MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Christmas Vocabulary Quiz from maria-brito

 

Watch the following video on 
"The Story of the Digital Nativity"

You can sing along and do the following listening exercises by clicking on the following links:

ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU

WHITE CHRISTMAS

JINGLE BELLS  

OTHER CHRISTMAS CAROLS

CHRISTMAS SHOPPING 

SCHOOL DAYS

School from eoi.soraya

SPEAKING

<-ED> PRONUNCIATION

LIE VS LAY

HAPPY THANKSGIVING

• Watch the following videos on the first Thanksgiving and on the origin of Thanksgiving Day Parades.

• Have a look at the following presentation on Thanksgiving.

FILM IN ORIGINAL VERSION

RELATIVE CLAUSES

Relative clauses from eoi.soraya

DESCRIBING A PICTURE

Describing a picture

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

Describe a picture

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PRESENT SIMPLE AND CONTINUOUS

Present simple and continuous from eoi.soraya

VERBS OF MOVEMENT

If you want to revise some verbs of movement, have a look at the following picture.

DAILY ROUTINES

Daily Routines

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Just below you will find a simple presentation to revise the third person singular spelling rules.

Third person singular spelling rules

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ADVERBS OF FREQUENCY

ADVERBS OF FREQUENCY from eoi.soraya
 

How often do you do these chores? from eoi.soraya
 

ADVERBS OF FREQUENCY from eoi.soraya

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

 CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE VIDEO 

SPEAKING

PARTS OF THE BODY

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

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?

What do you look like? from eoi.soraya

  

LET'S PLAY THE PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION GAME

ADJECTIVE ORDER: EXERCISES

• EXERCISE 1
• EXERCISE 2

SOME MORE EXERCISES:

• EXERCISE 1
• EXERCISE 2
• EXERCISE 3 

FAMILY

Family tree

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Click on the following links to do some exercises:

• Family matters  
• Family members
• Family portrait

SPEAKING PRACTICE

SCHOOL OBJECTS

 Have a look at the following presentation to revise some school objects School objects

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NEXT TALK

PHONETICS

Have fun and play the following games to learn phonetics.

PLAY THE GAMES

WHAT'S THE TIME?

What time is it? from eoi.soraya

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

DO THE EXERCISE

 

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!

QUESTIONS

Questions from eoi.soraya

EXERCISE 1

EXERCISE 2

HOW TO BE AN INDEPENDENT LEARNER

 

Remember that mistakes are part of the learning process!

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

 

EXAMS

Find below some links where you will find the dates and useful information with regard to final exams:

• DATES
• ASSESSMENT 2013/2014
  
  
     
  You can already check the date and rooms where the oral and written exams will take place.
  

• WRITTEN EXAMS

• ORAL EXAMS

   

  

   

  
  

     

SCHOOL DAYS

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PASSIVE VOICE

Play the following game to revise the passive voice 

Game Passive Voice Simple Past from J6 2011

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

SPORTS from eoi.soraya

 

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

• EXERCISE 1

• EXERCISE 2

• EXERCISE 3

• EXERCISE 4

• EXERCISE 5

MODAL VERBS

Modal Vbs To Express Obligation Blog from eoi.soraya

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

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:

• Exercise 1
• Exercise 2
• Exercise 3
• Exercise 4

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