Pilgrims - Maidstone, 2007

Happy Christmas

noreply@blogger.com (Joao Alves) — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 18:42:00 +0000

Italo-Spanish meeting

noreply@blogger.com (A.Jiménez) — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 15:06:00 +0000

Irene visited us in Murcia during the Easter holidays. Had a very nice time together. Missed the other Spanish pilgrims and Mauro, who were not able to join us.

Embedding music in the blog

noreply@blogger.com (Joao Alves) — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 11:32:00 +0000

I know two ways to add music to your blog. Either by embedding it with your post or by adding it as an HTML/Javascript widget via the "Add a Page Element" in the layout.

In either way, first you need to find an audio/music file hosted on the Web. You can either find the music files in a site like http://www.freemp3mail.com/ or you can upload music files you have stored on your computer to a file host like http://boomp3.com/

Once you did that, you need to copy and paste this code in your post editor window or in the HTML/Javascript window:

<embed src="URL of music"
width="150" height="40"
autostart="false" loop="false" />

Then paste the URL location of your music file.

You need to have the Quick Time plugin installed in your computer. I advise the Quick Time alternative because Apple's plugin won't work with Firefox whereas Quick Time alternative will work with both. You can get it here.

Here is an example. I linked to a music hosted in the freemp3mail.com site referred above.

Happy New Year!!

noreply@blogger.com (Joao Alves) — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 22:33:00 +0000

Hello Pilgrims

I wish you all a very happy New Year!

I just wonder, did you get your money back from Comenius? I got it only today. Finally!

Joao

noreply@blogger.com (Joao Alves) — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 13:33:00 +0000

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU ALL!

noreply@blogger.com (A.Jiménez) — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 19:06:00 +0000

Learning English - Guide to free online resources

noreply@blogger.com (Joao Alves) — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 23:40:00 +0000

This is another interesting site that you can explore and use for your English classes. I hope you can find something useful.
Cheers,
Joao

hues of sunset

noreply@blogger.com (Joao Alves) — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 13:05:00 +0000

hues of sunset, originally uploaded by jkairvar.

More listening at BBC Learning English

noreply@blogger.com (Joao Alves) — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:29:00 +0000

Need listening exercises? BBC Learning English has a whole bunch of them.

Long time no see

noreply@blogger.com (Sofia) — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 12:41:00 +0000

Hello Pilgrims! I haven't visited the blog for a long time, but now I'm back! I use Facebook,so I've also seen the picture from Lorena! Nice to see you all again. I'm sure you had a great time getting together like that. Here in Sweden it's snowing and we have a couple of degrees below zero. I've been out throwing snow-balls with my daughter...A bit different from the south of Europe I'm sure...

Best wishes, Sofia

Spanish pilgrims together again

noreply@blogger.com (A.Jiménez) — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 10:19:00 +0000

Yesterday afternoon Lorena, Rosanna, Lázaro, Fernando and the two Agustinas had a meal together in Alicante (Spain) as part of a meeting that we'd been trying to organise for months until we eventually found the right date.
More information on how it all went as well as photos of the event will come in a further post that Lorena will write. She promised to do so and wanted to do it herself, so I'll leave you* with the expectation :-D

* you= Joao (for sure) and maybe any other pilgrims who are still reading the blog in silence (I think one of them is Sophia... come on, don't be shy, say something! ha ha).

Love from Spain

Inside Out e-lessons

noreply@blogger.com (Joao Alves) — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 19:55:00 +0000

This site has many useful activities for your English classes and from now on they will be available to download on every Monday.

English speaking activities

noreply@blogger.com (Joao Alves) — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 18:32:00 +0000

This site could be useful to test speaking. It comes with a tasksheet containing questions and pictures to help the teacher implementing the speaking tasks.

English Student Resources

noreply@blogger.com (Joao Alves) — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 14:53:00 +0000

What about this site? Hope you find it useful.

Kind regards from Portugal.

Another two interesting websites for English teachers

noreply@blogger.com (Joao Alves) — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 19:29:00 +0000

learnenglishfeelgood

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself

Teach English with video

noreply@blogger.com (Joao Alves) — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 18:03:00 +0000

Have you ever wished to have a nice video to motivate your students and make your teaching more interesting? Have a look at this site! Here you can find a variety of videos ranging from beginner to advanced level.

Mr Ferlazzo's English Website

noreply@blogger.com (Joao Alves) — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:38:00 +0000

Hello Pilgrims!

Here is another site that might interest you. But beware, you might get addicted to it and waste precious time for your preparation work. :)

Keep in touch. It's always a pleasure hearing news about you.

João

Grüße aus Berlin

noreply@blogger.com (A.Jiménez) — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 19:21:00 +0000

Just wanted to say 'hi!' after quite a long time without any posts. I've just come back from a trip to Berlin with some students; we've had a great time there. I hope you are all doing well. Let us know something from you from time to time. xxx
-Agustina-

Interesting Things for ESL Students

noreply@blogger.com (Joao Alves) — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 22:50:00 +0000

This site seems to have lots of interesting material for English teachers. It's also on the list Graham gave us but I found it by chance and thougt it would be a good idea to post it here. This way you can find it more easily. I hope you find it useful.

Video Jug - Life Explained on Film

noreply@blogger.com (Joao Alves) — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 20:08:00 +0000

This site offers you many videos about different subjects that you can download and use for teaching purposes. For example, they can be used for listening and speaking activities.

Video Jug - Life Explained on Film

Learning and remembering vocabulary

noreply@blogger.com (Joao Alves) — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 17:41:00 +0000

Here is an interesting site about learning and remembering vocabulary techniques. Listen to the webcast and find out some techniques that a few students use to learn and remember vocabulary.

Learning and remembering vocabulary

Deezer - Online Music

noreply@blogger.com (Joao Alves) — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 10:41:00 +0000

Hello Pilgrims!
You have been very quiet. Are you still there? :)

Have a look at another interesting site about music. Click on the title to get linked to it.

Social Bookmarking 2

noreply@blogger.com (Joao Alves) — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 21:04:00 +0000

This time I show you a video about social bookmarking which makes it very easy to understand how important social bookmarking is.

Social Networking

noreply@blogger.com (Joao Alves) — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 14:28:00 +0000

Have you ever heard of social networking? No? Watch this video.

Music for all tastes

noreply@blogger.com (Joao Alves) — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 14:08:00 +0000

Hello Pilgrims, are you still there? :)

Try this site about online music. It seemed quite interesting to me and functional. Try it out and have fun.