Hi everyone, how are you?
Last Tuesday we had Juan de Dios talking about an interesting topic: banning veils at school in the UK. If you have not read his article yet, click here and have a peep.
Next Tuesday, José Antonio will talk to us about a very special plane. Don't forget to read his article and prepare some questions for him. Maybe I will prepare some questions for you! ;-)
We listened to a woman talking about her first day at school and revised vocabulary about houses. Four people were talking about their ideal home. What would your ideal house be like? Feel free to answer adding a comment below!!
We were using second conditional sentences. There are many songs which use them, so I am going to upload here an activity with one of them: If I were a boy, by Beyoncé.
I dedicate it to Tíscar, as I know she likes this song a lot.
Download the activity here
Listen and watch YOUTUBE VIDEO
Well... here is a funny version of it: If I were a girl
If I were a girl,
even just for a day
I'd roll out of bed in the morning
and wonder what just happened to me
Oh no don't tell me they're real
Yeah I think they're real
Something else is missing
Where the hecks my PEN15!
If I were a girl,
would I still look like a guy?
No I wont put on make up,
but I might just want to give that bra a try.
If I were a girl
I could mess with the guys
No, no not like that I mean
When we get a nice dinner I'll make sure they buy
I could seduce them
Show them my nice behind
Yo Zach check out that a... oh my god
I got you, You totally like guys
If I were a girl,
I'd have the nicest legs
I refuse to cook in the kitchen but
I'm pretty dang good with the microwave
If I were a girl,
please don't get mad if I'm mean
I'm not used to my body
this monthly thing is kinda new to me.
No I don't really know if I want to change back,
Because I like my new hair
and the guys love my my my my my
FACE what?
Oh if I were a girl (oh if i were a girl)
I don't think I'd ever understand (i don't think i could understand)
How it feels to be a girl,
God please change me back to a man
If I were a girl
If you want more songs with the second conditional, you can check out my last year entry (click on "Music and Fun" on the right and find May 12).
Finally... Here you have the key to handout 41 about house vocabulary.
I want to thank those who came to the Spring Concert on Thursday. I think we all liked it. I hope more of you can come next year!
See you on Tuesday.
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Friday, April 16, 2010
twenty-seventh week
Hi there!
This week we have been learning about the Education Systems in UK and the USA. Thanks Taran for your great presentation!!
I gave you a handout about Universities with some activities. You can listen to it if you click below.
We listened to a programme about Education in the 50s and 60s, which was quite interesting, and we revised Relative Clauses with Virginia, who brought a game about definitions.
We were discussing different aspects of Education in pairs. Thanks to Verónica and Juan López. Your discussion was really convincing, although you agreed to desagree in the end!
We started working out with second conditional sentences, talking about hypothetical situations, and you learnt how to make wishes. Why don't you add some wishes here in a comment?
As homework, you had to do the reading activities on pages 58-59.
Have a nice weekend and see you on Tuesday!
This week we have been learning about the Education Systems in UK and the USA. Thanks Taran for your great presentation!!
I gave you a handout about Universities with some activities. You can listen to it if you click below.
We listened to a programme about Education in the 50s and 60s, which was quite interesting, and we revised Relative Clauses with Virginia, who brought a game about definitions.
We were discussing different aspects of Education in pairs. Thanks to Verónica and Juan López. Your discussion was really convincing, although you agreed to desagree in the end!
We started working out with second conditional sentences, talking about hypothetical situations, and you learnt how to make wishes. Why don't you add some wishes here in a comment?
As homework, you had to do the reading activities on pages 58-59.
Have a nice weekend and see you on Tuesday!
Saturday, April 10, 2010
Hello,
I want to thank my workmate Laura, who gave me some interesting links for all of us. Some Official Language Schools in Spain publish some exam samples. I think you could be interested in having a look at them and test your knowledge as compared to other Autonomous Communities. They might be slightly different from the exams we do in Andalucía: for example, some of them contain a grammar, vocabulary and phonetics test. But you know how your exam will be.
I hope they are useful:
EEOOII de Cataluña
EEOOII de Euskadi
EEOOII de Madrid
EEOOII de Aragón
EEOOII de Baleares
EEOOII de Asturias
EOI de Valencia
EOI de Santander
EOI de Utiel
If you try and do some exams, good luck!
I want to thank my workmate Laura, who gave me some interesting links for all of us. Some Official Language Schools in Spain publish some exam samples. I think you could be interested in having a look at them and test your knowledge as compared to other Autonomous Communities. They might be slightly different from the exams we do in Andalucía: for example, some of them contain a grammar, vocabulary and phonetics test. But you know how your exam will be.
I hope they are useful:
EEOOII de Cataluña
EEOOII de Euskadi
EEOOII de Madrid
EEOOII de Aragón
EEOOII de Baleares
EEOOII de Asturias
EOI de Valencia
EOI de Santander
EOI de Utiel
If you try and do some exams, good luck!
Friday, April 9, 2010
Twenty-sixth week
Hello everyone,
This week we started with a new unit which is based on conditional clauses.
On Tuesday, Ana Genaro gave us the latest news about the situation in Burma and we had an interesting debate. Then, after studying some aspects about conditional clauses, we did an activity about old wives' tales.
On Thursday, we started our topic about education and we were revising some vocabulary related to that. We also studied the first type of conditional sentences and future time clauses (which are very similar).
Watch this video about the truth in Old Wives Tales, which also contains conditional sentences:
I gave you handout 38, which is a listening activity. As we did not have enough time in class to do it, you can listen to both activities clicking below:
If you want to revise modals of obligation, click here and do a quiz.
We also revised the pronunciation of -ed past tenses. Here you have a good link to listen to a programme about it as well as an excellent explanation.
Next Tuesday we will meet in our classroom, but we will go downstairs to the meeting hall to attend a talk about the Educative system in America, for one hour. Please, be punctual, as the talk will start at 19.00. After that, we will go back to our classroom to continue with our lesson.
Have a nice weekend
This week we started with a new unit which is based on conditional clauses.
On Tuesday, Ana Genaro gave us the latest news about the situation in Burma and we had an interesting debate. Then, after studying some aspects about conditional clauses, we did an activity about old wives' tales.
On Thursday, we started our topic about education and we were revising some vocabulary related to that. We also studied the first type of conditional sentences and future time clauses (which are very similar).
Watch this video about the truth in Old Wives Tales, which also contains conditional sentences:
I gave you handout 38, which is a listening activity. As we did not have enough time in class to do it, you can listen to both activities clicking below:
If you want to revise modals of obligation, click here and do a quiz.
We also revised the pronunciation of -ed past tenses. Here you have a good link to listen to a programme about it as well as an excellent explanation.
Next Tuesday we will meet in our classroom, but we will go downstairs to the meeting hall to attend a talk about the Educative system in America, for one hour. Please, be punctual, as the talk will start at 19.00. After that, we will go back to our classroom to continue with our lesson.
Have a nice weekend
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Paco Iglesias' informal letter
I hope you enjoy this as much as I did:
_______________________________________28 Randalls Street
_______________________________________Baskerville Hall
_______________________________________Devonshire
_______________________________________3 March
Dear Holmes,
Thank you for your letter. It was great to hear from you.
Sorry for not writing earlier but I’ve been so occupied since you went back to London.
I’m writing to thank you again for resolving the strange death of my uncle Charles and for saving my life. When you stayed here it was very interesting to see how two clever men, you and Watson, could find out the truth about that frightening hound.
After your departure, I’ve been quite busy in my new house. I’ll need time to get used to living in this wonderful valley. It’s a bit hard when I have been living all my life in North America. I’ll have to hire a butler soon because Barrymore and his wife have left the village after the terrifying death of Selden, Barrymore’s brother-in-law. Also I’ve been seeing and talking with Mrs Stapleton every evening for the last two months. She’s the best woman I’ve ever meet. We are thinking about living together.
That’s hardly all for now. But I have a slight problem. Four days ago I heard at night a howl which woke me up. I saw how you killed the hound and how Stapleton disappeared in the marsh, so I don’t worry. But, what should I do? Would you give me some advice, please?
Please, don’t forget to write back soon. Would you like to go back to Baskerville Hall to investigate again and to see the changes I have had in my house? Mrs Stapleton, Laura Lyons and Dr. Mortimer would like to see you. Summer would be a good season: London is so crowed at that time and you’ll be able to have a rest here.
I hope to hear from you soon. Give my regards to Watson.
Best wishes,
Henry Baskerville
_______________________________________28 Randalls Street
_______________________________________Baskerville Hall
_______________________________________Devonshire
_______________________________________3 March
Dear Holmes,
Thank you for your letter. It was great to hear from you.
Sorry for not writing earlier but I’ve been so occupied since you went back to London.
I’m writing to thank you again for resolving the strange death of my uncle Charles and for saving my life. When you stayed here it was very interesting to see how two clever men, you and Watson, could find out the truth about that frightening hound.
After your departure, I’ve been quite busy in my new house. I’ll need time to get used to living in this wonderful valley. It’s a bit hard when I have been living all my life in North America. I’ll have to hire a butler soon because Barrymore and his wife have left the village after the terrifying death of Selden, Barrymore’s brother-in-law. Also I’ve been seeing and talking with Mrs Stapleton every evening for the last two months. She’s the best woman I’ve ever meet. We are thinking about living together.
That’s hardly all for now. But I have a slight problem. Four days ago I heard at night a howl which woke me up. I saw how you killed the hound and how Stapleton disappeared in the marsh, so I don’t worry. But, what should I do? Would you give me some advice, please?
Please, don’t forget to write back soon. Would you like to go back to Baskerville Hall to investigate again and to see the changes I have had in my house? Mrs Stapleton, Laura Lyons and Dr. Mortimer would like to see you. Summer would be a good season: London is so crowed at that time and you’ll be able to have a rest here.
I hope to hear from you soon. Give my regards to Watson.
Best wishes,
Henry Baskerville
Twenty-fourth week
How are you this week?
I guess a little bit nervous... well... don't be.
Our last two lessons were quite interesting. On Tuesday, Taran taught us some useful expressions to keep conversation going, and then Miguel talked about Lemurs in Madagascar. Here you can read his article, if you haven't yet.
Then we were solving some questions you had about relative clauses.
You can download the key to handouts 33 and 34 clicking on this link.
Thursday was devoted to Aung Sang Suu Kyi, as we celebrated the International Women's Day this week. Here you have the two videos that we watched. I think that you will have better sound quality in your computers and you will understand them better.
BBC Profile
Aung Sang Suu Kyi on the Non-violent Approach:
And, of course, "Walk on" by U2, a special edition, Live from London:
Next week we will have exams: the written part on Tuesday (reading, listening and writing) and Speaking on Thursday (dialogues). I hope you can find time to revise and all of you get good results.
By the way, St. Patrick's Day is on Wednesday. It is an important celebration in many English-speaking countries, especially in Ireland, and one of the things they do is to wear something green, as it is supposed to bring good luck. Why don't you wear something green to come to class this week? Thus, we could celebrate this party and at the same time it will be a kind of charm! Here you can read more about St. Patrick's Day and how it is celebrated in different countries. The most important symbol this day is the shamrock, as St. Patrick said it represented God.
Watch this funny "biography" of St. Patrick:
You can also read my last year's entry on this celebration here.
Good luck!!
I guess a little bit nervous... well... don't be.
Our last two lessons were quite interesting. On Tuesday, Taran taught us some useful expressions to keep conversation going, and then Miguel talked about Lemurs in Madagascar. Here you can read his article, if you haven't yet.
Then we were solving some questions you had about relative clauses.
You can download the key to handouts 33 and 34 clicking on this link.
Thursday was devoted to Aung Sang Suu Kyi, as we celebrated the International Women's Day this week. Here you have the two videos that we watched. I think that you will have better sound quality in your computers and you will understand them better.
BBC Profile
Aung Sang Suu Kyi on the Non-violent Approach:
And, of course, "Walk on" by U2, a special edition, Live from London:
Next week we will have exams: the written part on Tuesday (reading, listening and writing) and Speaking on Thursday (dialogues). I hope you can find time to revise and all of you get good results.
By the way, St. Patrick's Day is on Wednesday. It is an important celebration in many English-speaking countries, especially in Ireland, and one of the things they do is to wear something green, as it is supposed to bring good luck. Why don't you wear something green to come to class this week? Thus, we could celebrate this party and at the same time it will be a kind of charm! Here you can read more about St. Patrick's Day and how it is celebrated in different countries. The most important symbol this day is the shamrock, as St. Patrick said it represented God.
Watch this funny "biography" of St. Patrick:
You can also read my last year's entry on this celebration here.
Good luck!!
Sunday, March 7, 2010
Twenty-third week
Hiya!
Last week we learnt a lot of new things!
We learnt how to write an informal letter (you had to write one for last Thursday),
we revised how to manage in the London Tube, and we also learnt about Relative clauses and -ing/-ed clauses (also called "Reduced relative clauses").
Here you have the key to handout 32 and next week I will upload the key to handouts 34 and 35.
For homework, you had to do these handouts and you finish unit 3 in your workbooks. If you have time, you could also read the text on page 93.
This week we will be with Taran and Virginia, and I have really interesting activities to do with you.
You should also revise for the exam, as solving your problems and answering your questions will be my priority.
See you in two days!
Last week we learnt a lot of new things!
We learnt how to write an informal letter (you had to write one for last Thursday),
we revised how to manage in the London Tube, and we also learnt about Relative clauses and -ing/-ed clauses (also called "Reduced relative clauses").
Ed Ing Clauses
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Relative Clauses
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Here you have the key to handout 32 and next week I will upload the key to handouts 34 and 35.
For homework, you had to do these handouts and you finish unit 3 in your workbooks. If you have time, you could also read the text on page 93.
This week we will be with Taran and Virginia, and I have really interesting activities to do with you.
You should also revise for the exam, as solving your problems and answering your questions will be my priority.
See you in two days!
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