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: 

Graph Words - An Instant Visual Thesaurus

Graph Words is a neat little site that provides webs of related words.
Your webs can be downloaded as a PNG image:

10 Awesome Android Uses and Apps for Education

This is a short presentation on Android apps for education.

10 awesome android uses and apps

50 Web 2.0 Sites for Schools

50 Web 2.0 Sites for Schools

Recently I've been experimenting with a number of curation sites that are beneficial for creating and sharing lists. While exploring these tools, I've been "fine tuning" my Web 2.0 list for schools. I created a list of 25 Web 2.0 sites for education over a year ago -- but a lot has changed since then. More sites have been developed and more tools are available to students and educators than ever before.This list is in alphabetical order.

50 Web 2.0 Sites for Schools

1. 19 Pencils - 19Pencils is the easiest way for teachers to discover, share and manage web-based educational content with students. A teacher can create quizzes, websites, track students, and more.
2. ACMI Generator - This is a great site for older students for digital storytelling and creating a storyboard scene with a script.
3. Animoto - Create wonderful looking slideshows that includes, video, images, music, and more.
4. Aviary Education - A safe private environment to use Aviary's suite of online tools for: audio, video, and image editing.
5. Boom Writer - BoomWriter is a supremely engaging creative writing website that has students reading, writing and assessing content in ways they’ve never done before!
6. Classtell - A nice site for teachers to create an educational website.
7. Diigo - Social bookmarking for teachers where they can create free student accounts.
8. Dropbox - A great way to share and collaborate on documents on a number of different electronic devices.
9. Edmodo - A wonderful safe/secure learning environment for teachers and students. A nice all-in-one solution for education.
10. Educaplay - A excellent way to create interactive multimedia educational activities.
11. Every1Speaks - A learning platform where students learn through collaborative enquiry-based learning.
12. Gaggle - A excellent suite of online learning tools for filtered: emailing, messaging, forums, and more.
13. Glogster - Creating collaborative and interactive posters in this safe environment. A wonderful and very popular web 2.0 tool.
14. GoAnimate - A terrific way to create custom animations with an educational portal.
15. Google Apps for Education - Does it really get much better than this?
16. Gnowledge - A wonderful site to create collaborative online quizzes, share resources, view others quizzes, and more. Excellent tech support and tutorial videos as well.
17. Grockit Answers - A great teaching tool to create a Q/A session for any YouTube video.
18. Kidblog - A fantastic way to create a safe environment for students to blog in. Everything is controlled by the teacher as a moderator.
19. Kerpoof - Lots of educational activities can be found here such as: make a movie, draw a picture, and more.
20. Kubbu - A free site for teachers to create games, quizzes, or crosswords and then share them with students and view/analyze their results.
21. Little Bird Tales - A wonderful free site for digital storytelling that allows kids to record and narrate their story.
22. Live Binders - Is an excellent site for creating an online binder to collect and share resources with others.
23. MentorMob - One of my favorite new sites for curating the web into learning "playlists." This is an innovative way to teach a lesson, unit, or any given topic.
24. Mixbook - A great site for digital storytelling in a safe environment. Educators get a discount on printed books.
25. Musicshake - Legal, copyright, free music for every student in your school - created by students, right from a browser.
26. Myths & Legends - One of the best free sites around for digital storytelling in a safe environment with lots of characters, themes, and objects to choose from.
27. PhotoPeach - An excellent site for creating slideshows and creating and managing student accounts.
28. PikiFriends - A fun safe environment for online pen pals for middle school and high school students.
29. Pixton - A great way to motivate students by creating digital stories using this comic creator.
30. PresentationTube - A nice windows app for creating presentations out of PowerPoint slides.
31. Prezi - A excellent site for creating zooming slideshows and presentations.
32. Primary Access - A free suite of online tools for students and teachers to create digital movies, storyboards, and other activities.
33. Primary Wall - A real-time collaboration tool that allows students and teachers to create a page of online sticky notes. Great for mind mapping and brainstorming!
34. Skype in the Classroom - A great collaboration tool for classrooms to video or audio chat with other educators and students.
35. SideVibe - Turn bookmarked web content into blended classroom lessons.
36. SlideRocket - All you need is a Google Apps account to use this free tool to creating stunning presentations.
37. SpellingCity - One of the best sites around for teaching and learning Spelling and Vocabulary. A very user-friendly and engaging site to use.
38. Storybird - A fantastic site to inspire students to read & write through the use of digital storytelling.
39. StoryJumper - A great site for digital storytelling where students can incorporate their own art, publish online, share with others, or order a print copy.
40. SymbalooEDU - A wonderful way to organize educational sites into one location for students.
41. Triptico - A great free tool for teachers to help create, share, and edit interactive lessons.
42. ToonDoo Spaces - Create a private and safe environment for digital storytelling through the use of an online comic.
43. VoiceThread - One of the most popular web 2.0 sites around for creating dynamic and interactive slideshows and presentations. Also, another great tool for digital storytelling.
44. Webspiration - From the creators of Inspiration comes this excellent web portal for creating mind maps, brainstorms, outlines, and more.
45. Weebly - Create a free class/student blog or website.
46. Wolfram Alpha - There is now an educational portal for Wolfram's computational search engine. This portal contains dynamic textbooks, lesson plans, widgets, interactives, and more.
47. Yacapaca - A nice free all-in-one solution for schools for creating quizzes, surveys, assessments, and more.
48. YouTube for Schools - Access 1000s of YouTube videos in a controlled environment without having to worry about comments.
49. Zimmer Twins - A great site for digital storytelling with an educational portal.
50. Zoho Wiki - A nice site for educators to create online interactive content.

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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

Wordia

Wordia is a vocabulary resource with videos and games.

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.

Video - The Difference Between the UK, Great Britain, and England

Como usar “should”, “ought to” e “must”

Os três verbos do título podem ser traduzidos como “dever” e cada um deles tem usos próprios.

Should e ought to são usados para expressar obrigação moral, conselho, recomendação, dever. Veja alguns exemplos:

You look kind of sick. You should / ought to see a doctor.

Você parece meio doente. Você deveria ir ao médico.

I know I should / ought to study, but I’m so tired…

Sei que deveria estudar, mas estou tão cansado…

Must é usado para expressar obrigação forte, ordem, necessidade. Com esse sentido, também podemos usar have/has to.

I’m too fat. I must / have to lose weight.

Estou gordo demais. Tenho que/Devo perder peso.

O uso de must e should/ought to depende do que queremos expressar. Por exemplo, se formos ao médico e ele vir que estamos quase tendo um ataque cardíaco causado pelo excesso de cigarro ele vai dizer:

You must stop smoking!

Agora se o médico nos der somente um conselho amigável ele vai dizer:

You should stop smoking, it’s not good for your health.

Se quisermos expressar uma obrigação no passado usamos had to em vez de must.

I had to work on the weekend.

Tive que trabalhar no fim de semana.

O uso das formas negativas must not (mustn’t) e do not (don’t) / does not (doesn’t) have to também é diferente. Mustn’t indica uma proibição e don’t/doesn’t have to indica falta de obrigação/necessidade.

You mustn’t talk loud in a library.

Você não pode/deve falar algo numa biblioteca.

You don’t have to buy that book. I’ll lend you mine.

Você não precisa comprar aquele livro. Eu te empresto o meu.

O verbo must também é usado para expressar uma conclusão lógica, dedução, algo que deve ser verdade, em face das evidências:

I told her to be there at 7. It’s 7.10, so she must be there.

Eu lhe disse para estar lá às 7. São 7.10, então ela deve estar lá.

I’ve heard the new secretary used to be a model. She must be beautiful.

Ouvi dizer que a nova secretária era modelo. Ela deve ser bonita.

Nesse caso o sentido contrário de must é can’t.

She used to be a model, she can’t be ugly.

Ela era modelo, ela não pode ser feia. (é improvável)

This is it for today, see you next time!

Gerund or Infinitive?

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Useful YouTube Accessories

Here you can find some useful YouTube Accessories.
Explore them and enjoy:

Possessive Case

Possessive case - special rules

Introduction To English Nouns - part 2

More Than 100 Tips and Tricks for New Teachers

AEO - Apoio Escolar Online

AEO on Prezi

Spider Scribe

Mind Mapping with Images, Maps, and More

Face Flow

Free Video Conferencing for Fou

7 Videos

140 New Things Being Tried in Classrooms This Year