When I am in the gym trying to sweat my kilos away I’ve sometimes considered not listening to music and instead ,making a better use of the time I spend there. Today I’ve bumped into this page and I have thought :” That’s what I was looking for!” So instead of running with Lady Gaga I’m going to start running with Jane Austen, Mark Twain or Virginia Wolf.
In Books Should Be Free you can find a lot of free audio books divided according to their genre: adventure, comedy, romance, fairy tales, poetry…etc and you can download them in mp3,iPod or iTunes format . Now, you have no excuse for not practising English, even when you’re at the gym!!
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Writing can be fun
And this is another superb site I strongly recommend. There are lots of sites that help you improve your listening skills but Writing Fun by Jenny Eather is one of the few sites I have seen that really helps you improve Writing. Poor writing skills is an issue almost everyone tries hard to overcome but we find it really hard because we never seem to have enough time to go through all the steps that good writing requires and that’s where Writing Fun helps you. Let’s see how to use it
♥Choose the type of text you want to write:narrative, description, persuasion, letters,emails,invitations…
♥Read the different examples mousing over the tips on the right to see the examples
♥Print it or
♥Write online with the help of the text organiser.
Isn’t it just great!!
Newsy- the video news you can easily understand
I just can’t wait to share this amazing site with you. It’s so very much what
any teacher teaching advanced levels has ever wished for. It not only presents the world’s news coverage through two or three minute video segments but it also gives you the transcript. Wow! Amazing …! no more playing and replaying to get the transcript for the piece of news you want to bring to your classes and definitely,a chance also to improve pronunciation by reading the news at the same time as the presenter.
Now, watch this video about Lady Gaga getting 13 awards at the VMAs. The video you can see here is embedded so you won’t be able to see the transcript. To see it, click here http://www.newsy.com/videos/lady-gaga-dominates-vmas/. Ready? Enjoy!!!
Word of the Day: Optimization
To optimize is to make as perfect, effective, or functional as possible,to make the best of anything.
And this is precisely what this little tool does for your computer to keep it in good shape. It’s called CCleaner and it might be one of the best cleaning systems you can find for free.
Its main purpose is to clean any unnecessary files from your hard-drive and on opening the program you can see the various aspects of Windows that you can search through and clear. CCleaner will also detect your installed applications that may hold on to files which are no longer any use, such as Google Earth histories or Flash Player configurations and it’ll allow Windows to run faster while freeing up valuable hard disk space.
There’s even a portable version you can carry around .
Merriam-Webster: online word games
Now that you are on holidays and with plenty of time to spare , do you fancy playing some word games? There are
tons of them in the Merriam-Webster word games , from spelling games to word Sudokus , but my favourite is Scrabble. Have you ever played this game? I’m sure you have in Spanish, so why don’t you give it a go now in English? It’s highly entertaining and it’ll help you not to forget English.