Lingro. An amazing online dictionary

Show this article about Facebook narcissism on the screen, cut and paste the address, go to Lingro and paste in the address into the first field. The Guardian website will come up, and then click on some difficult words to show that a definition comes up. Isn't that amazing? Besides, you'll be able to save the words you've looked up for you to revise later on.

Spain's best festivals and parties 2012

An ex-student sent me this link to an article in The Guardian about the best festivals in our country. Guess which little town an hour's drive from Valencia comes up? Maybe this year we'll have a few more Britons around and you'll be able to practise your English!

Kentucky's Marketing Tradition

Have a look at this short video that James, our conversation assistant, has sent me for you to see. Fancy a visit?

Happy St. Patrick's day!

Hi class. Have a look at this very interesting site with loads of info about St. Patrick's Day (and many other topics!):  http://www.history.com/topics/st-patricks-day

Spain in The Guardian

Have a look at this fantastic link to The Guardian newspaper in-depth look at our country. I'm sure you'll enjoy learning what the Brits think about us. There are also podcasts and videos where people tell us what they think is the best country in Europe and talk about lifestyle, politics, climate, dress sense... to justify their choices.

Fake Britain BBC video

It seems this time there's no copyright infringement with this video (I don't know why there was with the mobile phones programme!). This is the first part of the programme only, but you'll see a link on Youtube to the second part as well. You can also activate the subtitles, though I'm afraid they are not very good, as they are created automatically with some voice-recognition software.

Fake UK. Gap-filling and multiple matching reading comprehension exercises

Fake Britain

An Expanding Wasteline

An Expanding Waste Line Reading Advanced

The Life and Death of the Mobile phone (listening comprehension activity)

Life and Death of the Mobile Telephone Ok

The Life and Death of the Mobile phone (BBC documentary)

Please comment on some of this things:
Do you identify with any of the mobile phone users who appear in the documentary? In which ways?
Are you addicted to your mobile phone? Do you know anybody who is?
Could you live without a mobile phone? In which ways has it made your life easier / more difficult / different?
Do you normally get annoyed when people use their phones in public places next to you?

Learning English with your mobile phone

Fill in the gaps in the following text with the help of your mobile phone once you've changed its language settings to English.
Learning English With Your Mobile Phone

How many texts do teenagers send in a month?

Check out this article about how many texts teeanges send in a month: http://mashable.com/2010/10/14/nielsen-texting-stats/ . Over 3,000! Even with pitfalls such as thumb arthritis or “Blackberry thumb” (excellent neologism, check it in Wikipedia)ha, ha!), the trend for SMS texting continues apace. The article quotes a recent study in which the ability to send texts was the number one reason teenagers bought a mobile phone. The scariest part of this article is the fact that spoken language has decreased in teens by 14%. Will we bother speaking to each other at all in ten years’ time? A worrying thought, don’t you think? Please post your comments (or text them to me, ha, ha!)

I take it you already know (pronunciation poem)

Listen to this man reading the poem we've seen in class. Why don't you give it a try?