TEXT SPEAK

Still puzzled by text speak? Here's an interesting website to help you decipher your English-speaking friends' messages. It will also help you writing your own text messages in English.

transL8it! is a free, user-friendly translation engine for SMS text message lingo, acronyms and emoticons. With the click of a button, you can take texting lingo and transL8it! to plain English text or visa-versa to SMS lingo!


BFN :)

LYRICS TRAINING

Dear students,

Here’s a link for those of you who missed the last class and would like to listen to the song we played and worked with.

(I'm posting Pink and Nate Ruess's live performance of the song at the 2014 Grammy's Awards too)

Lyrics Training is a fun website where you will be able to improve your English while listening to your favourite music. It will help you improve your ability to understand English through the lyrics of songs. Choose a song, select a game mode (Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced or Expert), watch the clip, and fill in the gaps in the lyrics.

Enjoy it!

HALLOWEEN IN THE USA

Dear students,

We talked about British Halloween traditions in the class. Here's a video about how Halloween is celebrated in the USA. The YouTube channel where you will find the video (ESL English Class 101) is also full of useful resources in the form of video lessons so it is worth taking a look too.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

Are you celebrating Halloween this year?

As you know, it is becoming more and more popular in Spain. The night of the 31^st of November has become a special date on the calendar. Lots of Halloween-themed events take place, such as costume parties, especially in big cities.

But it is still not quite as big as its celebration in the USA. Would you like to get an idea of how important it is there? Take a look at the statistics below: