Saturday, February 13, 2010

Winter Olympics again

A real neat interactive guide to the Olympics by the Los Angeles Time
The daily newspaper of your epals!

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Nasa again

Nasa is worth following on Twitter just for the beautiful pictures.
This is Rio dejaneiro:

here is San Francisco


Golden Gate Bridge, San Fransisco, CA. Beautiful shadow :-) on Twitpic

and London



London, England - first time that I saw the whole city withou... on Twitpic

Winter Olympics

The winter Olympic games are a great moment.

First, you have to know where Vancouver is you can see it better from here: click and here too.

if you wish to know more about each sport Click here
or here, and here.

The passing of the torch dating back to the tenth century BCE( Before the Common Era) is also very great and interesting.
if you want to see beautiful pictures of the event so far click here.
You can see all the torches on this New York Times website Click.

Now for a few exercises: click and here for a scientific outlook

An engaging game from the Canadian Olympic school that you should try: click.

A little history here and here to see who were the champions.

Have a great time watching, there is a problem though: there is no snow in Vancouver, the temperature is too high an average of 7.6 °C read here


epals

We have talked about Glogster in class today. Have a look and let me know what you think.

Here is the link, just click.

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

10-02-09

Here is a new quiz on the last lesson for the 6° all of them!

A new word game to help you write and recite your vocabulary

I liked this neat word games. Some are easy and will help you build your vocabulary. Keep an all English dictionary open in another window to help.
Click here and try them

Monday, February 8, 2010

Very neat writing, spelling exercises

This website gives a series of really nice exercises to identify sounds and spelling and to help you write. Try the think and write label.

Another nice one is "Protagonize" you can write a story online and people may add to it help you write it and so on... Here it is,click