30th November St Andrew's Day

St Andrew's Day is celebrated in Scotland on the 30th November, in honour of St Andrew, the patron saint of Scotland 

Play the video and read the transcript

A long, long time ago in Galilee a fisherman called Andrew spent his days fishing. One day he heard a man call out from the bank, “Follow me!” That man was Jesus of Nazareth and Andrew immediately lay down his nets and became one of Jesus’ twelve Disciples.

Andrew watched Jesus perform many miracles. It was Andrew who first spoke to the boy who offered to share his five loaves and two fishes with Jesus at the feeding of the five thousand. Jesus managed to feed all five thousand people from only the food the boy had shared.

After Jesus died Andrew preached Christianity throughout Poland, Russia and Greece. It was in Greece that Andrew was crucified on an X shaped cross as he thought himself unworthy of dying on an vertical cross like Jesus.

Time passed, a monk called Regulus, or Rule was watching over St Andrew’s bones. The story goes that an angel appeared to Rule and told him to take the relics to the far West. The journey was long and arduous and Rule was shipwrecked on the east coast of Scotland in the place where the town of St Andrews now stands.

Over the centuries St Andrew became important to the Scottish people. This is why the X shape of his cross, or saltire, is part of the Scottish flag. St Andrew became the patron saint of Scotland about a thousand years ago.

And St Andrew’s day continues to be celebrated on the 30th November each year.

               This is St Andrew's flag, that it is also the flag of Scotland

Vocabulary unit 3 (3rd ESO)

Hi again,3rd ESO students!

This is your vocabulary extension for unit 3. Firstly, let's try an online exercise for Containers and contents.

Now, let's do several exercises related to compound nouns.

 Compound Nouns Poster      Compound Nouns worksheet 1     Compounds Explanation

                         Compounds Exercise 1                  Compounds Exercise 2   

Relative clauses (3rd ESO)

Hi again! 
Here you've got an introduction to relative clauses, and some exercises on them, just to practise the contents in unit 3!!

                         Worksheet 1:theory                                        Exercise 1:relative pronouns          

Exercise 2: relative clauses              Exercise 3: test                    Exercise 4: test

Comparatives

In Unit 2 we have learnt how to compare cities and places in a city. Click on the image and you can find the rules for the comparative form of adjectives

And here you can do some online activities

Activity 1         Activity 2         Activity 3         Activity 4         Activity 5        Activity 6        Activity 7 with song 

English teachers' daily routine

This is what SOME TEACHERS  see when they are trying to teach ENGLISH!  are you familiar with it?

FOOD AND DRINKS

Now you can revise the vocabulary related to supermarket products

                            

                                                          

                     FOOD                           DRINKS                        CONTAINERS


You can also do some listening practice. Click here and here 

Thanks for participating in our Halloween poster contest!!  

You did a frighteningly good work!!

 First video: students' posters

Second video: And the winners are........

            1st ESO                                                                                       2nd ESO

Arantxa Jurado García                                                            Gema Soler Cuadra

Elena Wic Mateo                                                                    Araceli Castro Gómez

Mª Carmen Millán Olvera                                                       Ana Duro Ruiz

Marina Blancat Segura                                                         Jennifer Puntas de la Virgen

              3rd ESO                                                                                    4th ESO

 Ana María Sánchez Barrientos                                                 Cristina Molina Heredia

 Rafael  Ángel Alvariño Jiménez                                              Azahara Jiménez Martínez

Past Continuous:3rd ESO

Now, let's have a look to the past continuous. Here you'll find some extra online activities to review the contents we've seen in our class. Watch the second video and try all the exercises.

1 Exercise: practice structure       2 Exercise: complete sentences      3 Use of past continuous

4 Past continuous: quiz       5 Worksheet 1     6 Worksheet 2

Simple Past: 3rd ESO

In unit 2, we are dealing with past simple, past continuous and their contrast. Let's watch this first video to review the uses of past simple and do some exercises.

 

1 Online exercise 1          2 Irregular Verbs: exercise 2               3  Online exercises 2        

4 JK Rowling:reading comprehension        5 Song: Last Christmas I gave you my heart

TONGUE TWISTERS

                                                                                   

You know that sometimes it’s very difficult to speak fluently and to get a good pronunciation.

By combining the repetition of a sound, these sentences and poems can, not only serve to practice and improve our speech in general, but also provide us with lots of fun and laughter.

                                                       TONGUE TWISTERS

TV programmes for 3rd ESO!!

In unit 2, we're talking about television and TV programmes. Here you've got several exercises to practise your vocabulary or improve your reading and listening skills. Have a nice week!

 

 1 TV genres vocabulary    2 TV shows spelling quiz    3 Reading for information   4 Crossword

Listening 2: Are you a couch potato? Listen, watch the video and check!

 

 

Listening exercise 3: TV guide, listen and do the exercises.        Worksheet: practice

Bonfire Night!!

 

On the night of November 5th, throughout Britain, people celebrate the capture of Guy Fawkes with bonfires and fireworks, and by burning an effigy of Guy. 

  

This tradition dates back to November 1605 when the infamous Gunpowder Plot took place. Some Catholics plotted to blow up the English Parliament and King James l, on the day set for the king to open Parliament. The men were angry because the king had treated them badly and they didn't like it so........what happened? Let's discover it!! Download your worksheet and do the exercises!

  1st/2nd ESO                                                                            3rd/4thESO  

Everyday activities

                                                                                      

                                                        

Here you can find some extra online activities to practise about your habits and 
routines, present simple and adverbs of frequency.     
Listening activities    Text with pictures       Actions and things  
Worksheet              Lorena's Composition   

                        Power Point 1      Power Point 2       
                                

EASILY CONFUSED WORDS for 4th YEAR

Hi there you guys! How are you doing today? I hope you are doing some REVISION as you need loads and loads!
As you all know, English is a tricky language and on some occasions you may find yourself in trouble:
                       Pepito: -"Periquito, you look terrible!"
                       Periquito: -"yes, I know, I am constipated"
                       Pepito: -LOL. You mean you have a COLD!!!!                                    Periquito should have paid more attention in class!!!!

If you want to avoid Periquito's embarrassing situation, do these two worksheets on easily confused words. REMEMBER, USE A DICTIONARY and write down the meaning of the new words you will learn.
enjoy!

 WORKSHEET 1                                                                          WORKSHEET 2

Describing Physical Appearance 2nd ESO

What do they look like?

If you are interested in enlarging your vocabulary to describe people's appearance, here you can find helpful materials, such as vocabulary lists, some worksheets on the topic, online activities, etc. 
Choose a friend and play with him/her. You can make descriptions of someone you know or famous people and then guess....


List of vocabulary
Vocabulary and exercises
Power Point
Online activities: