Malila Prado

Hi, everyone! Here´s a suggestion of a blog which brings ideas on learning English online. Worth seeing. See ya! Má http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/20_ways_to_learn_a_language_online.php

Been a long time, right? Hope you understand - I´ve been quite busy lately. Now, check this out if you want to have some fun with English: http://engrishfunny.com/ See ya!

A lot of students ask me about ways to level off their English. Well, this is not an easy task, but you can add these ideas to your formal studies: - be surrounded by English - watch movies, listen to music, surf the Internet... - find an e-pal - there are some sites where you can find English students willing to practice their English, but they´re students, too, right!? Well, do you know www.facebook.com ? It´s pretty similar to Orkut, but widespread in the United States. Subscribe and make friends! Then add them to your msn or skype, and practice your English! - listen to yourself - you have, on your computer, a tool called Voice Recorder (Gravador de Som, in Portuguese). Go to Start, Programs, Accessories and there you have it. Take the dialogues from your Workbook (or Sudent´s Book) and record it. Then listen to yourself. If you have the CD, listen to it right after your recording. Delete it if you aren´t satisfied, and do it over again. - read - read books, magazines, articles, an

Hiya! "Malila, can you recommend some websites where we can study English?" This is a very frequent question among my students, and I usually end up giving suggestions to the ones who ask me. So, if you didn´t ask me this question - yet - here´s another link for you to practice English: http://www.nonstopenglish.com/allexercises/ In this website, you have to choose the topic you want to work with, and then the kind of exercise you want. There are either vocabulary or grammar activities. Have fun! Malila

I´ve just met another e-friend from Webheads in Action. This is her blog: http://sabridv.wordpress.com / Read what she says about Twitter. I had registered to it, but had no clue on what to do with it. She´s just showed me the way! Another blog she recommended is http://www.socialdesire.com/2008/01/24/26-reasons-why-i-love-twitter/ . If, after you read all this information, you decide to join Twitter, "follow" me: malilaprado. I´ll be there waiting for you!

More listening activities!!!! Take a look at this site: http://www.esl-lab.com/ Choose the level you are in, then the topic you want to hear about (pick something of your interest) and do the activities! Have fun!

Pronunciation is one of my students´ main concern. This is a great site where you can practice it a little more! Enjoy it! http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/multimedia/pron/

One last tip today - very nice blog made by one of my e-friends. Check it. http://dvmunca.blogspot.com/

This site has been developed by one of my e-friends at Webheads in Action. She has prepared incredible speaking activities aimed at FCE. Take a look at it! http://www.katurbaniak.com/index.php?pr=FCE

The link on the right (Networked learning) will lead you to an article at Wikipedia. Have some fun and learn more about the Web 2.0 by browsing through it. Hope you like it! * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Networked_learning

Hi, everyone! Willing to share your slide shows on the Net? Go to http://www.slideshare.net/ (see link on the right) and do it!!!!!!

Hi, everyone! This is a great site for those willing to learn (and practice!) English. You can click on the level you are, and then you´ll be directed to a group of videos. Click on one of them and you´ll be able to take a quiz after listening to video!!!!!! Choose Three Little Birds, just to get started. I´m sure you´re gonna love it! http://www.eslvideo.com/

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Hey, everyone! I´ve finally decided to make my own blog. I´ll add more info later, ok? See ya!