OneLook® Dictionary Search

This web site is a search engine for English words and phrases that shuttles you to the web based dictionaries that define the words for which you'd like a definition. 

More than 19 million words in more than 1000 online dictionaries are indexed by the OneLook® search engine. (Source: OneLook® Dictionary Search) 

https://www.onelook.com/ 

Web resources for English language learners by @OTIS4educators

In this video (aprox. 43 min.), OTIS for Educators looks closely at some specific websites and resources that are geared toward ELLs at the middle and high school levels. These sites help learners of English to develop their pronunciation, vocabulary and writing skills in an interactive way.

Is our life sustainable? #AICLE #CLIL

This resource will help 5th course of Primary Education students to learn about the energy, the different kinds of energy, the sources of energy and how to be more sustainable. They will have some designed task to investigate about energy and it uses.  

All the tasks are designed for them to work autonomously and to reflex about their own process of learning. Also along them we try to foster student's collaboration.

Find it on:

https://descargas.intef.es/cedec/proyectoedia/aicle/contenidos/energy/index.html

NOAA Sea to Sky: Education resource database

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is an American scientific and regulatory agency within the United States Department of Commerce that forecasts weather, monitors oceanic and atmospheric conditions, charts the seas, conducts deep sea exploration, and manages fishing and protection of marine mammals and endangered species in the U.S. exclusive economic zone.

NOAA Sea to Sky is a database of education resources created by NOAA and their partners. You can search by audience, subject, resource type, topic, NGSS-DCI, scpecial categories, and collection name. 

It currently contains 1254 resources that can be used to teach a wide variety of topics in science to your students.

Visit NOAA Sea to Sky on:

https://www.noaa.gov/education/resources 

Ocean Odyssey Educators Guide

This guide includes 8 elementary school level lessons, inspired by topics from the IMAX film Ocean Odyssey, and many NOAA mission critical areas. Watching the film is not required to carry out any of these lessons, but may enhance students’ learning experience of the topics presented in these activities.

These lessons progress for use from younger to older grade bands, but they all contain aspects and resources which may be adapted for all grade bands. 

(Source Ocean Service NOAA)

https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/ocean-odyssey/ 

En el IES Azorín no te damos calabazas

Un año más el departamento de inglés del IES Azorín ha convocado su tradicional concurso de calabazas en Halloween. Con este motivo, durante la semana se han expuesto los diversos modelos presentados por nuestro alumnado más joven. 

El viernes 28 el jurado ha seleccionado las tres calabazas ganadoras y ha entregado los premios a sus autores y autoras.

Muchas gracias por vuestra participación.

English in the world today (Free course)

Free course that explores the status of this language and its worldwide diversity. It looks at how social and political factors influence people's attitudes towards it, and at the relationship between one's linguistic heritage and sense of identity. 

Find it on:

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/languages/english-language/english-the-world-today/content-section-0?active-tab=description-tab

Wordtune

Wordtune is an AI powered writing tool that rewrites, rephrases, and rewords your writing. 

Wordtune will rewrite and uplevel your writing whether you have a free or Premium account. 

Without a Premium account, you will not have access to key features such as changing the Tone of your writing from Casual to Formal and expanding/ shortening the length of your paper or article. 

Free accounts have a limited amount of rewrites per day. 

(Source WordTune)

https://www.wordtune.com/ 

Old Maps Online

OldMapsOnline began as a collaboration between Klokan Technologies GmbH, Switzerland and The Great Britain Historical GIS Project based at the University of Portsmouth, UK thanks to funding from JISC. 

Since January 2013 is the project improved and maintained by volunteers and the team of Klokan Technologies GmbH in their free time.

OldMapsOnline.org indexes over 400.000 maps.

https://www.oldmapsonline.org/

English Level 1

Libro interactivo para la introducción a la enseñanza de inglés publicado por el Fondo Editorial Pascual Bravo de Medellín (Colombia),

El contenido del libro, al igual que los objetos interactivos se han diseñado de tal forma que se puedan leer en ordenadores y dispositivos móviles sin necesidad de instalar ningún programa. El libro se puede descargar para su uso en local sin dependencia con la red, a excepción de algunos audios incluidos. 

El libro se basa en las historias del personaje ficticio llamado Pascualino y su actividad diaria a través de 11 unidades que lo sitúan en diferentes contextos. En cada una de ellas se ofrece una pequeña evaluación.

https://proyectodescartes.org/iCartesiLibri/materiales_didacticos/LEVEL01-JS/index.html

Houses of Parliament

CNN's virtual tour that explores ten aspects of the Houses of Parliament. You can click on the interactive labels or listen to the narrator description. You can also click and drag to explore the entirety of the 360 degree views of each stop in the tour.

https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2017/04/world/house-of-parliament/ 

The Writer's Workshop

Playlist of twenty-nine TED-Ed video lessons about writing. Correct use of punctuation marks, writing tips, use of irony, style, successful descriptions and narratives, etc. Videos of about five minutes that are very interesting. 

Some of the videos in this playlist are subtitled in Spanish

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJicmE8fK0Eib5y-bh4RVFvg492OIwpg8 

English: skills for learning (free course)

English: skills for learning is a free course which lasts about 8 weeks, with approximately 3 hours' study time each week. 

This course is for anybody who is thinking of studying for a university degree and would like to develop the English reading and writing skills needed to succeed. You'll be introduced to academic reading and effective note-making strategies. You'll develop your essay writing. You'll look at academic style and vocabulary-building strategies. You'll also enhance your understanding of sentence structure and punctuation. You will learn through a range of engaging activities aimed at extending your existing language skills.  

(Source Open Learn. The Open University)

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/education-development/english-skills-learning/content-section-overview?active-tab=description-tab

Celebrate the European Day of Languages (also in your English class)

Do you want to work on the importance of learning and using other languages in your classroom? One of the resources offered by the Council of Europe to celebrate the European Day of Languages is a series of posters in English (also available in other languages) that you can share with your students.

The European Day of Languages has been celebrated every year since 2001 on 26 September and promotes plurilingualism in the whole of Europe. Diversity is a tool for achieving greater intercultural understanding and a key element in the rich cultural heritage of Europe.

Download it on:

https://edl.ecml.at/Portals/33/documents/poster/EDL-infographic-languages-2022-EN.pdf 

https://edl.ecml.at/Portals/33/documents/poster/EDL-infographic-languages-EN.pdf 

More resources on:

https://edl.ecml.at/Home/tabid/1455/language/en-GB/Default.aspx 

RP phonemes: pronunciation tips (BBC learning English)

This is a compilation of BBC learning English's well-known pronunciation clips. It includes all the sounds found in 'British English' with a basic explanation.

Grammar and punctuation

University of Bristol's educational resource for academic writing. 

It includes recommendations on punctuation and grammar to improve the quality of writing.

Visit the following link:

https://www.ole.bris.ac.uk/bbcswebdav/courses/Study_Skills/grammar-and-punctuation/index.html

#OER #REA Good Karma

This OER for 3rd and 4th ESO has two objectives: to make students aware of the factors that influence interaction and to consider how the good use of these factors affects the quality of interpersonal relationships. To this end, the following topics are addressed: question structure, short sentences, non-verbal communication and communication styles.

Students will produce a report on their interpersonal profile including feedback from their peers. This is achieved by participating in a Speed Dating activity with people in the class. This OER prepares students to successfully participate in this activity.

You can find this resource from the Junta de Andalucía on:

https://edea.juntadeandalucia.es/bancorecursos/file/d8c5fd25-c3ce-4820-ac77-851c9b331613/1/ING_3ESO_REA_01.v02(2).zip/index.html

#OER #REA Fantastic food truck

Through this OER for the second cycle of Primary School published by the Junta de Andalucía (Andalusian Regional Government), students will be able to:

Identify dishes, ingredients and their origin or nationality.
Interact to order food, ask for the bill, express their tastes.
Create a food truck manually.
Create a menu from different countries.
Research through different internet sources using various digital tools.

As a final task, students will participate in a role-play where they will act out a common dialogue about ordering food in a food truck

https://edea.juntadeandalucia.es/bancorecursos/file/340ef1a1-4fe2-4a20-86b5-3d41197e4d21/1/fantastic_food_truck.zip/crditos.html

Mini Lectures. #Listening skills

Academic English. Listening Practice. Videos, teacher materials and lesson activities. Free ELT materials. 

https://sites.google.com/view/minilectures/home 

Edubilingüe

Website created by Jorge Merino Carmena, a primary school teacher specialising in English and bilingual primary education in a public school in Andalusia.

The aim of this resource is to publish his educational experiences in relation to bilingual teaching and English as a foreign language. You can find bilingual educational resources collected from other websites: online games for activating prior knowledge, downloadable materials and open educational reources.

Find them on:

https://www.edubilingue.com/teaching-resources