16 Sep.2017

Free PPT’s templates- revise and play

This is a very useful blog created by an english language teacher in Japan that offers a great collection of free power points, excel and word templates .

They are useful games to learn, and play.

Here you will find ONLY the templates and tutorials for help so that you could use them in a personal way .

A great and fun way to teach, of course.

And this is my contribution with the game I have created with one of the free templates from tekhnologic: jeopardy.It revises some vocabulary and grammar: present perfect, present simple and order order of adjectives…

20 May.2017

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Dictionaries

A great collection of the best on line dictionaries all over the web.

Just have a look!

Word Reference.com

Free online dictionaries – Spanish, French, Italian, German and more. Conjugations, audio pronunciations and forums for your questions.

Vocabulary.com

A great tool either to improve your vocabulary as student or, as a teacher to help your students. It’s more than a simple dictionary. TRY IT!

Collins Dictionary

More than 500,000 words, meanings, phrases, synonyms and antonyms. It is ideal for everyday use at home, for study, at the office and on the go.

McMillan Dictionary Online

Pronuntiation, translations, language resources and many other things that you can explore.

Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary

A great dictionary for general British English on Cambridge Dictionaries Online.

Merriam-Webstern

America’s most useful and respected dictionary,Word of the Day, facts and observations on language, lookup trends, and wordplay. With many usage examples.

Longman Dictionary

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Online

Using English

English language site specialising in English as a Second Language (ESL) established in 2002 with a large collection of tools & resources for students, teachers…, It covers the full spectrum of ESL, EFL, ESOL, and EAP subject areas.

Dictionary.com

An online source for English definitions, synonyms, word origins, audio pronunciations, example sentences, slang phrases, idioms, word games, legal and medical terms, Word of the Day and more.

Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary

Used by over 35 million learners of English worldwide. You will find out any word.

Oxford Living Dictionary

This dictionary is more than a dictionary: videos, quizzes, grammar, thesaurus… Very recomendable!!

The Free Dictionary.com

This dictionary allows you to create your own personal homepage by adding and removing, dragging and dropping, and “using or losing” existing content windows…

SPECIFIC DICTIONARIES

LINGUEE

It is a web service that provides an online dictionary for a number of language pairs. It incorporates a search engine that provides access to large amounts of bilingual, translated sentence pairs, which come from the World Wide Web. ATTENTION !!!! Linguee is not an automatic translation machine!

WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE?

What’s the difference between two similar words?

GRAPH words

Fantastic free semantic field maps and thesaurus synonimes

Synonyme Finder

Speak and write with confidence. To help you avoid using the same word too repetitively, redundantly, recurrently, incessantly, etc.

Cogney rhyming slang dictionary

Do you want to know about cogney rhyming slang, the secret language of London?

VISUWORD

Fantastic free graph words and thesaurus synonyms for teachers and students

Phrase up Dictionary

phraseup assists you with writing by finding and filling-in the words you can’t remember

Phrasal verbs dictionary

A reference of 3,451 current English Phrasal Verbs (also called multi-word verbs) with definitions and examples.

Visual Dictionary Online

Explore the 15 major themes to access more than 6,000 images and see words like never before.

31 Mar.2017

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GRAPH dictionary

With visuword whether you are a native English speaker or a second language user you can explore the lexicon in a complete new way.

Use the graphs to associate words and expand on concepts. Brainstorm. Move beyond synonyms and find other kinds of relational connections.

Enter words into the search box, “visualize a word,” to look them up. Touch a node to see the definition of that word group and click and drag individual nodes to move them around to help clarify connections.

It’s a dictionary! It’s a thesaurus!
Great for writers, journalists, students, teachers, and artists.
No membership required.

It uses Princeton University’s WordNet, an opensource database built by University students and language researchers. Combined with a visualization tool and user interface built from a combination of modern web technologies, Visuwords™ is available as a free resource to all patrons of the web.

THE VISUWORDS™ INTERFACE

To use the applet you only need to type a word into the search query at the top of the page and press ‘Enter’. A network of nodes or ‘synsets’ will spring out from the word that you entered. A synset is essentially a single concept that is represented by a number of terms or synonyms.

SYNSETS

Each synset node is shown as a globe. Nouns are blue, verbs are green, adjectives; orange and adverbs; red. The synsets are joined by colored links that represent kind of association those synsets have to one another.

“is a kind of” — hyponym/hypernym pair

With regards to “wheat” and “grain”, we see a cyan link from “wheat” pointing towards “grain” we can understand this to mean that wheat “is a kind of” grain. Here, “wheat” is a hyponym and “grain” is a hypernym. In the case of verbs this same cyan link can be understood better by “is one way to”. So, for example, to trot “is one way to” walk.
“is an instance of” — hyponym/hypernym pair

In these relationships, the hyponym is specific and unique. For example, “Einstein” is an instance of a “physicist”.
“is a member of”, “is a part of”, “is a substance of” — meronym/holonym pair

In these cases the meronym in some way belongs to the holonym. Examples: “robin” is a member of the “thrushes”, a “wheel” is a part of a “wheeled vehicle”, “caffeine” is a substance of “coffee”.