A new site has been born: Servei de llengües has published its website where teachers can see all the news regarding language teaching in Catalonia. Official news, their blogs and calls for grants and funding can be found there. Welcome to the WWW!
Category Archives: ELT
Peter Packet: Computers and English
A nice website by CISCO.
Learn about Internet viruses and e-mail security with Peter Packet, a friendly cartoon who will help you to carry out missions to help people in the third world.
Some fun for a change
Google Translate
Google has released a beta version of a web translator. It is rather fast, and the results are promising.
Very good video
The Fonix
The Fonix tries to encourage students to learn English. It covers different communicative skills. There are different levels, ranging from 5th of primària to 2nd of batxillerat. The deadline is the 26th of March.
Exploratree
Some of you will probably know exploratree. For those who don’t, this is an extremely interesting piece of free online application, where you can create your own complex diagrams and mindmaps and embed pictures and external links. The tutorial is very easy and you’ll soon be eager to create your own material.
The environment… play and learn
Here’s the British Council website with a set of resources regarding the environmental issue:
A game to learn how to diversify rubbish:
A word game, very easy and rewarding:
A nice quiz students will love to do, to see how ecological they are:
Visit a museum and learn about the dangers for our environment:
El British Council sempre envia un bulletin amb les novetats. Si us hi subscribiu el rebreu al vostre correu cada més.
Anne Frank
This is something every single youth should come across: Anne Frank’s history. This website is very helpful. You will find lots of information and resources in order to help your students understand what happened in that ominous period.