Present Simple

- Grammar for kids

- British Council games

- Boardgame (pdf)

- Activities

- Translation

November calendar

Happy Halloween! Are you ready?

- History
- Halloween in Spain
- Pumpkin carving stencils
- Virtual Haunted House 
- Vocabulary
- Vocabulary with pronunciation
- Vocabulary with pictures and activity
- Matching game
- Quiz

- Games: Haunted House, Costumes
- Listen and paint

- Gap-fill- Quiz 2

- Carve your own pumpkin

Halloween!

DON'T WATCH IT!  PG13 

                                     THE HOUSE

October calendar

European Day of Languages

Para pósters y banners

Para información sobre esta celebración en varias lenguas:

Para ver iniciativas llevadas a cabo el curso pasado aquí tenéis la página del CELM dedicada al evento.

Cool sites

Forvo--> a pronunciation dictionary

Macmillan dictionary--> open dictionary, infographics...

Funny lessons--> a lot of jokes with vocabulary translation, verbs, sentences...

Pumarosa--> bilingual site for Spanish speakers

September calendar

School year 2015-2016

New school year, new school, new ideas...let's begin?

Conditional songs

Beyonce-If I were a boy(lyrics): https://youtu.be/Pd6FXOTapMM

Unreal conditional (hypothetical):
Cause If I were a boy
Result: I would roll out of bed

Activity: Make a comment and post a YouTube video of a song in English. Choose a line that includes a conditional. Explain what the conditional means. You can't repeat songs.

Conditionals

Conditionals

Grammar

Assessment criteria

General criteria         Very good 5  Good 4  All right 3  Weak 2  Poor 1

• Task fulfilment
• Fluency and interaction
• Grammatical competence
• Vocabulary
• Pronunciation

Resources:

Speaking: IELTS

Writing: IELTS

Unit 2 - To the Rescue

 Vocabulary
- First aid vocabulary (advanced) 
- Emergencies

  

 -ed /-ing adjectives:
The lesson is boring, so the students are bored.              
The lesson is interesting, so the students are interested.

CAUSES THE FEELING/EFFECT: -ing
RECEIVES/EXPERIENCES THE EFFECT/FEELING: -ed

- Matching
- Quiz1, 2, 3, 4
- British Council grammar reference

Grammar
- FEG Present Perfect Simple and Past Perfect Simple (ppt)

- Activities

Extra
- List of connectors
- List of common adjectives

Bonfire Night

Guy Fawkes Night (also known as Bonfire Night, Cracker Night, Fireworks Night) is an annual celebration on the evening of the 5th of November. It celebrates the foiling of the Gunpowder Plot of the 5th of November 1605 in which a number of Catholic conspirators, including Guy Fawkes, attempted to blow up the Houses of Parliament in London, England.It is primarily marked in the United Kingdom where it was compulsory, by Royal Decree, to celebrate the deliverance of the King until 1859, but also in former British colonies including New Zealand, parts of Canada, and parts of the British Caribbean. Festivities are centred on the use of fireworks and the lighting of bonfires. (From wikipedia)

- Listening
- Reading and multiple choice
- Game
- Tic Tac Toe
- Poem
- Ordering a text (doc)
- Gunpowder plot (youtube)

- See more at: http://www.eslvideo.com/esl_video_quiz_high_intermediate.php?id=17083#sthash.ZMrM5y1Z.dpuf

Happy Halloween!

Avatar

This is my avatar. Are you ready to get one?

Have a look : ONCLOUD9

Halloween Food Contest

- Halloween  recipes
- Recipes for kids

- ONCLOUD9

Phrasal verbs

A phrasal verb is a verb that is followed by one or more particles. The meaning of a phrasal verb is different from the meaning of the verb alone.

Catapult game

Macmillan game

List

Unit 1 - Adventure Travel

 

Vocabulary
- Where should we go on holiday?
- Planning a trip
- Exercises
- Vocabulary list (from textbook)


Grammar

• Present Simple and Present Continuous (pdf)
• Past Simple / Past Continuous / Past Perfect Simple (pdf)

Watch this video: The Funny Honeymoon

European Day of Languages

26 September

 

Organised by the Council of Europe and the European Union, the European Day of Languages (26th September) celebrates linguistic and cultural diversity in Europe and the importance of language learning worldwide. 

Activities for 4°ESO and 1° Bachillerato
 

1. Look for an English word of European origin. For example, cockroach from Spanish cucaracha.

2. Look for an idiom in English and its translation into Spanish. For example, like father like son = de tal palo tal astilla

---> students' contributions

Activities for 1° ESO and 2° ESO

1. Poster: animal sounds in different languages

---> students' contributions

via MACMILLAN EDUCATION

 

1º Bachillerato Resources

CLASS TEXTBOOK

• Burlington Books Student's zone for Contrast
• Burlington Speech Trainer

FREE APPS

• Cambridge Phrasal Verbs Machine
• Cambridge English Monstruo
• My Word Book
• Phrasalstein
• Busuu

Happy

Let's sing... Happy

School year 2014-2015

WELCOME!

UNIT 1 (2º Bachillerato)

Vocabulary  The senses

Image from http://cliluva-p1-sc-esther.wikispaces.com/04.-+MEDIATORS

- Vocabulary of the senses (pdf)


Grammar     Tenses

Tenses from Shawn Toh



- Quiz game 
- Grammar and activities 
- Oxford Plus
 

Review for 2º Bachillerato (October 2013)

 Let's start...

- Grammar worksheets: Burlington Extra Practice
- Grammar, translation and rephrasing: Bon's tips Bachillerato
- PAU Exams
- Oxford Plus (register)

European Day of Languages

European Day of Languages

26th September

What is it?

The European Year of Languages 2001, jointly organised by the Council of Europe and the European Union, was successful in involving millions of people across 45 participating countries. Its activities celebrated linguistic diversity in Europe and promoted language learning.

The general objectives of the European Day of Languages are:

1. Alerting the public to the importance of language learning and diversifying the range of languages learnt in order to increase plurilingualism and intercultural understanding;
2. Promoting the rich linguistic and cultural diversity of Europe, which must be preserved and fostered;
3. Encouraging lifelong language learning in and out of school, whether for study purposes, for professional needs, for purposes of mobility or for pleasure and exchanges
     
    Links:
   Memory games
   Site for European Day of Languages

Grammar review for Bachillerato

- Grammar worksheets with self-check answers:  Burlington Extra Practice

- Grammar, translation and rephrasing: Bon's tips Bachillerato

School year 2012-2013

Contest: Desserts from the World

CONTEST: Desserts from the World

We are reading some recipes in English, Spanish and French. Next week, we will have a dessert tasting morning.

Date: 21 December
Place: School Lab
Groups: 1º ESO, 2º ESO

Advent Calendar

 

Click to countdown the festive season with Macmillan's fun facts and classroom activities.

An Advent calendar is a special calendar which is used to count or celebrate the days of Advent in anticipation of Christmas. Many take the form of a large rectangular card with "windows" of which there are often 24; one for each day of December leading up to Christmas Day. One is opened every day during Advent. In many of these calendars, each window opens to reveal an image, a poem, or a portion of a story such as the story of the Nativity of Jesus. More elaborate Advent calendars have a small gift concealed in each window, such as a toy or a chocolate item. (from Wikipedia)

Telling the time

Let's practice telling the time with this wonderful interactive book (from Collège Marc Chagall):

click here

November Special Dates

All Saints' Day (1st November)

Bonfire Night (5th November)   click here

Thanksgiving Day (24th November)   click here

Birthdays:

- Mark Twain (28th November)

- Mickey Mouse (18th November)

- Prince of Wales (14th November)

Halloween 2011!

- Halloween links @ isabelperez
- Halloween Safety Game
- Halloween Webquest (PDF)
- Halloween Games
- Halloween @ Englishmania

Plurals

- Activities: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
- The Plural Girls Game
- Noun Plurals Billionaire Game

Bye-bye...Steve Jobs

Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011)  was an American computer entrepreneur and inventor. He was co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Apple Inc. Jobs also previously served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios; he became a member of the board of directors of The Walt Disney Company in 2006, following the acquisition of Pixar by Disney. He was credited in Toy Story (1995) as an executive producer.
In the late 1970s, Jobs — along with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Mike Markkula and others — designed, developed, and marketed one of the first commercially successful lines of personal computers, the Apple II series. In the early 1980s, Jobs was among the first to see the commercial potential of Xerox PARC's mouse-driven graphical user interface, which led to the creation of the Macintosh. After losing a power struggle with the board of directors in 1985, Jobs resigned from Apple and founded NeXT, a computer platform development company specializing in the higher-education and business markets. Apple's subsequent 1996 buyout of NeXT brought Jobs back to the company he co-founded, and he served as its CEO from 1997 until August 2011.
In 1986, he acquired the computer graphics division of Lucasfim Ltd which was spun off as Pixar Animation Studios. He remained CEO and majority shareholder at 50.1 percent until its acquisition by The Walt Disney Company in 2006. Consequently Jobs became Disney's largest individual shareholder at 7 percent and a member of Disney's Board of Directors. On August 24, 2011, Jobs announced his resignation from his role as Apple's CEO.
On October 5, 2011, Jobs died in California at age 56 after struggling with pancreatic cancer for several years.     ^{(from Wikipedia)}

Tune in 2 Resources for 2º Bachillerato

Here you have the downloadable course material:

Tune in 2

Wordlists
Language reference
Exam tips for PAU

European Day of Languages

26 September

European Day of Languages

"© Council of Europe, Strasbourg www.coe.int/EDL".

26 September 2011 marks the 10th anniversary of the European Day of Languages (EDL)

 celebrated at the Council of Europe and throughout its 47 member states.

Language Fun Activities

Let's sing!

Wake Me Up When September Ends

by Green Day

Click on the image to go to Lyricsgaps, listen to the song and fill in the gaps (beginner for 1ºESO, 2ºESO, intermediate for 3ºESO and 4ºESO)

Image from Lyricsgaps

via Post-TIC

How to expand your vocabulary

VOCABULARY NOTEBOOK

You can download the following worksheets to keep a vocabulary notebook. It's a good idea to get an organised record of the new words you come across.

Vocabulary notebook template

View more documents from saracor

School subjects

Image from Manythings.org

First day of classes

Welcome back!

This year we are going to start lessons with a time capsule.

Time capsule: noun - a container holding historical records or objects representative of current culture that is deposited for preservation until discovery by some future age. (definition by Merrian-Webster)

Fill out the sheet and decorate it with your own design. Then, put the page in the Time Capsule Box. I will store it until the last day of school. Download the worksheet

A lullaby

Brahms' Lullaby

Lullaby
noun \ˈlə-lə-ˌbī\   a soothing refrain; specifically: a song to quiet children or lull them to sleep (definition by Merrian-Webster)
Spanish  canción de cuna, nana

Johannes Brahms
German composer and pianist, and one of the leading musicians of the Romantic period.

Remember: double-click any word (lullaby, Brahms...) for more information.

---> Let's practice English and French with this song I dedicate to Ethan, my precious little boy.

September exams

Back to work!

PAU 2011 Junio (Andalucía)

PAU 2011 Junio

Summer is coming!

Let's start with some summer topics. Review the following vocabulary:

- Vocabulary (video lesson)

- Summer wordsearch

- Beach cloze (doc)

Coming soon...

Summer is close and the end of school is very near too. New topics will be available very soon! Check Englishmania in the next few days!

Unit 1 (2º Bachillerato)

UNIT 1: Travel the World

- Vocabulary list

- Exam tips for PAU

- Grammar:

USED TO, BE USED TO, GET USED TO
* I used to smoke a lot but now I don´t smoke. (something that happened regularly in the past)
* I'm used to driving on the left because I´ve lived in England. (something is normal, not unusual)
* I didn't understand the teacher at the beginning but I got used to it. (the process of something becoming normal for us)

- Grammar and activities
- Activities: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

USED TO OR WOULD
- Grammar and activities
- Activities: 1, 2, 3

GERUNDS AND INFINITIVES
- Grammar
- Grammar and activities

- Writing: an informal letter
---> Example, example 2
---> Letter generator