Thursday, March 30, 2006

Downloadable Materials

There's a problem with some of the links to materials you can download. If you click on the link below and then choose your class, you should be able to find what you're looking for. (I hope).

Streamload - Hosted Files

Wednesday, March 29, 2006

Technology Slideshow

Click on this link to watch a slideshow on the topic of technology. Together with your partner, make a list of all the pictures you see. Work quickly because you only have a few minutes to look at the photos.

Technology Slideshow on Flickr

Tuesday, March 28, 2006

Machines Behaving Badly

If you want to practice listening and pronunciation, you can listen to a recording of the text on page 81 - Machines Behaving Badly. Simply download the mp3 file here and listen.

Other material from the morning class will also be posted to this address for you to download.

Monday, March 27, 2006

Spring One

Hello to any new students who haven't seen my blog before. I think it's quite simple. I put class materials and extra study resources here and you can do anything you like with them. I'd really like it if you made comments and used this blog for discussions and communicating in English. It would be even better if you set up your own blogs (easy to do, just go to www.blogger.com and follow the simple instructions) and started writing and posting for youself. Happy blogging...

IELTS Speaking Practice

For the five students who did practice IELTS speaking tests last Thursday, MP3s of the recordings can be downloaded here. Happy listening.

Friday, March 17, 2006

Cobuild Concordance and Collocations Sampler

This is a nice little page which allows you to search a sample of the Collins Corpus to explore examples of vocabulary in use. It's particularly useful for looking at collocations and their frequency.

The Corpus is the result of years of research, collecting and recording examples of real spoken and written English. It contains so many examples of English in use that you can trust it as a reliable source of how native speakers really express themselves.