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

Best websites to pratice your English (EFL)

Best websites to pratice your English (EFL)

Hello!

I would like to share some websites that you will find useful to study or practice your English.

• Dictionary: https://www.wordreference.com/
• Games, videos and books: https://www.funbrain.com/
• Different resources and fun activities: https://www.highlightskids.com/
• Literacy activities: http://literactive.com/Home/index.asp
• Literacy computer activities in different languages (Kindergarten level): http://www.literacycenter.net/
• Online library with free books: http://en.childrenslibrary.org/

Hope you like all or some of them and have fun with them.
Do you use other websites? Which are your favourite? 

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.

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.

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

Knovio | Online Video Presentations Made Easy

Create: bring “flat” PowerPoint® slides to life with your webcam, microphone
Edit: make changes, without the need for video editing software or skills
Share: publish instantly to private spaces or your social networks

Whether for business, education or individual use, Knovio adds your personality and improves the effectiveness of any presentation.

Check This

Check This is a new service for quickly building and publishing webpages. You can add text, images, and videos to your Check This page in a matter of seconds.

Check the video below to see how to create a webpage with Check This.

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.