Tuesday, 31 January 2012
Listen to Tom Sawyer
Some of you are reading Tom Sawyer and I think you like the story. Here you can listen to the full book, just click on the picture and choose the chapter you want.
Follow the link if you want to explore. Thee are lots of free audio books here.
More free audio books:
Books should be free: Free audio books from the public domain.
Lit2Go You can download the ebook in pdf and the mp3 audio.
Enjoy.
Sunday, 29 January 2012
The football team of Koh Panyee
Video from KarmaTube
This is a true story about a junior football team from Thailand, you will see that playing football is not always easy.Friday, 27 January 2012
Days of remembrance
"There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut."
Martin Scorsese.
"History must be written of, by and for the survivors" (anonymous).
"History teaches everything including the future" (Lamartine)
Auschwitz-Birkenau, the Nazi Death Camp was liberated on January 27, 1945 so this day is the International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
We must learn of the darkest pages in our history, and this tragedy usually called Holocaust is one of the worst in European history. We call "Holocaust" to the systematic progamme that exterminated about six million Jews by the Germans during the World War II. The Nazi called this "The final solution to the Jewish question". Prisoners of war, gipsies, or Spanish republican were also interned in these Death Camps.
Hitler's rage is a website built for students.
Click if you want to learn more.
Learn about Irena Sendler, the Polish who saved the lives of 2,500 Jew children during that terrible time.
Trial of Nuremburg: Declaration of the Commandant of Auschwitz.
"History must be written of, by and for the survivors" (anonymous).
"History teaches everything including the future" (Lamartine)
Auschwitz-Birkenau, the Nazi Death Camp was liberated on January 27, 1945 so this day is the International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
We must learn of the darkest pages in our history, and this tragedy usually called Holocaust is one of the worst in European history. We call "Holocaust" to the systematic progamme that exterminated about six million Jews by the Germans during the World War II. The Nazi called this "The final solution to the Jewish question". Prisoners of war, gipsies, or Spanish republican were also interned in these Death Camps.
Hitler's rage is a website built for students.
Click if you want to learn more.
Learn about Irena Sendler, the Polish who saved the lives of 2,500 Jew children during that terrible time.
Trial of Nuremburg: Declaration of the Commandant of Auschwitz.
Wednesday, 25 January 2012
Try a green search
cosia is an eco friendly search engine and it works in different languages. Watch the video and learn about the importance of take care of our planet while we surf the web.
Tuesday, 24 January 2012
Surfing YouTube
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There are lots of great videos in YouTube, and not only musical videos, you can surf and find videos on different topics, although I know, it can be sometimes difficult to find them.
Today I bring you some channels for you to explore, I hope you enjoy and have a great surfing.
American Museum of Natural History, if you are crazy about space, dinosaurs and natural science.
British Film Institute National Archive, a large collection of free films.
Oscars official channel: Everything you have always wanted to know about the Oscars:trailers, interviews, history...
Mr.Bean has got a great channel.
Learn English with the BBC
Riverdance: Enjoy the traditional dance from Ireland.
Save the children, for thsoe of you worried about life in poor countries.
Saturday, 21 January 2012
Fun of stats
The Joy of Stats is a film made by Prof. Hans Rosling for the BBC not only showing the facts we can learn from statistics but also visualizing the data with the help of new techniques.
The film above is a short clip of the full movie, Prof. Rosling shows the relation between life expectancy and wealth in 200 countries and during 200 years.
Follow the link and explore the map.
Or explore some more maps here.
The film above is a short clip of the full movie, Prof. Rosling shows the relation between life expectancy and wealth in 200 countries and during 200 years.
Follow the link and explore the map.
Or explore some more maps here.
Friday, 20 January 2012
Football: How much do you know?
The history of the football - Explania
Did you know that football is an old sport that has been played for ancient cultures in the whole world?
How many words related to football can you say in English? follow the link to the BBC and check.
And a video:
And the Premier League.
Tuesday, 17 January 2012
Are you listening?
Switch on the sound of your computer, practise your English reading and listening skills, it can be really fun.
There are lots of places where you can do that, you just surf the web for a while and you will find many sites to do it:
I'm Reading! Just click on the topic you prefer and when you pass the mouse on the words, you can hear them.
What about reading a magazine? if you prefer reading a magazine and listening to your favourite article while you read it. Just follow the link of the British Council.
Vocabulary? Follow the link, choose a topic and just pass the mouse on the word, now you can listen to the word. ( I never get bored to recommend you this link).
An old friend of us: ELLLO
Lyrics training: Learn English while you sing.
Tuesday, 10 January 2012
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