Saturday, 24 September 2011

STORY MAKER - BASIC AND INTERMEDIATE

Do you like writing? You can create your own stories here. The story maker makes three different types of stories: fairy, horror and science-fiction stories. What's your favourite? It can be fun because a machine makes up the story. You only choose the characters. Try it out because it can be nice to discover what is up.

British Council - Learn English Kids

MINE - TAYLOR SWIFT - SONG

This is a song taken from a wonderful website, called 'Daily elessons'. It goes with activities thought for the students who study English as a second language.

FAMILY FEUD

Family Feud is an American television game show created by Mark Goodson and Bill Todman. Two families compete against each other in a contest to name the most popular responses to a survey-type question posed to 100 people.

MEN'S AND WOMEN'S BRAIN - INTERMEDIATE

Watch these two videos on men's and women's brain in order to work out how the brain works. I am sure you won't get bored with this theoretical approach, on the contrary, you will get surprised at the original way of introducing the facts to the audience.

Two brains - part 1
Two brains - part 2

Friday, 23 September 2011

Monday, 19 September 2011

ALPHABET GAME - BASIC LEVEL

This game is called Alphabet Antics and helps you with the alphabet. You only have to say what letter of the alphabet it is. Click on the right letter but watch out for the snake!

Sunday, 18 September 2011

GREAT WEBSITE TO IMPROVE PRONUNCIATION

A student at EOI Ingenio sent me this incredible website to help you with your pronunciation. It allows you to create your own talking character and for free. If you do not remember how to pronounce a word or expression, you only have to type the word(s) and the character will say it for you. Sitepal

Friday, 16 September 2011

INTERMEDIATE - GREETINGS

Hello there,
Welcome to a new school year in the EOI Ingenio. To start with you have this nice video about different ways of saying hello & goodbye, that is, greetings.

Thursday, 15 September 2011

LIVING ENGLISH - BASIC LEVEL

This is an Australian series to help you with your English at a basic level. This first episode is about greetings, introductions, simple sentences, personal pronouns, that and this and adjectives. It is very easy because the characters speak very slowly and clearly.
Living English - episode 1

Thursday, 8 September 2011

AMY WINEHOUSE - WHAT REALLY HAPPENED

What is the truth about her death? Watch this and make your own theory of what really happened.
Amy Winehouse: What Really Happened

IRREGULAR VERBS - INTERMEDIATE AND ADVANCED


Who said that learning irregular verbs was boring? Here is a game to revise all those annoying verbs. Why not try to score the highest and lead the chart? Verb Dash

Monday, 15 August 2011

GOOD MANNERS, BAD MANNERS

Good manners, bad manners
“Manners” means the way that you behave to other people, particularly in public. If you have good manners you are polite and courteous. You remember to say “please” and “thank you”. You make people feel welcome and at ease. And if you have bad manners you are rude and discourteous. You say unpleasant things to people. You make them feel unwelcome and upset.

PRETTY IN PINK - INTERMEDIATE LEVEL

6min: Pretty in pink?: 20 May 2011: "Yvonne and Rob talk about the colour pink. A recent radio programme investigated why young girls like pink so much."

SUPERSTITIONS - INTERMEDIATE LEVEL

6min: Superstitions 12 Aug 2011: "Rob and Alice discuss superstitions connected with nature. These are events that some people believe will bring them good or bad luck."

Saturday, 13 August 2011

BASIC REAL ENGLISH - BASIC LEVEL

This entry provides you with a lot of revision units for Basic level before the new school year begins. Click on this link and remember all the things you studied last year as well as the new things you can learn this coming year.

MUZZY IN GONDOLAND - BASIC LEVEL

This cartoon movie is for Basic students. It is slow and easy to understand.


Muzzy 4/5 por fufek

Sunday, 7 August 2011

CHILDREN'S RHYMES AND SONGS - BASIC LEVEL

These are traditional children's nursery rhymes and songs. Are they familiar to you? You can sing them along. It can help you with your English pronunciation.

Nursery Rhymes & Kids Songs

Old MacDonald


Over the mountains


People work


The Hokey Cokey


And now Children's stories

Dark, dark wood


The Princess and the dragon