Curiosities about the English language.

The most used letter in the English alphabet is “E”
The least used letter in the English alphabet is “Q”.
The sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter of the alphabet!
The longest word in English is ‘pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis’ (45 letters).
Of all the words in the English language, the word “set” has the most definitions.
The shortest complete sentence in the English language is “I am”.
“Rhythm” is the longest English word without a vowel.
The only word in the English language that has four sets of double letters in row is balloonneer.
The word “Queue” is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.

Watch videos and films in English with subtitles. You can even watch The Simpsons.

http://ororo.tv/en

Website to listen to famous songs (some of them with subtitles) and different activities divided into levels.






http://www.subingles.com/exercises

To practise Present simple/continuous.

http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/present-simple-present-continuous-2.html

http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/simpre-prepro

Recursos de inglés de la Consejería de Educación y Cultura. Games, songs,...

http://www.educarm.es/ingles

https://www.dropbox.com/s/yra6ex1v00mp3sb/Grammar1-PresentSimplePresentCont_2619.pdf

For my pupils from ESO 1st year. Review of Present Simple and Continuous

Tips about false friends
http://menuaingles.blogspot.com.es/2010/11/lista-de-false-friendsamigos-falsos.html

Recent news    hhttp://www.breakingnews.com/

Many useful videos and activities

http://www.ompersonal.com.ar/omvideo/contenidotematico.htm

The news. http://www.thebigproject.co.uk/news/#.Uvp9TWYWXMI

Try to practise with this. http://www.mansioningles.com/

Elementary Level summary

Download here pdf with basic contents for a Elementary Level. Thanks to Asun.

More interesting facts, bur now about England.


http://www.eupedia.com/england/trivia.shtml