Breaking News English ESL Lesson Plan on Perfume

Breaking News English ESL Lesson Plan on Perfume: "Carmen"

this is a website where you can listen to news items... and then read the article about things that are in the news today... and work with different exercises to continue improving your English

CES 2009 - Consumer Electronics Show - CNET.com

CES 2009 - Consumer Electronics Show - CNET.com:

"CES Hits and Misses"

Something more serious....
(Click the CC below the window to see the closed captioned subtitles...)

How To Behave At The Office Christmas Party (Modern Manners: Party Etiquette)

How To Behave At The Office Christmas Party (Modern Manners: Party Etiquette):

"How To Behave At The Office Christmas Party"

The second of the two VideoJug lessons for the workplace that we watched this morning...
The text is also on on the page ("Text Version").

Please leave your comments on the blog!

Merry, Happy holidays!
See you all next year!

james

How To Be Lazy In The Office And Get Away With It (Leisure & Hobbies: Office Humour)

How To Be Lazy In The Office And Get Away With It (Leisure & Hobbies: Office Humour):

"How To Be Lazy In The Office And Get Away With It"

The first of two VideoJug lessons for the workplace... The text is also on on the page ("Text Version").

Merry, Happy holidays!

james

American Engish Pronunciation: Listen and Repeat Machine (New Content Every Day)

American Engish Pronunciation:

Listen and Repeat Machine (New Content Every Day at 4 pm)

Some of you know lots of English but don't seem to be able to speak it very easily! I'm sure that a few minutes every day with this Listen and Repeat Machine (one of Charles Kelly's treasures on the www.manythings.org site).

Have a good week!

james

What is CIO? - a definition from Whatis.com - see also: Chief Information Officer

What is CIO? - a definition from Whatis.com - see also: Chief Information Officer:

"Chief Information Officer (CIO) is a job title commonly given to the person in an enterprise responsible for the information technology and computer systems that support enterprise goals"


whatis.com and acronymfinder.com are two good sites to use if you're not sure of what an acronym or tech-term really is....

leave a comment and tell us if you think these sites are useful.

see you on December 15th

james, lorna and vera

SOA, SaaS and SOAP: CIOs drowning in sea of IT acronyms

SOA, SaaS and SOAP: CIOs drowning in sea of IT acronyms: "SOA, SaaS and SOAP: CIOs drowning in sea of IT acronyms"

I thought you might find this interesting... any future CIOs in the group?
james

SOA. SaaS. DPWS. WSD. SOAP. XRBL. Who can keep up with all the IT acronyms out there? Luckily, most technical staff people don't have to. A Web services programmer probably needs to know what DPWS stands for (Devices Profile for Web Services) and what it does, but a network administrator couldn't care less.

CIOs, on the other hand, need to talk intelligently to Web programmers, and network administrators. As a result, many of them are in danger of drowning in acronym soup.

listening comprehension

listening comprehension: "Improve your listening comprehension and spelling by doing our exercises using videos from YouTube!"

songs are good to help you improve your intonation....

Hans Rosling: Myths about the developing world

Hans Rosling: Myths about the developing world

An interesting use of technology!!

have a good week!

welcome to the newest members of our blog!

james

2008 Latest Edition - Did You Know 3.0 - From Meeting in Rome this Year | dotSUB

2008 Latest Edition - Did You Know 3.0 - From Meeting in Rome this Year | dotSUB:

"2008 Latest Edition - Did You Know 3.0 - From Meeting in Rome this Year"

Here you don't really need subtitles!

What do you think?

VOA News in Regular English - Recent Stories - Text & MP3

VOA News in Regular English - Recent Stories - Text & MP3:
"VOA News in Regular English - Recent Stories - Text & MP3"

For upper-intermediate students...

Here you have recent news stories you can listen to. They're read in normal English (not VOA Special English). You can read the text and click on any words you don't understand. (You can also download the files.)

HTH

james

(leave a comment to say if you think it's interesting!)

American Stories - Text & MP3 (VOA Special English)

American Stories - Text & MP3 (VOA Special English):

"American Stories - Read While Listening to MP3 Files"

This is an interesting selection of American short stories for intermediate and lower-intermediate students to listen to as they read the text. The stories are read very slowly and clearly. (All the VOA special English content is like that.) The original texts have been edited to make the English more contemporary and easier to understand. In this collection each word of the texts are clickable so you can see a definition.

You can also download the Mp3 files and listen to them on an Mp3 player.


all the best

james

Obama's Victory Speech | dotSUB

Obama's Victory Speech | dotSUB

this is a really nice site... lots of good... subtitled video...
james

Look at this!

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/11/crystal-giants/crystals-photography

=)

Hi everyone,





Here are some interesting links about Networks
http://www.networkworld.com/
http://www.comsoc.org/dl/net/
http://www.networkcomputing.com/

http://network-tools.com/
http://www.slac.stanford.edu/xorg/nmtf/nmtf-tools.html

and ............
a different kind of network http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/ jijijijijijiji

Have a nice weekend

Jeff Bezos Interview -- Academy of Achievement

Jeff Bezos Interview -- Academy of Achievement

I'm sure you've all heard of Amazon.com... this is the man who created it!

This site is full of interesting video and interviews with achievers in many different fields... music, but also science, literature... etc...

(and there's even the scripts for the video excerpts! :-) )

Have a look. Leave a comment to say what you think of it...

see you next week... have a nice weekend!

james

ps... you should be getting this as email on the network mailing list... the link to the Academy of Achievement site is in the message but at the bottom of the message you should have a link back to your blog....

Do it! Don't be a lurker.

Ted Talks!

Dear All,

http://www.ted.com/talks -

This is an incredible selection of 20 minute talks given by 
specialists in their area -  music, science, politics,  fun,  
comedy ... you name it.

I'm sure you'll find something of interest!

Lorna

Some fun for everybody...

Hello everybody,

Here is a funny website :

http://www.angryalien.com/

There are some funny parodies for movie addicts

Have fun ;)

How GPS works

1.this site explains how GPS works......


2. Even you can track GPS Satellites live - NASA technology

Hello

Hello everybody,

I don't know if this site will be useful for you but there are English tests :

http://www.anglaisfacile.com/test_niveau_anglais.php

The site is French but you've got some links to game, articles...

See you ;)

A new world

Hello everyone,

Well, I told you we'd be living in a new world next time we met. It is indeed a new dawn, is it not? Do you think this will have any effect on your personal world?

Here is a link to the great speeches we heard this week:

President Elect Obama's acceptance speech (with interactive script)

John McCain's concession speech (with interactive script)

The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia

The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia

This is the site where once you click-through to an article you can click on a word and get the definition and also hear the pronunciation...

What do you think??? The video on this site is also great! (But unfortunately not subtitled....)
Look in the politics section and you can watch the campaign ads. The Pogue videos in technology are also funny.

The IT Crowd - Yesterday's Jam

The IT Crowd - Yesterday's Jam

this is a funny British sitcom! about Nerds and their new manager....


Here is a link to the script of the first episode

WhatIs.com definitions, computer terms, tech glossaries and cheat sheets - We are the leading online tech dictionary and encyclopedia

WhatIs.com definitions, computer terms, tech glossaries and cheat sheets - We are the leading online tech dictionary and encyclopedia

this is a nice reference site...

International Herald Tribune - World News, Analysis, and Global Opinions

International Herald Tribune - World News, Analysis, and Global Opinions

here you can ask the IHT to read to you... or to provide translations for each word on a page....