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intro to holidays: would give the names of the countries/ places in the TL, ask to re-order them, or play bingo (10 first countries-in TL, chosen from a sheet, wins!) freeze/ frame-what is on the picture discuss feelings: match feelings (in TL) to parts of te video...

Every now and again, a book comes along that should be compulsory reading. This is one of those books. It is designed for students for whom English is a second language and plan to study in an English speaking country, however all students can benefit from reading relevant sections of this book. Furthermore, the authors demonstrate a thorough knowledge of this topic and an empathic understanding of the problems confronting students from a variety of countries.

"On November 13 the Digital October Center hosted a web meeting with Eli Bildner, one of the Coursera team members. Bildner is responsible for looking for educational partners and translating selected videos into the native languages of the projects's multicultural audience, and shared the results of the first few months of work he has put into localizing the content of the most popular platform for free online education. He discussed: which translation approaches have been tried and how well they have worked from country to country why Coursera settled on working with local partners the statistics on what has already brought about growth in the number of users who do now know English well enough or even at all. Lecture guests also were the first to see how the crowdsourcing platform ABBYY Language Services and the Knowledge Stream team built to translate Coursera content works. This solution at some point in the future may become a universal tool for localizing courses around the entire world. At this point, however, the development is in beta testing."

A collection of video interviews with native speakers from different countries, representing different dialects. Organized by task, and level (beginning, intermediate A & B, advanced A & B, and superior. Comes with transcripts too.

A collection of video interviews with native speakers from different countries, representing different dialects. Organized by task, and level (beginning, intermediate A & B, advanced A & B, and superior. Comes with transcripts.

Welcome to AllYouCanRead, a massive media directory of 22,800 local and international magazines and newspapers from all over the world. Over 200 countries are represented at AllYouCanRead.com.

CultureCrossing.net is an evolving database of cross-cultural information about every country in the world. This user-built guide allows people from all walks of life to share essential tips with each other about how to navigate our increasingly borderless world with savvy and sensitivity.

CultureCrossing.net is an evolving database of cross-cultural information about every country in the world. This user-built guide allows people from all walks of life to share essential tips with each other about how to navigate our increasingly borderless world with savvy and sensitivity.

Folk music in many European languages http://folkdc.eu/ The Digital Children's Folksongs for Language and Cultural Learning (Folk DC) project is a European Union project designed to motivate young language learners to engage with language learning through using Folk songs, and activities around the songs. The songs are in 10 European languages (Czech, Danish, English, Finnish, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Turkish). The project will be producing a complete package for schools (Autonomous Teacher Training Tool kit - ATTT) so that schools all over Europe can take part in the project. The project culminates in a simultaneous, live concert in 5 countries, streamed over the Internet to audiences all over Europe. School choirs will sing folk songs in non-native languages that will be streamed to the other concert venues and also made available to an Internet audience. Schools can take part in this project by: Using the resources produced by the project Suggesting your own language, culture and music activities, inspired by the project Watching the live concert (at the venue or online) - see how you can join Adding folk songs of your language - see the project Wiki You can ask more information about how you can take part here. The project will introduce an understanding of the number, richness and culture of other languages when children start to learn a foreign language and begin to understand the meaning of additional languages. It will engage children in fascinating and engaging activities that will resonate in to the future and answer the need for materials that can directly engage and motivate children to enjoy their learning.

In reading tests at school, girls tend to be ahead of boys, in all age groups and in all countries. But in young adults, there is suddenly no longer any difference between men's and women's reading skills. Why is that? Could the answer be in the way the tests are designed?

(...) Country Israel Honors #82 - Most Subscribed (This Week) - Directors - Israel #33 - Most Viewed (All Time) - Directors - Israel #14 - Most Viewed (Today) - Directors - Israel"

Video to promote making the learning of languages a national priority, where we recognize in other countries learning another languages is already a part of the curriculum and where it is important to know other languages to succeed economically, diplomatically and in our careers.

Meet French-speaking people on your travels or in your own country and improve your French. Make social or professional French-speaking contacts.

Support fair trade and sustainable employment in developing countries. Ten Thousand Villages connects the stories and wares of world artisans with the North American marketplace.

"Le avventure d'Alice nel paese delle meraviglie by Lewis Carroll Help - Available eBook formats (including mobile) - Read online Bibliographic Record [help] Author Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898 Illustrator Tenniel, John, Sir, 1820-1914 Translator Pietrocòla-Rossetti, T. (Teodorico) LoC No. 44020342 LoC catalog record Title Le avventure d'Alice nel paese delle meraviglie Language Italian LoC Class PR: Language and Literatures: English literature LoC Class PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres Subject Fantasy EText-No. 28371 Release Date 2009-03-20 Copyright Status Not copyrighted in the United States. If you live elsewhere check the laws of your country before downloading this ebook. Base Directory /files/28371/ Download this ebook for free Hand-Crafted Files [help] Format [help] Encoding ¹ [help] Compression [help] Size Download Links [help] HTML none 224 KB main site mirror sites P2P HTML zip 1.44 MB main site mirror sites P2P Plain text iso-8859-1 none 169 KB main site mirror sites P2P Plain text iso-8859-1 zip 64 KB main site mirror sites P2P Computer-Generated Files [help] Format [help] Encoding ¹ [help] Size Download Links [help] EPUB (experimental) [help] 92 KB main site EPUB with images (experimental) [help] 1.44 MB main site Unicode Plain Text (experimental) [help] 171 KB main site Mobipocket (experimental) [help] 146 KB main site Mobipocket with images (experimental) [help] 1.43 MB main site Plucker (experimental) [help] 100 KB main site QiOO Mobile (experimental) [help] 124 KB main site ¹ If you need a special character set, try our online recoding service. Web site copyright © 2003-2009 Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation - All Rights Reserved. "

Developing Intermediate Vocabulary is an excellent book with generic topics that can fit into any classroom in any country in the world.

Cultural and language resources for MANY different languages. Includes videos on many areas of daily life from many different countries.

A superb 'Must Try' HTML based collaborative whiteboard site. The tools are wonderfully simple. No log in required. Just share the page link to work collaboratively. Combine with a tool like Skype to share a lesson across classes, schools or even countries. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools

this link, and the World Heritage Sites in Mexico link I just shared, were compiled by Lynn Garry Salmon, a world traveler and scientist at Cal Tech specializing in the effects of pollution on cultural properties.

links to views of 890 properties on the UNESCO World Heritage List, sorted by country.