Wednesday, 29 July 2009

Infinite photo of Earth


go to the website via the link - INFINITE PHOTOGRAPH - keep clicking into the photo and see what happens

Wednesday, 17 June 2009

literal videos


time to have some fun with music, videos and the English language.
Have a look at the literal videos here plus more on youtube.

Monday, 25 May 2009

pronunciation workshop links

Just a quick reminder to those who were at my recent Pronunciation workshop that you can find all the links we talked about (and more) here.

Sunday, 3 May 2009

Business English videos

Business Spotlight have launched a new weekly video training session called Business with Bob.
The videos give you tips and examples for improving your communication at work. The first videos look at topics relating to Socializing and the second set of five videos looks at Business Meetings.

Sunday, 26 April 2009

nothing to do with teaching ...

... but, Yeah! for (auntie) Verena.
The full articlew can be read on the Argus website here

Thursday, 16 April 2009

Wednesday, 8 April 2009

Brand new free online dictionary for learners of English

Macmillan have brought out a brand new free online dictionary for learners of English. It's really easy to add this to your start page, toolbar or website so that you can look up words as and when you need them. You can also sign up for the Word of the Day keeping you up to date with new important terms such as this one ....
http://www.macmillandictionary.com/

Tuesday, 7 April 2009

Free mind mapping website

Do you know about Bubbl.us? It's a free website that allows you to create and save mind maps. Here's a very simple one I made for a course blog reminding my students what we covered in a certain time period.

Monday, 6 April 2009

IATEFL conference interviews, article and photos


Follow this link to see, hear and read about trends in English Language teaching and more from the IATEFL conference in Cardiff, Wales.
LINK TO ARTICLES AND MORE

The correct lyrics?

There are times when it's difficult even for native speakers to understand what words are being sung in a song. When people sing what they hear rather than the correct lyrics, this is called mondegreen.
A good example of this can be seen on the video of the song "All by myself" which has been changed to "Obama's Elf". Listen to the clip; which words do you hear?
If you want to find the correct lyrics of a song just go to www.youtube.com and write in the title of the song and the word lyrics. E.g. All by myself lyrics.
Many thanks to Jamie Keddie for introducing me to this clip.