jueves, 28 de mayo de 2015

Grammar-Monster

Very interesting site for ESL students and teachers. It offers a great variety of grammar resources with examples.

Five sections are available in its navigation bar on the home page

- Punctuation lessons 
- Glossary 
- Common Grammar Errors 
- Confused Words 
- Grammar Tests 

You can follow Grammar-Monster on these social-networks:
- Twitter: 
- Google+: 
- Facebook: 

lunes, 25 de mayo de 2015

ESL Partyland

ESL Partyland, founded by Karin M. Citron, a US-based English teacher in 1999, provides students and teachers with content and tools necessary to learn online, and materials and teaching ideas for every type of classroom and learner.

It offers resources to teach ESL through music, film, video and the Internet. You can also find materials and lesson plans to use when teaching or learning conversation, grammar, listening and speaking skills.

Visit:

viernes, 22 de mayo de 2015

Activities for ESL Students (a4esl.org)

Resources to help you learn English as a Second Language (ESL)

This project of The Internet TESL Journal (iteslj.org) has thousands of contributions by many teachers (activities, quizzes, tests, exercices, puzzles...) by many teachers:

- Grammar Quizzes
- Vocabulary Quizzes
- Crossword Puzzles
- External links
- Bilingual quizzes (e.g. English-Spanish: http://iteslj.org/v/s/)

All this and much more on:


http://a4esl.org/

lunes, 18 de mayo de 2015

MakeBeliefsComix.com

This site was launched in 2006 by Bill Zimmerman as a multilingual comic strip creation service. MakeBeliefsComix.com empowers students to express themselves and communicate through art and writing. You can select characters, emotions, objects, backgrounds, panel prompts and balloons... It includes more than 350 printable templates divided into thematic categories. 

There are many ways to use MakeBeliefsComix.com in the classroom: create autobiographical comix, practice new vocabulary words in a creative way, promote team collaboration, practice conversation skills in a meaningul context, introduce students to creative writing... Teachers can also share their own lesson plans for using this educational resource to teach literacy and reading. 


domingo, 17 de mayo de 2015

Move On! Global Connections. Curso de verano

Os recordamos que sigue abierta la convocatoria de esta formación, en especial, diseñada para la docencia AICLE-CLIL y dirigida al profesorado de primaria e infantil que enseña inglés o en inglés.

Se llevará a cabo en inglés de forma semipresencial. En la sede de la UIMP de Cuenca del día 6 al día 10 de julio (30 horas) y en una fase en línea (20 horas) durante los meses de septiembre, octubre y noviembre.

El curso está dirigido por Leslie Davison y aborda numerosos contenidos que dinamizarán las prácticas en el aula a través de diversas estrategias, herramientas y metodologías.

Podéis acceder al programa a partir de este enlace:

La convocatoria de la Secretaría de Estado de Educación, Formación Profesional y Universidades en la que figuran este y otros cursos de verano para la formación permanente del profesorado dentro de la oferta es accesible desde:

(Fuente: Blog INTEF.)

jueves, 14 de mayo de 2015

Easy Way Lyrics

Created by Easy Way Language Center, this app synchronizes lyrics with the songs and translates them in real time with Google Translate.

viernes, 8 de mayo de 2015

Manythings.org

Very interesting ad-free web site for people studying English as a Second or as a Foreign Language (ESL/ EFL) It provides learners with quizzes, word games, word puzzles, slang, pronunciation and listening practice and other computer assisted language learning activities (Flash, Java/ Javascript..., audio and video). It also offers external references to useful materials for teachers of ESL.

lunes, 4 de mayo de 2015

UN Human Rights Education

Videos, games, cartoons, podcasts, and a number of interesting tools on Human Rights Education are available to you to discover on this website. It includes among other sections:

- Teach yourself. Students of all ages can use this section to learn about human rights (kids, teenagers, university).
- Teach others. Teachers of Human Rights issues can use these pages to find pedagogical material on human rights (primary, secondary, tertiary).
- Field experiencies.
- Materials.
- Play and learn (a selection of media and other resources covering different themes).

You can also share your experiences about Human Rights Education with people from around the world.

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