Revision of the Past Simple (2º ESO)

In order to practise the Past Simple Tense, you have to download this activity, which is a short summary of the well-known story called The little red riding hood

My summer in London, Dublin, Oxford, Florida, California, New York ! ! !

 

Learn English abroad next summer

You can travel to Great Britain, Ireland, the United States, Canada, Malta,.....

It would be the summer of your life learning a language, meeting new friends and having a lot of fun!!!

If you are interested, ask for more information to your English teacher or visit www.ef.com.es/travel

COME ON !!! LET'S PRACTISE SOME LISTENING

Hi guys, sometimes understanding English can be quite difficult for you. So listening activities are extremely important in the learning of this language. 
If you are a 1st or 2nd ESO student click on the image below which belongs to the kizclub site and you'll find a great variaty of stories to listen, you can also print the story to understand it better. It’s fantastic!!!!!


If you are a 3rd or 4th ESO student you can visit Randall's Lab (click on the image below) where there are listening tests, audios, videos, etc and later, you can check your answers.

                                   
           I hope you make the most of both... 

Differences between British and American English

                                                                                                                             
                        Oscar Wilde said, “We have really                          everything in common with America nowadays, 

                except,of course,the language”. 

Hi! Dear pupils, sometimes we have talked about the differences between the British English and the American words. It may be a bit confusing because there is an amazing variety of spelling, meaning, pronunciation, grammmar, punctuation in the English language between British and American speakers. You can even come across some differences in dates and numbers.

British English is the language spoken in the United Kingdom

American English is the language spoken in the United States


Here you come see some example:

In pronunciation, the word tomato is pronounced in BrE  /tₔ’mᵅ:tᵊᶸ/ and in AmE   /tₔ’mᵉᵢtᵊᶸ/

In meaning, the word mean in BrE is “not generous” and in AmE is “angry”.

In grammar, BrE uses “Have you got a car?" And AmE uses "Do you have a car?

In spelling, in BrE you’ll see “favourite”, “colour” and in AmE you’ll see “favorite” and “color”

In prepositions, in BrE they use “At the weekend” and in AmE they use “On the weend”

In dates, in BrE they say “25 December, 2012” and in AmE they say “December 25, 2012”

In vocabulary, you can see these words:

In British English	In American English
You wear trousers	You wear pants
You have crisps	You have chips
You have chips	You have French fries
You have fizzy drinks	You have soda
You take a lift	You take an elevator
You watch a film	You watch a movie
You walk on the pavement	You walk on the sidewalk

Watch the video below and if you'd like more information, check out this page or visit Woodlands Junior site
Finally you can check if you have learnt the main differences doing  activity 1 and activity 2

Present Perfect

Hello everyone!
Here we are again to try to improve your English ! here you have some exercises to revise what you should have learned last year. As I told you in class, it is quite important that you learn irregular past participles by heart. You can use an infallible method: take either a pen or a pencil, a piece of paper, a list of irregular verbs and COPY, COPY,COPY until your hand bleeds (just joking!!!), IT DOES WORK!!!!
Click on the links on the worksheet for grammar explanation. Then do the exercises and bring them to class for correction. Also here you have some on line exercises for further practice.
 hope you enjoy!   

WORKSHEET
exercise 1
exercise 2
exercise 3

Dates, days, time....

In Unit 4 we are going to study dates, months, years and seasons and consequently, we are going to revise all the prepositions of time. In the following power point you can see and practice everything related to the topic. 

                  

You can also do some more activities in this link

Oh! Don't forget that in British English, dates are usually written as given below, using ordinal numbers. In this link you can listen the pronunciation and see the spelling of this type of numbers.

4th October, 2010

Present Perfect 3rd ESO!

Follow the avatar instructions!!!

1English grammar: present perfect explained

2 Present Perfect grammar guide with key. Download here.

3 Present Perfect: online exercises 1

4 Present Perfect: online exercises 2

5 Present Perfect: Powerpoint

Present Perfect timeline

Vocabulary unit 3 (3rd ESO)

In unit 3, we have also talked about environmental problems. Consequently, we are going to introduce some more vocabulary thanks to the following online exercises.

1 Watch the video and carry the tasks out

2 Vocabulary 1: reduce, reuse and recycle

3 Vocabulary 2: energy and environment vocabulary

4 Vocabulary 3: extension 3

New Year's Resolutions!!

New Year's Eve has always been a time for looking back to the past, and more importantly, forward to the coming year. It's a time to reflect on the changes we want (or need) to make. Did you make New Year's Resolutions?  What are they? You can fill in this worksheet to write them down.

You can also download a 2012 calendar here.

Happy New Year!!

Life is an opportunity!!

“Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.

Life is a beauty, admire it. 

Life is a dream, realize it.

Life is a challenge, meet it.

Life is a duty, complete it.

Life is a game, play it. 

Life is a promise, fulfill it.

Life is sorrow, overcome it.

Life is a song, sing it.

Life is a struggle, accept it.

Life is a tragedy, confront it.

Life is an adventure, dare it.

Life is luck, make it.

Life is life, fight for it!”
Mother Teresa of Calcuta

May you have a New Year full of LIFE!!

 

Christmas Time!!

Did you hang your stocking on the chimney? Did you get many presents? The aim of these activities is to review several aspects of Christmas we've seen in our classes. You can try them if you like. 

Happy New Year!!!!

1Christmas Quiz    2 Christmas Carols      3 Christmas writing    4 Using your dictionary

Some videos of Countries and Nationalities

Countries and Nationalities

 

Learn also some culture 

Map of the countries of the world

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