The witches by Roald Dahl

You could either read the book or also watch the film!!! Although the film is quite frightening!!!

Language Guide. Org

http://www.languageguide.org/english/

If you want to widen your vocabulary, this useful website will help you!!

Pronunciation tips - BBC Learning English

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/pron/sounds/vowel_short_1.shtml

Michael Jackson - Justin Timberlake ( Love never felt so good)

Garfield - A funny comic strip

Learn English through movies

http://cinema.clubefl.gr/

Simple English videos

http://www.simpleenglishvideos.com/all-movies/

Watch, click and learn English!!!

You can find the trailers for the following films (text transcription of the video):

Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs
LEGO
Monster University: Clip 1
How To Train Your Dragon 2

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/charlie/

A really interesting study guide to better understand this wonderful book by Roald Dahl.

Another useful website

http://www.esl-galaxy.com/

There are so many possibilities that you can spend hours checking this website!!! You can also download power points, e-books

Card games: SNAP and TRUMPS (fun ways to learn English)

Let's clan

http://www.rtve.es/contenidos/infantil/letsclan/veranoing.pdf

http://www.rtve.es/television/lets-clan/

If you want to practice your English watching television, this is your site!!!!!

Learn English Teens - British Council

http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/

A really useful site with lots of information with reference to issues such as books, entertainments, news of the world, video selection, grammar and vocabulary exercises, exams...

Discovery Box Magazine

http://www.bayard-magazines.co.uk/gammebox/discoverybox.htm

http://issuu.com/bayard_magazines/docs/db166_internet (if you want to flick through the magazine)

The flatmates

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/flatmates/

Very useful series to learn new vocabulary and expressions!!!

Phonemic chart - British Council

http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/phonemic-chart

This is the new British Council phonemic chart. Help your students hear the sounds of English by clicking on the symbols below. Click on the top right hand corner of each symbol to hear sample words including the sounds.

An amazing link with lots of English resources for ESL

http://www.symbaloo.com/mix/eslsitesselection

Thank you to Marga Valdés for her wonderful selection!!

One of the best videos ever: Take on me by A-ha

Watch it with English and Spanish subtitles!!

Bookbox.com

http://www.bookbox.com/

Animated stories that help improve reading & language learning skills through a scientifically tested concept. All videos are subtitled, which is really useful to understand the stories.

 

Synonyms and antonyms

A really useful site to learn synonyms and antonyms, with lots of exercises to practice their use!!

http://www.englishforeveryone.org/Topics/Synonyms-and-Antonyms.htm

New York by Alicia Keys (with lyrics)

Simply beautiful!!!!

 

Football Vocabulary (British Council site)

http://premierskills.britishcouncil.org/en/learn-english/football-match-vocabulary

Since the World Cup is almost there, try to discover how much football vocabulary you know!!!

DUOLINGO -Learn English

https://www.duolingo.com/en

Really useful and practical website to learn English!!!!

Peppa Pig Recycling

5th June - World Environment Day

http://www.unep.org/wed/

LIVEMOCHA - Free Online Language Learning

HOW IT WORKS?

Learning with the Livemocha Community

The Livemocha community is made up of language enthusiasts: teachers, language experts, other language learners, and native speakers proud of their language and heritage.  Community members help each other learn in a myriad of ways: they leave comments in response to practice exercises, build mini-lessons within exercise feedback,  have practice conversations via text, video or audio chat,  provide language practice and culture tips, and give much-needed encouragement.

Registration, lessons, and access to native speakers are FREE!

http://livemocha.com/

EnglishMania

EnglishMania

Useful site with information concerning different fields:

- History and Literature
- Grammar
- Cinema and theatre
- Online dictionary
- Listening and pronunciation

Rain, rain go away, come again another day...

Let's cheer up even if it is still raining in May!!!
Happy, by Pharrell Williams!!!

Online English Course - WLingua

http://www.wlingua.com

An easy way to learn and practice your English!!!

Learning English with Max and Alex - Food vocabulary

English Attack

http://es.english-attack.com/

Another interesting site to learn English. Useful videos, visual dictionaries, games and the possibility of meeting other people who want to improve their English knowledge too.

Another interesting video: What is 21 century education?

Education rap 2.0 (El rap de la educación 2.0)

Even if it is in Spanish, I think it is interesting and useful for teachers to listen to this rap!!!

Brighton Pier

http://www.brightonpier.co.uk/

If you ever visit Brighton, in the south of England, do not forget to visit the Brighton Pier!!

8 PHRASES WE OWE TO WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

VISUAL DICTIONARY ONLINE

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

A really useful dictionary!!

23rd April Book Day

Although I know Book Day was yesterday, let's read not only one day but all through the whole year!!!!

The image has been taken from the blog ofprimaryimportance.blogspot.com. And it was inspired by the fabulous Mrs. Parker on TBA (Teaching Blog Addict).

http://www.teachingblogaddict.com/p/welcome-to-tba.html

The Goonies

Even if it is a pretty old film, it is really worth watching it!!!!

A great idea to spend your afternoon in front of the telly with this group of boys and girls!!!

Teaching with songs

http://www.isabelperez.com/songs.htm

An amazing site where students will listen to modern songs (Umbrella by Rihanna, If I were a boy by Beyoncé, Where is the love by Black Eyed Peas) and find interesting activities to practice grammar issues.

Another useful site, where songs are divided into categories (animals, alphabet, clothing, food and nutrition...)

http://www.songsforteaching.com/esleflesol.htm

And finally a post published in a blog where several links are recommended:

https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/blogs/evab2001/using-songs-teach-english

Agendaweb.org

http://www.agendaweb.org/

An amazing website with hundreds of free activities!!!!

CARTOON STORY MAKER - LANGUAGESONLINE

http://www.education.vic.gov.au/languagesonline/games/cartoon/index.htm

Cartoon Story Maker in the classroom

The Cartoon Story Maker has been designed with a focus on applying language learning. It is easy to use with simple controls so students spend less time manipulating tools and more time on the language. Within a few minutes of opening the Cartoon Story Maker students can be typing text or adding their own voice recordings.

• Teachers can make cartoon stories to model language and cultural conventions.
• Students can make them as a stimulating and engaging way to practice their language skills.

Languagesonline

http://www.education.vic.gov.au/languagesonline/english/english.htm

This Australian site offers several activities concerning very simple issues: greetings, family members, ordinal numbers...Really useful!!

"Intercambio con un inglés"

Although this book has been written by an Austrian writer, Christine Nöstingler, I strongly recommend it to you!!! Even if you read it in Spanish!!

 

Happy April Fools' Day

                                                   Which will be your prank for today????

Snoopy subtitled

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJCdxsk60rQ

You can practice your oral and reading comprehension skills! An episode with English subtitles to follow the story!!

GLOGSTER - A very useful tool

Glogster is a social network, which allows users to create free interactive posters, or Glogs.
A "Glog" means "graphics blog" and it is an interactive multimedia image.
It looks like a poster, but users can interact with the contents.

Glogster EDU was launched in 2009 to be used by the educational community. Glogster EDU helps teachers and pupils to employ glogs as pedagogical tools and all of them can share their Glogs in private virtual classroom.

http://www.glogster.com/

English newspapers for kids

http://www.free-onlinenewspapers.com/free-online-newspapers-for-kids.html

Really interesting links where you can find several examples of English newspapers for kids.

http://teachingkidsnews.com

http://www.firstnews.co.uk

http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/press_corps/index.asp

Word Reference - online dictionary

http://www.wordreference.com

Very useful dictionary, where you can find not only the English translation for Spanish words, but also a lot of examples explaining how to use them in different expressions!

Symbaloo EDU - An interesting tool for teachers

http://www.symbalooedu.es

 Symbaloo EDU will help you to organize your online contents in a very easy way.  With this tool, you will navigate faster on the net. You can save all your favourite websites and also share them with your students. And it is free!!

Discovering Mister Maker

http://www.mistermaker.com

Mr. Maker is a television series for children. Every episode has the following sequence:

1. Has a creative idea and demonstrates the procedure
2. Shape dance and make a picture
3. Minute make it time
4. Colour Kids
5. Frame-it
6. One more creative idea is demonstrated
7. Time to go



Mister Maker does something interesting and that gives him an idea of what to make. He collects the required things from the Doodle drawers or an art and craft shop and make it. Then he wakes up the shapes and they do a song and dance, followed by a randomly selected shape (circle, triangle, square or rectangle) to form a picture or to find how many (particular shape) are there.   This series has received the BAFTA Children's Awards 2009. (Source: Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mister_Maker).

Little Bridge World

https://www.littlebridge.com

Little Bridge is a fun virtual world for learning English where young learners of all agers can enjoy fun English lessons, for example, they can watch the robots in the Grammar Factory.
You will have hundreds of fun and effective lessons and activities, with carefully structured practice. You can even record your voice in the conversations!

Little Bridge World has also won a prestigious Bett Award, in the ‘International Digital Education Resource’ category as part of the world’s largest technology in education show.

BusyTeacher: a really useful website

http://busyteacher.org

BusyTeacher.org is a website where English teachers share their lesson plans, printable worksheets  and lesson activities with other teacher for free.You have to log in and then every month you will receive really useful resources to use in class.

Peppa Pig

I am sure you have all watched these cartoons when you were a little younger. Have you ever heard the original voice of Peppa or George? You could find lots of videos of this series on youtube. Your English will be good enough to understand lots of things!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zE04ZfAe3DY

Welcome to the WheelsOnTheClass

I have named this blog in honour of a famous song...do you know which one?
Of course, The wheels on the bus
You cannot imagine how many versions are available on the Internet!!! I give just one example, but do not hesitate to look for more!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONR7vpo3CGg