Project Gutemberg

A fascinating cooperative project to make classics available for our students or ourselves! Provides ground for creative class projects where language learning and cultural awareness come together.

Librivox

LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and release the audio files back onto the net. So you can now listen to classics on your way to plan or plan some interesting projects for your students.

Critical thinking skills

Thinking skills

Leading in Learning: Developing thinking skills – supplement to Key Stage 4 guide for school leaders. An interesting document to expand the Reflection on learning part of the curriculum.

Educaweb

a page just launched published at DAT Madrid Capital. Loads of interesting links: find out whether your students have copied online documents, create flash images, learn about European projects...

Teachernet

Promoting reading

Word stress

Sound articulation

Excellent Iowa University page that shows how sounds are physically articulated regarding manner, place and voice.

Phonetic table

A phonetic table containing vowels, diphthongs and consonants, as well as exercises to practise and some other links which include listening samples.

Guide to Grammar and Writing

Lidia has found a very useful link to revise grammar and language issues.

Activities for ESL students

Some exercises for students to practise the use of adjectives and adverbs right here.

Newstalk

Highlights from Talking History includes podcasts on some of the topics we are going over: W. B. Yeats, The Great Depression, and others.

BBC podcasts

Access to podcasts on different issues to practise listening

Programaciones didácticas

You can find some Syllabus design examples that do not entrely comply with what is to be handed in, but it might be a good idea to have a look at it when you are starting out to get some inspiration.

The Generation Gap

Nadine Gordimer, the 1991 Nobel Prize winning novelist whose work interweaves history, culture, and politics from her native South Africa, here reads "The Generation Gap", one of the stories in her collection entitled Loot, before joining in conversation with then editor of the Los Angeles Times Book Review, Steve Wasserman.

Nadine Gordimer

Nadine Gordimer reflects on how the role language has played in education and literacy in colonies. Is language threatened by image?

A panel discusses Jane Austen's popularity

CBC Radio's Writers and Company assembles a panel with Austen devotees Fay Weldon, Marilyn Butler and Claire Tomlin to discuss Jane-mania.

Jane Austen

An EFL exercise that might help us remember some biographical facts on Jane Austen.

uploading Word Doc

Hello Everyone,

I am writing ( hope u dont laugh at me) to ask for some help. Today I wrote the Doc of how to make a literary analysis but when tried to upload it here to share it with u all, discovered that i am a mess and don't know how to use the computer!!!!

So it would be great if someone could help me and tell me how to upload word docs here and we all can share the (very squematic but well-organized, easy so we can have clear ideas of how to make groups with the rethorical figures) document for literary comments.

Thanks in advance,
Cristina.

Sparknotes

Hola chicos,

Aqui os mando el enlace a una página web que puede resultar muy interesante para quellos que queremos ponernos las pilas con la parte de literatura. Os envio el enlace directo a la parte de literatura, encontrareis un listado alfabético de cada obra, y si haceis click en la obra encontrais resumenes, analisis, personajes y demas informacion que pude resultarnos util para encontrar claves sin tener que leer cada una de las obras.

http://www.sparknotes.com/sparknotes/

Espero que os sea de mucha ayuda.

Cristina.

MALTED

stands for Multimedia Authoring for Language Tutors and Educational Development. It's software designed by the Ministry of Education for EFL teachers.

Language resources for teachers

Links to activities and worksheets: http://www.mes-english.com/topsites/

TEFL links

Resources for teachers here http://iteslj.org/links/

It's magazine

Some ideas for activities: http://www.its-online.com

Legislation

Here's a link to educational legislation in la Comunidad de Madrid: http://www.madrid.org/dat_capital/loe/loe.htm