
Teaching, learning, reading, writing, culture, classroom management, new technologies... anything related to education. Think and Dream in English (plus some Spanish and Catalan).
20+ Ways to Enjoy Halloween Online
"Halloween is right around the corner and there are a number of sites and services that can help enhance your holiday experience. Here are over 20 fun, strange, weird and sometimes wacky websites and applications to satisfy those of you with a fondness for the Halloween season.Here you’ll find everything from sites that map out local haunted houses to Facebook apps that let you carve your own pumpkin, and more.Which are your favorites?"
HERSHEY’S TrickOrTreats: Halloween Classroom Resources
"Bring creepy into your classroomAdd safe and educational Halloween fun into your classroom with teacher resources from HERSHEY'S! Choose from a wide assortment of recognition stickers, bulletin board decorations, pumpkin carving stencils and free Halloween clip art to make October come alive all month long. And with classroom activities such as Halloween themed word games, word searches and printable diplomas added to your bag of tricks, you'll have everything you need to inspire and delight your cast of characters."
Australia Network - Learn English
"Australia Network is offering video podcasts (or vodcasts) of our popular English Bites program on a free trial basis.
If you subscribe you will automatically receive the next available program. Otherwise you can download and save the program to play later."
Campbell - Weblogs for Use in ESL Classrooms (I-TESL-J)
"The purpose of this paper is to introduce three ways that weblogs can be used to support ESL classroom learning. After defining what a weblog is, I will proceed to show how weblogs can be put into immediate use in the ESL classroom by means of three distinct types: the tutor weblog, learner weblog, and class weblog. I will also mention the software available for creating and maintaining weblogs."
ENGLISH PAGE - Halloween Lesson
"Using the Halloween adjectives, type your answers and click on 'Check'."
Blogging for ELT | Teaching English | British Council | BBC
"Blogging for ELT
This article takes a look at blogging, which is becoming increasingly popular as a language learning tool. It gives an overview of blogging websites, suggests why you might want to use them, and gives some practical advice on setting up blogs for use with your own classes.
* What is a blog?
* Types of blogs used in language teaching
* Why blog?
* Where to start
* Tips for managing learner blog settings
* Keeping students interested
* Some ideas for activities
* Pitfalls to watch out for
* Advanced feature"
: : : British Council - English Teacher's Portfolio : : :
"Is a unique self-study language improvement programme, specifically designed to help Brazilian teachers of English develop listening and speaking skills.ETP focuses on pronunciation and vocabulary development. There are also teaching tips and all from a Brazilian context."
EclipseCrossword - the fast, easy, and FREE way to create crossword puzzles in minutes
"It's never been simpler—just give EclipseCrossword a list of words and clues, and it does the rest. In seconds, you'll have a crossword puzzle with just the words you want. EclipseCrossword has been downloaded more than two million times by people just like you."
Graded English language dictations free online
ESLvideo.com - Learn English (ESL/EFL) with free videos from YouTube, Google Video, blip.tv, and other video hosting websites.
"Free esl video quizzes and resources for ESL / EFL students and teachers."
A HORROR STORY FOR HALLOWEEN
A HORROR STORY FOR HALLOWEEN
Halloween - Scary Web Quest
"A Web Quest about the history of Halloween and other scary phenomenons...
This Halloween Web Quest will help you answer the following questions:
Do you know why we celebrate Halloween?
Do you believe in ghosts?
Throughout this Web Quest you will discover how the present day "Halloween" came about. You will also see some video clips that just might make you believe in the supernatural..."
Scary Web Quest
Internet TESL Journal (For ESL/EFL Teachers)
"The Internet TESL Journal For Teachers of English as a Second Language
Articles, Research Papers, Lessons Plans, Classroom Handouts, Teaching Ideas & Links
Please make a bookmark and come back again."
Teaching English as a Second Language Teaching Theories and Techniques
"ESL EFL teaching techniques for a wide variety of English settings including teaching writing, reading, pronunciation, via multimedia, suggestopedia and teaching theory."
ESL Printables: English worksheets, lesson plans and other resources
"Welcome to ESL Printables, the website where English Language teachers exchange resources: worksheets, lesson plans, activities, etc.
Our collection is growing every day with the help of many teachers. If you want to download you have to send your own contributions."
English worksheets: Halloween
"Welcome to ESL Printables, the website where English Language teachers exchange resources: worksheets, lesson plans, activities, etc.Our collection is growing every day with the help of many teachers. If you want to download you have to send your own contributions."
Halloween Worksheets
Lots of activities for improving your English for Halloween.
Moodle - A Free, Open Source Course Management System for Online Learning
Let's hope it's useful.
Moodle - A Free, Open Source Course Management System for Online Learning:
"Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a free, Open Source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create effective online learning communities. You can download and use it on any computer you have handy (including webhosts), yet it can scale from a single-teacher site to a University with 200,000 students. This site itself is created using Moodle, so check out the Moodle Demonstration Courses or read the latest Moodle Buzz."
Education World® : Teacher Tools & Templates
"The templates below can be downloaded from our site, saved to your hard drive, edited as necessary, and then printed. Or they can be downloaded, printed, and used as is."
YouTube - askthedecorator's Channel
"Ask the Decorator is a weekly, Internet show that follows me, Meghan Carter, across the U.S. as I find the best tips, techniques and products to use when decorating your home.
Name: Meghan
To discover more about me and my travels, visit my blog, http://blog.askthedecorator.co m, for the latest Ask the Decorator news, stories from my trip and great decorating tips."
Organization
Office Organization:
Home Organization:
House Moving:
Closet Organization:
Closet Organizers:
Do It Yourself Closet Organization:
YouTube - TeAchnologydotcom's Channel
"We are a web site dedicated to supporting educators, home schoolers, tutors, and parents of K-12 students globally. Come see us at:
www.teach-nology.com"
Building productive classroom relationships
a. Ask politely and respectfully for the student to do the correct behavior. "Please sit down and get back to your work." This is crucial because most teenagers want to be treated like adults. I've found that most students will be respectful back, often saying "sorry" and doing exactly what I asked. I will say "Thank you" in return for the student complying.
b. If the student does not, I firmly remind them that I asked politely and I will not be asking again. My voice is more serious at this point and I'm sure NOT to say please. I don't often even get to this stage, but most other times this works successfully.
c. If the student does not still comply, I walk over to them, being sure that I'm getting the student's full attention and I give them a firm ultimatum. "Either you do what I asked politely or ___________" It is important that whatever fills in the blank is something I'm going to actually do if the student does not do what I asked AND that it is something meaningful to the student. Typically, any student who gets to this point, complies as soon as I start to walk over to them, because they know that I will do what I say if they don't. It is important that you clearly state the ultimatum and AS SOON AS the student does not comply, you do it. Don't give the student any more chances - they've already had enough chances if you've gotten to this point.
Starting again
I pre-enrolled in four courses for teachers, but I've only been accepted in two, one for TAC (they used to be called TIC) on Wednesdays at the school where I work and one for Moodle on Tuesdays at the school where I used to worked a few years ago.
Let's hope this journey ends well...
English Raven Resources Download Page
Halloween Special Reading Comprehension - Halloween Vocabulary - Halloween Traditions The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe - Advanced Level Reading Comprehension
"Following you will find fun Halloween exercises which will help you improve your vocabulary and understand this holiday. Advanced students will find the classic frightening tale 'The Raven' by Edgar Allan Poe challenging. The reading includes vocabulary reference help for the more difficult words explained following each section of the poem."
JenniferESL - English Lessons
Lots of videos: grammar, pronunciation, etc.
She also has a good blog:
http://englishwithjennifer.wordpress.com/
MacMillan ELT
Macmillan Education is an international publisher, specialising in English language teaching (ELT) and curriculum publishing.
Our ELT publishing ranges from internationally recognised adult courses such as Inside Out, to award-winning learners dictionaries.
For more information about Macmillan, and for links to the many free teaching resources we offer, visit www.macmillanenglish.com and www.onestopenglish.com.
Scott Thornbury on Register in English Language Teaching:
"Dancing Queen" by ABBA
"Dancing Queen" by ABBA
You can dance, you can jive, having the time of your life.
See that girl, watch that scene, dig in the dancing queen.
Friday night and the lights are low.
Looking out for the place to go.
Where they play the right music, getting in the swing.
You come in to look for a king.
Anybody could be that guy.
Night is young and the music's high.
With a bit of rock music, everything is fine.
You're in the mood for a dance.
And when you get the chance...
You are the dancing queen, young and sweet, only seventeen...
Dancing queen, feel the beat from the tambourine.
You can dance, you can jive, having the time of your life.
See that girl, watch that scene, dig in the dancing queen.
You're a teaser, you turn them on.
Leave them burning and then you're gone.
Looking out for another, anyone will do.
Youre in the mood for a dance.
And when you get the chance...
You are the dancing queen, young and sweet, only seventeen...
Dancing queen, feel the beat from the tambourine.
You can dance, you can jive, having the time of your life.
See that girl, watch that scene, dig in the dancing queen...
Karaoke:
4Teachers : Main Page
A great web by a great teacher: Isabel Pérez
This is a great web by a great teacher. It's full of resources: grammar, vocabulary, methodology, webquests, songs, wikis, podcasts... anything you could ever need is there.
She also has a blog: http://www.ugr.es/~iperez/myblog/index.htm
She gives teaches, gives lectures, workshops, courses... I don't know where she finds the time...
YouTube - podEnglish's Channel
Videos for learning English:
YouTube - podEnglish's Channel
Funny Ads
Metal detector at the airport:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IQkg21Qw1k
TESL/TEFL/TESOL/ESL/EFL/ESOL Links
TESL/TEFL/TESOL/ESL/EFL/ESOL Links
Just for Fun @Web English Teacher
Just for Fun @Web English Teacher
English for Fun
English for Fun
Interesting Things for ESL/EFL Students (Fun English Study)
Interesting Things for ESL/EFL Students (Fun English Study)
Learn English at Home
Learn English
Learn English free and chat in English online at English, baby!
Learn English free and chat in English online at English, baby!
Welcome to the Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL)
Writing and Teaching Writing
Research
Grammar and Mechanics
Style Guides
ESL (English as a Second Language)
Job Search and Professional Writing
Welcome to the Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL)
First Certificate (FCE) - free Use of English practice test - keyword transformations
First Certificate (FCE) - free Use of English practice test - keyword transformations
Get Your Own Blog!
1 - Create an account.
2 - Name your blog.
3 - Choose a template.
https://www.blogger.com/start
Aprende inglés viendo vídeos
www.yappr.com
Hugh Laurie gets wet in "Ellen":
http://es.yappr.com/welcome/Video.action?videoGuid=E323B75C-7264-4AB3-B906-23B0C4CA1C50
Una comunidad de estudiantes de inglés en la que puedes mejorar tu inglés gracias a los vídeos:
Aprende inglés viendo vídeos
Children Learn What They Live
Children Learn What They Live
By Dorothy Law Nolte
If children live with criticism,
They learn to condemn.
If children live with hostility,
They learn to fight.
If children live with ridicule,
They learn to be shy.
If children live with shame,
They learn to feel guilty.
If children live with encouragement,
They learn confidence.
If children live with tolerance,
They learn to be patient.
If children live with praise,
They learn to appreciate.
If children live with acceptance,
They learn to love.
If children live with approval,
They learn to like themselves.
If children live with honesty,
They learn truthfulness.
If children live with security,
They learn to have faith in themselves and others.
If children live with friendliness,
They learn the world is a nice place in which to live.
Copyright © 1972/1975 by Dorothy Law Nolte
English Lesson Plans - Free ESL EFL Lessons in Grammar, Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening
"English lesson plans for beginner, intermediate and advanced levels including reading, writing, listening, grammar, speaking, pronunciation for adult and childrens' classes as well as Business English.
Teachers' TV
Teachers TV | Thousands of education programmes on TV and online
Everything English
Your Dictionary
Dictionary & Thesaurus - YourDictionary
100 Most Often Mispronounced Words and Phrases
100 Most Often Mispronounced Words and Phrases in English
The Free Dictionary
Online Dictionary, Encyclopedia and Thesaurus. Free access."TheFreeDictionary.com now allows you to create your own personal homepage by adding and removing, dragging and dropping, and "using or losing" existing content windows. In addition, you can add your own bookmarks, weather information, horoscope, and RSS feeds from anywhere on the web."
Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?
"Europe is a country and they speak French there...".
What can I tell you? She's blonde and American!!!
You can do so much better...
Emilio Botín:
Poor man, he can't afford some English lessons...
Franco:
"In the Ghetto" by El Príncipe Gitano:
El Príncipe Gitano singing "In the Ghetto".
No comment!!!
Raphael:
"Aquarius"
Raphael's version of the song. Try not to laugh too hard.
You can do sooooo much better... And this one is even worse... if that's possible...
"Walking on Sunshine" by Katrina and the Waves

(The complete lyrics are at the end of the post).
Exercises:
http://www.telefonica.net/web2/singalong/hotpotatoes/walking_sunshine.htm
Here's another version of the song. I prefer the first one, though.
More information about the song:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walking_on_Sunshine_(song)
"Walking on Sunshine" by Katrina and the Waves
Oh! Ohhhh yeeeh
I used to think maybe you loved me now baby I'm sure
And I just can't wait till the day when you knock on my door
Now everytime I go for the mailbox, gotta hold myself down
Cos I just wait till you write me your coming around
I'm walking on sunshine , wooah
I'm walking on sunshine, woooah
I'm walking on sunshine, woooah
and don't it feel good!!
Hey, alright now
and dont it feel good!!
hey yeh
I used to think maybe you loved me, now I know that it's true
and I don't want to spend all my life, just in waiting for you
now I don't want you back for the weekend
not back for a day, no no no
I said baby I just want you back and I want you to stay
woah yeh!
I'm walking on sunshine, wooah
I'm walking on sunshine, woooah
I'm walking on sunshine, woooah
and don't it feel good!!
Hey, alright now
and don't it feel good!!
hey yeh ,oh yeh
and don't it feel good!!
walking on sunshine
walking on sunshine
I feel the love, I feel the love, I feel the love that's really real
I feel the love, I feel the love, I feel the love that's really real
I'm on sunshine baby oh
I'm on sunshine baby oh
I'm walking on sunshine wooah
I'm walking on sunshine wooah
I'm walking on sunshine wooah
and don't it feel good!!
I'll say it again now
and don't it feel good!!
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