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A song can teach much

Around the house

Karaoke
If you`re happy clap your hands
Animal house
As long as it´s Christmast
People jobs


It´s in your eyes

How to create Hot Potatoes exercises

TUTORIAL

How not to teach

• The hair shirt way of language learning : Monks of some orders use hair shirt, a shirt with something inside that itches their skin. They wear it all day long, don't ask me why. Some people seem to think that language learning, like a hair shirt, must be painful to work. That's not true. You'll learn a language much more efficiently with a Peruvian girl friend than with several years of grammar at school.
• The phonebook approach to vocabulary learning : Vocabulary, beyond the first 100 words, is best learned in context. Ask what the word means. Look it up in the dictionary when reading. Try to guess its meaning. But some people will tell you to learn huge word lists. That would be nice to learn all the necessary words like this, wouldn't it ? Yes, but it doesn't work. You won't be able to use words you learned in lists, they will never come to your mind quickly enough. All you can do with them is to get good marks.
• The physicist way to grammar : Ask a six year old to explain you verb conjugation and he will stare at you like if you were Freddy Kruger. But the same boy will tell you he eats and never he eat. Grammar is best learned by seeing examples and imitating (infering the rule) until your ear recognize what sounds right and what does not. Wouldn't it be nice to be able to learn the grammar book by heart, then learn a few pages from the phonebook-vocabulary lists, and here you are, you have all you need ! It just doesn't work that way.

What is Hot Potatoes?

The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Hot Potatoes is freeware, and you may use it for any purpose or project you like. It is not open-source.

If you want to try the application click HERE

What is a Wiki ?

Ward Cunnigham, the developer f th first wiki software, WikiWikiWeb, originally described it as “the simplest online database that culd possibly work.

A wiki is a website that allows the easy creation an editing of any number of interniknked web pages via a web browser using a simplified markup language or a WYSIWYG (1,2,3). Wikis are typically powered by wiki software and are often used to create collaborative wiki websites, to power community websites, for personal note taking, in corporate intranets, and in knowledge management systems text editor.

Wikis may exist to serve a specific purpose, and in such cases, users use their editrial rights to remove material that is considered “off topic”. Such in the case of the collaborative encyclopedia Wikipedia.2. In contrat, open purpose wikis accept content without firm rules as to how the conentent shoud be organized.

Ward Cunnigham, the developer f th first wiki software, WikiWikiWeb, originally described it as “the simplest online database that culd possibly work.

Interestings Wikis

Esta wiki me parece un buen recurso para estudiantes de castellano como lengua extranjera.

http://lenguaespanola.wikispaces.com/

An image link to a website

To see the first images of Toy Story 3 in HD, click on the image

Teaching ideas

In these pages you can find some interestings resources for teaching.

http://www.aulablog.com/

http://www.educared.net/

Straight from the UK

http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/

http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/e/index.html