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Name of the resource: Learn English.- British Council
URL: http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/talk-about?page=0%2C1
Brief description: This is a well known web site with plenty of audiovisual materials in order to promote use of English. Most of the videos or listenings have a worksheet atached so as so ask some questions or set a discussion. All the recordings with or without image can be easyly downloaded so the teacher does not need to depend on the Internet but he/she can feel a bit more confident that the recording is going to work.
What it is useful for: Provides both authentic and adapted material so the teacher can choose the one that fits best with his/her lesson plan. Provides worksheets in order to work more deeply on the audiovisual material.
What you liked the most: This web site has plenty of materials to promote English language and it is updated quite often. Furthermore, teachers can write their comments in order to share activities, correct mistakes, ask for help...
What you disliked the most: Most of the videos are recorded with a white wall at the background and it gives the sensation that everything is too much prepared, too much adapted and non-realistic. Even if they are great performances of everyday life both students and teachers get this sense of "unreal language".
In my opinion, this non authentic videos should be used mainly with children with a low level of English,but not with adults as it may seem childish for them.
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Name of the resource: Warmups Followups
URL: http://warmupsfollowups.blogspot.com/
Brief Description: This web page is like Movie Segments To Assess Grammar Goals. http://moviesegmentstoassessgrammargoals.blogspot.com/. It provides a movie segment related to a grammatical structure and it provides worksheets in order to wokr on the grammar goal through the movie segment.
What it is useful for: It provides plenty of UPDATED authentic material and plenty of worksheets already /prepared. The teacher will only need to adapt each worksheet to his/her students (which is a bit less work for the teacher). Movie segments in this webpage can also be dowloaded so the teacher does not need to depend on the Internet.
What you liked the most: This webpage is updated constantly!!!
What you disliked the most: You need to download a program to be able to PLAY the segments. This program is necessary in order to PLAY the video so it must be installed in every laptop that is going to be used in class. However, once you have downloaded it , you're DONE!
NOELIA ORNAQUE.
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