Here is a recent message from Nik Peachey: for those of you who weren’t able to get into Second Life for these chat shows, you can find audio recordings of the interviews here. Scott Thornbury http://tinyurl.com/dzd5xa Jeremy Harmer http://tinyurl.com/dgvghz Sound
Webinar
I’m delighted to be speaking next month on a Macmillan webinar. If you want to sign up, just visit the Macmillan site. It’s free to view, but remember, you have to pre-register!
Longman dictionary and Firefox
If you use Firefox to browse the web you will probably know that it features a search box on its tool bar. This is usually set to Google when you first install the browser. However, if you click on the
Blended Learning – update number 5
The fifth update for our book Blended Learning is now available on the Macmillan website. So, if you want to revisit Power Point and read about the latest developments on Google! just download you free update!
The six best business English books ever!
Many thanks to Lindsay Clandfield for including this offering on his blog: six things Do visit the blog – it’s one of the best six around……
Language for negotiating – website of the month
I’ve been having a start-of-year clean out and came across a piece of paper with the address of the Changing Minds website. I had clearly found and used this resource some time last year to provide a learner with some
Interactive graphics from the Financial Times
The graphics department of the Financial Times have been working overtime recently to provide visual and audio summaries of the events of the current crisis hitting the business and financial world. They can accessed by clicking on In depth on
Online listening – TED.com
Here’s a website that contains a large number of authentic videos that could form the basis for listening and discussion lessons with higher-level learners. TED.com hosts videos of presentations by a remarkable range of people including environmental activist: Al Gore, founder
Macmillan on YouTube
Some interesting videos here – including Adrian Underhill on pronunciation, plus videos with Scott Thornbury and Michael Hoey.
Online listening for the oil industry
BP’s 2007 annual report, which can be downloaded as a PDF from their website is accompanied by a set of downloadable MP3 recordings of the parts of the report. Although these are, no doubt, intended as an aid to BP