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To assist in enriching your English lessons, ECB Online provides:
- Internet sites based on the themes in your coursebook and provide resources for the unit tasks.
- Downloadable audio reading files (mp3) provide recordings of the reading texts that appear in the coursebook
- Activity and task links for your classroom activities.
- Free Activities: click here להקיש כאן to download (only available for Windows computers)
Thumbs Up!: Audio Reading Files
Listen to the texts in your book.
Click the links below to hear the audio reading of your text.
To download and save an audio reading file (mp3) to your computer:
- Right click on the page number.
- Click Save Target As or Save Link As.
- Choose folder to save file.
Internet Sites
Unit 1 — Is It the Same?
Celebrity Twins
List of Twins (Wikipedia)
Spot the Difference
Unit 2 — Ready for Lunch?
Smart Food, Junk Food
Junk Food Jungle - lesson plan
Snacks Kids Make Around the World
Unit 3 — Is It Far?
How Far Is It Between?
Google Maps - directions
Zac Sunderland - an introduction
Zac Sunderland - Worlds Youngest Circumnavigator? (YouTube)
Unit 4 — Who Is the Winner?
BBC Switch: Thomas Daley - Winner Young Sports Personality (YouTube)
Amazing Kids
Unit 5 — What Do You think?
Old Navy / Gap Shopping Online
BestAdsOnTV.com
Food Ad Tricks: Helping Kids Understand Food Ads on TV (YouTube)
Buy Me That: Helping Kids Understand Toy Ads (YouTube)
Advertising - What psychological tricks do they use? (YouTube)
Unit 6 — Is It Real?
Celebrity Look Alike List - Splitting Images
The Top 100 April Fool's Day Hoaxes of All Time
Penguins - BBC (YouTube)
Penguins April Fool - The Making Of - BBC (YouTube)