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Dear Colleague
Now your students can take listening materials from the British Council with them on their travels. A range of podcasts at elementary and intermediate levels are now available on the British Council’s LearnEnglish website. There are podcasts for kids and professionals on subjects ranging from science to poems and stories. You can listen to these on a mp3 player or on a computer.
For any of you running summer schools this year there are there some great links this month to materials for kids – there is a comic strip from Brazil and loads of ideas on how to keep all your learners on track during the ups and downs of the summer school day.
Have a great summer!
 LearnEnglish Podcasts |
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Get your students to practise their English this summer break in a fun way with the British Council's LearnEnglish Podcasts - they can listen on their computer, or download them to their mp3 players. They're free, and there's something for everyone!
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 Monica's Gang |
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Monica's Gang is a favourite cartoon among Brazilian kids. The website provides the English version of the comic strips, along with games, ecards, printables and lots of cool things for the kids. Jolly good toon fun!
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 Encyclopedia of Life |
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Can you imagine a free online reference and database on all 1.8 million species currently known to science? The Encyclopedia of Life helps us understand life on our planet. It's comprehensive, collaborative and ever-growing. Happy exploring!
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 CrabbieMasters |
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Do you ever get the crabbies? CrabbieMasters offers adults 'practical, fun and easy-to-use ideas that will help them manage, and teach young children to manage, the inevitable ups and downs of every day'. Face the Crabbies!
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 Exercise for the ears |
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Is dictation part of your teaching practice? No longer a favourite? Check out Michael Fields' article on the Education Guardian about the benefits of this long overlooked and undervalued language learning activity. Enjoy your read!
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 Intriguing Cornwall |
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Do you know that in Cornwall, the beautiful costal county in southwest England, they also speak a language called Cornish? It is one of the family of Celtic languages. Curious? Check out Cornish media and audio clips and Cornish words and phrases. Welcome to Kernow!
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