International Exams: Cambridge FCE

I encourage you to have a look at these two sites:
Ready for First Certificate. This is one of the very best books for preparation. However, if you don’t have the book, the site offers you heaps of downloadable material to be used throughout the course.

Mansion Ingles. This is a Spanish site for FCE. There’s a FAQ section at the beginning, but the most attractive comes after, because you’ve got on line exercises to practise every component. As they are on line, you can try downloading them.

A site I recommend

I encourage you to explore the Teaching and Learning Collaboration blog which features articles, commentary, news, and links focusing on teaching resources and relevant information about EFL.

Using Internet in the language classroom

The Internet has become a valuable study resource. Its use in language teaching is increasing day after day. Net-based lessons are motivational, a source of authentic language and retain a certain "cutting edge" feel. Piczo offers enormous teaching possibilities; it was designed to enable users to create their very own website and is arguably the most user-friendly example of its kind. Using Piczo the class can create a multimedia website, with images, text and sound, in minutes. This page can be used for a variety of tasks:

• For structured, student-generated practice activities, such as finding pictures and writing related comparative and superlative sentences.
• As a multimedia space to display class interests, for example their favourite football team.
• To exhibit the results of web-based research, country reports, favourite stars, etc.
• To display class work, such as written exercises.
• Learners can invite other classes to visit their website and leave a message.

(From the Mac Mag 06/07)

Hot potatoes

Is it a game? Is it a cooking recipe? Not at all. Hot Potatoes is a set of six authoring tools, created by the Research and Development team at the University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre. They enable you to create interactive Web-based exercises of several basic types. You enter your data (texts, questions, etc.) and the programs will create the web pages for you. Plus, you can download it from the Internet free of charge.
Enjoy your "meal"!

A site I recommend

Visit saberingles and you'll find loads of interesting things to use in your English class.

A book I recommend

“Bases lingüísticas y metodológicas para la enseñanza de la lengua inglesa” by Eva Alcón Soler is easy to use and deals with topics that are of interest for anyone studying FL methodology.
Other books by the same author (in English) are:
Current Issues in English Language Methodology
Language Learning in The Foreign Language Classroom
Oral Skills: resources and proposals for the classroom