Archive for September, 2009

Living Language experts introduce Easy English, a course that teaches basic English for speakers of all languages, and combines a book and audio for a comprehensive introduction to English. It provides everything you need to get started learning English today. Key features of the language course include:

• 400 Illustrations — learn English easily by association
• 1 Book
• 3 Compact Discs — learn English at home or anywhere you can play a CD!

Hundreds of English words to get you speaking in your new language with confidence–now!

Practice Makes Perfect: English Vocabulary for Beginning ESL Learners introduces you to hundreds of essential words and helps you quickly build the skills and confidence needed to use them correctly in conversation. Many useful exercises provide you with word-building practice. You also learn how to rapidly analyze new words you may encounter and incorporate them into your ever-growing vocabulary.

Hundreds of English words to get you speaking in your new language with confidence–now!

Practice Makes Perfect: English Vocabulary for Beginning ESL Learners introduces you to hundreds of essential words and helps you quickly build the skills and confidence needed to use them correctly in conversation. Many useful exercises provide you with word-building practice. You also learn how to rapidly analyze new words you may encounter and incorporate them into your ever-growing vocabulary.

A Year in the Life of an ESL Student is an essential addition to the advanced level ESL classroom. By studying the varied and interesting dialogues and completeing the challenging exercises, students will dramatically improve their comprehension and usage of everyday idioms and advanced vocabulary.

The book follows Andre, a student from Switzerland, as he spends a year completing his English studies at a private language school in North America: from his arrival at the airport, to getting around the city, to attending school, to hanging out with his classmates. All of the situations and corresponding language are real and directly relevant to adult ESL students.

So join Andre on his one-year adventure. It’s about to begin just outside the airport terminal.

DETAILS
- Reading and listening exercises with simple explanations that allow students to master grammar through practice
- Extensive solo practice and group activities
- NEW — Includes CD-ROM with Vocabulary-Building Games and Vocabulary Enhancer chart
- Superb preparation for students taking the TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language)

Unlike other dictionaries, The Heinle Picture Dictionary presents new vocabulary in contextualized, thematic readings and high-frequency collocations. It also offers immediate practice and reinforcement through “Words in Action.” Whether used as a classroom text or a self-study tool, The Heinle Picture Dictionary will rapidly move students toward fluency.

A remarkable second edition of the best-selling and well loved Oxford Picture Dictionary, features over 4,000 words and phrases illustrated with all new vibrant, crystal-clear artwork. The topics, based on extensive input from teachers and students, have been thoroughly updated to meet the needs of today’s English language learners.

Here you will find different links such as listen and repeat podcast, jokes and listen and read along just to name a few.

http://www.manythings.org/e/podcasts.html

Improve your English vocabulary, grammar, and listening skills with the BBC. Our weekly 20 minute chat show includes features and interviews to help you practise and develop your English. We cover a range of topics using everyday informal English, highlighting useful words and expressions. Talk about English is presented every Thursday by the team from BBC Learning English including Callum Robertson, William Kremer and Jackie Dalton.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/tae

Learn and practise useful English language for everyday situations with the BBC. Your weekly instruction manual for saying or doing something in English is published every Wednesday. Each programme is six minutes long and contains examples and explanations to help you improve your knowledge of the English language across a wide range of topics.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/how2

Improve your English grammar with the BBC. Each week we challenge an English language student on an area of the English language such as verb forms, tenses, prepositions and pronunciation. Listen to a short presentation on the topic then try to answer the questions. The programmes are recorded on location in an English language classroom. Each episode lasts for six minutes and is made available every Friday.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/gc/