Let's speak!!

As you know, you have the opportunity to get a better mark if you create a video talking about ONE of these topics (1 min 30 secs - 2 minutes):

-Introduce yourself (or a friend)
-Sport or hobbies
-A day in your life
-Describe someone (physically and talking about the personality)
-Compare different landscapes, singers, etc.
-Describe a place (using there is/ there are)
-Talk about your last holidays/birthday/...
-Future (using be going to).

TRAVELLING AROUND THE WORLD

As you know, in this unit you have to prepare an essay about a country as well as an oral presentation. Here I'm going to post an example of how to prepare the oral presentation in a card paper.

You must include the following points:
-Map
-Flag
-Gastronomy
-Culture (festivals, traditions, timetable...)
-Language that they talk
-Monuments, most famous places, museums.
-Other things of interest (sports, animal, climate...)

Don't forget that I'm going to take into account the creativity of your presentation too..

UNIT 6: HOLIDAYS IN TUNISIA

We use the future when we want to express actions that are going to happen.

However, in this unit we are going to focus our attention on one type of future: BE GOING TO.

BE GOING TO is used for:

1) planned actions in the future

We are going to sing at the party.

2) You are certain that something is going to happen in the future.

Look at that car! It is going to crash into the yellow one.

ACTIVITIES: 

•http://www.englishgrammarsecrets.com/goingtofuture/exercise1.html

 

•http://www.englishgrammarsecrets.com/goingtofuture/menu.php

 

•http://www.englishgrammarsecrets.com/goingtofuture/menu.php

UNIT 5: HEROES FROM SCOTLAND

Lately, we have been studying the PAST SIMPLE. That's why, here I'm posting different interesting web links that will be useful for you.

Como sabéis, hemos estado trabajando los verbos irregulares, por eso os dejo aquí unos links que pueden ser muy interesantes y útiles para vosotros.

WATCH THIS VIDEO: http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/grammar-videos/grans-fishing-trip

1. HANGMAN (IRREGULAR VERBS)
 
http://www.eslgamesplus.com/practice-irregular-verbs-in-the-past-simple-esl-interactive-hangman/
Fill the gaps with a suitable verb.


2.  QUIZZ GAME

http://www.eslgamesplus.com/irregular-past-tense-esl-grammar-jeopardy-quiz-game/


3. BASKETBALL GAME

http://www.marks-english-school.com/games/b_past.html


4. ORDER THE STORY (Good for improving your reading comprehension skills)

http://eslgamesworld.com/members/games/grammar/perfectpast/past%20simple%20sequencing.html


5. CLASSIFY THE VERBS. REGULAR OR IRREGULAR

http://www.english-grammar-lessons.com/irregularverbs/exercise1.swf

6. VERBS

http://elt.oup.com/student/project/games/pr2game3?cc=global&selLanguage=en

YOU HAVE MORE GAMES HERE: https://sites.google.com/site/easygrammar4kids/simple-past/simple-past 


Moreover, check this activities out.

QUESTIONS: http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/questions/simple_past2.htm


LISTENING: http://www.eslvideo.com/esl_video_quiz_beginning.php?id=14929 



I HOPE YOU ENJOY IT :)

HOMEWORK

Os dejo aquí el listado de cosas que tenéis que hacer en Semana Blanca.

1. Writing (Descripción de un compañero, siguiendo las pautas explicadas en clase y subidas al blog)

2. Preparar un powerpoint, documento word, etc que nos sirva de ayuda para la presentación.

3. Prepararse la exposición sobre la foto.

4. (Para los de 6ºA --> Estudiar para el examen que tenemos a la vuelta)

Os recuerdo que quien no entregue la descripción el primer día de Inglés que tengamos a la vuelta de Semana Blanca tiene directamente un 0. NO QUIERO EXCUSAS.

PERSONAL INFORMATION QUESTIONS

Let's practice personal information questions. As you know, at the beginning of the class I always ask some questions. Here you have a list that will be so useful for you.

-What's your name?
-How old are you?
-When is your birthday?
-Where are you from?
-Where do you live?
-Have you got any brother or sister?
-Have you got a pet?
-What do you do in your free time?
-How often do you...?
-Can you play a musical instrument?
-What's your favorite subject? Why?
-What's your favorite .... ?
-How do you go to school?
-Who is your best friend?
-When were you born?
-What did you do last (summer, holiday, week...)?
-Where did you go yesterday?

Furthermore, if you want to practice your listening skills, click on the link below and try to do the activity.

http://www.eslvideo.com/esl_video_quiz_beginning.php?id=2249

How to write a description

Here you can find the steps to follow when writing a description:

CLICK HERE TO SEE IT BIGGER

TRY TO MAKE THIS ACTIVITY TO REVISE HOW TO DESCRIBE THE APPEARANCE OF A PERSON.
It is so useful for revising some vocabulary we have studied and your listening skills.

http://chagall-col.spip.ac-rouen.fr/IMG/didapages/description/index.html

WH- questions

The other day some of you asked me about how you can learn the WH- questions.
Here you have some clues that will facilitate it.
I hope you enjoy it.

Here you have a chart with some examples:

Let's try to do these tests which will be so useful for you:

TEST 1:   http://www.learnenglish-online.com/grammar/tests/whquestions.html

TEST 2: http://www.learnenglish-online.com/grammar/tests/whquestions2.html

TEST 3: http://www.learnenglish-online.com/grammar/tests/whquestions3.html

ACTIVITY 4: http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=1718

What do you think about them? Are they easy or difficult?

Unit 3: Describing people

In this unit we are going to learn how to describe people. We are going to focus our attention on two main questions:

What is he/she like?                          What does he/she look like?
        (personality/character)                                              (the appearance)

Apart from the vocabulary and all the stuff that we are going to learn in class. I will post here some useful links related to this topic.

I'm going to start with these awesome pictures full of adjectives that we should use when describing someone.

Focusing on the personality, we find...

Focusing on the appearance...

ONLINE GAME (Help the policewoman to find the correct person)
http://www.english-online.org.uk/games/findPerson.htm 

Welcome

Hi!

I'm Antonio, your English teacher. I have just created this blog to share with you different links, games and activities that we are going to work in our lessons. 

Furthermore, I will post more things that I will find interesting for you so if you want to learn more English don't doubt about it and check everything!

I hope you like it, and don't forget: STAY TUNED!