Thursday, December 18, 2014

Tuesday, November 18, 2014

DESCRIBING A PICTURE


In the following handout you will find some ideas to describe pictures and photographs.

Monday, November 10, 2014

DAILY ROUTINES

Just below you will find a simple presentation to revise the third person singular spelling rules.
Third person singular spelling rules
View more presentations from eoi.soraya.

ADVERBS OF FREQUENCY



Click on the following link to watch a video on home chores.

 CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE VIDEO 

Wednesday, October 29, 2014

PARTS OF THE BODY

Watch the following video to revise the different parts of the body


Monday, October 27, 2014

READING FOR PLEASURE




The following list includes a selection of books you may find in the school library, suitable to your level.


  • The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins (2011). London: Black Cat Publishing.
  • Ariadne's Story by Joyce Hannam (2013). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Bad Company by Richard MacAndrew (2011). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Legends from the British Isles (2007). Canterbury: Black Cat Publishing.
  • Ghastly Ghosts! by Gina D. B. Clemen (2007). Canterbury: Black Cat Publishing


The more books you read, the better.



"If we don't learn to love books, we don't read. 
And if we don't read widely, we don't think deeply.”
by Michael Rosen

WHAT DO YOU LOOK LIKE?

  


LET'S PLAY THE PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION GAME

ADJECTIVE ORDER: EXERCISES
SOME MORE EXERCISES:

Thursday, October 23, 2014

Wednesday, October 22, 2014

PHONETICS


Have fun and play the following games to learn phonetics.

PLAY THE GAMES

Saturday, October 18, 2014

WHAT'S THE TIME?






BANG ON TIME: Read the time and stop the clock when the hands are in the right position.



 

THE ALPHABET SONG

Do you want to listen to the alphabet song again? 
Watch the following video from 0:40 to 2:03.

Get Squiggling!

Thursday, October 9, 2014

Wednesday, October 8, 2014

HAPPY NEW ACADEMIC YEAR!

This academic year I will teach English to pre-intermediate language learners. 
 
I hope you find the new posts and resources useful for the level.

This is the coursebook we are going to use in class:
 
 
"Today is the start of a new adventure. New challenges to face, new memories to make, and new obstacles to overcome."
                                                                                   Nishan Panwar
 

Tuesday, May 27, 2014

EXAMS

http://eoilogrono.edurioja.org/docs/GUIA_BASICO_201314.pdf
Find below some links where you will find the dates and useful information with regard to final exams:

SCHOOL DAYS




PASSIVE VOICE


Play the following game to revise the passive voice 

Sunday, May 18, 2014

ANIMALS

Have fun by watching the following videos about baby animals and the sounds that the animals make in English





CONDITIONAL SENTENCES

 

 

If you want to revise the second conditional, listen to the following song by Beyoncé entitled 

"If you were a boy"









SPORT


 

LET'S SUPPORT SPAIN

Watch the following advertisement broadcast by Sky Sports in which football fans of Great Britain and Ireland were encouraged to support the Spanish national football team for the Euro Cup.




EXERCISES

MODAL VERBS




Thursday, April 10, 2014

EXPRESSING PURPOSE: FOR OR TO?

For is commonly used with nouns to express individual purpose:
  • I stopped by at his office for a chat .
    (Not: I stopped by at his office for having a chat.)

  • I decided I would save up for a new computer.
    (NOT: I decided I would save up for buying a new computer.)
If we want to express individual purpose with a verb pattern, we are obliged to use to + infinitive:
  • I popped into his office to have a chat.

  • I decided to save up to buy a new computer.
 
 
For + verb-ing: the purpose of an object
However, if we are talking about the purpose of an object or an action, we normally use the for + verb-ing pattern. Note that this pattern commonly answers the question: What are they (used) for? Compare the following:
  • Schools are for educating children not for entertaining them.

  • Schools are for learning. Life is for living.

  • This kitchen knife is especially useful for slicing vegetables.

  • What's this for? ~ It's for opening oysters. It's much better than a knife.

  • What's this fifty pound note for? ~ It's for buying food for the weekend.
Note that when the subject of the sentence is a person rather than the thing described, the to + infinitive pattern is also possible:
  • I use this small knife to slice vegetables with.

  • I use this gadget to open shellfish with.
 
  (c) Adapted from http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/learnit/learnitv284.shtml

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

SPEAKING



COMPARATIVES AND SUPERLATIVES


Two-syllable adjectives ending in -y have -ier and -iest as their comparative and superlative. For example:
pretty prettier prettiest
happy happier happiest
dirty dirtier dirtiest
messy messier messiest
  • Yours is the messiest room I have ever seen.
  • She was the prettiest and happiest girl at the party.
Note that other common two-syllable adjectives ending in an unstressed vowel normally take the -er/-est patterns:
simple simpler simplest
clever cleverer cleverest
  • The cleverest solution to any problem is usually the simplest one.

  Others, particularly participial adjectives formed with -ing and -ed and those ending in -ious and -ful form their comparatives and superlatives with more and most:
boring more boring most boring
worried more worried most worried
anxious more anxious most anxious
careful more careful most careful
  • Watching cricket is even more boring than playing it.
  • My wife was certainly more anxious than I was when
    Penny failed to return.
  • I bought the wrong type of hair shampoo for Joan. Next
    time I was more careful.

With some two-syllable adjectives, er/est and more/most are both possible:
  • The commonest /most common alcoholic drink in Poland is vodka.
  • He is more pleasant /pleasanter to talk to when he has
    not been drinking.

  Three or more syllable adjectives take more or most in the comparative and superlative except for two-syllable adjectives ending in -y and prefixed with un-:
reasonable more reasonable most reasonable
beautiful more beautiful most beautiful
untidy untidier untidiest
unhealthy unhealthier unheathiest
  • John is the unhealthiest person I know, but one of the most successful.



 
(c) Adapted from http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/learnit/learnitv140.shtml

EXERCISES:





A good song to revise comparatives is the following one:
 Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger by Daft Punk



If you want to revise superlatives, 
listen to The Hardest Part by Coldplay