Daily bread 05/28/2016

• All Things Topics - Home

• The right place for placeholders - The Bogotá Post

• Grammar Quiz Project - All Things Grammar

• Christopher Corr Posters and Prints at Photos.com

• Learn English - Writing Exercises for English Language Learners

• The EFL SMARTblog: "Been there. Done that" - Present Perfect / Past Simple Contrast + Game

• Free English Lessons On Life in the UK : London - Quizzes and Activities

• All Things Grammar - Home

• Cursos de Toefl

• Online de Formación - Aprendemas.com

• Teaching In Higher Ed -

• 8 Simple Tips For Great Teaching

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Daily bread 05/27/2016

• Creating Curriculum with Backwards Design - The Second Principle

• English Lab Advanced Lessons

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Daily bread 05/26/2016

• Passive Voice Usage and Examples for ESL/EFL

  tags: passive voice

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Daily bread 05/25/2016

• Usage Review | Daily Writing Tips

• Grammar 101 | Daily Writing Tips

• Vocabulary | Daily Writing Tips

• Grammar | Daily Writing Tips

• The Hidden Science of Elevators

• Nigella Lawson: Five dishes every home cook should master | Stuff.co.nz

• What is Consciousness ? - Three Stages of Consciousness | Michio Kaku - YouTube

• Ivy Leaguers Keep Grip on Colombia Economy as Drug Chaos Spreads - Bloomberg

• Lesson Plan- The Differences Between Past and Present

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Daily bread 05/24/2016

• Parts of Speech | English Club

• Resourceful YouTube Channels for Teachers and Educators - EdTechReview™ (ETR)

• no churn ice cream recipe - All

• Start A Back Yard Honey Bee Hive

  tags: honey bee

• Ultimate Auto-Wicking Garden - All

• Say what you see – vocabulary and images | teflgeek

• 6 Principles of Polite English - British English Coach

  tags: politeness

• A Short Course on Polite English - British English Coach

• A Quiz: 25 Common Idioms that you Really Need to Know | Blog de Cristina

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Daily bread 05/21/2016

• Driverless cars: the slow, sad death of joyous driving, one satnav at a time | Gaby Hinsliff | Opinion | The Guardian

  • a petrolhead to dread
  • trance
  • as rare as hen’s teeth
  • getting-from-A-to-B
  • knackered

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Daily bread 05/20/2016

• The Little Tank Robot That Carries a Glock

• IELTS vs TOEFL: Which is easier?

  tags: ielts toefl

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Daily bread 05/19/2016

• Atheist teacher under attack over secular curriculum in rural Colombia

  • An atheist teacher in rural Colombia was threatened after his philosophy classes got his students asking questions the Catholic church did not have answers for.

  • In a conservative place where the Catholic church has a cradle-to-grave hold on the lives and minds of the people, independent, critical thought does not appear to be welcomed.

• Pablo Escobar's former right-hand man becomes YouTube hit

  "“the historical memory of the Medellin Cartel”"

• A Pronunciation Guide to English Food - Pronunciation Studio

• Tips for Creating Effective Video Lectures for Online Courses — Medium

• Video Listening Practice

• Useful English: Make and Do

• Useful English: Listening for Accents: Miracles by Walt Whitman

• Useful English: Practice for Intonation and Rhythm

  tags: rhythm

• English Learning Online, ESL conversation, Speaking, Spoken English Expressions

• Business English Exercises, ESL Business English Resources

  tags: business communication

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Daily bread 05/18/2016

• Nabusimake: "the land where the sun is born" | Colombia Travel Blog by See Colombia Travel

• ESL Pronunciation Exercises Online

• StoryCorps – Our mission is to provide Americans of all backgrounds and beliefs with the opportunity to record, share, and preserve the stories of our lives.

• Listening skills practice | LearnEnglish Teens | British Council

• Apps | LearnEnglish | British Council | LearnEnglish Audio and Video

• Listen & Watch | LearnEnglish | British Council

• Online Payment Gateway Comparison Chart · Formstack

• 25 ideas for using WhatsApp with English language students | Oxford University Press

  tags: whatsapp

• Build a Website with WordPress

• Teaching Conversational Skills - Tips and Strategies

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Daily bread 05/17/2016

• A Sampling of Indian English Accents - YouTube

• We’re Taking a Break from Slack. Here’s Why | Motherboard

• F is for First Lessons | An A-Z of ELT

• Science your health.

• Validate your registration

• Create your own quiz - free game

• Conversation Starters for Adults- ESL Speaking

• Top 10 ESL Speaking Activities for False Beginners - ESL Speaking

• View Your Rollup – Unroll.Me

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Daily bread 05/16/2016

• BBC - KS2 Bitesize English - Nouns & adjectives : Play

  tags: adjectives

• http://www.childrensuniversity.manchester.ac.uk/media/services/thechildrensuniversityofmanchester/flash/idioms_stamp.swf

• The Confident Teacher | Developing successful habits of mind, body and pedagogy.

• The Confident Teacher | Developing successful habits of mind, body and pedagogy.

• The Present on Vimeo

• Creative writing lesson ideas.

• Breakfast Backtrack: Maybe Skipping The Morning Meal Isn't So Bad : The Salt : NPR

• People watch Netflix 100 minutes per day - Business Insider

  • binge-watching
  • perfectly set up to facilitate that
  • Let’s put that into a little perspective.
  • One caveat
  • drastically different
  • the comparison roughly holds up

• In Colombia time goes in circles - Colombia PoliticsColombia Politics

• Colombians infuriated over mining plans in tourist hotspot

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Daily bread 05/14/2016

• Content and Function Words

  tags: content function words

• English Listening Pronunciation Tests

  tags: tests

• How to Communicate IT Concepts to Non-IT Minded People: Part 1 - Getting Started - BetterCloud Monitor

• Chinese tech workers sleep in offices - Business Insider

• A Week-end Adventure in Barranquilla

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Daily bread 05/13/2016

• Non-Profit Work in Colombia: Easy Money?

• The psychology behind irrational decisions - Sara Garofalo - YouTube

• 6 Best Practices for Online Student Engagement | Getting Smart

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Daily bread 05/12/2016

• No. 058 How to Plan Engaging Podcast Interviews | Rainmaker.FM

• http://hwcdn.libsyn.com/p/2/1/3/2134a622f63fd44a/sop513_050916.mp3?c_id=11662639&expiration=1463017122&hwt=b71ef4a0641049d9afdbfdee361e6abd

• Finance Colombia » Exclusive Interview: Why Did Uruguay’s Top IT Firm Pick Medellin, Colombia To Anchor Its Global Expansion? UruIT’s Marcelo Martinez Explains

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Daily bread 05/11/2016

• HTT licenses safe, cheap Hyperloop levitation tech

• The Accordionists of Valledupar | Colombia Travel Blog by Marcela & See Colombia Travel

• Debate Lessons to Improve Conversational Skills- ESL

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Daily bread 05/07/2016

• recording fluency development -

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Daily bread 05/06/2016

• Teaching Handbook: Evaluation of Learning - Crafting Questions

• What’s wrong with scientists trying to use CRISPR to fix everything? |

• IELTS Test Prepcast Episode 005 - IELTS Writing Skills: IELTS Writing Task 2

  • There are three basic types of question for IELTS writing task 2
  • “Discuss both these views and give your own opinion,”
  • argument-led approach
  • In the argument-led approach, you shouldn’t really mention your own opinion until you get to the conclusion.
  • the thesis-led approach
  • you immediately mention your opinion
  • “To what extent do you agree with this?”
  • You decide whether you agree, completely agree, completely disagree, or whether you partially agree, and then you say why you think what you think.
  • a problems-and-solutions kind of question.
  • “What are the problems, and how could they be reduced?”
  • make sure you answer all parts of the questions
  • not going to mention every single problem and every single solution, so you just decide what you think are the most important.
  • two approaches inside that body. You could either mention some of the problems, which have arisen from the topic, and you might choose a problem for one paragraph and then a second problem for a second paragraph, depends how many problems you want to talk about. And then in the next couple of paragraphs, you might offer a solution in paragraph 3 for the problem in paragraph 1 and then another solution in paragraph 4 for the problem in paragraph 2. Another approach is that you could mention one problem and then offer the solution in the same paragraph. That makes your writing more complex because you just have to understand how to link it and how to put the ideas together.

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Daily bread 05/05/2016

• Are USB Flash Drives Still Worth It In 2015?

• Facing up to the 'face to face versus online' false dichotomy | Jason Renshaw | LinkedIn

• What's the best way to learn vocabulary? - YouTube

• Vytmin

• Gene therapy against human aging successful | Impact Lab

• Viajar a Punta Gallinas: Una Guía Práctica | Colombia Travel Blog by Marcela & See Colombia Travel

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Daily bread 05/04/2016

• 20 Questions That Schools Should Be Asking About Professional Development -

• Motorcycling Colombia's Coffee Region • Colombia Eco Travel

• Colombia Calling - Living and Working in Colombia | Listen via Stitcher Radio On Demand

• Making a video in ESL class

• Forvo: the pronunciation dictionary. All the words in the world pronounced by native speakers

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Daily bread 05/03/2016

• Word Jumble: Practicing sentence structures – tekhnologic

  tags: word jumble

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Daily bread 05/02/2016

• Virtual Desktop on Steam

• The brain dictionary - YouTube

• - ClassTools.net

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Daily bread 05/01/2016

• Add a podcast using an RSS feed - Podcast Portal Help

• Kayaking in the Mangroves – Barranquilla’s answer to Amazonas

• Mercedes home batteries are a potential rival for Tesla’s Powerwall | TechCrunch

• Why do cats act so weird? - Tony Buffington | TED-Ed

• Unheard Of: The Catastrophic Collapse of the World's Tallest Tower - 99% Invisible

• 99% Invisible

• The Best Teaching Advice From An Experienced Teacher

• FARC Denies Having Billions of Dollars, Colombia Has No Proof | News | teleSUR English

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