Thesaurus – Synonyms, Antonyms, and Related Words

Author: Farlex

Recommended by: David Carrascosa Cañego

“A comprehensive online thesaurus of synonyms, antonyms and related words. The thesaurus contains over 145,800 unique entries from three main sources: Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged, The American Heritage Roget’s Thesaurus, and WordNet.”

Lecturer’s Strategies in English Speaking Class

Author: Daddi, H. & Ul Haq, M. Z.

Recommended by: David Carrascosa Cañego

“This research aimed to reveal what strategies were applied by lecturers in English speaking class, how those strategies were applied and to know the students’ perceptions towards the use of those strategies.”

Strategies for Academic English

Author: Lee, K.

Recommended by: Alicia Fernández Barrera

“A lecture about EMI from a graduate student programme. It provides general strategies and tips to improve English academic writing and presentations. This includes the writing process and the difficulties in working in English as a second language.”

English for Teaching Purposes: A Mooc Provided by the Language Service at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB).

Author: Solá Viñals, S., Ygoa-Bayer, J. & James, I.

Recommended by: Alicia Fernández Barrera

“It provides the necessary tools to integrate different aspects of CLIL (methodological, pedagogical, strategic, linguistic and pragmatic) to put together their own-English medium course on their particular subject. It also describes the characteristics of the university lecture discourse genre and explains the appropriate linguistic aspects, micro-functions in English teaching discourse (metalinguistic, informative, evaluative, inductive, etc.) to consolidate their oral expression and interaction, as well as their grammar and vocabulary.”

Glossary of terms and concepts used in TKT: CLIL

Author: Cambridge University

Recommended by: Fátima Faya Cerqueiro

“TKT CLIL glossary, available online to handle basic terminology, of particular interest is the entry on visual organisers, which allows us to identify the name of the type of organiser we use.”

Speaking in Academic Contexts

Author: Gillet, A.

Recommended by: Fátima Faya Cerqueiro

“Page with resources on English for Academic Purposes (Using English for Academic Purposes for Students in Higher Education). In the link you can find concrete examples of the parts of a presentation.”

CLASS-TALK – A University Teaching Phrasebook

Author: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Recommended by: Fátima Faya Cerqueiro Faya Cerqueiro

“Website of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. It has a wide repertoire of useful structures for teaching in English, with conversational strategies for oral practice, such as starting a session, changing the subject or referring to resources, among others. All with transcription and audio, as well as a translation into Spanish.”