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As you know the main objectives are to create concepts and to come up with definitions and opinions about certain matters related to ICTs.

Thanks in advance for the cooperation.


 * As a first task I would like you to add some links in order to help other semester students to practice and improve their skills.**
 * Remember you have to post the page and a brief description of the feature the website offers.**
 * 1- This is a website for practicing listening which offers a series of dialogues whose transcriptions, offered bellow the dialogues, allow the user to follow the conversation and also to acquire new vocabulary by following the hypertext of each idiomatic expression presented in the conversation.**

Enhancing English skills:

Speaking and Listening Description: This E.S.L podcast is for everyone who wants to enhance their english speaking and listening skills. It provides a huge variety of listening exercises. Attached is another which is suitable for learning english in an elementary level, and therefore, this site is a way for your students to practise their english language listening skills. [] []

Pronuntiation: Description:

This is a site where english learners are likely to booster their pronuntation. There are some exercises for reviewing some of the english sounds that learners have problems with. In addition, it is attached another website designed to help latin american learners to pronounce properly, beginning from vowels to more elaborated phrases as well as sentences [] []

Grammar and Reading: Description: In the Grammar and Vocabulary areas, you will find exercises, explanations and word lists. In the Writing area, this website tells you how to write English texts and how to work with stylistic devices. []

There is also a suitable webpage where English learners could take a look at daily and by doing that they might foster the reading habit, and besides they could get involved in the real world. []

Speaking:

Description: I would like to suggest this site, since it is quite funny for learners when practising speaking: [|http://www.youtube.com/user/TheKARAOKEChannel#p/c/4C841D1701AB40C6/19/SswjdoAAJb8]

Improving your English Skills

Listening Description: This website offers you the possibility of listening to so many podcasts in which you may improve your listening skills. This site shows you a variety of topics in real British English. There are some radio stations and those are organized by genres. You may select one genre and some radio stations are selected by the category you select previously. You also have the possibility to download some podcast in order to improve your listening off-line. Link: [|www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts]

Reading Description: Learning to read in English language, it’s only possible if you learn by reading in the target language. There is no way that someone teaches us to read, however there many tips that you will find helpful when you read. In this website you will find some tips when you face a reading task. Also you can find a reading log in which you may analyzed what you have read. Link: [] []

Writing Description: <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">In this web site you may find some advice for writing in English, with a number of resources related with the way you may organize and composing English texts such as: essays, model organization essays, essays samples, descriptive writings, and suggestions for writing, and so on. <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Link: <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none;">[]

<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Speaking <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Description: <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">This web site offers you the possibility to talk with worldwide people. You have to register in order to access. Besides, you may select the way you want to communicate (msm or Skype). For this purpose, you need have an account not provided by Speak English Today. <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Link: <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none;">[]

<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Grammar <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Description: <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">This web site offers you a number of on line-exercises which you may improve your knowledge and English level in relation with grammar topics. You may select a topic and it will show you practical exercises. <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Link: []

Here are some webpages that I recommend in order to impreve English skills: LISTENING: I recomend a lot this web page due to its content which is presented in an atractive way and focuses on all the English skills. In the listening section there are a lot of resources according with diferent English topics and levels. In English club you can not only listen to the audio and postcads but also watch some videos. Here is the link: [] In this other web page, you can follow the listening activities with the text and the pictures provided within the page. There is not only audio, but also video, which present the material in a more realistic way. The video presentation reinforces the audio, as well as shows interesting topics. You are able to select the English level as well. Here is the link: []

READING: In this web site you will be able to improve your English reading skills, according with your English level. This site has many links about reading activities and tests. According with the information provided in that web page, " ...links are based on interesting stories and are highly recommended for anyone wanting to improve their reading skills in preparation for English exams such as Cambridge PET, FCE and CAE!" []

WRITTING AND GRAMMAR: This is a complete guide to grammar and writing where you can find all about sentence and paragraph construction with easy-to-follow explanations. This webpage explain how to write essays taking into account all the guidelines provided by the Modern Language Assosiation. This page also provide many exercises related with the use of grammar and writting. It takes more than one internet session to read and to take advantage of this internet page! Here is the link: [] As a matter of fact, someone else had already cited this web page, so I looked up deeply and found an interesting web page in which you can learn grammar rules in an easy way. I recomend this web page especially if you want to write an essay, response paper or any kind of written text, due to the easy-to-follow explanations provided with examples of usage. Some of the topics are rules for fixing comma splices and fused sentences, rules for fixing fragments, rules for using irregular verbs, parallel structures, among others. It is a general guide and I think that will provide you with the basic concepts, topics and rules to write properly. Here is the link: []

SPEAKING: <span class="wiki_link_ext">The ESLgold web page provides English study and learning materials in diferent topics, related with speaking, listening, writing, reading, grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, idioms, among others, and according with diferent English levels. In the speaking section, there are a lot of sentences and idioms of everyday language with audio comments in order to repeat the sentences. There is also a section called "Talk with someone in English", where you can talk with a native English speaker. Although I do not know how to use it, it seems to be a very useful aplication to improve speaking...(High recommended!!!) []

[] 2- This site provides the student with some tips on how to write an essay, the simplicity of the site and the way it paces the steps, from pre-writing, passing for drafting, to publishing makes it easy for the user to follow his/her process of building his/her text. Another interesting feature of this website is that the link "Publishing your essay" offres a collection of other's websites which can be visited to inquire about appropriate vocabulary and writing. [] 3- The website of Yale on line "Introduction to theory of literature" course presents a series of lectures whose transcription can be read alongside the mp3 audio which constitutes an interesting reading exercise to learn to follow entonation and pronuntiation patterns signaled by punctuation and textual markers. The handout containing the quotes and ideas dealt with in each lecture can also be consulted in the site, readings which being about literary theory contribute to the formation of english literature teachers. [] 4- "Guide to grammar and writing" offers syntactical exercises on all the levels, namely, sentence level, paragraph level and essay level. In each level the user can begin by reading the explanation of each topic and its gramatical functions and continue with the exersices, quizzes and activities offered. [] 5- The merriam´s Webster dictionary website allows the student to listen to the pronuntiation of a word while reading its phonetical transcription. It also offers a contrast between similarly pronounced words and those other whose pronuntiation can be mistaken on account of their similar spelling. Those words containing similar phonemes in similar positions are also presented along with their correct pronuntiation and phonetical transcriptions. Finally those allophones whose spelling in some words doesn´t match with their phonetical transcriptions are presented. []

[|http://www.ompersonal.com.ar] [|http://estudiaingles.blogspot.com] It is a very useful page to review English grammar elements. It brings diverse subjects and also exercises to practice. Between the subjects you can find are the following: Adjetives and Pronouns, Comparatives and Superlatives, Possessive Pronouns and Adjectives, Adverbs of Manner, Conditionals, Conjunctions, and more. [] this page offers the possibility to you of practicing your English participating in dialogues of the daily life. And you will be able to also improve your articulation. []l Through this section you will be able to accede to a great short text selection of classic of the Universal Literature. In the ' Reading' section you will find associated exercises of understanding to each text. Besides the solutions, the corresponding Spanish translation is included. In that way, you can practice in both senses.
 * OM LISTEN** allows you to practise listening comprehension with assignments in three levels of difficulty and online answers. These dialogues and talking articles provide with wide possibilities for ESL Elementary, Intermediate and Advanced students and teachers.

ADVANCED READING COMPREHENSION EXERCISES [] <span style="color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Inside this website, you can find many links where you can practice advance reading exercises. However, sometimes the links do not permit to access to the new page, but there are many. If you considered that you do not have an advanced level, you can enter to the intermediate and beginner level. So, we can find websites such as: []

[] [] [] [] [|http://www.englishmed.com] [|http://www.iq.poquoson.org] []

ESL INDEPENDENT STUDY LAB [|http://www.lclark.edu/~krauss/toppicks/listening.html] <span style="color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">It contains links for practicing advanced, intermediate and beginner listening. It can help you to increase your listening skills. The pages are organized depending on the level that you have, in this way: <span style="color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Level 100 = beginner/advanced beginner <span style="color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Level 200 = intermediate <span style="color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Level 300 = upper intermediate <span style="color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Level 400 = advanced <span style="color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">When you enter, you can find a table with a specific level and the website that can help you to practice. <span style="color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">WRITING <span style="color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">[]

<span style="color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">This website gives you advice about how to write essays in a good way. It shows how to think about all the processes that an essay needs to be excellent. Moreover, it has a link where you can find some pages. They can help you to acquire new knowledge about how to write in English. Another website is [|http://www.busuu.com/es]

You can find many exercises where you can be on contact to English native people. You can chat with them and sometimes they can correct your mistake. Additionally, the site uses a window where you have to write about a topic that contains each unit and natives can help you to correct it. So, you can have an assessment because native people give you a score and some piece of advice about your role as a writer. GRAMMAR []

<span style="color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">The site contains explanations about the use of some linguistic rules in English and the most important thing is that you can practice. Each explanation has useful examples about the topic and it is easy to understand it. SPEAKING [] You can see the pronunciation of some words in a real conversation. It is nice because you can know some things related to idiomatic expressions, intonation, just to name a few. It has a link where you can practice the way as you speak. This is a site where you can practice with a robot. It corrects your mistake when you are talking to him. It is a good way to know if your conversation level is appropriated for a dialogue between you and a native person.

ESL AUTONOMOUS WORK

hello classmates!!

Teachers accomplish an important labor in student's second language adquisition guiding and evaluating the development and the improvings that stduents make through the classes, but students also have to make an autonomous work to accomplish that development and improving in a second language. There are a lot of web pages that help the students of English as a second language to adquire different skills and I am going to recommend some of it. Grammar and Lexical skills: [|www.wordreference.com] This web page help with the words that students do not know and also it’s a good guide to difficult grammar structures for them, because English speakers can help by some blogs that are posted in this page. Writing: [] This webpage is good for English students with advanced skills and feel interested in make their own writings. This webpage help to the writer to make citations and literature review. Listening: [] This webpage help the students with their listening difficulties and also is a teacher’s help to made their classes more dynamic and improve an important skill like listening. Pronunciation: [] This webpage is important because here students can type the Word in spanish and entrench the pronunciation with the correct sound of the word. Others: [] Here students can read news on English and be informed what is happen around the world.

Listening:
[|**www.eslpod.com**]

This website includes a lot of Podcasts (audio files) about several topics. You can listen a Podcast online or download it. Also it contains learning guides <span class="pod_body">for **every** future podcast. The Learning Guide includes: Complete transcripts of the podcast, definitions, sample sentences, comprehension questions, additional explanations, cultural notes and tips on improving your English.

Reading:
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" Read every day, lead a better life" is the main slogan of this website, that offers diferent tools in order to improve reading skills in kids, teachers and parents.It presents several activities and resources as for each group, always focus on reading.

Writing:

 * [|Online Free Writing Courses]**

Free courses offered by top Universities and educational websites. The courses focus on several types of creative writing, including poetry, essay writing and fiction writing. The list of free courses includes courses from University of Utah,The UK's Open University, Yale and UCLA

Speaking:


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Free english conversations online with people from all around the world, you can add people based on speaking level to Skype, Msn messenger or Yahoo messenger 24 hours, 7 days a week, it also includes speaking tips, and vocabulary learning.

Grammar:


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Grammar girl writes a section in the popular quick and dirty tips website that in order to help us to improve our writing. It presents a lot of easy tips that always includes exemples from daily life, about grammar, punctuation, and style. Idioms:

<span style="color: #000080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: justify;">**Vocabulary**

<span style="color: #4f00ff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">As Spanish, English has also some phrases ussually used in some specific situations. We cannot translate them litarally but place and interpret them within a context. In the following websites students will find some idioms with their own exercises to practice in different situations. It is very important to be aware of idioms due to the fact that are very common in spoken English and student`s vocabulary knowledge will be wider.

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Grammar

Hi Dear classmates These links are for improving the use of modals. Here you can find several exercises to practice modals specially those taht express decuctions. I recmmend the first page but anyway all the submitted are very interesting. The most important thing is that the exercises are corrected

@http://www.eltbase.com/get_quiz.php?id=59

@http://perso.wanadoo.es/autoenglish/gr.may3.i.htm

@http://www.autoenglish.org/gr.may3.i.htm

@http://www.autoenglish.org/gr.may.i.htm

Description: The visual dictionary is a resource in which students can search for unknown vocabulary that is combined with their respective illustrations. "//The Visual Dictionary is more than a reliable resource of meticulously labeled images—it innovates by combining dictionary-scale definitions with exceptional illustrations, making it the most complete dictionary//". []
 * Dictionary**

Description: This website offers mp3 recordings about diverse topics to listen online or download in order to practise the oral comprehension skill, based on the level of the students. The recordings are available in seven languages. []
 * Listening**

Description: This is a website in which students can learn English in a different way. Even if students can explore the webpage taking into account their needs, the themes are organized secuentially in a "class schedule" according to the days of the year (that means that classes start on January 1st and end on December 31st). Topics such as idioms, slangs, grammar, pronunciation or reductions are explained through funny videos performed by its creator and students can write their comments about them. []
 * Learn English**