Find Your Line

Humanities Enrichment has recently posted a very interested video - Find Your Line - a good source of inspiration and motivation for the students, a good start for a discussion.

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April, 1st: download and enjoy! (April Words Calendar on TpT)

Get Ready for World Water Day

World Water Day is held every year on 22nd March to remind people about the importance of freshwater and encouraging the sustainable management of freshwater resources. 10 Resources for World Water Day from Teaching News will help teachers plan and conduct the lesson on this important issue.

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The Half-Life of Metaphors from The Economist  and  Do you salad or sandwich? The verbing of English from OUP with interesting examples of what is going on in English, why, and how we use it.

DIY - Become a Maker!

DIY - "a community where young people become Makers. They discover new skills, make projects in the real world, and share their work online to inspire and learn from each other." The resource may seem to be very far from learning English, but the idea itself is very interesting and can get children interested in the process, improving the language along the project. The resource is suitable both for working with the class and individually with a student or one's own child.

Much for Inspiration

Venspired is a great site with inspiration posters from Kessy Venosdale. The posters are beautifully designed, with great words from well-known people or the author herself - a very good resource to use in the class for inspiration, motivation, discussion. The posters will look wonderful on the classroom board. There are downloadable posters from the author.

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Talking about Food

52 English Lessons to Talk about Food from PhraseMix is of much help for both teachers and students to in rich the vocabulary on this very important every day topic. As usual, all the phrases are with listening and word explaining.

More Language Games from Macmillan

It has been written already about Irregular Verbs Wheel from Macmillan Dictionary. Here there are more language games to keep students interested and motivated. Red Words Game  (testing your intuition on word frequency) and Phrasel Verbs Game (practising the knowledge of phrasel verbs) will help students to learn more aboutthe language.

Today is World Literacy Day

10 Resources for World Literacy Day from Teaching News. The resources are very useful and can be easily used not only on the World Literacy Day, but of course, in everyday practice.

Pronunciation Practice

Need more pronunciation practice? Look at the following collection of pronunciation resources for a number of sounds and letter combinations. There are videos, minimal pair exercises, tongue twisters, dictations and other things to work with the sounds. As an example:

Unit One: TH, as in THINK, BATHROOM, and TEETH.

• Watch this QuickTime movie on the word 'Thought' to see how to correctly make the 'TH' sound (894k).
• Minimal Pairs (178k) In this exercise, you will hear pairs of words that are the same except for one sound. In this case, TH is being compared to other similar sounds. Listen and compare.
• Try this Dictation to practice the differences between TH and other sounds.
• Here is the complete lesson from our workbook in MP3 audio , as well as the PDF version.
• Here's a video of Brian explaining the differences between the voiceless and voiced TH. (7.8mb)
• Listen, practice, and record your voice to have a conversation with a native speaker (microphone required).
• Practice these tongue twisters to improve your TH (microphone required).