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segunda-feira, 31 de agosto de 2009

LEARN PHONETICS

This page teaches how to pronounce correctly. It has tons of exercises in a fun way.
The site belongs to Cambridge online.Be aware that some activities can take some time to load.I recommend to start with the Phonetic Chart.
Excellent.
http://www.cambridgeenglishonline.com/Phonetics_Focus/

English lessons for intermediate students

A good site to practice and get more knowledge. It has many exercises and it explains in a very easy way.
Check the menu on the side.
http://www.englishpage.com/index.html

BASIC ENGLISH LESSONS

For people who are just starting to learn English, this site can help you with different grammar tips. There are 11 lessons with different exercises.
Recommended.
http://www.learn-english-online.org/

quarta-feira, 3 de junho de 2009

GROVER ON YOUTUBE

Youtube.com is an endless source of videos to learn English,here I show a selection with Grover, one of my favorites Sesame Street characters. Even thoug they are made for children,it is hilarious for adults ,too.

1, Grover and a fly in my soup.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1C8nl8eBoq0&feature=related
2,Near and far with Grover. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf-HBMq9ggg&feature=related
3,Grover uses his waiter´s memory.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIzRHlxXgzY&feature=related
4,What should Grover bring first? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIzRHlxXgzY&feature=related

MANY ACTIVITIES FOR ADULTS AND CHILDREN

This site is very interesting since it keeps a variety of activities such as listening to songs,( you need to fill in the gaps or do other things...)you can play games or read interesting texts.
There is a special section for kids.
http://www.anglesonline.org/

quinta-feira, 19 de fevereiro de 2009

HUMAN SKELETON FOR MEDICS

Get advantage of this program especially made for people who work in the Medicine area.
It is a software to visualize the different bones and its names, plus a dictionary and help online.Totally free and full.
For Windows XP. Not recommended for Windows Vista, but you can try anyway.
If you prefer go directly to the link:
(http://www.mediafire.com/?2tdqumzjycj)
or visit the homepage and fill out the form to download it.
http://nextd.com/index.asp

segunda-feira, 16 de fevereiro de 2009

READ EBOOKS FOR FREE

Here you can find by famous writers like: Mark Twain,Jules Verne,Arthur Conan Doyle,etc.All the books are in an exe format.
Just download them and read them. And the best part: the are absolutely free.
Enjoy.
http://www.southernoceansoftware.com/text2html/enovels.html

terça-feira, 3 de fevereiro de 2009

PROGRAMA FONETICA AMERICANA DE GRAÇA

O professor Bruce Wong,chinés,criou un programa de fonetica americana de graça para praticar a pronuncia. o programa tem 13mb e é composto de 3 seções:
ALPHABET,PHONETICS,ABC SONG.
A ultima parte é uma musica para crianças muito famosa para aprender o alfabeto.
O programa esta completo e é de graça.
Não vai encontrar na internet, porque o author descontinuou o uso.
Mas consegui trocar emails com ele e gentilmente providenciou un link para o uso.
Espero que gostem.
A única coisa necessaria é enviar um email para:
inglespablo@gmail.com
e automaticamente vai ser enviado o link para o download em no maximo 5 minutos.
ENJOY.

quinta-feira, 29 de janeiro de 2009

SOME FREE VIDEOS

Steve is a teacher who released some free material on his site and I would like to share it with you.
The videos are short and go straight to the point.
http://www.privateenglishportal.com/freearea.aspx

ONLY FOR MEN

This site was created for men who have a modern way of life.Men who are curious and want to know in a fast and fun way what is going on in the world. Here you can find articles,jokes,movie reviews,etc.

Of course there are beautiful girls,too.
http://www.askmen.com/

terça-feira, 16 de dezembro de 2008

Activities for ESL Students

Get ready to practice quizzes,listenings,grammar things.Excellent site for students and teachers as well.
http://a4esl.org

Pronunciation with the help of Flinders university

This page belongs to this Australian university, there are different areas to visit.
Check "Advice for improving your pronunciation of English".
A great place to spend some time.
http://www.flinders.edu.au/current-students/slc/whatweoffer/pronunciation.cfm#Intonation

terça-feira, 7 de outubro de 2008

LEARN THE PHONETIC ALPHABET

Taken from the site:
" Sephonics 1.0 is a Windows program that will teach you the English phonetic alphabet, which is a subset of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA, in short).

Sephonics includes seven different exercises for practising English pronounciation and the phonetic alphabet, including a phonetic memory game to relax between the lessons! There are also exercises where you learn to match a sound to a phonetic sign, transcribe from phonetic text to ordinary text, and much more! Sephonics is freeware."
This sofware only teaches British English.
It is full and 100% free.Enjoy.
(thanks Marianne,you are great)

http://www.wartoft.nu/software/sephonics/

CHAT WITH ALICE OR WITH GOD

Here you can chat with a program called A.L.I.C.E (or with GOD).Just go to "chat with ALICE" and prepare yourself to have a nice conversation with this program.
Do not ask complex questions.Remember it is just a software.
Have fun.

http://www.alicebot.blogspot.com/

WITH OR WITHOUT SUBTITLES

A site that shows interviews,short films,animations,etc.Everything with or without subtitles...you choose.

http://www.lingual.net/lingualproductitems/

FIRST CERTIFICATE PROGRAM FOR FREE

Taken from the page:
"The program is designed to give you special help with Paper 3 of the First Certificate exam, and in particular with the tricky Part 4 - error correction.

If you are thinking of taking First Certificate - or if you just want to improve your general English grammar - then try this program now!"