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W e l c o m e
Welcome to this page of English-related links and things. As an EFL teacher I am often asked about resources to help with people's English studies outside the classroom.
Often I find myself sending links to internet websites like the BBC's excellent Learning English site, or to GuardianUnlimited (my online paper of choice), to Sky News Video or even just to Wikipedia.
The net also offers a plethora of other sites focusing on the more complex areas of the language like phrasal verbs, false friends and so on. As internet can be constantly updated (on a virtually daily basis, unlike most dictionaries) new vocabulary and cultural trends in the English-speaking world can also be more readily assimilated online.
Turn your speakers on and even pronunciation can be found in cyberspace. Or you can listen to the BBC World Service... or any of the BBC radio stations.
- As I am based in Madrid, sometimes students are curious to discover how British or American correspondents see Spain and Spanish current affairs, and often report facts more impartially than the local media.
- I try and update the links column weekly if I find any new and potentially "useful" sites!
- Also, these pages will save me sending out long links by email!
Enjoy it!
Monday, 18 July 2011
Think PIGS?
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Wednesday, 2 July 2008
Fernando Torres speaks
After scoring the winning goal for Spain in the Euro 2008, ex-Atletico Madrid and current Liverpool golden boy Fernando Torres is once more the centre of attention for the British press.
Here are a few clips of him and his gradually improving English.
Did you catch that awful "can to" though?
(Is the interviewer Spanish in this final clip?)
Sadly nothing on the Spanish Euro triumph, but here's what some of the papers said:
- The Mirror - Germany: Torres not Nº 1 Striker
- The Sun - Spain Will Reign for Years Now
- The New York Times - Slumping Striker Helps Spain Win
- The Guardian - Spain Reign with Beautiful Game...
- Daily Telegraph - Iker: Win is for All Spain
- The Times - Global Rule Next for Torres
- BBC News - Moment of Unity as Spain Win
- The Guardian (again) - How Luis Did it
- Liverpool Echo - Villa: Torres Vital to Team
- Daily Mail - Torres Snubs Chelsea
- Sky Sports - Aragonés: We Were the Best
- Football365 - What the Papers Said
- Australian Daily Telegraph - Sydney's Spanish Quarter Celebrate
- IOL South Africa - Spain's Euro Glory...
- Goal.com - Spain's Most Hated is Vidicated
- Bild (Germany) - Crazy Euro 2008
- The Local (Sweden) - Spain's Euro Win bad for Swedish Economy (?)
Finally, as connoisseurs of the great British pun, let us leave you with a selection of Euro 2008 wordplay courtesy of the tabloid press:
- - of course in the UK commentators pronouce Güiza as "Geezer"
- - Think of Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady
- - the quarter-finals curse, of course