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The electronic European Language Portfolio (the e-ELP), based on the guidelines of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, can help you plan your learning, visualize your progress and discern which methodology suits you best, thus potentiating your autonomy as a language learner and motivating you to continue learning languages throughout your life.

Ready-to-use chart on comparative and superlative forms of adjectives.
 
 

Some weeks ago I asked my 4th year students of Secondary Education (aged 15-16 years) to think and discuss about the reasons why they find English is (or will be) useful in their own lives. Although they are still not very concerned with job issues, they know that a good knowledge of the English language will be a prerequisite [...]

Fed up of looking for educational content in YouTube with poor results? Then, TeacherTube can be the alternative site.
Their goal is to provide an online community for sharing instructional videos, with teachers teaching teachers. As well, it is a site where teachers can post videos designed for students to view in order to learn a concept [...]

CEFR, (The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, Teaching, Assessment) is a guideline used to describe achievements of learners of foreign languages across Europe. Its main aim is to provide a method of assessing and teaching which applies to all languages in Europe. The six reference levels (see below) are becoming widely accepted as the [...]

     Although phonemics is to be used only as a part of pronunciation development, Adrian Underhill’s interactive phonemic chart is an excellent teaching tool that can be played full-screen and gives clear audio examples of the English phoneme set. You can even download it for your own use off line, at Macmillan English.

     In a previous post, we analysed the different activities we can arrange to include in a lesson plan dealing with newspapers, news articles, and headlines.  

Diversity win Britain’s Got Talent

     Perhaps, the hardest aspect when choosing real material is that of the linguistic adecuacy to our students’ level of competence.
     In such a case, real texts intended [...]

txtspk

     A recent survey in the UK reveals that seven in ten Brits -and nearly half of youngsters- are fed up of  text slang.
    Millions of text messages are sent every day and Britons admit to using abbreviations and text slang, but they hate receiving it. Most people (71%) would prefer a properly written text message. 
    Britons have become the [...]

The use of authentic material, such as news articles, in the ESL/EFL classroom has turned the newspaper into a powerful tool for encouraging participation and effective sharing of opinions and knowledge, since it covers a wide range of current topics.
In addition, online newspapers provide a unique opportunity of getting inmediate issues of interest to students. [...]

 
Have you ever dreamt of appreciating the original look of historical documents?  Lots of materials from countries and cultures all over the world are brought to you by The World Digital Library (WDL), free of charge and in multilingual format. They work closely with UNESCO’s Memory of the World program.