HOLIDAYS

Isn't it true- we often get an assignment to write or tell about our most recent holiday, or vacation. Or our dream holiday.
Want some ideas?

Check out this crazy video by a slightly crazy man about his holidays.
Interesting, but remember he is telling the story "Tongue in cheek"

Click on the picture to learn about his vacation.

BUSY ENGLISH BANANA

BUSY BUSY BUSY!

So sorry I have been so busy I have not up-dated this blog for a week!

However, I have an exciting link to share with you today.

What do these two pictures say?

The first one is a British flag, and the second one is a banana. Strange combination!
So if we put them together, we get something like “ENGLISH BANANA”.

Is there such a thing as an English Banana?  I doubt it, England is too cold to grow bananas.

But a friend of mine has combined these two words and he calls his business exactly that

ENGLISH BANANA, and the web site is Englishbanana.com

If you click on the picture of the “English Banana” it will take you to his site.

There you will find so many excellent learning and teaching resources.

For example:

- 1,500 free printable worksheets- These will keep you (or your students) busy for a very long time

- 60+ free MP3 podcast lessons available to download

(Test your listening skills)

- free weekly online class on WiZiQ.com

(Connect with this series of free on line lessons every week for great FREE interactive learning, + check out the many other FREE on Line lessons here)

-          Facebook group

-          (Make lots of new friends and connections) and

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-          BEST OF ALL

-          If you are a teacher, you can download the complete “TALK A LOT “ English teaching curriculum to teach your students speaking skills in English very quickly (Believe me- I have used it extensively both as a curriculum AND as stand alone supplementary materials. It is one of the few curriculum I know of that needs NO BOOKS, but still works extremely well.

Welcome to the followers of this blog.

Its so nice to have you here, and I hope you can all tell a friend to hook into our community and benefit from our free shared resources.

Today I was talking with a Russian student who has taught himself English from using only FREE resources, and he says it’s the best way- He has worked at his own pace, selected only what he needed, and I was very surprised at the high quality of his English. With NO LESSONS, he sat for IELTS and scored straight 8s- AND HE HAS NEVER HAD A TEACHER- So it CAN be done if you have the willpower, and know where to find the right stuff.

FREE PODCASTS

I have found an really top class site for you to practice listening skills.
It has examples of IELTS speaking situations, with follow-up comments by an examiner, and it even has transcripts if you care to become a subscriber. I think even to be a subscriber is free, but to listen and check out the examiners' comments certainly is free.

The people who speak are students, and the questions and tasks they are doing are from real exams- IELTS, TOEFL, SAT, etc, so it is genuine.

A great site for students, and a perfect site for teachers looking for authentic speaking skill examples.

CLICK ON THE Splendid Speaking Logo to be taken to some great speaking exercises.

AIRPORT

AIRPORTS ARE SCARY!!

One of the first contacts we will have when we travel to an English speaking country, is at the airport.
In this post I have included a full lesson on an airport, covering vocabulary, a special Power Point slide show, Mp3 audio to listen to, a vocabulary quiz, and an exercise on the vocabulary in the lesson.

The files are downloadable, so you will need to save them on your computer, take a look and when you are finished, maybe you want to delete them, OR keep the link so you can refer to them again when you want.

Happy Flying!  Click on the pictures to download.

A very well documented Power Point that I have actually made for Wiz IQ- Click the picture to download it.





 A listening exercise to go with the lesson.
Click on the man listening to his gramaphone to download the MP3 File.

Read and do the exercise as you listen to the audio file.

Click on the picture of you reading to download this file.

and FINALLY, a dialogue between people at an airport.

By now you should be very confident at making your way through airports and the duties we have at them.