Useful web sites for you

Thank you for completing the survey. I shall use the results to hopefully improve your classes and your English even more!

Below are links to some web sites for extra listening (and other English skills) practice:

English language


www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish

www.eslcafe.com

http://www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish.htm

www.englishlistening.com

www.englishclub.com

http://a4esl.org/

www.uefap.co.uk (Academic English)

www.elllo.org (Listening materials)

www.towerofenglish.com (Guided links)

www.usingenglish.com


Exam sites:

www.flo-joe.co.uk (for Cambridge FCE and CAE exams)

www.ielts-test.com

www.cambridge-efl.org

www.ieltspractice.com

http://www.clarityenglish.com/program/StudySkills.htm Go to Try Demo, International English and American English. Only one example is available. It’s hard, but good practice.



News & Information


www.bbc.co.uk

www.bbcworldservice.com

www.cnn.com

www.economist.com (News, business, politics etc.)

www.brighton.co.uk (virtual Brighton)

www.thisisbrightonandhove.co.uk (Argus local newspaper site)

www.moviedatabase.com


Reference

www.flickr.com (photographs)

http://www.macmillandictionary.com/ (Macmillan online dictionary)

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/ (Cambridge Advanced Learners’ Dictionary)

http://www.icons.org.uk/ (Icons of English culture)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiktionary (Wikipedia dictionary)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

http://www.youtube.com/


Hannah

Survey

Please follow the link below to complete a very important survey about your Plus classes. The information you provide will be anonymous and will help me to improve the remainder of your Plus course for you. It will only take you 5 minutes to do.

Thanks a lot.

Hannah

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/RRXLLBP

Change of Thursday 7pm class!

Good news, I hope!

Your 7-8pm Thursday class has been changed to Thursday at 10 a.m. in Friston 115 (Fr115). I have new timetables to give you.

See you soon.

Hannah

Topics for class - UPDATED

Hi guys

This is a list of the topics we are going to cover this term.
As we complete them I shall add the website links for you to access again in your own time.
If you have any comments, please blog!

Hannah



FES 1 Plus Jan Group 2 – Scheme of work

Core text: Skills in English Listening Level 3

Week 1: 18th Jan –
Theme 1 – Education – How do we learn?
6 minute English – Starwars + vocab listening bingo
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/radio/specials/1555_entertainment07/page12.shtml


Week 2: 25th Jan –
Theme 2 – Daily Life – Growing up
6 minute English – New Years Resolutions http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/general/sixminute/2010/01/100107_6min_resolution_page.shtml
+ personal accounts http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8415439.stm

Week 3: 1st Feb –
Theme 3 - Work and Business – Why do people work hard?
Salary Caps: http://www.elllo.org/english/0951/T984-Greg-Salaries.htm
Minimum wage: http://www.elllo.org/english/0951/T983-Greg-Wages.htm
Do you worry about money? - http://www.elllo.org/video/0976/V984Money.htm

Week 7: 22nd Feb –
Theme 4 – Science and Nature, Tornadoes and Hurricanes
Hurricanes – storm chaser http://www.bbc.co.uk/leicester/videonation/archive/n_s/stuart_robinson_storm_chaser.shtml
BBC news report on Hurricane Rita http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_4270000/newsid_4273200/4273234.stm?bw=bb&mp=wm&news=1&nol_storyid=4273234&bbcws=1
Environmental impact of hurricane http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_4210000/newsid_4212600/4212658.stm?bw=bb&mp=wm&news=1&nol_storyid=4212658&bbcws=1


Week 8: 1st March –
Art and Literature – Gulliver and Robinson Crusoe
Talking book extract

Week 9: 8th March –
Sports and Leisure - $5,000,000,000,000 p.a.
Tourism

Week 10:15th March –
Nutrition and Health – Food: The New Poison?
Consolidation of course content – Listening Quiz