Useful videos to learn English - Youtube Channel

Useful videos to learn English - Youtube Channel

Here are some useful videos with several important topics for all english students: 

Possessive Adjectives

English-speaking countries - ESL

English-speaking countries - ESL

The House - ESL

The House - ESL

Find the words in the image

Which countries are best at English as a second language?

English is the world’s most widely spoken language but is unusual in the fact that the vast majority of speakers are not ‘native’.

Of the approximately 1.5 billion people who speak English, less than 400 million use it as a first language. That means over 1 billion speak it as a secondary language.

Innovation and wealth

Better English in a country correlates with higher income, higher levels of innovation and a better quality of life

In nearly all countries surveyed, women had stronger English skills than men.




Originally published at www.weforum.org.

Love

Check out these cool English idioms to talk about love!

Oliver Twist

Oliver Twist is the second novel by English author Charles Dickens. It was published 1838. The story is about an orphan boy, Oliver Twist, who escapes from aworkhouse. The story tells about the cruel treatment of a large number of orphans in the Dickens era. Oliver escapes and travels to London where he meets the Artful Dodger, leader of a gang of young pickpockets. Oliver is led to their criminal trainer Fagin. The story, set to music, shows us the life of the rich and the poor who lived in London in days gone by. Food, Glorious Food Is it worth the waiting for, if we live till eighty-four, all we ever get is  GRUEL. Everyday we say a prayermayor, will they change the bill of fairfare, still we get the same old  GRUEL There's not a crust, not a lumpcrumb can we find. Can we beg can we borrowsorrow or cadge. But there's nothing to stop us from getting a thrillchill, when we all close our eyes and imagine. Food, glorious food. Hot porridgesausage and mustard. While we're in the mood, cold jelly and custard Peas pudding and saveloys. What next? Can I just mention.Is the question. Rich gentlemen have it, boys indigestionthat's the question! Food, glorious food, we're anxious to try it. Three banquetsblankets a day, our favorite diet! .Just picture a great big steakstake, fried, roasted or stewed. !Oh! Food, wonderful food, marvellousmarvelous food, glorious food     Food, glorious food, don't care what it looks like. Burned, underdone, crude, don't cares what the cook's like!    Just thinking of growing fat our sensessences go reeling. One moment of knowing that  full-up feeling! Food, glorious food. What wouldn't we give for. That extra bit more, that's all that we live for. Why should we be fated to, do nothing but brood Food, magical food, wonderful food, marvelous food, heavenly food, beautiful food, glorious food.     Oliver, Oliver sung by Mr. Bumble Oliver, Oliver. Never before has a boy wanted more.  Oliver, Oliver. Won't ask for more when he knows what's in store There's a dark, thin, winding stairway without any bannister Which we'll throw him down and feed him  kockroachescockroaches served in a canister Oliver, Oliver. What will he do when he's turned black and blue.  He will rue the day somebody named him Ol-i-ver Oliver, Oliver. Never before has a boy wanted more.   Oliver, Oliver. Won't ask for more when he knows what's in store There's a long, thin winding stairwaystareway without any bannister Which we'll throw him down and feed him cockroaches served in a canister Oliver, Oliver. What, heavens pray will the governors say They will lay the blamelay the shameon the one who named him…….. Ol-i-ver Boy For Sale One boy…. Boy for sale… He's going cheapcheep…. Only seven guineas... That -- or thereabouts. Fine boy... Boy for sale... He's yours to keep…. For one thousand pennyspennies… you can work it out     - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - I could say he isn't very greedy... I can not, I'd be telling you a taletail One boy…. Boy for salesail…..Come take a peep….Have you ever seen as nice, a boy, for sale. Where is love?  Where is love? Does it fall from skiesskys above? Is it underneath the willow tree, that I've been dreemingdreaming of? Where is she? Who I close my eyes to see? Will I ever know the sweet "hello" that's meantment for only me? Who can say where she may hide? Must I travel far and wide? 'Til I am beside the someone who, I can mean, something to ... Where……….? Where……. is love? Every night I neelkneel and play, let tomorrow be the day When I see the face of someone who, I can mean, something to ... Where……….? Where……. is love?             Consider Yourself  sung by DODGER  Consider yourself my ownat home.   Consider yourself one of the family. I've taken to you so strong.  It's clear we're going to get along. Consider yourself well in.  Consider yourself part of the furniture. There isn't a lot to spare.  Who cares?.. What ever we've got we shareshair! If it should chance to be, we should see, some harder days. Empty larder days. Why grouse? Always a-chance we'll meet, somebody to foot the bill. Then the drinks are on the housein the house! Consider yourself our mate. We don't want to have no fuss. For after some consideration, we can state... Consider yourself……. One of us! You've Got To Pick-A-Pocket    sung by FAGIN and the orphan boys You see, Oliver... In this life, one thing counts. In the bank, large accountsamounts I'm afraid these don't grow on treesfor free, you've got to pick-a-pocket or two You've got to pick-a-pocket or two, boys. You've got to pick-a-pocket or two BOYS: Large amounts don't grow on trees. You've got to pick-a-pocket or two. !FAGIN: Let's show Oliver how to do it!  dearsdeers……………..?

SyncSpace

SyncSpace is a collaborative whiteboard app for iPads and Android Tablets

Interesting Ways to Use QR Codes

Puzzle Touch - Criar puzzles online

Puzzle Touch é uma ferramenta digital online gratuita, já premiada, que permite realizar puzzles de imagens e vídeos. O utilizador pode jogar com imagens já incluídas no site ou construir puzzles pessoais.

Survey Gizmo

Free Online Survey Tool for Students

Survey Gizmo é uma ferramenta digital que permite criar questionários online, levantamentos de dados, comparação e análise de resultados.

A Brief History of Santa

Past Perfect and Past Perfect Continuous Resources

Past Perfect and Past Perfect Continuous Resources:
She had been working for ten hours before she finally took a break. (example of past perfect continuous and past simple)


This page is dedicated to helping both learners and teachers take advantage of all the resources related to the past perfect and past perfect continuous on this site. Resources include explanations, quizzes, free lesson plans, and activities.


Here are links to the other resource guides:

Comparative Forms
Conditional Forms
Present Tenses
Past Simple and Past Continuous

Hosting Online Brainstorming Sessions

Here you have five Free Tools for Quickly Hosting Online Brainstorming Sessions:



Primary Wall


Sync.in


Aww App




Draw It Live




FlockDraw

Wordia

Wordia is a vocabulary resource with videos and games.

YouTube for Schools

Google has just launched YouTube for Schools. YouTube for Schools is a new network setting that school administrators can enable to grant access only to screened content on YouTube EDU.




Teachers:
 YouTube Teachers.

The History of the Christmas Tree - Infographic

The history of the Christmas tree has garnered a lot of fascinating points over the years. A tradition with humble beginnings in 15th century Latvia, the festive tower of foliage has grown to be one of the holiday season’s most beloved symbols. From the first decorated tree in 1600 to Gubbio, Italy’s 650-meter tall wonder, get a glimpse of Christmas tree history through this handy visual guide from Christmas Tree Market, retailer of artificial Christmas trees.

Until, Till and ’til

UNTIL, TILL AND ’TIL

The status of ’til versus until and till is often argued about and most style guides have something to say on the matter. The most common belief is that till is a shortened form of until. You can see how this could have grown up, but the truth of the matter is that till is by far the older word, being recorded from about the year 800, while it took another 400 years for until to appear in the language (it’s a compound of till with the archaic Old Norse und, as far as, which also survives in the archaic unto). But the first sense of till was to, as it still can be, for example, in Scots and some dialects.

Though the modern sense of till in standard English is always connected with time, this only appeared about 1300. The current position is that until is the more common of the two words and is generally considered to be slightly more formal, which is why it turns up more often in edited prose. It is also rather more likely to appear at the beginning of a sentence than is till. But till is perfectly good English and the choice of whether to use it or until is often decided by the rhythm of the sentence.

Your father’s version, ’til, has been created within the past century by people who believe that till is an abbreviation of until and want to mark it as such. It has often been said by style guides and dictionaries that it’s a mistake and it arouses passion in some people.

Most recent writers on language prefer to describe it as an informal version of until — it often turns up in newspapers, advertising and song lyrics, for example, and in informal set phrases like “shop ’til you drop”, “It ain’t over ’til it’s over” or “ ’Til we meet again”. But to use the spelling til without the preceding apostrophe is still regarded as wrong.

Just Beam It

Just Beam It is a new service for quickly and easily sharing files up to 2GB.



Just Beam also offers a Chrome Web App.