Lesson Fifteen - Get more from Google

Lesson Fourteen - The Olympic Games

What do you know about the Olympic Games? Let's find out with the help of a short quiz.

Lesson Thirteen - Sport and Mindomo

What do you think a sport is? Why do we consider one activity a sport and another a mere entertainment? That's what we'll discuss at the lesson.

Lesson Twelve - Writers' Little Helpers

Lesson Eleven - TED

Lesson Ten - Folk songs, Lyricstraining and Glogster

WE are singing
and listening
and enjoying the music today.


Do you translate your favourite songs?
How can music you like help you in learning English?

What Russian folk songs can you name? What English folk songs can you sing?

Lesson Nine - Bookdrum, SparkNotes and ToonDoo

Lesson Eight - Presentations and Polls

Today we will listen to your presentations on different topics you have chosen. (Let us hope you are ready with them)))) Listen carefully to each other, make notes about what you like and dislike in each presentation as in the end of the lesson we will vote for the best presentation.

Lesson Seven - Presentations and Prezi

Today we are going to speak about presentations. First, discuss the questions:

1. When and why do people need presentations? 
2. What is more important: what is on the slides or what is being told by the presenter? 
3. What do people create presentations for?
4. What are the rules of making presentations? 
5. What mistakes do people do when they prepare their presentations in the design and the presenting by a speaker?

Watch Good and bad presentation. Have you ever seen people behaving like in the video? Have you ever made such mistakes yourself?
Bad presentations are so common that people laugh at them. What mistakes does the speaker laugh at?

Lesson Six - Memrise, Duolingo and Livemocha

What languages would you like to learn for yourself?
Have you ever tried to learn a language on your own?

The three resources of this week's lesson are great to start  (and master) a foreign language.

You can use it to work with your second foreign language. Or third... Or....


 

Lesson Five - Quizlet, LinguaLeo, BBC and VOA

There's abundance of tools for language learning on the Internet. Sometimes you think that there are too many and as a result ... you do not use any. Well, I've always believed that the only way to decide if the site suits you or not is to try it. So let us have a closer look at the two sites that are familiar to some of you.

Lesson Four - Filminute

Today we are going to try the role of film critics and just have some fun.

What film awards do you know?
What do the critics give awards for?
Rank the following in the order of its impotance for making a good film:

• captivating plot
• well written characters
• atmospheric soundtrack
• incredible special effects
• great acting

Lesson Three - Forvo, Ozdic and Urbandictionary

Bilingual dictionaries are a very important tool for an English-language learner, but they are not the only tool.
Today we are going to talk about a pronunciation dictionary,  a collocations dictionary and dictionaries of slang and new words.

Lesson Two - Online Translation Services and Bilingual Dictionaries

Everyone who studies English has to work with dictionaries. At first, a learner’s dictionary is enough, but the more you study, the more different dictionaries and sources you need.

Some use online translation services like Google Translate or Translate.ru. Are they trustworthy and are they enough for a student? Well, let us see into that.

Another thing to test today is the online dictionaries. Which is better and for what purposes? - We are to answer.

Lesson One - Creating a Blog. Voki.

Hi, this is our course blog. Note its URL as you will often come here during the course. There at least four reasons for that.

Firstly, this is where you will get tasks every week.

Secondly, here on the right-hand panel is the link to a Google sheet where you can follow your course progress. Please mind that by the end of the 17th week you are to get at least 60% of the total task points to complete the course successfully.

Thirdly, this is where you are to report the completion of the “comment on three other groupmates” task. (You are to leave permalinks to your comments under the post of the corresponding lesson).

Finally, here you can ask questions about the blog and the tasks, write your feedback and ideas.