jueves, 23 de marzo de 2017

LearnEnglishFeelGood.com

Online grammar quizzes. A good place to practice and improve your knowledge of English Grammar.

The quizzes come in three levels: beginner, intermediate, and advanced. The topics covered include verb tenses, phrasal verbs, articles, prepositions, noun clauses, adjectives, adverbs...

lunes, 20 de marzo de 2017

Using English for Academic Purposes @UEfAP

Amazing guide by Andy Gillet, English language and educational consultant. The objective of this resource is to help students in Higher Education learn some of the linguistic and cultural practices involved in studying or working through the medium of English.

Introduction (video): 

sábado, 18 de marzo de 2017

Playphrase.me

The purpose of PlayPhrase.me service is to learn English using TV series.

It allows you to search for specific phrases in a database of video clips from popular films and TV shows, like an online corpus of authentic spoken English.

PlayPhrase can be used as a cool tool to practice listening discrimination or to present new vocabulary while using authentic speech.

miércoles, 15 de marzo de 2017

Lingorank

Short lessons around great talks (TED...) to improve English listening skills, vocabulary and grammar while learning about interesting topics.

A tool to help intermediate and upper-intermediate students of English. It allows you to carry out searches according to level, speech speed, duration and content.

More information in Spanish.

domingo, 12 de marzo de 2017

Mrs. O's House. Problem Based Learning

Mrs. O's House is dedicated to providing information and engaging activities. The activities cover a wide variety of topics and offer many levels of difficulty. 

This section provides teachers with PBL ideas. It makes use of online resources to enrich a broad set of topics Students will actively explore real world problems in order to acquire a deeper knowledge.


martes, 7 de marzo de 2017

The English Consistent Confusion Corpus

The English Consistent Confusion Corpus is a large-scale collection of noise induced British English speech misperceptions. These misperceptions have been elicited by asking listeners to transcribe English words mixed with complex noise backgrounds.

The corpus has been distilled from over 300,000 listener responses and includes responses to over 9,000 individual noisy speech tokens. Of these, more than 3,000 passed the condition of minimal consistency where at least 6 of the listeners reported the same incorrect response.


The ECCC can be downloaded as a zip file. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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sábado, 4 de marzo de 2017

Useful Expressions in English

Very useful IH Bristol’s extensive list of commonly used English expressions available for free to beginners up to advanced users. 

The topics are ordered alphabetically and the list also provides detailed explanations on how to use those expressions.

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miércoles, 1 de marzo de 2017

Easy Science For Kids

EasySciencieForKids.com is a free online resource for tutors, teachers, parents and educators where young kids learn about sciencie (animals, plants, human body, Earth, technology, biographies through articles, science worksheets, downloadable activity sheets, interactive science quizzes, experiment tips and ideas, videos...)