Kids worksheets - e.g. pictures for speaking

http://www.turtlediary.com/worksheets/ela/kindergarten/picture-labeling/picture-sequence/1.html

A paragraph - an essential component of any text

It is highly advisable to study a paragraph composition before texts of larger sizes.
Here below are some tips on how to do it well.

LINK:
http://www2.ulg.ac.be/facphl/uer/d-german/remed/paragraphs.htm

Writing - an essential component of university skills

Useful tips for good writing.



LINKS:




http://www.mtsac.edu/~jgarrett/paragraphhook.pdf

Write.com

http://www.testden.com/toefl/writing-tutorial/index.htm

What to teach young learners? Here's a solution!

Early English - What to teach? Carefully selected and organised material aimed at Young Learners (British Council) exams. Highly recommended as these pages can give you a useful road map.





for vocab lists go to:

pg 13-18 (level 1)
pg 24-29 (level 2)
pg 36-42 (level 3)
pg 43-66 (all levels)

click the link below:

http://www.cambridgeenglish.org/images/153612-yle-handbook-for-teachers.pdf

Early English worksheets

              
Early English worksheet (colours of rainbow)

http://english-for-kids.wikispaces.com/file/view/RainbowSongbw.jpg/243344677/RainbowSongbw.jpg


Bank of worksheets!

http://www.kindergartenworksheets.net/


Interesting website with a handful of useful worksheets

https://adamfunenglish.wordpress.com/

Did you know that? (some xmas vocabulary)

Some Christmas words are so popular that even those who cannot speak English know them. Some, however, are specific and in reality differ from the "textbook" English. 

Did you know that the ornaments below are called...

 ... Christmas baubles,

... fairy lights,

... tinsel ?

Merry Christmas! And remember that it's not "Marry" Christmas! ;)

Sample KET exam papers (elementary level)

How about checking out how much you already know (or don't know ;) ).




Visit this website:

http://www.sistemauno.com/archivos/mock/KETReading&Writingsamplepaper.pdf

Christmas vocabulary

A simple presentation practising basic Xmas vocabulary:

LINK:  https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ZFIW0KbeurL-woTQKcZ3VDTo9PrLmmQOARe2POYwpvs/edit?usp=sharing

The News! Landing on a comet!

Little spaceship - a probe - lands on a comet. For the first time in history. 

Comets look very special, even mysterious. They glow or shine if they are close to the Sun. Everybody knows it is a comet because they have that long tail. 

But what a comet is made of? Is it ice, rock or something else? Scientists wanted to find out and they built the probe. 

It was a long process and the journey took about 10 years! That means that the comet is very very far! Now the probe is exploring the comet - it's drilling the surface, testing the chemicals and so on - and ... posting the news on Twitter! That's amazing, isn't it?

more at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_(spacecraft)
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-30058176

Language course for elementary students

A useful, free, English course. Story based. Lots of language for everyday communication.

http://www.learning-english-online.net/language-course/introduction/

Vocabulary practice - with sound!

Dozens of free vocabulary activities with listening!

http://www.languageguide.org/english/

Happy Halloween :)

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/12ELMf5XSstz-9sCJGZMyEDK9YXXWEsY0st3MbQZPX7o/edit#slide=id.g40db3a8af_048

Reading comprehension materials

Never enough of good materials. Here's a link to some, among other things reading comprehension practice.

LINK: http://www.grammarbank.com/short-reading-comprehension-passages.html

Writing for TOEFL, FCE or Matura

http://www.testden.com/toefl/writing-tutorial/

English short course - as a story. Interesting!

Can an English course be a story with all episodes connected?
Why not. Here is one example. 
We hope a very good one.

LINK:
http://www.learning-english-online.net/language-course/introduction/

English at work - nice, simple video

Millions of people use English at work. A lot want to speak better at better, so they start language lessons. But there is often a problem with lessons: sometimes they are too hard, sometimes students just do the book work - and they still cannot speak well enough.

What everybody needs is a lot of listening (teachers call it input) - that is easy enough to learn something new and use it later as your language (I call it "stealing" in the good meaning of the word).

Here's a link to a nice, simple video (actually lots of videos):

LINK:
http://www.englishtown.com/community/channels/lesson2.aspx?dialogName=EOM109

Interesting links - grammar (and vocabulary)

This link has hundreds of traditional exercises in a clear and friendly form.

Visit the GRAMMAR SECTION  and go to "exercises" and "tenses". You will find all major areas of the English grammar. Fill in the gaps and, then, click "check" to see how much you know (or don't know).

It also contains some very useful vocab practice in a form of collocations (i.e. "drink water", "chilly weather").

Highly recommended!

Link:  www.english-4u.de

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Useful links - vocabulary

There are thousands links to webpages about English grammar and vocabulary. Some are good, some not. A lot are confusing, a lot copy other pages and teach nothing new.

Organic English  will share their best findings with you (to save time). :)

Here's one of them:

http://www.vocabulary.cl/Lists.htm

It presents a lot of useful vocabulary in interesting context and, then, tests it to see how much you have remembered, or not... Enjoy it! :)

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