Past Continuous

Let's practice Past Continuous!

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Past simple

Past Simple Review

- Grammar for kids 
- British Council games
- Past Simple @ Englishmania
- Past Simple of TO BE
- Boardgame (pdf)
- Quiz / Ten things about me
- Translation
- Activities


GAMES:
- Sentence Monkey: Past Simple Irregular Verbs
- Irregular Past Quiz Show
- Past Simple Games (MES)
- Past Simple Jeopardy

BLUE MONDAY

Blue Monday is a name given to a day in January (typically the third Monday of the month) reported to be the most depressing day of the year for countries in theNorthern Hemisphere. The concept was first publicised as part of a 2005 press release from holiday company Sky Travel, which claimed to have calculated the date using an equation.

The idea is considered pseudoscience,^[1] with its formula derided by scientists as nonsensical.  (from Wikipedia)

Description of a picture

Here you have some tips to prepare the description of a picture or photo, very useful for speaking and writing tasks.

You can download it here: linktr.ee/blog.englishmania  

Bonfire Night (5th November)

More about Bonfire Night: @Englishmania

Halloween 2019

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Thanks to @missmorality_ for showing us this short horror film. Vocabulary pre-teaching: afraid, fright, startle, find out.



GAMES
- Haunted house
- Vocabulary
- Interactive games

MORE ACTIVITIES...
HALLOWEEN @Englishmania
Halloween @Englishmania

Capsule Time 2019/2020

T i m e   c a p s u l e

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 with your preferences in September and put the page in the Time Capsule Box. I will store it until the last day of school. (You can  download the worksheet in my TpT)

St. Patrick's Day 2019

St. Patrick's Day

(17th March)

- hangman 
- vocabulary list
- article and audio (British Council)
-St. Patrick's Day (Isabel Pérez)
-Leprechaun hunt
- Resources (henry4school)
- Saint Patrick (PDF)
- Rearrange letters (vocabulary game)
- Jeopardy (pdf)
- Jeopardy

Grammar review with interactive games

GRAMMAR REVIEW WITH INTERACTIVE GAMES

- Conditionals 
- Conditionals Billionaire
- Conditionals rally
- Passive basketball
- Futures tenses review
- Conditionals jeopardy
- Future jeopardy

Halloween 2018

GAMES
- Haunted house
- Vocabulary
- Interactive games

HALLOWEEN @Englishmania
Halloween @Englishmania

28 boring words (by Donna Norton)

Click here

28 boring words

St. Patrick's 2018

St. Patrick's Day

(17th March)

- hangman 
- vocabulary list
- article and audio (British Council)
-St. Patrick's Day (Isabel Pérez)
-Leprechaun hunt
- Resources (henry4school)
- Saint Patrick (PDF)

Modal verbs: have to and must

- HAVE TO game
- Aprende Inglés Sila
- More activities on Instagram stories

Saint Valentine 2018

more on Instagram...

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

School Day of Non-Violence and Peace (30 January)

* Peace symbols:

-  game

- The Robe of Peace by O. Henry
- Peacemaker

* Fun things:

- Coloring pages: Dove

- Famous posters

- Mail a rainbow for peace

- Peace in many languages

- Origami peace crane

- Nobel Prize

- Singing Peace webquest

* Imagine
* for more activities go to Instagram stories

Bye-bye Dolores O'Riordan

Dolores O'Riordan, lead singer of the Cranberries, dies aged 46

Death of Irish singer, whose band sold more than 40m records, is being treated as ‘unexplained’

via The Guardian

Welcome 2018!

New Year's Resolutions
Many people start the New Year by making resolutions. But how long do they last?
- The Flatmates (BBC World Service)
- Worksheet
- Speaking: Have you made any resolutions?

Instagram

The Wise Men or Three Kings
Can you match kings and gifts?
a) Caspar b) Melchior c) Balthasar
1) Gold 2) Myrrh 3) Frankincense

- Wikipedia
- The Gift of the Magy by O. Henry 
- Speaking:  What did you get/give for Christmas?

Comparative and superlative / too-enough / Sports (unit 3 - 3º ESO)

- British Council Comparative and Superlative
- Woodward English Comparison
- Activities ego4u
- Enough -too 
- Kahoot

Thanksgiving 2017 (23 NOVEMBER)

 Thanksgiving Day is a national holiday celebrated in Canada and the United States as a day of giving thanks for the blessing of the harvest and of the preceding year. It is celebrated on the second Monday of October in Canada and on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States. Several other places around the world observe similar celebrations. Thanksgiving has its historical roots in religious and cultural traditions and has long been celebrated in a secular manner as well. (From Wikipedia)

- Send E-cards
- You are the Historian, investigating the first Thanksgiving (audio needed)
- Story and quiz
- Vocabulary
- Vocabulary (youtube)
- DLTK 's activities (coloring pages, crafts, games, poems, recipes, printables)
- Black Friday (article and listening)
- ESL KidStuff's games and activities
- Webquest
- Quiz
- Kaboose's games
- More games
- Crossword
- Wordsearch

Happy Halloween 2017!

- Interactive games
- British Council Games
- Memory game
- Interactive book
- Halloween @Englishmania
- Game Halloween with Wendy the Witch