MULTIMEDIA ENGLISH CLASSROOM is a free online classroom to learn English designed for students from all around the world. It uses authentic material and is targeted at students of English who already have a basic knowledge of the language. If you can read this and understand it (at least the general idea), then this virtual classroom is for you!

This website is very young, but it is growing quickly. Every week (on Sunday) new material is posted and the old material is moved on to libraries where you can access the stuff published here before.

THE LANGUAGE

When people go to an English-speaking country to learn, they are surrounded by real English and they slowly pick it up. This website provides you with a natural environment to do just so, pick the language up slowly and naturally, preparing you for what you are going to find when you meet English speaking people. The multimedia medium makes the material more real, more accessible and more fun. This is not a place to study, it is a place to relax, enjoy and let the language slowly get into you.

Most of the language used here is authentic English not adapted to any specific level and taken from real sources. Though my language is British English, so that's the variety I use myself, the material on this site comes from different countries, especially the UK and the USA; there are even some non-native speakers too. That way, you train yourself to use and understand English as it is, the English used by natives (not the simplified, artificial language nobody uses in real life).

The activities and videos are usually loaded with lots of help and explanations in case you need it (you can print the comments by selecting the text from the text box and copying it in your text processor). If your level is low, understanding the general idea is more than enough, or sometimes trying to understand a few things here and there will help you progress. If your level is advanced, then you should be able to focus on more difficult aims.

And remember, the more you listen and read, the more you will understand.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Angel Castaño has been teaching Spanish and English in Poole, Dorset (UK), and teaching English in Mexico, Peru and Spain. He's also been living in Ohio (USA). At present he lives in Salamanca and he is a teacher trainer and a full-time teacher of English at the Official School of Languages in Zamora, Castile (Spain).