Excellent warm-up for your oral exams: interactive one-sided dialogue.

http://englishconversations.org/interactive-stories/

http://englishconversations.org/2007/03/08/nurse-story-an-example-of-an-interactive-story/
http://englishconversations.org/2009/08/31/water-car-4-an-example-of-an-interactive-story/

A1 listening practice.

http://www.esl-lounge.com/student/listening/1L3-the-new-class.php
http://www.esl-lounge.com/student/listening/1L2-rockstar.php

Phrasal verbs you have to study before Mike comes to class next time.


GET(definition, example)
http://www.esl-lounge.com/student/phrasal-verbs/phrasal-verbs-g-i.php
GET(practice)
http://www.esl-lounge.com/student/phrasal-verbs/4pv17-get.php

KEEP (definition, example)

http://www.esl-lounge.com/student/phrasal-verbs/phrasal-verbs-j-o.php

KEEP (practice)

http://www.esl-lounge.com/student/phrasal-verbs/4pv20-keep.php

MAKE (definition, example)

http://www.esl-lounge.com/student/phrasal-verbs/phrasal-verbs-j-o.php

MAKE (practice)

http://www.esl-lounge.com/student/phrasal-verbs/4pv22-make.php

Here s a list of songs used in class in case you might want to work with them. I've added some other good videos and interviews.

Tricky Piano
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sk5SG-Des5Y
Interview with Tricky
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yAXfvEP3rY
Macy Gray I Try
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsTk2xp0nvY&feature=related
Kate Nash Foundations
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsTk2xp0nvY&feature=related
Interview with Kate Nash
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHFbC203dtM
Lily Allen Smile
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WxDrVUrSvI
Lily Allen LDN Accapella
http://www.youtube.com/user/danifacch18?blend=1&ob=4&rclk=cti
Interview With Lily Allen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TAVxKtRJO4
DMX Who We Be
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sB2_MmtMoIc
Jill Scott The Way
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCerHrqWQkQ
Unknown Artists Rosie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuaPIDUQF5U
Vera Hall Trouble so Hard
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9SENzRLk_M&feature=fvw

Beginners can practise their listening using these fantastic web.
http://www.agendaweb.org/listening/elem_interm.html

I was amazed when i found this. This web is extremely useful both to get used to different accents and to get a feel of how everyday feels and souds. Listen to An English Accent.

http://englishconversations.org/

Check this one out. It´s a laugh.
http://englishconversations.org/2007/10/31/liverpool-accent/

Supa-dupa web page to practise listening
http://www.elllo.org/PagesMixer/17-MX-Intros.htm
http://www.elllo.org/PagesMixer/08-MX-DreamJob.htm
http://www.elllo.org/PagesMixer/16-MX-IdealDay.htm
http://www.elllo.org/PagesMixer/61-MX-Food.htm

You can get even more listening tests here.

http://www.elllo.org/PagesMixer/

Small talk, big challenge.
http://www.englishclub.com/speaking/small-talk.htm

Interesting reflections on learning a second language.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCpT9bi8zSc&feature=channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGVNbkGFrNM

Primero K!!! Listen to these links only twice and do the activities.



www.go4english.com/media_file/flashs/1153/index.swf
www.go4english.com/media_file/flashs/1201/index.swf
www.go4english.com/media_file/flashs/1200/index.swf
www.go4english.com/media_file/flashs/1121/index.swf

Quite a good synonym game with -à different 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

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

If you want to revise phonetics and practice your pronunciation check this out.

Theory
http://club.telepolis.com/phonetics/theory.html
http://club.telepolis.com/phonetics/wordbank.html

Time to practice
http://club.telepolis.com/phonetics/indexa.html

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

Maybe some of you enjoy cooking programmes.

Indian snack.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDlzz-fsWwk&feature=related

Here's a couple of lovely Moroccan specialities.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwaf4kMzxOQ&feature=channel salty option
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNiyTkBaIuo&feature=channel sweet toothers option

Celeb Cook Jamie Oliver. Italian challenges.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJ4aLh8o0Lk&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0XVDpPBHho&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn5vavMKw7E&feature=related

Thai lush.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl4NvSA3hRI

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

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

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/

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/