Word on the Street

If you liked Britain is Great, here we have another interesting collection of videos about new aspects of young British culture.

Word on the Street.

Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (26 April 1564  – 23 April 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. In this great site, you can read all his poems and plays, with explanations of difficult words on the same page, a complete glossary of difficult words and a Language Companion to help you!

Shakespeare's Words

Words of the World

Do you know the origin of our words? The answer is here.

Words of the World

Where is Czech Republic? You can try to found this country with this game in The Guardian.

Geography game

Tagul and your clouds

Tagul is a fantastic tool. You can create a heart or a cloud with words. Tagul

Britain is Great

A fantastic site in British Council where you can find a lot of information about English music, literature, sports... You should see all the videos because they are Great!!

Britain is Great

Christmas songs

This is a Christmas links with a lot of songs with their lyrics, gap-fills and quizzes to help you learn. Enjoy this Christmas!

Christmas songs

Comic Maker

If you're looking for a different way for your students to create short stories, have them try Super Action Comic Maker. They can write their own comics with a lot of heroes.

Comic Maker

Crosswords

This is a link to the section of the Guardian crossword. If you want to expand your vocabulary, try to solve all!

Crosswords 

Improve your writing

A long and varied list of exercises to practice your writing skills.

Exercises

Religion

Would you like to read something different? Maybe, something about  Hindu or Buddhist religion? Click here and discover the most important stories of the main religions in the world.

Sacred Stories

Play and learn!

With this games you can improve your English.

English games

Our little books

We can write our stories and tales with Picture Book Maker. You choose your character and an original decorate. Then, write your little story. We can publish the books in Wallwisher. Click twice on the post-it, once in source and you can read our books.

Ebooks for children

Oxford Owl has got lots of free ebooks and audio books for children aged 3-11. It's also got lots of great advice on helping children to read, phonics and more.

 Oxford Owl

 

Universal literature

This is a fantastic project by the University of Southern Florida where you can read and listen the most important masterpieces of all times. Aesop, Charles Dickens, William Blake... on line and free!!

Lit2Go

Let's play football!

Do you like playing football? Do you want to learn more vocabulary about this sport? Here you can read, listen, write and practice a lot of new words.

Football vocabulary

Timeline from BBC History - The Ages of English

A history of the language

A Dickensian Christmas

Charles Dickens is the creator of some of the world's most memorable fictional characters. If you are interesting in this author, in this site you can see an online seminar about him. The event will be live streamed from London.

British Council Seminar

"I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year"
(Charles Dickens)

Dublin

This is a video which I have made about the beautiful city of Dublin. Enjoy it!!

Galicia

Galicia is an autonomous comunity in northwest Spain. It comprises the provinces of A Coruña, Lugo, Ourense and Pontevedra. It is the best place in the world to live. You can see spectacular sceneries, eat well, drink better and enjoy life in small towns or enjoy the bustle of big cities like Vigo and A Coruña.