ORACLE NIGHT

If you are just a beginner in English and you would like to learn some words, click here.

Here you have a webpage with texts for you to read  while you listen to an English speaker reading them aloud.

One of those texts is EXPRESSIONS TO DESCRIBE PEOPLE WE THINK ARE IMPORTANT.

Click here to learn about and practise CONDITIONAL SENTENCES.

Here for MODAL VERBS.

Here for PASSIVE VOICE.

Here for RELATIVE CLAUSES.

Here for REPORTED SPEECH.

The best free english exercises from the best free websites. Hundreds of free exercises to learn English online: grammar, verbs, vocabulary, listening, songs and videos. Worksheets and handouts. English teacher resources. Phonetic. Translators, dictionary . Click here.

Are you interested in improving your vocabulary? What about learning synonyms? if you use synonymous words your essays will be better, since you will avoid too much repetition. Click here.

Would you like to revise the past tense of irregular verbs?

You can do it here, and here, and here, and also by clicking here and here.

Click here for a BASIC-ELEMENTARY and a LOW-INTERMEDIATE English course online. For INTERMEDIATE and ADVANCED INTERMEDIATE levels, click here. For the ADVANCED level, click here.

Shel Silverstein’s poems are known by most American children and adults, because they are strange and funny. His books include drawings by him that go with the poems. Some of his poems are very long and hard to read, but others are easy to understand. These books have been popular for a long time, so you should be able to buy them at used bookstores.  Click here for his site.

This poem is called “Lazy Jane,” and it’s from his most famous book, Where the Sidewalk Ends. Do you know the word “lazy?” It’s an adjective that means “someone who doesn’t want to do any work.” I think the meaning will be very clear after you read this silly poem, which is about a really, REALLY lazy girl!

 
                                           “Lazy Jane”
                                            by Shel Silverstein

                                                          Lazy
                                                          lazy
                                                          lazy
                                                          lazy
                                                          lazy
                                                          lazy
                                                          Jane.
                                                          She
                                                           wants
                                                           a
                                                           drink
                                                           of
                                                           water
                                                           so
                                                           she
                                                           waits
                                                           and
                                                           waits
                                                           and
                                                           waits
                                                           and
                                                           waits
                                                           and
                                                           waits
                                                           for
                                                           it
                                                           to
                                                           rain.

Webpage created by Josefina Herrera Cides, English teacher at  IES Nuestra Señora de Los Remedios, in Ubrique, Cádiz. Click here to visit it. It will be really useful!!!

This teacher, called Alex, provides us with clear explanations on different grammar points: Imperatives, advice with should, ought to and had better, tenses.........

Enjoy yourself and learn English with linguasnet.com. It is an interactive course of English (learning Portuguese, Spanish and Romanian is also possible) consisting of eight topic-based units (colours and numbers, health, transportation...) which include grammar practice, vocabulary, listening comprehension activities. If you are a beginner in English, this is your course,

Look at and listen to teacher Joe as he talks to you about English rhythm. On top you have the first part and if you click here you will watch the second.

Either if you have been trying to learn English for years or if you are just a beginner, this is your blog. Mónica T. Stocker is an English teacher who was brought up in the USA and is bilingual. In her blog she provides you with an English course:  lessons, resources.... Another very useful blog.

Un blog fantástico, El tinglado, trata varias materias (Recursos, Francés, Física y Química, Matemáticas, General, Historia, Lengua y Literatura, Noticias, Orientación, Tic, Música e Inglés).  Cliqueando aquí accederás a la parte de inglés. Lleno de actividades, vídeos, información, te será muy útil.

Un fantástico programa que traduce entre diversas lenguas y, además, tiene un personaje virtual que nos lee la traducción.

Quizás no sea tan útil para los traductores profesionales como para los estudiantes de lenguas, que pueden escuchar la pronunciación de idiomas tan exóticos como el chino mandarín y cantonés -entre otros muchos- así como para los extranjeros que estudian el nuestro .

A blog to learn English through songs. It includes videos, lyrics and translation of the songs into Spanish. Enjoy it!!!

Maite e Raquel, que dan clase de inglés ós alumnos de 2º de ESO, leron con eles a versión simplificada de Sleepy Hollow,  de Washington Irving, e hoxe pola tarde ás 17:00 estes rapaces e todos os profesores e alumnos do centro que estean interesados poderán asistir na aula de idiomas á proxección da película que o estadounidense  Tim Burton dirixiu, baseada nese conto.

This is another amazing blog for teachers and learners. Everything is there: loads of resources, learning guides. Visit it , you won't be disappointed.

Today all our ESO students have seen the play Food for Thought, by the company Moving on and they really enjoyed it. We highly recommend it.

On this page you will find short videos which can be used in the EFL classroom. Of course, if you are learning English on your own, you can practise at home!

Do you need extra practice to improve your listening comprehension?

http://esl.about.com/library/quiz/bllisteningquiz.htm

http://www.esl-lab.com/

These are your pages if you want to find elementary, intermediate and advanced listening comprehension activities.

Blog by Ana and Cristina, two English teachers at IES Sierra de Leyre, Sangüesa. It’s GREAT!!!!!

Isabel Pérez, from Granada, has an impressive page where you can find loads of really interesting, useful material either if you are a teacher or a student of English. Would you like to teach English with songs?

Learning English as a second language (ESL) is not always easy, but it should be fun. 
5 Minute English has been designed to give you short and easy explanations and exercises. 

La mayoría de mis alumnos de ESO y bachillerato están "enamorados" del libro y de la película Twilight, de Stephenie Meyers. Son ellos quienes me han pedido una actividad de listening comprehension utilizando el trailer de la película, así que durante la clase de hoy verán uno de los trailers oficiales de la misma mientras rellenan este típico ejercicio de fill in the gaps:

TWILIGHT

TWILIGHT is an action, modern-day love story between a teen girl and a vampire. Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) has always been a bit different, never fitting in with the girls at her school. When Bella is sent to live with her father in the rainy little town of Forks, Washington, she doesn’t expect much to change. Then she meets the mysterious and dazzlingly beautiful Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson), a boy unlike any she’s ever met. Edward is a vampire, but he doesn’t have fangs and his family is unique in that they choose not to drink human blood. Edward has been waiting 90 years for a soul mate, which he finds in Bella. They are soon swept up in a passionate and unorthodox romance. Edward must struggle to resist the primal pull of her scent, which could send him into an uncontrollable frenzy. But what will they do when a clan of new vampires – James (Cam Gigandet), Laurent (Edi Gathegi) and Victoria (Rachelle Lefevre) – come to town and threaten to disrupt their way of life?

Now listen to the trailer in English and fill in the blank spaces:

Bella: You’re impossibly fast and __________.

Bella: You’ve gotta give me some __________.

Edward: I’d rather hear your theories.

Bella: I have considered radioactive __________ and kryptonite.

Edward: That’s all superhero stuff, right?

Edward: What if I’m not the__________?  What if I’m the __________   __________?

Bella: I know what you are.  Your skin is pale white and ice-cool. You don’t go out into the sunlight.

Edward: Say it out loud, say it!

Bella:___________!!

Edward: Are you__________?

Bella: No!   This isn’t__________.     This kind of stuff just doesn’t exist.

Edward: It does in my_____________.

Edward: I just want to try one thing.

Edward: You don’t know how long I’ve __________for you.

Bella: What is going on?

Police officer: Security guard at the mill got killed by some kind of __________.

Bella: An __________?

Edward: My family, we are __________from others of our kind.

Vampire: You brought a snack.

Bella: Wait, now he is coming after me?

Edward: The hunt is his__________. He’s never gonna stop.

Bella: I’d rather __________than stay away from you.

Vampire: He’s got unparalleled senses, absolutely lethal.

Edward: I’ll do whatever it takes to make you safe again.

Vampire: You’re faster than the others.     But not  ____________

Edward: I’m strong enough to __________ you.

Edward: You are my ____________now

 KEY

Now listen to the trailer in English and fill in the blank spaces:

Bella: You’re impossibly fast and strong.

Bella: You’ve gotta give me some answers.

Edward: I’d rather hear your theories.

Bella: I have considered radioactive spiders and kryptonite.

Edward: That’s all superhero stuff, right?

Edward: What if I’m not the hero?  What if I’m the bad guy?

Bella: I know what you are.  Your skin is pale white and ice-cool. You don’t go out into the sunlight.

Edward: Say it out loud, say it!

Bella: Vampire!!

Edward: Are you afraid?

Bella: No!   This isn’t real.     This kind of stuff just doesn’t exist.

Edward: It does in my world.

Edward: I just want to try one thing.

Edward: You don’t know how long I’ve waited for you.

Bella: What is going on?

Police officer: Security guard at the mill got killed by some kind of animal.

Bella: An animal?

Edward: My family, we are different from others of our kind.

Vampire: You brought a snack.

Bella:Wait, now he is coming after me?

Edward: The hunt is his obsession. He’s never gonna stop.

Bella: I’d rather die than stay away from you.

Vampire: He’s got unparalleled senses, absolutely lethal.

Edward: I’ll do whatever it takes to make you safe again.

Vampire: You’re faster than the others.     But not stronger.

Edward: I’m strong enough to kill you.

Edward: You are my life now

Si te cuesta la pronunciación del inglés y crees que necesitas práctica, esta página puede ayudarte mucho. Ejercicios variadísimos para mejorar de manera entretenida.

Es alumno do That's English! e estás interesado en atopar na rede actividades de reforzo? Cliquea aquí. Atoparás actividades de grammar, vocabulary, readings.... para todos os módulos do That's English!

Se queres mellorar o teu nivel de comprensión auditiva na lingua inglesa ésta é a túa páxina. Atoparás moitísimos vídeos subtitulados en inglés e traducidos ó español. Poderás anular ben os subtítulos ben a traducción dependendo do tipo de habilidade que esteas máis interesado en practicar (listening, translation...). Tamén poderás facer as túas aportacións, baixando vídeos de youtube, transcribíndoos e traducíndoos. Anímate

Esta páxina, deseñada pola profesora Aurora Gil, do IES Bellaguarda de Altea, é moi atractiva para alumnos de inglés de diferentes nivéis, dado que contén amenas actividades, variadas e graduadas polo que respecta á súa dificultade. Practícase a gramática, a pronuncia, o vocabulario... Hai xogos e textos de interesante contido. Entra nela e descúbrea. Vaiche ser moi útil. Visita tamén esta actualización, que fixo tamén Aurora Gil en colaboración con Helen Massingham.