How many languages do you speak?

Language learning is something that everyone can do. You're never too old or too young to learn a language!
In many countries it is quite normal for most people to be able to use several languages. These people are better able to move between countries for educational, professional or other reasons. Their linguistic skills are attractive to employers.
The European Commission wants everybody in the Union to share these benefits. In its 1995 White Paper “Teaching and Learning: towards the learning society”, it set the objective of all EU citizens being proficient in three European languages: their mother tongue plus two more.
Have a look at this map from a report of the Eurobarometer of Europeans and their Languages from 2006. Do the countries from Southern Europe have anything in common?
If you cannot see the map, click on it.

Describing a festivity

As this weekend the El Rocío festivity is taking place, I found this video about El Rocío in English that can help students to learn how to describe festivities and present them to people who know nothing about it. Enjoy!


Spanish Festival - El Rocio

Can you say.....?

One of the most common problems students have is pronouncing English words. Speaking and pronouncing words in a way listeners can understand is a very important skill in the tourism industry.
So as not to make a big deal of pronunciation let´s have a look at this video and have a good laugh before starting to work hard again!

The beginning

I have been working with ICT and the teaching of English for several years now. Although the idea of creating a blog crossed my mind many times, I never found the time to sit down and do it. However, today was the day and I finally decided to give shape to that blog that was always lingering next to me.
I have been teaching English for Tourism (level B1) at the University of Huelva since 2004. In the last 4 years I have managed to gather plenty of online resources to help my students so I thought why not to share my findings with everybody else? and of course, why not get some feedback from people? As you can read in the heading of this blog, this blog is meant for those people interested in English in relation to tourism, although any other student of English will also find it useful and perhaps some teachers could find useful some links, videos, etc posted here. So I hope this is the beginning of a fruitful blog . . .