Longman dictionary in Firefox
As you all may know, Firefox has a search box on its tool bar which is generally set to Google. However, there are many search providers. If you click on the arrow next to the Google icon you can add to that list by clicking on Manage Search Engines (administrar botones de busqueda) at the bottom of the list. This will lead you to a dialogue box and there you have to click on Get More Search Engines (obtener más motores de búsqueda). You will be taken to the Firefox add-ons website. Look for the add-on for the Longman dictionary. Click on Add to Firefox and that’s it. You will be able to search the Longman Dictionary via your toolbar.
Hope you find it useful!
1 comment February 15, 2009
Online Visual Dictionary
I have just come back from my holidays and surfing the net I stumble upon this wonderful new online dictionary. It is full of wonderful and very telling pictures. Apart from that, the pictures are labelled with terminology in up to 6 languages. It is very useful for those moments in which we cannot match the words with images or the other way about.
If you are more interested in collocations than in images, I have also something for you: The Oxford Collocations Dictionary is online. It is worth giving it a look.
Hope you find it useful. Have to go and unpack. See you later!
2 comments February 6, 2009
Lesson Plan: World Financial Crisis
If you haven’t heard recently about the financial crisis, you are definitely not living in the Earth planet. Every newspaper, magazine, television programme and the like is dealing with this issue. Everybody seems to be an expert in economy nowadays, or at least they would like to be. As our classes do take place in this planet, why not take this popular topic to the classroom? There are plenty of articles, videos and recordings about it somewhere there on the net. There are even lesson plans! For example, if you have students from higher levels a good option would be this ready-made lesson plan from In Company website.
However, it is very difficult to find an article suitable for lower levels. After surfing the net for a long time, I have finally discovered one written by CBBC Newsround and prepared with it a lesson plan: cash_crisis. It deals with the current world financial crisis using very simple language making it accesible for language learners. It is also a good revision of verbs related to money.
Hope you enjoy it and don’t forget to leave as a comment if you happen to use the lesson plan or if you have more ideas to deal with the topic.
Add comment October 8, 2008
A Quick Search Engine for ESL sites
Surfing the net I have found this useful tool and I would like to share it with you. With ESl Search for English as a second Language you will be able to find ESL related information in a fast and easy way. As it is powered by google it is very reliable. It is great because it only searches sites about learning and teaching English as a second language. Apart from that, it is extremely easy to use. Just as you use any other search engine: type your search word into the box and then click search. And there you’ve got plenty of results to start looking at. Hope you like it and find it useful!
6 comments July 8, 2008
How to Share Files in Twitter!!!!
Don’t think that it is something complicated. In fact, sharing your pics, word documents, power point presentations and others with your Twitter friends is at one-click distance. It is extremely easy with this new application: Tweet Cube. “Tweetcube allows you to share files on Twitter. Blast out your images, videos, music and more with just a couple of clicks.” Apart from that, it is 100% FREE!!! The only drawback is that you can currently upload only 10 mb. However, you can upload as many files as you want. Take into account that the files will be deleted after 30 days. Hope you enjoy it. And remember, if you want to start following me, I’m sabridv at Twitter.
11 comments May 25, 2008



