-ingles/search?source=auto&query=+keep+your+ear+to+the+ground
lose face
http://www.linguee.es/espanol-ingles/search?source=auto&query=lose+face
http://www.wordnik.com/words/lose%20face

A1 fun for this week! Verbs with he Pink Panther and another Real English vid.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NfyXBL8YAk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmeXwJxWJLg&feature=relmfu

the homework vid about body language you're supposed to be working on
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VV1cMmCKxmY

a bit more on discussion language, turn-taking, agreeing and disagreeing, debates and so on.


http://www.englishpond.com/speaking/Communication%20and%20daily%20English/turntaking/index.html
http://www.englishpond.com/speaking/Communication%20and%20daily%20English/agreeingaudio/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Schools_Debating_Championships
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_1-YCbVip4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rh34Xsq7D_A&feature=related


let's get stupidly serious...
http://www.psy.herts.ac.uk/pub/SJCowley/docs/timing.pdf
http://anthro.ucsd.edu/~jhaviland/AudVid/AudVidReadings/Simplest_Systematics_for_Turn-Taking_%28Language%29.pdf
http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/encap/research/networks/flarn/whatis/index.html

...on the practically unfathomable difference between organized and well-organized people...

http://www.english-test.net/forum/ftopic12326.html
http://petenut99.tripod.com/transferableskills/id3.html

a whole lot of audiobooks...promises are made not to be broken, someone said
http://www.openculture.com/freeaudiobooks
http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/books/

a few of this bigthink series. let's see what you make out of these:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTl_xjOyZsc&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWRumo75pgc&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGedFY6UHLo&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8SOQEitsJI&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hByJBdQXjXU&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbvDYyoAv9k&feature=relmfu

These videos are a really useful tool. They can be of great help in your quest to improve your  English. Here's only a few. There are more than 100!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWHhpb8NWcI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve981fbBY0g&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAJ2ffma91Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=886hLlkwipI&feature=relmfu

T I M E L E S S ! ! !

Rives

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFS-er6oZ30

Def Poetry Jam

 amazing artists galore.
                   tons of food for thought.
            sublime lines
if you see but a couple
         you'll surely want more.

 Lauryn Hill
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkSObnpCimA&feature=relmfu


Alicia keys
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkSObnpCimA&feature=related
POW by Alicia Keys(transcript)
http://www.seeklyrics.com/lyrics/Alicia-Keys/P-o-w.html

Translation exercise. Use the english words to help you translate this interview outline

Los comienzos.

¿Qué razones te impulsaron a dar el paso de vivir en el extranjero?  make/want to go

¿Tardaste mucho en tomar la decisión? take/decide

¿Por qué dudaste si era buena idea marcharte?  hesitant

¿tenias amigos o contactos antes de ir? friend/penpals/acquanintances

¿Conociste gente rápido? make friends

Diferencias y estereotipos.

¿Hubo algo que te hiciera sentir como un marciano al principio de tu estancia? alien

¿Hubo algo que te hiciera sentir que la gente que te rodeaba eran marcianos? people around

¿Puedes hablarnos un poco de los estereotipos, prejuicios y mitos sobre la gente de allí? stereotypes, prejudices

¿Qué hay de verdad? would you say...

Aprendizaje y evolución.

¿Qué te ha aportado como persona tu experiencia en el extranjero?contributed personal growth

¿Has cambiado mucho? change

¿Crees que cualquiera que este aprendiendo un idioma debería ir a vivir a un país en que se habla ese idioma como primera lengua? a must

¿Qué diferencia hay entre aprender en una clase de idiomas y vivir el idioma? learning in a classroom/ immersion

¿Sigues aprendiendo el idioma ahora que has vuelto? still practise

¿Han cambiado tus estrategias y técnicas de aprendizaje? change/approach/learning

Reflexiones

Eres tantas personas como lenguas conoces. as the languages you speak

Si no has convivido con ellos, no tienes opiniones. Tienes prejuicios. hang out with them.

La amistad y el amor pueden ser universales pero la forma de entenderlos no lo es. love and friendship

Vivir y trabajar por un tiempo más allá de los límites físicos de nuestra rutina nos cambia. fundamentally change who we are...

REVISIÓN

Mis alumnos de 1ºA y 1ºH podrán ver sus examenes el día 25 de junio a las 20:00 en el aula 210.

 http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/audioslideshow/2012/may/11/new-review-month-in-photography
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/audioslideshow/2012/mar/29/molly-crabapple-new-york-interactive

Practice your speaking skills using these brill photos:
A. Think of show-off collocations and shiny syntax you can use to deal with the picture.
B. Write a ticklist
C. Practise describing the picture out loud.
D.Tick off items from your list as you go.
E. Then try again and record yourself
F. Listen back.
G. Repeat steps C to F after including any new lexical or syntactic niceties that may have popped to mind. Make sure you pay attention to words you might have mispronounced in the first recording.


Whatever you do, PRACTISE OUT LOUD!

Funny little comic strip audio slide
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/audioslideshow/2012/may/11/alans-records-audio-slideshow
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/mar/25/please-god-simone-lia-review?intcmp=239

 Listening pratice.
http://www.examenglish.com/KET/KET_listening_part2.htm

These videos can make for a few hours of film review oral practice. Use them!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxwYypFgOrI&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74jLrSWgIgo&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Rm4UnC29BI&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS-8Q7QIk1I&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS-8Q7QIk1I&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njLcOqW7xV0&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3u6LVHlGTk&feature=relmfu
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAQSa0963T8&feature=relmfu
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAQSa0963T8&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vl0AWjXzBk0&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozzmG0I3xpk&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwBpFuRe7t8&feature=relmfu

Sound clip webpage. I guess they must have recently started to put it together since there doesn't seem to be a whole lot of sound clips, at least not in the homepage. Some of clips are quite cool, though. Take your pic and parrot!

http://www.hark.com/clips/ymqpgplfjj-fraggle-rock-theme
http://www.hark.com/clips/dfdrvxmjlp-im-popeye-the-sailor-man
http://www.hark.com/clips/nptnvzqhqs-you-wanna-hear-how-mommy-and-me-met
http://www.hark.com/clips/nwvjmbrdlh-the-ballot-or-the-bullet-part-5
http://www.hark.com/clips/qlhtwfdbvv-im-a-bouncer-in-a-titty-bar-bill
http://www.hark.com/clips/xlvpllwqhk-check-out-the-big-brain-on-brett
http://www.hark.com/clips/qbbklcwyvw-funny
http://www.hark.com/clips/lqdgmjkyss-i-fantasize-about-massive-pristine-convenience
http://www.hark.com/clips/jcpdqjknwh-im-sorry-for-being-such-a-bastard
http://www.hark.com/clips/rnglhbdbth-he-contacts-you-through-a-fuckin-bird
http://www.hark.com/clips/znmnfyktwt-just-another-fat-fuck-walkin-out-of-the-casino-with-a-suitcase
http://www.hark.com/clips/nxbwpnpkky-or-are-you-going-to-bite

food for thought

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDycZH0CA4I&feature=relmfu

Mr Auster interviewed by GRANTA magazine USA editor.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuEpBEPTxUU

British writer Will Self reflects on our sad sad parallel cyberspace selves
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqDoBqeV6Lc&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eLiW6iPGjE&feature=relmfu

Accent tags have flooded youtube for quite some time now. These videos are interesting in that you get samples of real English accents. The last vid is a freestyle impro. the girl takes on oldshool trini accent. It's a right laugh!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juFxMpqquzk&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEP6SmZx2y0&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lE1wZyxoVpE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93aM7mSmodM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_OTYzkpc5w&feature=related
http:/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXn5S3n6QIE
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDWcXKPRELg&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSGGUI6eV1s&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfO8F6Uz_qM&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SssJOlJrq7g&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXguVx8qbNo&feature=related

For extra science vocabulary and real-deal listening practice...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/series/science

Should you have any doubts related to the field of law, here's an excellent specialized dictionary.

http://blackslawdictionary.org/

Another of the Guardian's treasures waiting to be discovered is its city walks podcast. You can download the audio files for free!!!

Author Ian Rankin takes you around Edimburgh!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/audio/2007/jan/10/cityguides885

Dickens's London audio tour. There's a map to go with it!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/audio/2011/nov/24/dickens-audio-tour-david-copperfield
http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-files/Guardian/documents/2011/09/22/dickens_walk.pdf

Poet Roger McGough's vision of his hometown.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/audio/2006/nov/27/cityguides880

Steve Bell's Brighton
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/audio/2006/dec/21/cityguides882

I'm still tripping about stuff I found last weekend on the Guardian's web. Well, this new discovery certainly does not fall short of the others...In the wonderful section of interactives, there's this brilliant city guides series . They only cover a few cities, though. Take your pick and plan a dream trip!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/city-guides

Other interactives worth checking out:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/interactive/2012/feb/05/what-being-british-mean-interactive
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2012/jan/27/how-european-are-you-quiz
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/feb/05/chastleton-house-cotswolds-panoramic-architecture
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2012/jan/25/europe-migration-eu-interactive

The Guardian's webpage may prove to be a great tool to learn English. I've included a couple of video interview links about music and a few other engrossing videos on a variety of topics.


video interviews (music)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/video/2012/jan/05/al-spx-cold-specks-video
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2012/jan/04/youssou-n-dour-president-senegal-video

videos (miscelaneous)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/video/2011/dec/26/errol-morris-photography-video?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3486
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/video/2012/jan/23/paul-mason-revolts-capitalist-realism-video
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2012/jan/23/cell36-aljalame-prison-israel-solitary-confinement-palestinian-children?INTCMP=SRCH
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/video/2011/sep/07/amnesty-tv-write-book-behind-bars-video?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3486

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/video/2008/aug/06/albert.maysles?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3486

Check out these audioslides. They make brilliant listening and speaking practice material.

audio slides (miscelaneous)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/slideshow/page/0,,2044805,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/audioslideshow/2012/jan/16/gil-scott-heron-holiday-martin-luther-king-day
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/audioslideshow/2011/nov/24/photographs-beseiged-syrian-homs
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/interactive/2011/apr/14/south-africa-photography-audio-slideshow
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/interactive/2011/nov/24/cyra-a-teenage-life-in-care-audio-slideshow
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/audioslideshow/2011/sep/22/faisal-barbers-harlesden-london-audio-slideshow

Here's the TIME magazine vid we didn't have time to check out the other day in class. I'm posting a few other vids you should have a look at.

music
http://www.time.com/time/video/player/0,32068,1313231133001_2101708,00.html
http://www.time.com/time/video/player/0,32068,21552990001_1894785,00.html

cinema
http://www.time.com/time/video/player/0,32068,795293566001_2052703,00.html

music and vid and tv and all that
http://www.time.com/time/video/player/0,32068,86967646001_1990937,00.html

Have you thought about teaching yourself English? If you're into taking a more active role in your learning experience here's a webpage you might go nuts about!
http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/lesson-plans

The activities range from A2 to C1 and they are designed to work on different linguistic skills!

Here's some grammar activities that may be quite useful for b1 and b2 students. The first three links are rephrasing exercises.

http://www.box.com/shared/lx5hicgs0i
http://www.examenglish.com/FCE/Use_of_English.htm
http://www.ompersonal.com.ar/firstcertificate/contenidotematico.htm
http://www.examenglish.com/TOEFL/toefl_structure_http://www.ompersonal.com.ar/firstcertificate/contenidotematico.htm1.htm
http://www.examenglish.com/leveltest/index.php
http://www.examenglish.com/ECPE/ecpe_grammar.htm
http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/B1_reported_speech.htm
http://www.examenglish.com/ECCE/ECCE_grammar.htm

Four juicy interviews from Time Magazine's 10 questions series.

Vigo Mortessen
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1867124,00.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWexFvaC5n4


Ricky Gervais
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7IEvfd1oXo&feature=relmfu

James Ellroy
http://www.google.es/search?q=10+questions+james+ellroy&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:es-ES:official&client=firefox-a
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHseb8JGNyA

Hillary Swank
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2028088,00.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6X-PyUexZ8