Friday 27 November 2009

EnglishSongsDVD.com

A good collection of video clips aimed at young learners of English can be found in this video channel.

This is an example:

Thursday 26 November 2009

Schoolhouse Rock!

I've just watched a lively video about English prepositions in a blog I follow. After browsing through the Internet for a bit more of information, I have found out that it belongs to the Schoolhouse Rock! series. Some of the clips are related to grammar and can be useful to help students revise or reinforce their knowledge of various parts of speech.

This is an example:

Thursday 12 November 2009

The first issue of Prácticas en educación bilingüe/plurilingüe magazine contains a variety of school practice examples and resource recommendations related to CLIL.

Furthermore, Bilingual Education Platform - BEP Ning site pays special attention to teachers' exchange, resource organisation, news, etc... focused on CLIL as well as some other issues related to the teaching of second languages.

Tuesday 3 November 2009

Free Rice


I read in this post from Palabras Tendidas blog about Free Rice, a non-profit website run by the United Nations World Food Program together with the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.


You can choose a topic from a selection of subjects (Geograhy, Art, English, Spanish, etc...) and try to answer questions in a quiz. For every right answer, ten grains of rice are donated by the UN World Food Program to help fight hunger in the world.


ESL Young Learners


"ESL Young Learners offers free fun materials for English language learners. These include:
- Original stories and simplified versions of classic texts
- Full PDF print-friendly short stories streamed via Scribd
- Short texts ideal for classroom use
- Glossary & activities to accompany texts
- All texts simplified and graded according to level
- Fun listening and watching materials"