Kinetic typography

There's a different way of watching your favourite films: no images, just animated words. Practise your listening skills with this scene from the film 300.

Sing along!

A good way to practice your English is singing with videokes, that is, a karaoke video where they play the music and you put the voice. Here you have an example, Imagine by John Lennon, but you can find many other songs of all sorts of music in www.youtube.com

Happy birthday!

Today the world celebrates the 200th aniversary of one of the parents of modern biology: Charles Darwin. You can celebrate it too by finding out more about him and his works, just check out the following links.

The Origin of Species (full online free version)

Darwin day celebration site

BBC Darwin bicentenary special
The history of evolutionary thought

Get the glass!

Get the Glass is a 3D board game produced as a part of a new Got Milk advertising campaign (an American iniciative to promote milk drinking). This is a Flash mini-game where you can help a family escape from the cops. You can practise your English on the way and enjoy its amazing graphics. Have fun!

Get the glass

What would you do if you could have a flying car?

This video is a short film by Kevin Smith, the director of Clerks, Mallrats or Dogma. It is a dialogue between Dante y Randall, two of the main characters in Clerks and Clerks 2, who discuss about the possibility of having a flying car. The speak very quicky, but the subtitles will definitely help you. Have a good laugh!



If you want to find out more about real flying cars, check the following links:

How a real flying car works video

A flying car on the road (it can be yours for just a few pounds!)

Study abroad (Eurocursos 2009)

If you want to go to the UK or Ireland to study English in the summer, this is your chance. The IVAJ is offering several grants for people currently studying first or second of Bachillerato. If you are interested, hurry up, since you only can apply until the 15th of January. Check up the following link to see all the details and the requiremets you need to be able to participate. Eurocursos IVAJ

Funniest telemarketer call ever

How many times have you recieved an annoying phone call from a telemarketer? Here you can listen to a man with a real strategy to turn this typical situation upside down. You can read the conversation as you listen, so it's easier to understand. Have a good laugh!