Cities in the United Kingdom

Fancy travelling in the UK? Would you like to learn about some of Britain's most famous cities? Watch the following video, it may give you a bit of inspiration.

Beijing

Have you every been to Beijing? Would you like to go?

The following video is a short introduction to the city.

Two comedy sketches

The Easter Island

While watching the video, answer Task 3 on your handout. Then, write your comments (how you liked/didn't like the lesson and why ) in the Post a comment section. Thank you.

Teacher development workshop (Comenius)

The following are useful websites that we have explored/are going to explore during the workshop:

http://urbanext.illinois.edu/ce/strat-index.html#prim

- Multiple Intelligences activities

http://www.scribd.com/

- sharing materials

http://www.teachers.tv/

- very likely not available outside the UK

http://www.eslvideo.com/

- songs with quizzes

http://www.cambridgeenglishonline.com/Phonetics_Focus/

- website practising pronunciation

http://www.shiporsheep.com/

- website practising minimal pairs (pronunciation)

http://www.englishcentral.com/en/videos

- website practising pronunciation

http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/

- training videos

http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/

- an EFL blog

http://193.133.140.102/JustTheWord/

- concordance

http://youtubedownload.altervista.org/

- software to download and convert Youtube videos

http://www.english-4u.com/

- ready lesson plans on various subjects

-subscription required (about £25/year)

Christmas Carol - Words Origin

Learn about some English words and their origins:

http://literature.pppst.com/DEF/dickens-christmascarol.html

IELTS websites

Learn useful language for describing graphs in Task 1 Writing here:

http://adw.hct.ac.ae/site_ilc/sites_ielts/graphsite/index.htm

Practise IELTs vocabulary here:

http://elc.polyu.edu.hk/cill/eap/2004/U4/beliefs_opinions_attitudes.htm