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/

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/

Some excellent exam practice webs to get a rough idea of how much damage the summer did.


http://www.britishcouncil.org/professionals-exams-fce-listening-3.htm
www.flo-joe.co.uk/fce/students/tests/tsindex.htm

http://www.examenglish.com/FCE/fcelistening.htm

http://www.ompersonal.com.ar/firstcertificate/contenidotematico.htm

http://esl.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.html
http://www.britishcouncil.org/professionals-exams-fce-speaking-intro.htm

http://www.britishcouncil.org/professionals-exams-fce-speaking-3.htm

ARE YOU LISTENING ...ENOUGH?












Listening practice tests for the following week.
http://www.esl-lab.com/home/homerd1.htm
http://www.esl-lab.com/checkin/checkinrd1.htm
http://www.esl-lab.com/complain/complainrd1.htm
http://www.esl-lab.com/base/baserd1.htm
http://www.esl-lab.com/review/review.htm
http://www.esl-lab.com/problem/probrd1.htm
http://www.esl-lab.com/sitter/sitter.htm

Listening comprehension exercises for the following week.

http://www.mansioningles.com/listening57.htm
http://www.mansioningles.com/listening55.htm
http://www.mansioningles.com/listening64.htm
http://www.mansioningles.com/listening16.htm

HOMEWORK for the week-end.

http://www.mansioningles.com/listening57.htm
http://www.mansioningles.com/listening38.htm
http://www.mansioningles.com/listening55.htm

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/

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.