English Speaking Countries Project (Outlines)

This project is devoted to extend the knowledge of the English speaking countries to the students of 4^th ESO, in all the possible aspects: culture, geography, history, art, etc.

Outlines:

ð  Geographic description: Situation, regions, rivers, mountains, land area, etc.

ð  History

ð  Fast facts: official name, government, population, monetary unit, official languages.

ð  Capital city and other important cities

ð  The flag and Emblem: description and symbolism

ð  Art and culture: Painters, writers, Architecture, music and dance, etc.

ð  Sports

ð  Sightseeing (Main monuments, views, landscapes...)

Useful links with information about countries:

ð  National Geographics.

ð  Fact Monster.

ð  Infoplease.

ð  CIA.

ð  Atlapedia.

Windows Live Movie Maker Tutorial

Here you have some tutorials on how to use the Windows Live Movie Maker.

Power Point Presentations Tutorial

To create your final project for your English class, you should know how to do a Power Point presentation.

GFC LearnFree Organization provides you with a clear, wide tutorial to learn how to do a good slide show.

But if you haven't got time enough, have an eye to this video tutorial:

Sports Vocabulary

This lesson is all about sports. Here you will learn the words basketball, baseball, volleyball, ski, swimming, marathon, tennis, golf, cycling, and badminton in English, so you can meet up with your English friends for a game in their language.:

Extreme Sports

Originally, adult sports involving a high level of danger and adrenaline that would not appeal to most people but attract a daring few: things like skydiving, bungee jumping, rock climbing, ice climbing, technical mountaineering, hang gliding. It generally did not include sports which were "extreme" in their early years but since became mainstream (e.g., downhill skiing or scuba diving), nor did it include children's and teenager's activities like BMX or skateboarding. Extreme sports originally meant adult and non-mainstream. Later (from the late 1990s on) the meaning changed to become synonymous with non-dangerous kiddie sports and the definition has more to do with age (and with marketing energy drinks, Mountain Dew, baggy pants, and punk and thrash music), much to the chagrin of older folks involved in dangerous sports who now would rather the term would go away.

Here you have links to different extreme sports:

skateboarding skateboard tube inline rollerblading snowboarding paintball extreme sports skating skate water sking water sports surfing wake skiing water-skiing water inner tube boat sking bmx water skiing

For more information see the Wikipedia.