Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases

http://books.google.com/books?id=9nYCAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=roget+thesaurus&as_brr=1#v=onepage&q&f=false

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Mark_Roget

Kangaroo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lCKc8tURtc&feature=related

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangaroo

25 Steps to word power

25 Steps to word power
Wilfred J. Funk
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilfred_J._Funk

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexicography

VIDEO 80 aniversary of the OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKhixy-_dfM

links

http://exchanges.state.gov/
http://iew.state.gov/quiz.cfm
http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/edlite-index.html
http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/international/
http://crossroads.georgetown.edu/teaching-and-learning/critical-conversations/
http://crossroads.georgetown.edu/
http://cied.georgetown.edu/
http://cied.georgetown.edu/ials/ials_movie.cfm

Global English....Latin American English?

According to the interesting article "Global English" (Jenkins, J 2002)
http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/think/articles/global-english-teaching-pronunciation
"Native speakers (of english) have different accents depending on the region where they were born and live. So why non-native speakers of an international language should not be allowed to do the same?"
So it is possible to talk about the latin american english accent?

United Nations: works of 2010 in 1 minute

The Secretary Ban Kim Moon said abou the achivements of UN in 2010:
-Creation of UN women
-Advances in Biodiversity
-Succes in elections in Iraq and Afghanistan

4 key ideas

1) Focus more prevention
2) Focus more on preparedness
3) Being Pro-active (According to one of my teachers is better to use the word Pro-positive)
4) Being Persistan

Watch the summary video in an interestinf format (videos with subtitles)
in ULR: http://www.un.org/en/

Which magazine(s) help you to develop your english?

Here we have an interesting example the magazine English Teaching FORUM promote the theory and practice of teaching english.

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You can find 72 numbers on line (in pdf format) of FORUM since 1993 in

http://exchanges.state.gov/englishteaching/forum/archives/1996.html