Each other/ one another

Watch a short video explaining the difference. The website, English Central, is an excellent tool to practise pronunciation and learn new vocabulary. There are different levels and you can record your voice. 

Merry Christmas!!

Here's a Christmas song. This website is great if you love music.

Listening exercises- How to speak POSH

Click here for a listening exercise. You'll find many other exercises on this website.

Happy Halloween!

EnglishCentral is a great website to help you learn English. Watch this video about the origin of Halloween. There are many things you can do to learn with it.

Reuters Video: Trick or treats as big business. Watch this video about what Americans spend on Halloween (it has the script).

Click here to see an interactive greeting card.

Visit old entries to see more things about Halloween.

HOROSCOPES AND PERSONALITY

Listen and answer these questions: (to see the answers click here)

1. What do they say about?
- The horoscope:
- The signs of the Zodiac:
- The astrology:
- The star sign elements:
- The planets:
- The birth chart:
- The characteristics:


2. What do they say about people with the following star signs?


Aries / Taurus / Gemini / Cancer / Leo / Virgo / Libra / Scorpio / Sagittarius / Capricorn / Aquarius / Pisces


3. What gives your star sign?


4. Listen to the dialogue and answer the following questions:


a) What does the first horoscope predict?
b) Where does she read her horoscope?
c) What does the second horoscope say?


These exercises are from http://www.busuu.com/es
This is a website where you can learn English online with interactive exercises. Have a look at it. Maybe you can register, it's free.

Naturally Better Homes

Watch the video and learn about environmentally friendly houses. You can record yourself and work with the vocabulary. THIS WEBSITE IS JUST GREAT FOR YOU.

Lyrics training

If you like music, this will be your ideal website. Enjoy the songs and practise your English at the same time.
Choose a song and a level: beginner, intermediate or advanced and click on "help" to read the instructions.
Enjoy it!

Listen and write

On this website you can listen and then do a dictation.
First listen to the whole text at once. Then you click to play the dictation and start writing. When your word is right it will appear and if the option auto repeat is on, you will listen to the same track once and again until you finish writing it. After that, go to the following track.
If you can't guess the word, click on hint and you'll get some help.
The story I have chosen is a news story from VOA News and it has a 10 level.
There's another option that allows you to complete sentences instead of writing everything down. Try clicking where it says 'To word'.
Try it!!


I'd like to thank Nik Peachey for his great websites!

Remember vocabulary

This is a way to help you record, remember and build up your vocabulary. To do this we are going to use a simple tool called Bubbl.us which you can use to create 'mind maps' or what some people call 'spidergrams' or 'vocabulary webs'.These are graphs which show relationships. They are very useful tools to help you think about and arrange words or ideas as well as to show the relationship between those ideas or words. we are going to use them today to help us look at relationships between words and help us remember them.
Task:
To get started go to: http://www.bubbl.us/ and click on 'Start Brainstorming'
You will then see a bubble in the centre of the page that says 'Start here' click on it and enter the theme for your first 'vocabulary web'. For example you can use the topic of 'Weekend activities'. Click on 'Start here' and replace the text with the word 'Weekend' then pres enter. Another bubble will appear below it.
Click on the next bubble and add a weekend activity, e.g. 'have a lie-in', then click back on the word 'weekend' and press enter again, you should get a second bubble, add another weekend activity in this bubble. Keep adding and building up words around the central theme. You can drag the words to arrange them.
Once you have 5 or 6 words around your central three start to add words that are connected to each weekend activity. Again, you do this by clicking on the word and pressing enter on your keyboard
You can then add words that are connected with each of those words. Keep adding as many words as you can.
Once you have added as many words as you can, click on 'Save'. You will then have to create a free account.
You will need to create a user name and password and have an email address.

Once you have created an account you can save your vocabulary web, give it a name and start creating more on different themes. You can go back and click 'Load' to see the vocabulary maps you have created and add new words as you learn them.This is a great way to remember, review and extend your vocabulary and it can help you to build up your own theme related dictionary.

Learn to pronounce words

You can use this website to check pronunciation.