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The Best Free Catalog of Film Clips That Can Be Legally Shared Online: MovieClips.com

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MOVIECLIPS.com has movie trailers, previews, behind the scenes clips of old, new and upcoming films. Find videos of your favorite actors, actresses, scenes or watch clips of movies by producer, director or cast.

Víctor Alarcón‘s insight:

Amazing catalogue of film clips which can be shared & embedded

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Making a proposal

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Here’s a short PRESENTATION I’ve put together to help students make proposals at academic or professional levels.

 

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Wintergrams

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With the chilly season gaining momentum, it’s time to start thinking about holiday cards, season’s greetings and general well-wishing.

If you’re short of ideas, tired of hackneyed ones – or if you’re looking to provide students with interesting ideas and language – WINTERGRAMS allows you to create unusual and witty holiday messages and send them via e-mail or social networking sites.

Push a few buttons and tweak a few meters for length, holiday type or degree of “slushiness” and get some instant wintery inspiration.

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Snappy Words

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Snappy: quick, lively, interactive, energetic, zippy…

Words: concepts, meanings, dictionary, thesaurus, connections, associations,…

SNAPPY WORDS is a visual thesaurus which allows you to display a map of words and concepts and its meanings and draw connections to associated words by simply placing the mouse cursor over them or clicking on them.

To display its connections, the site allegedly uses an online lexical database, but the associations tend to be over-simplified and lack complexity and in-depth awareness of collocations and nuances, as Hugh Dellar points out in his post about the site. Try looking up the word LOVE, see what you think…

SNAPPYWORDS

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Human calendar

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If you’d like to celebrate diversity or you’re short of visual input to practise vocabulary on clothes, people’s appearance, feelings AND numbers and dates, then check out HUMAN CALENDAR.

You can tweak the settings for more buzzing faces and reactions and get an embed code to display it in your blogs, sites or VLE’s.

Human Calendar

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