sábado, 30 de octubre de 2021

inogolo.com

Website devoted to the English pronunciation of the names of people, places, and various things. The site contains thousands of pronunciations (most including audio clips) in English. The site can be searched or browsed alphabetically, by tag, or through topical pronunciation guides. 

inogolo.com provides an easy to use tool to help pronounce common English names and helps speakers pronounce difficult and commonly mispronounced names.

An inogolo name pronunciation app is available for iPhone 

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/inogolo-name-pronunciations/id1469322605 

Find it on:

https://inogolo.com/index 

Premier Skills English

Premier Skills is the British Council's international partnership with the Premier League. 

Premier Skills English helps teachers and learners of English with free, compelling learning materials based on football content.

Find it on:

https://premierskillsenglish.britishcouncil.org/ 

sábado, 23 de octubre de 2021

Halloween Science Videos

Playlist with 10 videos connected to science and Halloween for children. 

Learn about bats, spiders, rats, pumpkins, ravens, the changing of the leaves, the human skeleton...

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw2cuKNQvZ2fZ1IvaecIH3Iw76hXjU-pf 

Literature Infographics vía @xtianolive

A partir de un tuit de Cristian Olivé, he llegado a esta página con multitud de infografías en inglés sobre obras literarias. Incluyen información sobre la publicación, autoría, trama, símbolos, personajes principales y otros aspectos de cada obra.

Pueden buscarse por autor o por título en orden alfabético.

Se  encuentran dentro de la plataforma Course Hero en:

https://www.coursehero.com/infographics/ 

sábado, 16 de octubre de 2021

Halloween explained simply

With Halloween approaching, our blog post features this video explaining Halloween in simple words. Ideal for use in class with your English students.

Created by Shona Nichols whose Youtube channel we recommend you to visit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0R2NxEsL5g  

Slide deck (PDF)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1u4L_0f9v-Rs9EWLeP49-EE2vjm0HBqB7/view 

UsingEnglish.com (@UsingEnglish)

Established in 2002, UsingEnglish.com is a general English language site specialising in English as a Second Language (ESL) that hosts a large collection of tools & resources for students, teachers, learners and academics, covering the full spectrum of ESL, EFL, ESOL, and EAP subject areas. 

Find UsingEnglish.com on:

https://www.usingenglish.com/

sábado, 9 de octubre de 2021

Black literature timeline

This literary timeline explores the history of Black literature and writing in Britain through around 50 texts. 

It includes works by writers living and working in Britain, as well as titles first published here and authored by people who were born in former British colonies in Africa, the Caribbean and Americas.

(Source: https://www.bl.uk/20th-century-literature/activities/black-literature-timeline)

Find and download the timeline on:

https://www.bl.uk/britishlibrary/~/media/bl/global/dl%2020th%20century/black%20literature%20timeline/black-literature-timeline-A1-Poster-web-5-10-21.pdf 

Piclits.com

Creative writing site created by Terry Frielander, that matches beautiful images with carefully selected keywords. Its object is to put the right words in the right place and the right order to capture the essence, story, and meaning of the picture. 

Find it on:

https://piclits.com/ 

viernes, 1 de octubre de 2021

Living in London

Interactive resource for practising English in secondary education by guiding the activity of a character in London. 

Living in London is an educational material offered by the Junta de Castilla y Léon.

You can find it through the following link:

http://www.educa.jcyl.es/educacyl/cm/gallery/Recursos%20Infinity/aplicaciones/16_secundaria_living_in_london/index.html 

LingYourLanguage

LingYourLanguage is a collaborative effort to bring the world’s languages to a wider audience in an entertaining, engaging way. In this game you listen to a short snippet of someone speaking and then guess what language is being spoken. You can play alone or with a friend (mode Multiplayer).

The project began at a hostel in Prague, Czech Republic, where visitors began contributing their languages to the LingYourLanguage collection. It soon spread to family, friends, acquaintances, friends of friends, and so on, and links together people and cultures. 

Find it on:

https://lingyourlanguage.com/

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