tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86349350876890270112024-02-07T05:09:34.373+00:00TEFL Global ResourcesFree TEFL Global Resources for the TEFL Student and Teacher.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03768486147419415286noreply@blogger.comBlogger177125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8634935087689027011.post-74630940129451895582012-10-08T15:06:00.001+01:002012-10-08T15:17:00.490+01:006-Things To Do To Commemorate Indigenous Peoples On Columbus Day.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">I posted up an earlier resource today on Christopher Columbus. On the 12th October, 1492; this well known explorer was said to have arrived as an immigrant to "the New World." </span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This reminds me of the issue of who discovered Macchu Picchu in Peru (see <a href="http://tefl-global-resources.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/a-famous-peruvian-landmark-tefl-global.html#.UHLZSJjA808">previous blog post on Macchu Picchu</a> and the <a href="http://tefl-global-resources.blogspot.co.uk/p/tefl-clil-and-eap-resources.html#.UHLZnJjA808">Macchu Picchu Multi Media Project</a>). </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">On Friday 12th October, let's remember and celebrate the People who are native to the America's. The above picture is a memorial tribute to the Indians in Chile.</span> Click on the title link and discover 6 things that you can do to support the causes of these people on Friday. <span style="font-weight: bold;"> <span style="font-weight: normal;">Activities vary from further reading, to making donations or simply spreading the word to your friends and followers so people around the world are better informed of indigenous issues.</span></span> </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03768486147419415286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8634935087689027011.post-41163589857455413982012-10-08T13:18:00.001+01:002012-10-08T13:21:47.785+01:00Report Warns Global Hunger is Imminent<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03768486147419415286noreply@blogger.com0London, UK51.5073346 -0.127683151.3492066 -0.4435401 51.6654626 0.1881739tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8634935087689027011.post-34312180406969469842012-10-08T13:00:00.001+01:002012-10-08T13:05:20.658+01:00Organic Foods Have Same Nutritional Value<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03768486147419415286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8634935087689027011.post-64463651314121818812012-10-08T12:41:00.001+01:002012-10-08T12:48:04.359+01:00This Week In History<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03768486147419415286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8634935087689027011.post-29414520715489184782012-10-07T22:42:00.001+01:002012-10-07T22:48:15.564+01:00Phonemic Chart<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Follow the title link. If you are a beginner/pre-intermediate English learner and following the British Council Elementary Podcasts I suggest for the time being only trying to focus on the consonant part of the chart. If you are a higher level learner or feel confident to do so; you could go on to the single vowel sounds and then the dipthongs (double vowel sounds) last as they are the hardest!</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03768486147419415286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8634935087689027011.post-19446785734617125402012-10-07T22:29:00.001+01:002012-10-07T22:44:46.463+01:00BBC Learning English | Pronunciation Tips<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03768486147419415286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8634935087689027011.post-53664020323120693182012-10-07T22:11:00.001+01:002012-10-07T22:13:13.314+01:00Famous Female Mexican Painter<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 0.48cm;">a paint gallery with over 70 self portraits to scroll through by Frida. Perhaps you could arrange and edit these pictures into a Favourte 10 Frida Kahlo Painting PowerPoint Presentation, writing a summarising sentence about each painting and what it means to you.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 0.48cm;">A selection of quotes taken from what Frida said in her lifetime and her diary which she kept for the latter part of her life. These could be made into a pocket book of Frida Kahlo Quotes.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“<i><b>Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing</b></i>.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>"<b>Laughing and letting go and feeling lighter give one strength. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing "man" has, and I am sure that however much animals "suffer", they never exhibit their "pain" in open "theatres" or "behind doors". Their colours are truer than any image that any man may "represent" as painful</b>.”</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">After her experiences in life, I am truly inspired by this incredible woman and her words. It is a miracle that a person who suffered so much, had this amazing gift of valuing and living her life so fully. Awe inspiring!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Frida Kahlo's life was made into film starring Salma Hayak and Alfred Molina, as her husband Diego Rivera (the famous Mexican muralist).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you are a beginner (A2 CEFR level) these British Council Podcasts are excellent for getting you started. As the week progresses I will post up other related work which will be appropriate for different levels of student ability. If you are an Intermediate level of student you may want to use this resource to revise and then extend your knowledge. Advanced students may just want to dip into the additional and other resources added during the week.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Find the audio link (MP3) right click and save it so you can listen to it whenever is convenient for you. The podcast comes with a support pack and transcript which is 22 pages long. Use this link:</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Telling a story - 'being late'.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What famous person would you like to meet and why? Frida Kahlo, a famous Mexican painter</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Vocabulary quiz - words beginning with (single consonant sounds)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kazakhstan - a comparison of 'old' and 'new'. Astana (capital city) versus traditional mountain scenery. 'Berkutchy' - a traditional eagle keeper or modern occupations.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Expressing an opinion - how 'green' are you?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dialogue of Carolina from Venezuela when she is at university deciding what societies and clubs to join.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Use of the word 'like' as a verb, preposition and informal conversation filler.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Giving information to others. For example: phone numbers, addresses.</span></li>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03768486147419415286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8634935087689027011.post-69275812662617758552012-10-05T15:45:00.001+01:002012-10-05T15:51:27.443+01:00BBC World Service - Witness, Fifty years of the Beatles<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Click on the title link above and listen to Beatles music clips (Love, Love Me Do; Please, Please Me and she Loves You) with an interview led by Simon Watts in 1962. </span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The four young Beatles (Ringo, George, John and Paul) are interviewed as are George Martin and Brian Ebstein (their manager and stage manager respectively). </span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Their 'natural sense of humour' and 'love for fun' comes through really well in the interview as indeed do some of their 'character flaws'. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The interview was conducted in a very different time era where musicians did as their manager and stage manager told them. They dressed in suits as directed by Brian Ebstein instead of the jeans and leather jackets they had originally turned up for audition in. </span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03768486147419415286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8634935087689027011.post-31043023968733847192012-10-05T15:14:00.001+01:002012-10-05T15:25:00.325+01:00Allergies and Genetically Modified Cow's Milk<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This BBC podcast is concerned with <i><b>genetically modified food </b></i>and <i><b>allergies</b></i><b style="font-style: italic;">.</b><i> </i></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Minor to severe allergies are described. For example; </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">hay fever, nut, egg and cows milk allergies in babies. The resource is suitable for advanced TEFL students.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In baby cow milk allergies, the protein 'beta lacta globulin' has been found to cause RNA interference. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Do you think it is a spectacular or unethical practise?</b></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you need an online dictionary please use one of the following links:</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03768486147419415286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8634935087689027011.post-8368921715718369912012-10-05T14:43:00.001+01:002012-10-05T14:48:33.531+01:00Learning English - Words in the News - Life's big questions?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Why have I been born?</b></span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- ponder life with a drink in a chair which utter words of wisdom</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Click the title link and watch this interesting video story from a bar in </span><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 15px;">Corigliano d'Otranto, Italy </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and become familiar with new English vocabulary. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">An excellent film about men serving 'life sentences' and their lives inside a US prison. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Click on the title link and listen to Morgan Freeman's speech about <b><i>'rehabilitation'. </i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"A famous prisoner of war was <span style="color: black;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Mitterrand" style="background-color: white; background-image: none; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none;" title="François Mitterrand">François Mitterrand</a>.</span> He was a <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">French president who was captured during the Second World War in 1940".</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"><i><b>How many times do you think he escaped before arriving home in December 1941?</b></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Test your English vocabulary and help donate grains of rice to feed the world's hungry</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03768486147419415286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8634935087689027011.post-82795761978361083232012-10-04T09:42:00.001+01:002012-10-04T09:47:27.601+01:00Multiculturalism - EFL CLASSROOM 2.0<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Find out what young people in the UK think 'culture' is. Follow the title link and l</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">isten to young adults/teenagers from London (a multicultural city) express their opinions on multicultural issues, stereotyping and culture in a video. </span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03768486147419415286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8634935087689027011.post-3202613595525496452012-10-03T22:48:00.001+01:002012-10-03T22:52:28.207+01:00MyWordBook<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Click on the title link above and download the above mobile learning application from the British Council.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03768486147419415286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8634935087689027011.post-85152891056806015132012-10-03T22:25:00.001+01:002012-10-03T22:33:25.045+01:00English for Medicine - A Doctor's View<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/professionals-podcasts/english-medicine-doctors-view"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">English for Medicine - A Doctor's view</span></a></h2>
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</span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another excellent resource from the Learn English British Council website.</span><br />
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</span></span> <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 15.983333587646484px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><b>Listen to an interview with a retired doctor, Rajan Mehta, about his life working in the UK.</b></i></span></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">put the questions in the order they were asked in the interview</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">listen and locate specific information from an audio file </span></li>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03768486147419415286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8634935087689027011.post-89385721341417411382012-10-03T21:51:00.001+01:002012-10-03T22:02:14.351+01:00Biotechnology<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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</span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">An excellent resource from the British Council Learn English website in which two students, Ann and Frank debate their opinions on genetically modified food.</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03768486147419415286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8634935087689027011.post-69400158610248999112012-09-24T14:28:00.001+01:002012-10-03T23:02:19.915+01:00Past Continuous and Past Simple<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/grammar-exercises/past-continuous-and-past-simple">Past Continuous and Past Simple</a></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; text-align: left;">An exercise to introduce you to two forms of the Past Tense. The exercise is a gapfill one where you convert the designated verb to it's past form (continuous or simple). This resource is suitable for A2 CEFR students. Grammar support points are on the right hand side of the web page.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03768486147419415286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8634935087689027011.post-19022081222820550272012-09-22T16:03:00.000+01:002012-09-22T16:03:22.933+01:00TEFL Global Grammar Resources <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Grammatical information on the context, form and uses of verbs (regular and irregular) in the Simple Past Tense. There are also exercises to practise skills and a short reading and writing task in each resource.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03768486147419415286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8634935087689027011.post-52057929551463302072012-09-18T21:41:00.001+01:002012-09-18T21:46:07.399+01:00The Cat That Walked By Himself<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A lovely poem by Rudyard Kipling which rhymes, has rhythm and a theme already introduced in the podcast comparing cats and dogs. </span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03768486147419415286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8634935087689027011.post-1402663298417925042012-09-18T21:17:00.001+01:002012-09-18T21:26:50.917+01:00Irregular Verbs<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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</span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A list of approximately 60 or so irregular verbs with the base form, the past simple tense and the past participle in table format. This resource could be used as a reference tool or you could start trying to memorize the verbs as they are commonly used in English.</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03768486147419415286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8634935087689027011.post-86481692976180123442012-09-18T21:06:00.001+01:002012-09-18T21:24:02.907+01:00Present Perfect<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A B1 CEFR exercise on the Present Perfect Tense suitable for Pre- Intermediate level TEFL learners. There is a combination of questions and sentences to complete for this gapfill exercise.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://tefl-global-resources.blogspot.co.uk/p/tefl-grammar-resources.html%C2%A0">The Present Perfect Tense Slideshow</a> can be found on the grammar page of this blog. Check it out as it goes into more detail on the formation, meaning and uses of the present perfect tense. It is interactive and there are exercises to do as you watch it. I would say this is for those of you who may be meeting the present perfect tense again and can understand a little bit more detail this time (Intermediate level).</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Keep your eyes open here as I am developing another website which will be more of a static one and will include more grammar exercises as they are proving to be popular.</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03768486147419415286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8634935087689027011.post-6449437193401327202012-09-18T20:40:00.000+01:002012-09-18T20:40:11.088+01:00British Council Elementary Podcast 5<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you are a beginner (A2 CEFR level) these British Council Podcasts are excellent for getting you started. As the week progresses I will post up other related work which will be appropriate for different levels of student ability. If you are an Intermediate level of student you may want to use this resource to revise and then extend your knowledge. Advanced students may just want to dip into the additional and other resources added during the week.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Find the audio link (MP3) right click and save it so you can listen to it whenever is convenient for you. The podcast comes with a support pack and transcript which is 22 pages long. Use this link:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Describing cats</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What famous person would you like to meet and why? Didier Drogba</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Vocabulary quiz - words beginning with (single consonant sounds)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">New Zealand - the landscape and scenery</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Expressing an opinion - Which do you prefer cats or dogs?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dialogue of Carolina from Venezuela when she meets her new flatmates in Newcastle.</span></li>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03768486147419415286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8634935087689027011.post-24223257951202894792012-09-16T11:30:00.001+01:002012-09-17T11:19:57.115+01:00[ THE DRIFTER and the GYPSY ]: Interview: ModCloth<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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</span> <span style="background-color: white; color: #544648; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">If you are interested in women's fashion ModCloth uses '</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #544648; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">vintage inspired designs from independent designers'. Susan Gregg Koger was the founder of this internet based company at 17 years of age and is totally self taught in the business. The resource is a transcribed phone interview. Read on and find out about Winston, the pug who is the company mascot!</span></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03768486147419415286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8634935087689027011.post-4327990170311291582012-09-16T11:16:00.001+01:002012-09-17T11:08:00.008+01:00[ THE DRIFTER and the GYPSY ]: A heart-shaped meadow<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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</span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">An inspirational short love story. We have a proverb in English <i><b>'true love never dies'</b></i>. I think this story and photograph are testimony to that!</span><br />
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