Advanced C1.1

Learner’s ideas for Using Technology to learn English
01. Websites
British Council LearnEnglish http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/
British Council LearnEnglish Teens http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/
EngVid https://www. engvid .com/
Linguee http://www.linguee.com/
GoSpeaky http://www.gospeaky.com
Exercises for Advance Learners http://www.ihbristol.com/freeenglishexercises/
esol
iTalki https://www.italki.com/home
Cambridge FCE www.examenglish.com/FCE/index.php
British Council LearnEnglish Pathways https://lepteachingcentreve.
english.britishcouncil.org/
http://www.lingualeo.com
BBC learning english http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/
Britannica http://www.britannica.com/
www.usingenglish.com/
http://legacy.australianetwork.com/studyenglish/
http://www.esllab.
com/
Learn american English online (free) http://www.learnamericanenglishonline.com/
http://www.flojoe.
co.uk/
http://www.esolcourses.com/
https://www.ego4u.com
www.engames.eu
www.eslgamesplus.com
www.anglomaniacy.pl/index.html
http://www.babbel.com
www.busuu.com
Learn English with AntriParto
www.lyricstraining.com
http://www.tvlink.org/
https://www.edx.org/
http://biblio.toutapprendre.com/MesCours.aspx?type=biblio&pke=872
Grammar quizzes and tests http://
www.skypeenglishclasses.com/quizzes/
http://www.tolearnenglish.com/
https://www.ielts.org
02. Memorising Vocabulary
http://www.memrise.com/
http://www.lingualeo.com
https://quizlet.com/
https://cerego.com/home
https://www.vocabulary.com
vds
03. Online dictionaries
Learners dictionaries with easier definitions:
http://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/learnerenglish/
www.dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english
http://www.wordreference.com/
http://www.urbandictionary.com/
The pronunciation dictionary forvo.com
http://www.merriamwebster.
com/
http://www.oxfordreference.com/
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/es/
www.thefreedictionary.com/
http://www.thesaurus.com/
http://www.collinsdictionary.com/
http://www.linguee.com/englishspanish
http://www.onelook.com/
http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/index.htm
http://www.worddetective.
com/
http://www.elizabethanera.
org.uk/elizabethanonlinedictionary.
htm
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/
http://www.dictionary.com/
Macmillan Dictionary
Vocabulary.com
Wordnik
http://www.wordreference.com/
04. Apps
British Council apps (iTunes and Android) http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/apps
Memrise
BBC learning english
Duolingo
VOA learning english
Pinterest
Anki flash cards
http://www.learningapps.org
https://quizlet.com/
English Grammar Test
English Central
English Delivery
Biscuit
QuizeUp
Hello Talk
Rosetta Stone
05. Video
YouTube
TED Talks
BBC iplayer
The New York Times Videos
LyricsTraining
Amara.org (Subtitling Videos)
Learn English Listen
and Watch ( http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/listenandwatch)
Ororo.tv https://ororo.tv/
www.ted.com
Doing English With Julian
JamesESL English Lessons
BBC Learning English
Macmillan Education ELT
The School of Life
Video Vocab (Learn English Vocabulary for Business)
www.rebeats.com
Misterduncan ( https://www.youtube.com/user/duncaninchina )
06. Radio
BBC radio
http://grupovaughan.com/vaughanradio/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4extra
US National Public Radio http://www.npr.org/
A Way With Words http://www.waywordradio.org/
Tuneinradio
Democracy Now!
BBC Radio
07. Music
YouTube
http://lyricstraining.com/
www.inglesdivino.com → music of many popular singers of different generes with subtitles and
exercises.
08. Movies (legal and copyright free only, please!)
http://www.netflix.com
http://www.stan.com.au
09. Podcasts
British Council LearnEnglish Podcasts
ESLpod http://www.eslpod.com/website/index_new.html
Culips
Luke’s English Podcast
Expresso English Podcast
Elllo
Splendid Speaking
http://www.esllab.
com/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02pc9zn/episodes/downloads
http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4
http://www.ivoox.com/escucharvaughan_
nq_255_1.html
Business English Pod
10. News
BBC News
The New York Times
http://www.allkpop.com/
CNN International http://edition.cnn.com/
The Wall Street Journal http://www.wsj.com/
The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/
The New Yorker http://www.newyorker.com/
The Saturday Evening Post http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/
Democracy Now!
The Guardian
Euronews http://www.euronews.com/
11.Translators
Google translate https://translate.google.com
Bing translate http://www.bing.com/translator/
Linguee www.linguee.com
Multitran http://www.multitran.ru
12. TV
English Club TV
National geographic videos: http://video.nationalgeographic.com/
US Public Broadcasting System http://www.pbs.org/
13. Poems and songs
Especially for younger learners
Super simple songs: http://supersimplelearning.com/songs/
14. Works of art
http://www.europeana.eu/portal/
http://smarthistory.org/
15. Free Audiobooks
https://librivox.org
Storylineonline → www.youtube.com/storylineonline/
Manga and manhwa
16. Text To Speech
https://www.ivona.com/
17. Reading Material, videos and assorted contents
Cultural Articles, Videos, Archives, MOOCS http://www.openculture.com/
Nature and Science http://www.smithsonianmag.com/
History & Culture Articles, Videos and Audios http://www.history.com/
Science for the curious http://discovermagazine.com/
Arts & Letters http://artsandletters.gcsu.edu
Literature in General https://www.ego4u.com/en/readon/
literature
Ebooks, Movies, Audio, Music https://archive.org/
Copyright Free Ebooks https://archive.org/
Boos & Ebooks https://www.forgottenbooks.com/en
Books https://www.goodreads.com
Grammar
Perfect English Grammar
About Education Grammarly Handbook
Linguistics Girl

Homework 2014-2015

Workbook:
You can do the exercises in Units 1-10

Blog:
In this blog you will find extra material to improve your English.

Bibliography Advanced 2
Speakout LEAD-IN
Unit 1: Speakout 1.1 Speakout 1.2 Speakout 1.3 Speakout 1.4 & 1.5
Unit 2 : Speakout 2.1: p 20 p 21 & 22 Speakout 2.2 Speakout 2.3 Speakout 2.4 & 2.5
Unit 3 : Speakout 3.1 Speakout 3.2 Speakout 3.3 Speakout 3.4 & 3.5
Unit 4 : Speakout 4.1 Speakout 4.2 Speakout 4.3 Speakout 4.4 & 4.5
Unit 5 : Speakout 5.1 Speakout 5.2 Speakout 5.3 Speakout 5.4 & 5.5
Unit 6 : Speakout 6.1 Speakout 6.2 Speakout 6.3 Speakout 6.4 & 6.5
Unit 7 : Speakout 7.1 Speakout 7.2 Speakout 7.3 Speakout 7.4 & 7.5
Unit 8 : Speakout 8.1 Speakout 8.2 Speakout 8.3 Speakout 8.4 & 8.5
Unit 9 : Speakout 9.1 Speakout 9.2 Speakout 9.3 Speakout 9.4 & 9.5
Unit 10 : Speakout 10.1 Speakout 10.2 Speakout 10.3 Speakout 10.4 & 10.5

Get ready for the speaking exam
Guide
pictures & questions

Assignments
Unit 1: Personal profile: My English and Me (deadline: 16 Oct) More ideas on how to write personal profiles on page 10.
Unit 2: Discursive essay: write a balanced discussion (discursive essay) on the following theme: E-books: the end of the word as we know it. You will get more ideas on how to write an essay on p 25, here and here. You will find useful language, here, here , here , here and here (deadline: 6 Nov).
Here you have other ideas for a discursive essay:

Medical advances will soon mean that people will live until they are 200 years old.
Individual countries do not have the right to interfere with the affairs of another country.
Students, not the state, should pay university tuition fees.
Women should be promoted to top jobs in business and politics before men.

Unit 3: Proposal: write a proposal for improving tourism in your area: the town council intends to spend money improving tourism in the area, and invites residents to send in proposals. In your proposal you should outline any problems there are, and make recommendations for improving the current situation. You can find more ideas for writing proposals on page 41. Here you can see examples of how to write proposals. Finally, you can find useful language for writing proposals on pages 39 and 132 (3.3) and here. (Deadline 25 Nov)

Unit 4: A problem-solution essay: write a problem-solution essay: Economic inequality: the gap between rich and poor. You will get more ideas on how to write a problem-solution essay on p 49 and here. You will find useful language, here, here , here , here and here (deadline: 16 Dec).

Here you have other ideas for a problem-solution essay:

Human rights
Child labour
Economic development
Intellectual Property
Capital punishment
Religious freedom
Environmental awareness
Illegal immigration
Civil liberties
Free trade
Freedom of speech
Gun control

Unit 5: A narrative. Choose one of the two options below and write a narrative. You will get more ideas on how to write narratives on p 58. You will also find useful language here .
A) Identify a significant experience in your life and write about it.
B) Write a scrapbook after Christmas with the activities you did together with family and friends. (deadline: 13 Jan)

Unit 6: Write a report about the housing situation for young people. Find the details here. (Deadline: 3 Feb)

Unit 7:
Make a presentation. Give a 10 minute presentation on one of the curriculum topics. You can find some tips here. Deadlines: before 30 Oct tell your teacher the topic. In February give the presentation.

Write a story which ends as follows: "He picked up the unopened envelope and set light to it with a match. With a faint smile on his face, he watched the remains crumble in the ashtray".(Deadline: 16 Feb)
Unit 8: Article. A series of articles is being published in a magazine you read under the title Tell Me What It's All About. The articles are all attempts to explain something that is currently popular to people who have never heard of it and know nothing whatsoever about it. Readers have been invited to send in their own articles under this title. Write your article, remembering that it must assume no knowledge of its subject on the part of the reader. To see how to write articles click here and also here. On page 97 you can also read some guidelines to improve descriptive writing. Finally, you can find useful language for writing here. (Deadline: 10 March)

Unit 9: Write a review of two books you have read this year. Useful language . (Deadlines: before 30 Oct tell your teacher the books you are going to read. In April hand in your review) Click here for a list of readers and more instructions for this assignment.

Unit 10: Character Reference. (deadline: 9 May). Find the details here.
More ideas on how to write letters:
You will find a letter writing guide here and here . You can find useful language here.
Formal letters.
How to write.