FUNNY VIDEOS on YouTube - enjoy! No, no - don't go away ... that's not English. Watch these first, please! :)

:-)    :-O    %-S    ;-?

Today's Top Ten - not necessarily in this order, I know! So, here you are - some I knew and liked and some I've just searched for and have come up.

OK, not to laugh your head off, but do give them a go! By the bye, what do you say in Spanish? Something like, "No será para trancharse? Mandarse? Cortarse?" Oh, yes, Me corta, me manda y me trancha. Or is it? Mm. How difficult Spanish can be!

1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBcwcejNrY0&feature=related
2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPkYCYgHjMU
3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWNoiVrJDsE&feature=fvwrel
4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QBv2CFTSWU
5. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRf9ooQ7qq8&feature=related
6. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UgpfSp2t6k&feature=related
7. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oJtWuxXmdc
8. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUByIOwCTvY
9. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tyzG_ZKVfU
10. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4Q3IUQHoX0
11. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRTbSJMTg30&feature=related
12. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7QN-FVCYks  (But don't think the narrator doesn't make big mistakes himself!! To not speak?? Not to speak!! Spahnis? Spanish! Anyway, he is right!!)

PODCASTS

http://www.eslpod.com/website/show_podcast.php?issue_id=11007103&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+EnglishAsASecondLanguagePodcast+%28English+as+a+Second+Language+Podcast%29 

SOME WEB PAGES

To be updated and edited!

Beginners

http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=K_dAeaz5fpc&NR=1 Alphabet rap.

http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=o04Kqp6GyWM Alphabet.

http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlFqhHJczDs&feature=related&resnum=9 Alphabet soul.

http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=r43yCiKlbCo&feature=user Countries (Impresionante).

http://esl.about.com/library/beginner/blnumberbasic.htm Numbers pronunciation.

http://www.wordmania.org/wmindex7.htm Juegos de palabras infantiles pero útiles.

Variedad de niveles

www.multimedia-english.com   Multimedia English Classroom.

http://bogglesworldesl.com/ Material general y específico para adultos bastante útil.

http://www.mansioningles.com/ Variedad de ejercicios de gramática y listenings.

http://www.manythings.org/ Útil para todos los niveles

http://clic.xtec.net/db/listact_es.jsp?lang=es&ordre=0&desc=1&from=1&area=lleng&idioma=en&nivell=*&text_titol=&text_aut=&text_desc=&num=25 Ésta es una página del clic donde hay actividades. Éste es un programa parecido al ‘hot potato’ donde se pueden crear ejercicios, es gratis y no muy difícil. Solo hace falta tiempo. Ya hay actividades hechas. Se selecciona una y se da a verlo en Applet y luego dar a Confiar.

http://www.isabelperez.com/ Ésta es una página que merece un vistazo porque está muy trabajada y tiene muchas cosas útiles.

http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/ Del British Council

http://www.english-to-go.com/ Esta página tiene algunas muestras gratis, pero es de pago. Sin embargo, se puede acceder a Reuters y hay una gran variedad de noticias. Sobre todo es curioso el apartado ‘oddly enough’. Buena para intermediate y advanced students.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/ página de la BBC para aprender inglés - muy útil para intermedio y advanced.

Listenings

http://www.eslpodcards.com/ Podcards from  different countries (intermediate and advanced).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/progs/listenagain.shtml Ésta es la página de ‘Listen again’ de la BBC Radio4. Advanced students. Puedes escuchar la noticia o el programa  las veces que quieras y se puede hacer una especie de ‘Chinese whispers’ (el juego del teléfono) con listenings.

http://www.elllo.org/ Bueno para listenings y podcasts.

http://esl.about.com/od/englishlistening/English_Listening_Skills_and_ActivitiesEffective_Listening_Practice.htm Very good for listening (all levels).

http://www.focusenglish.com/dialogues/eating/eatingindex.html Listenings and conversations.

http://www.esl-lab.com/ Good for listening and different level exercises.

Literature, newspapers and dictionaries

http://www.literature.org

http://www.britishpapers.co.uk/category/quality  British newspapers.

http://www.newslink.org/metnews.html  US newspapers.

http://www.freeclassicaudiobooks.com/  Reading books.

http://www.dictionary.reference.com  English dictionary.

http://www.all8.com/wordref.htm  Word reference.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/  Slang.

http://www.xiaolai.net/ocd/files/index.htm  Collocations.

LISTENING ON LINE

These are some recommended sites:

www.ted.com

www.time.com/time/video/

www.mansioningles.com/listening00.htm

SONGS WITH VIDEOS AND LYRICS

   Just why is “Laughy-Laughy” laughing?

Brother-in-laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!

Ezú, ¿e que no m’entiende’n inglé? Qu’e q’ahora aprendo con la copla’n inglé, con la cancione, Ezú. Pero tinía qu’etá e Refaé con l’Aguario d’eze, que ize, que ize… símpazi… no… zímpasi an ondehtondin, jármoni an comprenjenzion… Ay que’m parto, Ezúúúúúúúúú-úú- ú. M’ahogo. ¿Cómo era? ¿Cómo e? Jámoni… jámonin compren pechon…  Compren pecho, cuñaaaa-oooo… Ay, que m’’ahogao con un diente, leshe.

!!!??? (I think he refers to Raphael’s version of the old good song, Aquarius, from the musical and film, Hair.)

Well, now you can finally access any of the songs here!! Just click on the link below, twice if necessary. It’s soooooooooooooo eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeezy – yes, I piece of cake. Then click on videos and search for the initial letter of the performer’s or band’s name. If you only get the lyrics, just insist on watching the videos, and the lyrics will show as well.

I’d recommend you lots of songs -  songs to learn, songs to learn English with, and songs to enjoy in any case; easy songs, more difficult songs … good songs anyway, including those we’ve all constantly heard, and listened and danced to. Well, I will recommend some, sooner or later. But now you just make your own choice, and the next time you hear the tunes, the words will be in your head and mouth and not just on the tip of your tongue. Oh, the Advanced 1 groups are listening to Supertramp’s The Logical Song these days, so now you can watch it - you’ll be dealing again not only with personality adjectives, but also with one of the easiest songs to remember.

Now have fun – Girls Just Want To (i.e. Wanna) Have Fun, Cyndi Lauper says. And her video is fun too.

http://www.musica.com/videosfavoritos

Oops. I wanted to get large words and there came up the phrase “La más grande”, so I thought the programmer meant … Rocío Jurado. 


Just like a wave 
Your love came to my life 
Just like a wave 
With all its force and might 
So much white foam 
I heard the seashell rave 
Just like a waaaaaaaave 
(…)

Is it Comuna, hola in Spanish?

COURSES ON LINE

Some recommended sites:

http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/

http://www.saberingles.com.ar/radio-tv.html

SHORT STORIES

http://www.short-stories.co.uk/