IIn questo nuovo tipo di risorsa, realizzata da Misterduncan, assistiamo ad una vera e propria lezione di inglese britannico ma con una novità: la presenza dei sottotitoli inglesi (se dovessero essere coperti da una striscia di pubblicità, rimuovete prima la striscia cliccando sul simbolo X) oppure della trascrizione del testo inglese. In questo modo sarà possibile fare un utile esercizio di listening con la certezza di poter verificare se abbiamo capito correttamente. In alternativa, possiamo scegliere di vedere il video in modo da beneficiare dell’effetto positivo sulla comprensione e sulla memorizzazione determinato dalla contemporanea visione dei sottotitoli o della trascrizione. Così l’inglese diventa davvero godibile e divertente (e se non capite qualche parola, indicatecelo nei commenti e ve ne forniremo la traduzione italiana!).

LISTENING CON I SOTTOTITOLI – Learning English 2 • Accents

Nel mio recentissimo blog vi ho proposto di fare voi la trascrizione di questa lezione ma credo di dovervi dare qualche suggerimento, perlomeno dirvi come mi sono comportata io. Vi anticipo che tutti gli strumenti di lavoro che vi indicherò sono prelevabili gratuitamente dai siti che mano a mano vi segnalerò.

Innanzitutto ho scaricato direttamente sul mio pc il filmato usando il programma Orbit che può essere downlodato da questo sito e può essere usato sia con Internet Explorer che con Firefox. In alternativa, ma solo per Firefox, si può ricorrere all’estensione gratuita DownloadHelper, scaricabile qui.

Fatto questo, il filmato deve essere visualizzato sul vostro computer con un programma tipo IrfanView che si può prelevare da questo sito – oppure con The KMPlayer, reperibile su questo sito.

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How to Add Journals to Old Scrapbooks

How to Add Journals to Old Scrapbooks.

Grace: So, what is the last thing we need to know about salvaging your old photo albums and keeping them acid-free?

Sonya: Right. Well, your old photo albums are just a plethora of stories and memories.

And you want to make sure you’re keeping a written record, as well as the photo record.

Sometimes people have report cards and old letters and things that they want to keep in their newer scrapbooks.

And this is a really easy way to do it.

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About Birthday Speeches

About Birthday Speeches.

Hey, this is Tracey Goodwin, I am the Red Sweater Lady and today I am going to teach you how to write and deliver a birthday speech.

A great birthday speech in fact.

Now, we are going to cover a lot of things that you should do, what you shouldn’t do and how to write it.

And, in the process of talking about all of those things, you are going to understand how to give a great birthday speech.

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Emoticons & E-Mail Etiquette

Emoticons & E-Mail Etiquette

Next let’s talk about emoticons. You know, those smiley guys that are jumping, or maybe they’re frowny guys who are frowning, or one of them is running, or it’s a dancing bunny, or whatever it is.

Don’t go there. Especially in business. Never, ever; even if you have a casual business relationship with someone.

You never want to put those guys into anything; any letters, any correspondence that you email on the business level with.

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Setting Up a Google Account

Setting Up a Google Account

Hi. In this series I’m going to be talking about Google Calendar, which is a free web-based calendar program from Google.

I really like this program a lot. I use it to organize my personal life and my business life, so it’s just a real simple easy to use calendar that is free and because it’s web-based, it makes it real easy to look at it from any computer, which I think is one of the coolest features about a web-based calendar program.

And I mean, that might be the coolest feature, but that doesn’t mean that Google Calendar doesn’t have a ton of other features and some really cool things you can do with it.

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Ending Relationships: Telling the Truth

Ending Relationships: Telling the Truth.

Alright, we’re talking about dissolving relationships. And what I want to talk about now is honesty and self-reflection.

When you finally make a decision, or as you’re going through the decision process to decide whether you want to end this relationship or not.

 Well, first of all, that’s something that you really should do.

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How to get paid as a clown

On behalf of Expert Village, my name is Paul Anderson from the ABC Circus here in Hollywood, Florida, and we’re going to do “how to be a clown!”

So do you want to be a professional or do you want to be an amateur? Both are equally great. It doesn’t matter whether you charge or whether you do it for free.

That has nothing to do with how good you are. Perhaps you have a full time job, say at a bank, and you only want to perform at a hospital to make the kids in the hospital happy, or at a retirement home.

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HOW TO BREATHE WHEN SINGING

How to Breathe When Singing

In this clip I’m going to talk about the importance of breathing, which is essential to your warm up.

First of all, you know where your lungs are. Beneath your lungs is actually a muscle called the diaphragm which is an elasticy muscle and if you relax your belly, really relax and let it go, that muscle, the diaphragm, relaxes.

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How to Find Water in the Desert

Hi. I’m Mike Meyers with Zion Wilderness Survival School for Expert Village.

You’ve been out here hiking for four or five hours, you’ve found yourself lost, and you have this problem. Very, very critical problem. In the desert, water is your number one need. Unfortunately, it’s also one of the most difficult things to find. And, you need to know a few ways of locating water if there is any.

You may walk around for hours and find nothing doing all the right things. There are signs of water in the desert. Signs can be bees, flies. Both of these insects seldom venture more than a hundred or two hundred yards from some water source.

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ORGANIZING WITH A COMPUTER

Organizing With a Computer

Hello. My name’s Melissa Schenk and on behalf of Expert Village, today we’re going to talk about how to organize your business documents.

In our final clip today let’s talk about how to organize your business documents digitally. By that I mean your computer.

We’ve been talking so far about organizing your business documents on your desk, in your filing cabinet, on shelves, in different kinds of cabinetry. That’s all for paper documents.

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Greetings & Closings in E-Mails

Greetings & Closings in E-Mails

Sometimes you might want to add a greeting to your email, you know, the first thing that your reader is going to read.

“Good afternoon everyone, from the desk of Jim Smith”, you know, whatever you want to put.

A greeting makes the email seem a little bit more personal and… so that might be something that you want to consider, as long as it’s still within… you know… not… not too informal.

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