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More teaching and learning links

Thanks for the brilliant work you did writing about the websites. Useful for us all. And don't forget to check out the DFilm movies and the Voicethreads people made.

You can see the information, films etc from the other groups here:
Group A (Jo's): http://nilemgea.blogspot.com/
Group B (Carole's): http://nilemgeb.blogspot.com/
Group C (Jamie's): http://mgecnile.blogspot.com/

Some greedy people asked for more websites to use for learning and teaching! Here is a page of links from my website, The English Language Garden:
http://www.elgweb.net/t_links.html

I'm hoping to update this at the end of August - but I'll be adding to it rather than deleting any (unless they've become bad links). One of the sites I'll definitely add then is the award-winning TEFLclips written by a man called Jamie Keddie who you may have heard of. http://www.teflclips.com/ (Group A - remember Mairzy Doats?)

Links to loads of material for Interactive Whiteboards at http://www.elgweb.net .

And if your English spelling is a bit iffy, take a look at my blog The Spelling Blog at http://thespellingblog.blogspot.com/

And what about you? Have you got a blog or website that we can look at? Or do you know other useful sites? Please post them here.

The face of Leonardo da Vinci

The http://www.ted.com/ is a link where you can find diferent presentations and it is very useful for improving your English level.

Once you choose your topic you could listen the news and if you don't understand properly you could use the subtitles version. Another interesting thing is that in that link you could choose and interactiv transcript of the speech.
A good example of it is this:
http://www.ted.com/talks/siegfried_woldhek_shows_how_he_found_the_true_face_of_leonardo.html

This topic is about the different portraits of Leonardo da Vinci and how Siegfried Woldhek found the true face of Leonardo.

For listening practice...

If you need listening practice in English and you are interested in different topics about History, Science, Art, Education... visit this link http://www.ted.com/
With the interesting title of "Ideas worth spreading", you can improve your English and learn many things... If you have some difficulties you can click for subtitles or open an interactive transcripction. It's great.
There are some examples:
http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html

http://www.ted.com/talks/david_macaulay_s_rome_antics.html

three useful websites

Wikipedia everyone can write in different languages and in different countries.
Simple English Wikipedia is for everyone, included children and adults who are learning English. We can use simple English words and grammar. For example if we write an article another person can correct us.
Googlefigh is like a game where we can find betwen two words what is more used in Google.
When we want to make a composition we can see the most suitable word to look for in Google.
Howjsay is useful for preparing a speech, a lesson or for learning the pronunciation of a word.

Dfilm, a new tool for bloggers

Do you want to shock your students?

Maro and Ces will tell you how. Just enter the web http://www.dfilm.com/live/moviemaker.html and choose between 15 backgrounds and 12 skies for the scenery of your movie. Then, start!!!!!!

Next step you select the plot and characters and the music and write the dialog.

That's our example, now enjoy it ;)

http://www.dvolver.com/live/movies-293495

Group 1 research

There are two sites to be explored by us.
The first one is:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/wordsinthenews/index.shtml

This is a wonderful site to learn English with a lot of exercises about every thing, that means grammar, pronounciation, spelling, etc.
This site belongs to BBC, this is a guarantee of quality. You can listen to audios and watch videos as well.
The other one is:
http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/index.html
This is a page for teachers, where you can find materials, English worksheets, exams... It's very useful in order to prepare your lessons. You need to downlown some of these materials, you can use it by free only for a short period of time, after that you have to pay for it.

About different English accents

We want to recommend a website about how different English language can sound all around Britain. In this site you can listen to 76 sound recordings and over 600 short audio clips including different accents as well as gramatical, phonological and even social variations.
Here you can compare how a word like "bath" can be pronounced in different ways depending on the region the speaker comes from.
You can also find out that the use of some consonants in pronounciation is more likely in upper or lower social classes.
Even grammar may be different as you move around the country (for example you can hear "I were" in Cambridgeshire or "You was" in Cornwall).

You only need to click the following link to find out more.
http://www.bl.uk/learning/langlit/sounds/index.html

What's "Voicethread"?

It's a social webpage based on the use of voice, in which you can share your presentations, photos, videos, documents or any combination of them, supported by the voice. When you are a member you can post your data and you can re-record, re-write and delete your own comments. The rest of the members can record or write their comments and also have a conversation with the other members.

Our Monday afternoon lesson

Websites and web tools to help your English:

Group 1. Explore these sites:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/wordsinthenews/index.shtml

and

http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/index.html

Write about theses two sites on our blog. (Put in links to the sites) Describe and compare them. Which do you think is more useful to help your colleagues improve their English? Why?

Group 2. Explore this site:

http://www.dfilm.com/live/moviemaker.html

You can make a movie here. To save it you need to register.

Write about the site on our blog (link to the site). And if possible embed your movie. Say how difficult it was to make. How do you think this could be useful to help your colleagues improve their English?

Group 3. Look at this site and choose one talk to watch that interests you :

http://www.ted.com/

Write a short summary of the talk you watched (include the link) . What other types of talks were available that might interest your colleagues? Write about it on our blog.

Group 4. Look at these three sites:

http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

How is this different from the normal English Wikipedia site? How useful is it?

http://www.googlefight.com/

Describe what Googlefight does? In what situations could it be useful for you and your colleagues?

http://www.howjsay.com/

How useful do you think this site is? Do you know any other tools that are useful for language learners?

Write about all these questions on our blog. Remember to link to the sites.

Group 5. Spend a bit of time exploring this site:

www.bl.uk/learning/langlit/sounds/index.html

Then write about it on our blog. Describe the site and say what it does (don't forget to link to it). Did you find any interesting information on it?

Group 6. Look at this site:

http://voicethread.com/

Spend a bit of time exploring and, if you want to, you can leave some comments or even register and make your own Voicethread (you will need some photos – ask Jo if you haven’t got any).

Then write about Voicethread on our blog. Describe it and say how people use it. How do you think it could be useful for practising your English? Put in links to interesting examples and of course the main site.