The Girl Effect

The Girl Effect is the powerful social and economic change brought about when girls have the opportunity to participate in their society.

Adolescent girls are uniquely capable of raising the standard of living in the developing world.

Girls are the most likely agents of change, but they are often invisible to their societies and to our media.

When everyone -- girls, parents, teachers, executives, artists, hairdressers, forest rangers, rock stars, presidents, investors, advertisers, skateboarders, truckers, cowboys, organizations, chefs, teenagers -- knows about The Girl Effect, then real change can happen.

The Girl Effect site is just the beginning. The end is nothing less than ending poverty with CARE!





Votes for Women Speech by Mark Twain:

The World Map of Languages for Teachers

The World Map of Languages by EuroTalk.

There are 6,900 living languages in the world and many thousands more dialects.



EuroTalk Non Profit Simple Lessons on Important Subjects

Our Interactive video lessons cover a vast range of topics, with an emphasis on health and primary education. The lessons are all listed below. Click to see which languages each lesson is available in.



Here’s a quick taster of the way we teach languages. You don’t have to stop there. Select another language to learn, or check out our full products.

Welcome to EuroTalk Education for Primary, Secondary and Higher Education Teachers.

EuroTalk has designed its software to keep your students engaged and entertained at the same time as giving you detailed feedback about their progress and the ability to direct their learning and set them goals within the program.

Our software is in schools, colleges and institutions worldwide. It can be networked and is compatible with interactive projectors and whiteboards and we’ll give you any technical support you need throughout the entire lifetime of your product.

Free printable worksheets for busy teacher

BUSY TEACHER: Free Printable Worksheets For Teachers!
1000s of free printable worksheets for every busy teacher: great lesson plans, grammar and vocabulary worksheets, amazing teacher-made handouts for your every lesson!

Please register here to be able to download worksheets, add new materials, see hidden links and much more. It's FREE!

It has a lot of sections:

This website was made by English teachers for English teachers, and it contains printable worksheets and handouts made by registered users who have granted BUSYTEACHER.ORG full permission to publish their materials on this website.

10 Websites for teaching or learning English

My friend on Facebook Luis wrote an article on this post title in Spanish and I just want to share here:

10 Webs para la enseñanza/aprendizaje de inglés
Recursos gratuitos, útiles y accesibles para salir de un aprieto

Between those free resources, useful and accessible to out of a bind, this blog is being honored in second place knowing that English Portal blog is intended for personal and educational non-profit use.

In the words of Luis:
"It makes extensive use of multimedia resources available on the Internet Web 2.0"

Reading the full article you will know what those 10 highly recommended websites are to help English language teachers.

You can read another interesting languages articles writen by Luis partners here:
http://idiomas.suite101.net/

Thanks Luis and follow me here.

Women against hunger

Women not only cook food for their families, but also produce between 60 - 80% of food in developing nations. And yet, 60% of chronically hungry people are women and girls. We're asking people to send a message of solidarity at wfp.org/women Use this toolkit of facts, video and photos to support your blogging. You can also find banners here! You can also find more information here: WFP: Focus on Women

Learn English on Internet for free

Some good websites to learn English language online without paying anything in return:

www.talkenglish.com Focuses solely on speaking English, you will learn how to say something that will be used in daily conversation. English lessons about travel, business, interviews and most common phrases listen into the real life conversation.

www.usalearns.org is a free Web site funded by the U.S. Department of Education to support immigrants who want to learn or improve their English skills as they become part of American society. Designed as an online tool for learning English outside of a classroom, the site offers contextualized practice activities in listening, reading, writing, speaking and life skills necessary for success at work and in the community. Click a course to help you improve your listening, reading, writing, and speaking.

esl-lounge Student     www.esl-lounge.com The first thing you should do on this site is to complete the level test. A comprehensive guide to English grammar, divided into four levels: Elementary, Pre-Intermediate, Intermediate and Advanced.

www.ompersonal.com.ar is the free English megaportal preferred by Hispanic speakers with 13 free courses with final exam and certification. From children, beginners, basic to advanced level, including TOEFL and FIRST TEST CERTIFICATE.

Learners need a computer with:
• Mouse to click and scroll
• Keyboard to write letters, punctuation, backspace, shift key, space bar
• Up-to-date Web browser with the Flash plug-in to navigate the web
• Fast broadband Internet connection (384 Kpbs or faster)
• Sound card
• Speakers or headphones
• Use of microphone is optional

English Speak lessons, phrases and words

Englishspeak.com is a free and award winning new system for learning to speak English. The program contains lessons that give special attention to English pronunciation and everyday language. With over 100 lessons, Englishspeak.com provides a large amount of audio content. Users have access to two different speeds of playback for each item.

Website (All content is free):
Learn English

List of lessons:
English Lessons

Sample Lesson:
English Lesson 35 - At the restaurant.

To hear a sentence pronounced, click the sound icon in the audio column.

To hear a word pronounced, place the cursor over a word.

To see the meaning of a word, click on the word.

Choose your language: English - Bahasa Indonesia - Bengali - Burmese - Chin - Deutsch - Español - Français - हिन्दी - Portugues - Pусский - ไทย - Tiếng Việt
and more...

Season's Greetings

Top 200 University entries

To see the 2009 UNIVERSITY RANKINGS with the TOP 200 COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES IN THE WORLD click here

Next banner includes 9000 Colleges and Universities ranked by web popularity in 200 countries.


But also you can see that today I publish into this blog the entry no. 200 and now I want to say THANK YOU!!! once again to all 8,878 visitors that have readed 15,743 pages of this English Portal in the last 6 months.

To celebrate I thought to share with you the top 10 most visited entries:

1) The Stranger - Orson Welles (151 reads)

2) Answers (139 reads)

3) Tibet Spirituality (117 reads)

4) Nice Translator (113 reads)

5) Notepad (111 reads)

6) Collins Mobile Dictionaries (107 reads)

7) 3D Alien Worlds Avatar Chat (107 reads)

8) View the Earth from Space (106 reads)

9) The weather in my city (105 reads)

10) Google News (104 reads)

I look forward to sharing many more entries with you, and hope that you keep reading!

Brave New World by Google Wave

Google Wave - a Brave New World?

Is Google Wave trying to assimilate the internet?

The search engine giant seems to think it has the right to do with the world's data as it wishes, without asking permission, and now it's trying to build Web 3.0 within Google Wave to give it even more control.

Now is the time to re-read this classic book about a world so close and not like science-fiction.

Internet Document Search

GetDocs.com is an internet document search engine providing free access to over million software documents such as project plans, presentations, memos, financial spreadsheets, product requirements, forms, risk assessment reports, employee policies, posters, floor plans, whitepapers, lyrics. File types include Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Photoshop, Illustrator, PDF, AutoCAD, 3D Studio, Google Earth, Corel, Open Office, CSV, Text, and many more. You can search results with a quick click on the icons that serve up results by document date, keywords in a document title, language; also by one website location or categorically by government, schools, nonprofits, and commercial sites.

Mira la Red - Watch the Web