Daily bread 04/30/2016

• Daredevils of Instagram and YouTube - Business Insider

• The Economist Films - where image is the final word

• Ecocycle underground robot parking garages for bikes in Japan - Business Insider

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Daily bread 04/29/2016

• Using Corpora for EAP Writing Development | Oxford University Press

• A brief history of SpaceX | TechCrunch

• Reflections of a Teacher and Learner: #IATEFL 2016: Moving into Management

• EFL/ESL Course Plans for English Teachers

• English Vocabulary to Go: EFL/ESL Lesson plans and Worksheets - Linguahouse.com

• 10 Quotes to Inspire you to go Chase those Dreams | WORLD OF WANDERLUST

• Higher Ground | Playing For Change - YouTube

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Daily bread 04/27/2016

• Amazon Kindle Oasis review: the luxury e-reader really is something special | Technology | The Guardian

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Daily bread 04/26/2016

• Curso de inglés online. Tu sitio para aprender inglés gratis.

  tags: inglés

• Gramatica inglesa gratis, ejercicios de ingles gratuitos

  tags: ingles

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Daily bread 04/25/2016

• Van Gogh on Heartbreak and Unrequited Love as a Vitalizing Force for Creative Work – Brain Pickings

• The Complete Guide to English for Tourism and Hospitality | FluentU English

• 26 Business English Metaphors to Help You Climb the Ladder | FluentU Business English Blog

  tags: business

• Don’t Heed the Haters: Albert Einstein’s Wonderful Letter of Support to Marie Curie in the Midst of Scandal – Brain Pickings

• Worldly Workout: 5 Core Components of a Foolproof Language Study Plan | FluentU Language Learning Blog

• All Project-Based Learning is Not Created Equal: What Works? @coolcatteacher

• Taking Notes By Hand May Be Better Than Digitally, Researchers Say : NPR

• Juan Enriquez: We can reprogram life. How to do it wisely | TED Talk | TED.com

• AUSCOM | AUSCOM

• Not just Spanish, Colombia speaks dozens of languages | The City Paper Bogotá

  "Shakespeare"

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Daily bread 04/24/2016

• Why is being scared so fun? - Margee Kerr | TED-Ed

• The surprising reason you feel awful when you're sick - Marco A. Sotomayor | TED-Ed

• The Seven Best Video Websites for ELT Students - Kieran Donaghy

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Daily bread 04/23/2016

• Home | Lookback

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Daily bread 04/22/2016

• IdiomSite.com - Find out the meanings of common sayings

• 50 Incredibly Useful Links For Learning & Teaching The English Language

• Engage Learners with Scenario-based Mobile Learning | Get Apps, Get Inspired ...

• Decriminalize all drugs, business and world leaders tell UN | World news | The Guardian

  "UNgass"

• Opera's browser comes with a free VPN service baked right in

• 10 Fresh Roleplay Ideas for General English

• The Ideal ESL Role Play In 5 Easy Steps

• How to Teach English Using Role-Plays, and When (Not) to Use Them

• How Much Should You Charge For English Lessons? - English Entrepreneur

• Learning English Online - GrammarBank

• English For Kids - Printable

• Reading Comprehension Worksheets K12 - ESL - TOEFL - IELTS

• The 5 Golden Rules of Adult Language Learning by Fluent Language

• Why do we like to scare ourselves? - Margee Kerr - YouTube

• 320 FREE Family/Friends Worksheets

• The dos and don’ts of buying a huge TV | Life and style | The Guardian

• 55 Boxing Idioms

  tags: boxing

• Send Anywhere – Product

• English Short Listening Tests

  tags: tests

• Free Printable English Worksheets For Teachers

• Not bullies, but politicians are stealing Colombia's school children's lunch money

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Daily bread 04/21/2016

• Making Friends and Influencing People: Teaching Interpersonal Skills for ESL Business

• Money Matters: 10 Key Financial Topics for ESL Business

  tags: money financial

• | TeachingEnglish | British Council | BBC

• IELTS Speaking Practice Part 1: Grammatical range and Fluency | Oxford University Press

  tags: speaking

• BBC Learning English - Course: shakespeare / Unit 1 / Session 10 / Activity 3

  tags: world

• BBC Learning English - Course: intermediate / Unit 3 / Session 2 / Activity 2

• Should you trust unanimous decisions? - Derek Abbott - YouTube

• Lookback's Dashboard: An introduction. | Lookback

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Daily bread 04/19/2016

• I have disturbing fantasies | Life and style | The Guardian

  • be a doormat.
  • whatsoever
  • sought
  • tantalising
  • compartmentalise

• 3 Awesome Apps for Teachers to Create their Own Apps ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

• Online teaching: the good, the bad, the promise and the peril | RhetComp @ Stony Brook

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Daily bread 04/18/2016

• Linus Torvalds: The mind behind Linux | TED Talk | TED.com

• Make the better choice | Weekly Lessons | IELTS Juice

• Does grammar matter? - Andreea S. Calude | TED-Ed

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Daily bread 04/17/2016

• G is for Granularity | An A-Z of ELT

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Daily bread 04/16/2016

• Best Free Audio & Video Learning Resources of All Time

• A Strong Case for Uncommon Learning

  Pedagogy trumps technology, but tech aligned with sound pedagogy can unleash learning like never before https://t.co/Dn3hbxTH1I

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Daily bread 04/15/2016

• bigwords101 — Using Possessives Before Gerunds

  tags: possesives gerunds

• The Beautiful Game | Premier Skills English

• 50 Ideas And Resources For More Visual Learning | TeachThought

  tags: visual learning

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Daily bread 04/14/2016

• A way to make demonstrative determiners teachable | Oxford University Press

  tags: demonstrative determiners

• Keeping It Real: How to Organize Realistic Practice for Trainee Teachers

  tags: teacher training

• Cut to the Chase | All at C

  tags: car chase

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Daily bread 04/13/2016

• Pump up the Vocabs: 5 Simple Techniques to Increase Student Vocabularies

• Colombia guide to doing business and export - Director Magazine

• Inverted Sentences for advanced learners of English

  tags: inverted sentences

• Non-Continuous Verbs for ESL Learners

  tags: verbs

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Daily bread 04/12/2016

• Sample Project: Can You Trust the Water? | Project Based Learning | BIE

• Project Design Rubric | Project Based Learning | BIE

• Rubrics | Project Based Learning | BIE

• Make a Good Impression on an Interviewer in Minutes | POPSUGAR Smart Living

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Daily bread 04/11/2016

• TED x IELTS Archives - IELTS Academic

• Dictations are fun! | teflreflections

• Innovation Excellence | TED talk: The Suprising Habits of Original Thinkers [video]

• Five unmissable Colombian paramos begging to be explored | Colombia Country Brand

• How a big US bank laundered billions from Mexico's murderous drug gangs | World news | The Guardian

  • the only thing that will make the banks properly vigilant to what is happening is when they hear the rattle of handcuffs in the boardroom".

• How a US president and JP Morgan made Panama: and turned it into a tax haven | World news | The Guardian

• Letter Topics

  tags: topics

• IELTS Listening: English Accents

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Daily bread 04/10/2016

• So…how do we ‘teach’ listening? | The Language Gym

  • practising phonological processing micro-skills
  • emphasising phonological awareness
  • Top-down processing skills
  • applying inferential skills; predicting what comes next
  • A listening comprehension task on a given topic (e.g. environmental issues) should be carried out after the students have had extensive listening practice on that topic which has involved vocabulary, structures, discourse functions,
  • equipped with developed enough listening strategies, phonological processing ability and vocabulary to be able to succeed

• English as a Second Language Audio Books, Podcasts, and Videos

  tags: audio

• Comma Press - CommaPress

  tags: audio

• Short Stories Free Audio & Video

  tags: audio

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Daily bread 04/09/2016

• 21 Reasons Why You Should Never Visit Colombia | Colombia Travel Blog by Marcela & See Colombia Travel

• Click: How we made BBC's first fully 360-degree show - BBC News

• From Resumes to Proposals: Must-Do Projects for the Business ESL Class

• Top 10 Websites for Business English Teachers

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Daily bread 04/08/2016

• BusyTeacher.org

•  Georama - LIVE Virtual Tours

• Perspecs News App - Three sides to every story

  Perspecs, a free iOS and Android app from Trinity Mirror Digital Media, curates the top news stories and offers readers three polarized opinions of the same story. How these opinions are categorized can vary. For political stories, the categorization might be in the form of “left,” “background,” “right.” For review items, the categories might be “negative,” “neutral,” “positive.” Perspecs publishes one edition per day, and each edition includes a variety of interesting and sometimes controversial topics. Most important, there are three sides to every story.

• IELTS Life Skill Test | IELTS SUCCESS

• Introduction to similes ← iBATEFL.COM

  tags: similes

• Football vocabulary | Premier Skills English

  tags: vocabulary test

• Football vocabulary | Premier Skills English

  tags: test vocabulary

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Daily bread 04/07/2016

• Practice Test

  tags: practice test

• Charles Kelly's Quiz Generator / Quiz Maker / Quiz Creator / Quiz Builder / Quiz Writer / Quiz Producer

• ESL Quiz - United Kingdom Trivia (Letitia Bradley) I-TESL-J

• DOCENTECA -

• Speech Idioms - Pronunciation Studio

  tags: speech

• The fallout: Huge Panama Papers investigation yields first casualties | Public Radio International

• Improving pronunciation: helping students get ‘more value’ from their English | Oxford University Press

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Daily bread 04/05/2016

• A Lever and a Place to Stand: Good to Great: Use Goobric for Peer Edits and Student Self-Assessment

• What are the Panama Papers? A guide to the biggest data leak in history | News | The Guardian

• Stairway to Tax Heaven · ICIJ

• Has Transport for London found a way to stop you being groped on the tube? | Life and style | The Guardian

• Useful Android Apps for IELTS and TOEFL Preparation ~ IELTS Exams Tips Philippines | IELTS Review Strategies

• NEWS QUIZ – MARCH 2016

• 6 Tips For Adding Podcasts In eLearning - eLearning Industry

• The Podcasters' Studio - How To Record Audio And Video Podcasts | Learn, Publish, Market, Profit (podcast)

• Social Audio Think Tank - "advice for podcasters - strictly no selling"

• 10 Websites for English Language Students | ELT Experiences

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Daily bread 04/04/2016

• Pronunciation for English Learners | EnglishClub

• This Week in History Archive | English Club

• Martin Luther King Is Assassinated | English Club

• Conversation Questions for the ESL/EFL Classroom (I-TESL-J)

• The Best Online Video Sites For Learning English | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…

  tags: esl english

• 25 canales de Youtube para que tus hijos aprendan inglés | Oye Juanjo!

  tags: youtube

• A British wedding | ESOL Nexus

  tags: wedding british

• A Clockwork Orange Author Anthony Burgess Lists His Five Favorite Dystopian Novels: Orwell's 1984, Huxley's Island & More | Open Culture

• BBC Learning English on Twitter: "SUCCESS! Learn these expressions and watch them in action: https://t.co/xGIQ6VgEQS #learnenglish #vocabulary https://t.co/kIe0N4abvr"

• BBC - Travel - How to speak like a true Brit

• Wordshake | LearnEnglish Kids | British Council

• One: The dream | Premier Skills English

• The IELTS Network - Index page

• Tesla Unveils Car for the Masses | Crunch Report - Crunch Report | TechCrunch TV

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Daily bread 04/02/2016

• FRIDAY NIGHT BOYS: Ronnie Corbett RIP

• English for Business: EFL/ESL Lesson plans and Worksheets - Linguahouse.com

• English for Work and Life: EFL/ESL Lesson plans and Worksheets - Linguahouse.com

• 8 Things to Make Easier for Your Podcast Audience

• Auphonic

  tags: tools audio

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Daily bread 04/01/2016

• Meet the first beautiful E-bike from the future

• A Lever and a Place to Stand: Goobric or Orange Slice or JoeZoo: Which Rubric Add-on Should I Use?

• Presentain blog — Medium

• Featured lessons

• Nine research facts about L2 phonology teaching and learning that every teacher should know | The Language Gym

  "https://www.tes.co.uk/member/gianfrancoco"

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