Blog com vídeo aulas de inglês, espanhol e português para estrangeiros, além de atividades destes idiomas. Blog about English, Spanish and Portuguese, with video classes and activities.
Curso de Inglês Básico
Aqui ao lado você encontrará o índice para poder navegar nas aulas do curso de inglês básico.
Curso de Espanhol Básico
Aqui ao lado você encontrará o índice para poder navegar nas aulas do curso.
Television and newspapers are key elements of the culture of any country, providing news and information, as well as entertainment and education. Being able to speak fluently about these topics opens an important door of social interaction for learners of English, and this month’s e-lesson is designed to help them do exactly that. A series of exercises tests their knowledge of vocabulary specific to television and that of newspapers, then asks them to put that vocabulary to use in practice conversations.
A BBC Newsround forum with an invitation to ‘Tell us your spooky stories!’ Aimed primarily at children and younger teenagers. Accessible to pre-intermediate level.
A BBC article (2006) on a survey which suggests that more than half of Britons believe in psychic powers such as mind-reading and premonitions. Intermediate level and above. .
Better Speaking is all about how you can become a fluent, confident speaker of English. In the programmes we hear from learners of English from around the world and also from someone who specialises in teaching speaking, trainer Richard Hallows. Better Speaking is presented by Callum Robertson.
Episode 1 We hear several learners describe what they find difficult about speaking English, and Callum and Richard discuss the link between confidence and fluency.
De Janine Suira. Janine Suira, una profesora que da clases en Esmirna (Turquía) nos ha mandado diferentes actividades y el vínculo de un blog que hizo con sus estudiantes el año pasado. En la que actividad que te ofrecemos (NIVEL A2) se trabaja el vocabulario del cuerpo, diferentes tiempos verbales y los posesivos a través de la canción “Mis ojos” de Maná.
CENTRO DE RECURSOS DIDÁCTICOS DE ESPAÑOL – CRDE-RIO
Río, 13 de febrero de 2008.
Distinguida/o Usuaria/o:
Ante la gran demanda de participantes que han tenido los TALLERES DE TRADUCCIÓN organizados para finales del mes de febrero, gracias a la magnífica disposición de los Profesores ponentes, VAMOS A PODER REPETIRLOS para atender a los muchos usuarios que no han podido participar en los primeros.
Así, celebraremos unos nuevos talleres de acuerdo con el siguiente calendario:
TALLERES DE TRADUCCIÓN: Días: 3, 4 y 5 de marzo.
Lugar: CENTRO DE RECURSOS DE ESPAÑOL UERJ – Instituto de Letras Rua São Francisco Xavier, 524 Bloco F - 11 andar RAV 114
Horario: de 15:30 a 17:30
Contato: Rua São Francisco Xavier, 524 - sl.11.111 - bl. F - 11º andar - CEP: 20550-013 - Maracanã - RJ - Brasil Tel./fax (05521) 2569.6810 - 2587-7732 R. 6 - skype: crde.rio – pascual.hernandez@mec.es – crderio@gmail.com - crde-rio.br@mec.es - www.sgci.mec.es/br
Se entregará CERTIFICADO DE ASISTENCIA.
Las inscripciones y la certificación son TOTALMENTE GRATUITAS.
Al ser LIMITADO el número de plazas, RESERVAREMOS PRIMERAMENTE LA ASISTENCIA A LOS USUARIOS QUE YA HABÍAN SOLICITADO SU INSCRIPCIÓN EN LOS ANTERIORES TALLERES.
Les rogamos que, si alguno de los que ya habían realizado la reserva RENUNCIAN A ELLA, nos lo haga saber con el fin de cubrir su plaza con otro usuario.
Sheldon is a very shy person. He doesn't spend a lot of time with his friends. He doesn't go to parties, he doesn't go to movies, and he doesn't go to concerts. He's not very popular.
He doesn't like sports very much, either. He doesn't play basketball, he doesn't play baseball, and he doesn't play volleyball. He's not very athletic.
Sheldon stays home alone very often. He reads many books, he watches TV, and he listens to music. He's not active.
‘Celebr8' is a poem about integration and diversity. It is by the Liverpool based poet Levi Tafari, himself of Jamaican origin. This short kit has been produced to support the newly launched British Council project ‘Integration and Diversity in Education' (INDIE) which encourages young future leaders from a variety of backgrounds to take the initiative in promoting diversity in the own schools. Downloads Celebr8 Kit >> 500k - Tasks and activities for exploiting the poem Celebr8 Key >> 44k - Teachers' notes and answer key Text of poem >> 48k Poem audio Poem audio >> 3.8Mb Mp3 Right click and then click on 'Save Target As..' to download files.
(Clique com o botão direito do mouse e então clique em "Salvar destino como..." para baixar os arquivos)
This week’s lesson consists of different exercises on the subject of food. Level Pre-intermediate and above (equivalent to CEF level A2-B1 and above)
Student's Worksheet PDF (76K) DOC (135K) Teacher's Notes PDF (76K) DOC (18K) Glossary PDF (77K) DOC (28K)
Related Websites Send your students to these websites, or just take a look yourself.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_4610000/newsid_4612800/4612833.stm A BBC Newsround article (2005) on British children’s unhealthy food preferences, plus links on the right-hand side to numerous other articles on food-related issues. Most of the texts are aimed primarily at children and younger teenagers. Accessible to pre-intermediate level.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_dish The Wikipedia entry for ‘national dishes’, containing links to detailed descriptions of a large number of them. Intermediate level and above.
A2-B1 Pre-intermediate American English Isaac Asimov 1) A robot must not harm a human. And it must not allow a human to be harmed.
2) A robot must obey a human's order., unless that order conflicts with the First Law.
3) A robot must protect itself, unless this protection conflicts with the First or Second Laws, Handbook of Robotics, 2058 A.D.
Isaac Asimov's classic collection of stories about a society where humans and robots live and work together on earth and in outer-space, is both disturbing and prophetic.
Please click on the worksheet link below to access the resources to accompany I, Robot. Worksheet
It's not always easy to explain when you use a particular grammar structure instead of another - but collect these handy tips and you'll soon have a useful bank of ready-made explanations! You can also print them out and give them to your students.
Use these handy tips to help your elementary to intermediate students understand the difference between themselves and each other, as well as how to use the and a superlative adjective without a noun.
If your intermediate to advanced students need help understanding how to use a conjunction between two clauses or how the third conditional works, then they need these handy tips!
The point of no return. The point at which something tips over into a new state, or something becomes dramatically more common - 'something has reached the tipping point'. The idea started in physics where a small amount of weight added to an object in a balance causes it to topple over, you know, add a little bit and it's alright, add a bit more and it's alright, add a bit more and it's alright, and then suddenly, whomph! - over it goes. That is the tipping point.
So it started in hard science, but then it was taken over by sociology and popular psychology. Malcolm Gladwell wrote a bestseller in 2000 called 'The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference'. And it became a very attractive notion and everybody suddenly started using this phrase. And you hear it a lot in the news now, when suddenly something causes a fuss. For instance, people talk about the build up of immigrants in a country being steady and then suddenly, there's some panic because there's trouble somewhere, and they say 'we've reached the tipping point'.
I guess I've heard it most often recently in relation to global warming. Global warming seems to have reached 'the tipping point', at least as far as the mind set of many people is concerned. In fact, it's used so often these days that it's almost a cliché. It's as if 'tipping point' has reached its tipping point!
In a different episode of How To we looked at how to chat someone up - that is, how to make someone interested in you, in a romantic way! Let's imagine you have succeeded in getting someone interested... now it's time to ask them out. Is it possible to do this in a way that avoids embarrassment?
Meaning: if you find out about something, you discover a fact or information that you did not know before, often because someone was keeping it secret.
Grammar: This phrasal verb needs an object. You can not separate the verb from its particles.
He found out about the theft - RIGHT
He found out about it - RIGHT
He found the theft out about - WRONG
He found it out about - WRONG
He found out the theft about - WRONG
He found out it about - WRONG
Example sentence:
Jonathan didn't find out about the missing money until the police wrote to him. ________________________________________________________________ Synonyms: discover, catch on to, detect, unearth
Type of activity: Memory game. Pair work. Aims: To practise question word order and look/ look like . Tasks: To memorise details in a picture and answer questions about it.
This week’s lesson introduces different types of film, and includes opinions on the experience of going to the cinema in comparison with watching films at home.
Level Intermediate and above (equivalent to CEF level B1 and above)
Student's Worksheet PDF (76K) DOC (135K) Teacher's Notes PDF (76K) DOC (18K) Glossary PDF (77K) DOC (28K)
Related Websites Send your students to these websites, or just take a look yourself.
http://www.imdb.com/chart/top The ‘Top 250 Movies’, as voted by the users of the Internet Movie Database. Click on the film titles for plot outlines, reviews, etc. Intermediate level and above.
Intro Bluegrass is traditional American music, and like most American things in American culture, its origins are murky. One big difference between bluegrass and American pop music is that bluegrass is improvised. In that way, bluegrass is like jazz. But the instrumentation is very unique. Since bluegrass started out in the country and on farms, some of the instruments used are normal tools found around a farm, like a washboard or a saw. How do you play a saw? You bend it and play it with a bow. While many nontraditional instruments are used in bluegrass, guitars and fiddles are common too. Listen Marni educate Mason about bluegrass.
Mason: I saw your shirt thing earlier and I’m pretty savvy with fancy shirts, but Clampitt Gaddis and Buck...
Marni: Oh yeah.
Mason: I don’t get it. Is that like…
Marni: Clampitt Gaddis and Buck.
Mason: ...a fake western outfit?
Marni: No…Clampitt Gaddis and Buck are actually a local Portland bluegrass band.
Mason: Okay.
Marni: Yeah. They are really good.
Mason: Bluegrass like banjos?
Marni: Well, yes. There is a banjo in the band. And a fiddle and a guitar and really great vocals. A lot of vocal harmony.
Mason: Uh huh.
Marni: Yeah.
Mason: Twangy?
Marni: Not really twangy. A little maybe. But, do you like bluegrass music?
Mason: I mean, I don’t know if I know what bluegrass is other than… Banjo, I like. You know, I like fiddle music. You know, stuff where people do the washboard thing.
Marni: Washboard. Yes, that’s often used.
Mason: Saw. Do they play saws ever?
Marni: Well…in some bands they do. I think that bluegrass has sort of evolved into incorporating the sort of traditional folk...kinda jug bands.
Mason: Mmm hmm.
Marni: ...sort of just that whole element was sort of lumped into the bluegrass.
Marni: No. I mean a lot of younger bands, I think, are starting to play that more traditional music. And I think, it’s good. I think it’s great. It’s you know. It’s actually easier on the ears.
Mason: Yeah
Marni: It’s kinda nice to go to a show…
Mason: People just do it like live and acoustic a lot of time, right?
Marni: It’s not so loud always. Yeah. I just think that there are a lot of really good bands around town that play bluegrass. And I am sure that they are popping up all over.
Discussion
Mason was confused by Marni’s shirt. It had the words Clampitt Gaddis and Buck on it. Marni explains that Clampitt Gaddis and Buck is a bluegrass band from Portland. She likes bluegrass. Mason, on the other hand, doesn’t even really know what bluegrass is. He lists off several instruments that he thinks might be involved.Marni says that not all bluegrass bands use traditional bluegrass instruments, like saws. She thinks the genre of bluegrass is expanding and changing. Clampitt Gaddis and Buck is just one new bluegrass band, but there are a lot of new bluegrass bands these days.Is the traditional music of your country popular with young people right now? Do they people music with unusual things like saws or washboards where you live?
Vocab Quiz
Bluegrass music is... ...very structured and planned. ...loud. ...improvised.
Which farm tool is used to make music in bluegrass? knife saw hammer
Who plays in bluegrass bands? only old people only young people young and old people
