Happy St. Valentine!

My students' cards for Saint Valentine

St. Valentine

14th February
Saint Valentine

- Valentine's Day (songs, poems, articles, crafts...)

- History (short reading comprehension)

- Listening anf fill in the blanks
- Valentine's Day Game

- Crossword

- Wordsearch

- Games
- Songs:
* All You Need Is Love- The Beatles
* Bleeding Love- Leona Lewis
* Where Is The Love?- Black-Eyed Peas
*L-O-V-E- Joss Stone

The Passive

THE PASSIVE

Passive Voice

View more presentations from San Buenaventura Cali.

- Activities with Simple Present: 1, 2, 3, 4
- Activities with Simple Past: 1, 2, 3, 4
- The Coca Cola story
- Translation activities

Simple Past (2)

Let's remember:
Affirmative-----> regular verb + -ed / irregular verb (see list) -----> She worked / She saw
Negative-----> did not + verb -----> She did not work
Interrogative-----> did + subject + verb? -----> Did she work?

ACTIVITIES:
* Saberinglés.com: 1. Complete with the past form , 2. Write the negative form, 3. Rewrite the sentence
* Ego4u.com: 1. exercises, 2. test
* Games: 1. Basketball game, 2. SpeedWord, 3.Jeopardy Betting

The Three Kings

THE GIFT OF THE MAGI

1) Vocabulary: the Three Kings (Magi), Epiphany, Twelfth Night, camels, gifts (gold, frankincense, myrrh)---> Add three words.

2) Can you match kings and gifts?
a) Caspar b) Melchior c) Balthasar
1) Gold 2) Myrrh 3) Frankincense

3) Debate: What did you get/give for Christmas?

For further information:
- Wikipedia
- Last year's post about The Gift of the Magi (O.Henry)

2010!

Do you remember dates in English? Remember how to say the year:

- 1900 Nineteen hundred

- 1985 Nineteen eighty-five

- 2009 Two thousand and nine

In the English-speaking world, there is a debate about HOW TO SAY 2010? What do you think? Here you have some options:

- Two thousand and ten

- Twenty-ten

- Ten

- Two-Oh-One-Oh

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year 2010!

- Crossword
- Wordsearch
- Auld Lang Syne (Listen and sing it)
- New Year Scavenger Hunt
- BBC Christmas Crossword
- Games
- Jigsaw Puzzle

- ACTIVITIES:
1. How many words can you make out of Happy New Year? (examples: here, where, nephew...)

2. Write your New Year's resolutions (example: I promise to study English every day)

Christmas 2009

Christmas 2009

- Games
- Where's Rudolph? (game)
- Christmas wordsearch
- Send a letter to Santa
- The Elves Save the Day (read and listen)
- Christmas around the world
- Vocabulary
- Vocabulary review
- Activities
- Karaoke: Jingle Bells, We Wish You a Merry Christmas, Jingle Bell Rock
- We wish you a Merry Christmas (song and activities)
- A Christmas Carol by C. Dickens (AUDIO)

- Nightmare Before Christmas -What's this? (VIDEO)
- Links (Isabel Pérez)

Happy

Happy by Leona Lewis

- Worksheet: click here

- Official site: click here

- Video with lyrics in English and Spanish: click here

I'm Yours

I'm Yours by Jason Mraz

Video with lyrics: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pzuhw2dy1r0

Translation into Spanish: http://lyricstranslate.com/en/i039m-yours-tuyo-ya-soy.html

Next Stop London

ENGLISH CHALLENGE
Win a Class Trip

With its 3 levels and all new questions, Next Stop London is back and even more thrilling than last year. Face the challenge now and try your hand at the questions about language, history and culture. Naturally, the prizes for Next Stop London 2010 are awesome – the winning class gets a trip to London for the whole class and the runners-up will win cool language tuition classes

Links for registration:
3º ESO A
3º ESO B
3º ESO C

Big-bigger-the biggest

Comparatives and Superlatives

Grammar guide (download)

- Basketball game

- Comparatives video

- Superlatives video

- Quiz

- Reading: Britain's biggest dinosaur found

- Similes crossword

- Activities: 1, 2, 3, 4
- Activities different levels

HALLOWEEN!!!

HALLOWEEN!!!

31st OCTOBER

- Vocabulary
- Vocabulary with pronunciation
- Vocabulary with pictures and activity
- Matching game
- Quiz

- Games: Haunted House, Costumes
- Listen and paint

- Jokes

- Gap-fill
- Quiz 2

Past, Used to, -ed/-ing adjectives

PAST SIMPLE

Activities:
- Matching - Crossword - Quiz - Quiznet - Game - Fill in the blanks - Final -ed pronunciation - Song: Yesterday (The Beatles)

Further information:
- Explanation in Spanish and activities.
- Wikilearning

Writing a "silly story":
--> Create your own silly story.

PAST SIMPLE AND PAST CONTINUOUS

EASY
- Fill in the gaps 1, 2, 3
- Was or were
- Grammar and exercises
- The Others
- Game

DIFFICULT
- Complete the texts 1, 2, 3, 4
- Verb tenses review
- Translation

ADJECTIVES ENDING WITH -ED OR -ING

- Matching
- Quiz1, 2, 3, 4

USED TO

Activities:
- Matching
- Correct order

Comments: Write down an invention and how the world has changed with it.
----> Example: People used to count with abacuses, but now we have calculators.

Present Continuous

PRESENT CONTINUOUS

ACTIVITIES:
- Grammar rules
- Form sentences
- Present Continuous Guy
- Present Progressive 1-7
- Translation
- Listening
- Present vs. Progressive

Clothes

- Can you colour her clothes?
- Matching clothes
- Cards matching
- Wordsearch
- Quiz
- Hangman
- Puzzle and song
- Short story
- English-Spanish games
- Dress-up games
- Clothes: more activities
- Listening: Pros and cons of school uniforms

Present Simple

PRESENT SIMPLE

USE: facts, habits and routines, general truths, emotions...

FORM:
+ I work / She works
- I don't work / She doesn't work
? Do I work? / Does she work?

ACTIVITIES:
- Complete the text
- Isabel's ESL
- Translation

Learning the alphabet

THE ALPHABET

- Song and game (beginners)

- Alphabet Antics (game)

All about me

ALL ABOUT ME

Good morning! This is all about me. What about you? Get ready to introduce yourself in class and make a comment in this post.

Click here to download this worksheet.
Click here to download this worksheet (4shared)

School year 2009/2010

Welcome back!

Okay, let's begin. Hello everyone. A new school year is just starting, are you ready? Yes, we're here again to help with your English lessons. Still wondering why learn English? Well, apart from the fact that it's compulsory ;-), English is the universal language on the Internet and we all adore the Internet, don't we? I'm sure you can find at least three reasons to learn a bit of English. Some reasons: Twilight books, international music, trips, job market, foreign friends...

Ana's tips on ... HOW TO STUDY ENGLISH

-Before starting a new Unit, read carefully, study and understand the Grammar Appendix at the end of your book. Make outlines and summaries. Try to understand the grammar references, the examples and write down on your notebook one more example of each reference.
- Read at home the text at the beginning of every Unit and look for the words you don’t understand into a dictionary.
- Make a list of the false friends that appear in every unit and the ones you already know
- Do the exercises on your workbook.
- Keep your notebook clean and tidy. Use 2 pens of different colours, one for the Spanish words and sentences and another one for the English ones.
- Organize your time of study daily, do not leave the exercises for the last day.
- Ask your teacher in class every time you need, when you don’t understand some explanation, words you can’t find, exercises you don’t know how to do, doubts…
- Take part in the oral exercises in class. Use the English language when you need to ask or say anything. Oral participation is very important.
- Give your opinions or suggestions every time you want.

Have a great school year. Good luck!