Sites
Inglés Mundial - Passport to English - Simplified Spanish - The English Minute - Side Hustle Site
Inglés Mundial
Inglés Mundial provides free English lessons to Spanish-speaking students all over the world. The lessons can be used at home by students independently or in a classroom computer lab. There are beginning, intermediate, and advanced level English lessons on the site. The lessons are thematically-based and each lesson includes a vocabulary, grammar, listening comprehension, dialogue, reading, pronunciation, dictation, and game page. Many of the lesson pages include .mp3 audio to enable students to hear and practice with native-speakers. All of the lesson pages contain interactive exercises that are self-correcting.
The Inglés Mundial site also contains a "Teachers' Lounge" with language focus lists and in-class activity ideas to go with each lesson. There are even links pages to quickly find lessons that focus on specific student needs. A "1000 Palabras" section of the site teaches the 1000 most common words in English with an image, definition, sentence example, audio to hear pronunciation, and review of previous words.
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Passport to English
After the success of Inglés Mundial, Passport to English (formerly called English Language World) was created in late 2010 as an equivalent website for non-Spanish speakers. Passport to English incorporates the English lessons from Inglés Mundial with explanations in simple English so that they can be used by a non-Spanish speaking audience. There are beginning, intermediate, and advanced level English lessons on the site. The lessons are thematically-based and each lesson includes a vocabulary, grammar, listening comprehension, dialogue, reading, pronunciation, dictation, and game page. Many of the lesson pages include .mp3 audio to enable students to hear and practice with native-speakers. All of the lesson pages contain interactive exercises that are self-correcting.
The Passport to English site also contains a "Teachers' Lounge" with language focus lists and in-class activity ideas to go with each lesson. There are links pages to quickly find lessons that focus on specific student needs.
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Simplified Spanish
Simplified Spanish offers free online Spanish lessons to English speakers. The lessons are modeled after Inglés Mundial and follow a similiar format. The lessons are thematically-based and each lesson includes a vocabulary, grammar, dialogue, reading, and quiz page. Many of the lesson pages include .mp3 audio to enable students to hear and practice with native-speakers. All of the lesson pages contain interactive exercises that are self-correcting.
The Simplified Spanish site also contains a "Teachers' Lounge" with language focus lists and in-class activity ideas to go with each lesson.There are links pages to quickly find lessons that focus on specific student needs. A "1000 Words" section of the site teaches the 1000 most common words in Spanish with an image, definition, sentence example, audio to hear pronunciation, and review of previous words.
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The English Minute
The English Minute includes very short English lessons consisting of a one-minute video and a short 10-question practice exercise. The lessons are mobile-friendly so they can be done on your smart phone anywhere and any time. You can do these quick lessons whenever you have a free minute or two. There are monolingual English lessons designed for speakers of any language as well as lessons with grammar explanations in Spanish.
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Side Hustle Site
Side Hustle Site teaches how to create an online website business. The process is broken down into ten steps to create the site, gain traffic and monetize. Additional advice is provided in the Tips & Tricks section.
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