Practise English and donate food for free

http://www.freerice.com/

Click on the answer that best defines the word given (use the dictionaries online I posted below to help you!!) and for every word you get right, 20 grains of rice will be donated to the United Nations World Food Program.

Extra material

To do extra practice (companions to coursebooks)

http://www.pearsonlongman.com/intelligent_business/bec_tests/higher.html

http://www.market-leader.net/

http://www.insideout.net/e-lessons.htm

Online Activities

Online activities for ESL/EFL (English as a second or foreign language) students

http://a4esl.org/

Online Practice

For misc. online practice

http://www.englishpage.com/

Practice Tests

For free practice tests online

http://www.examenglish.com/

Have your say!

What is important for a language class to be both interesting and enjoyable?
Click on “COMENTARIOS” below and share your ideas!!

Video: Joey from FRIENDS learning French

In this video you will see Phoebe chunking up a sentence for Joey to repeat and get it. You can do that with difficult words, but try having your students (or yourself) repeat them backwards!
Eg. Entrepreneur
Neur
Preneur
Trepreneur
Entrepreneur

Resource of the Month I: Learning Languages

Most of us who have travelled the road of English learning/teaching, are passionate about languages in general. Here‘s a link to the BBC site where you can learn other languages THROUGH English.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learning/subjects/languages.shtml

And here’s one to learn, teach and practise languages in general together with people from all over the world.

http://www.palabea.net/

Resource of the Month II: Dictionaries online

Essential companions to language learning, here are links to some trustworthy dictionaries online

http://www.dictionary.cambridge.org/
http://pewebdic2.cw.idm.fr/ (Longman dictionary)
www.askoxford.com/dictionaries/compact_oed/?view=uk (Compact Oxford Dictionary)
http://www.m-w.com/ (Merrian Webster)
http://www.yourdictionary.com/
http://www.wordreference.com/ (English to and from other languages. great forum)
http://www.macmillandictionary.com/
http://www.urbandictionary.com/ (for those words such as "refudiate" - cheers Ms Palin - )

Word of the month : an even longer word in English. (cue: see last month’s entry)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97epPkPipdI

Word of the month: the absolute longest word!!

It is the third chemical name for "Coat Protein, Tobacco mosaic virus, Dahlemense Strain" in its complete form.