CHRISTMAS IS HERE!!

We are nearly on holiday and we need some rest to start the new year with a lot of energy and optimism. I hope you enjoy your holidays and I have included some information about Christmas, you have some links at the end. This is the time to sing carols, stay with our family and above all try to be a good person. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year for everyone!!

• Do you know Christmas story?


• If you want to send an egreeting card to your family and friends


• Write an e-mail to Santa Claus, it is very funny because you will receive a reply at the moment.


• If you want to laugh a while, go into the next links Christmas jokes.


• Christmas Trivia


• You can sing some typical British carols with the next link.

Finally, I include you the video of the song ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU that I like it a lot, the video is from the film Love Actually. I hope you like it! See you next year!

ACTIVITIES FOR 1ºESO

If you want to read something on this holidays, you can do it in the next link A special Christmas Present , also you can build a story with the following exercise, Christmas Present 2 and finally you can complete a summary of the Christmas Present story 3.

EXERCISES FOR 3ºESO

Hi everyone, here you have some exercises about the PAST SIMPLE to learn it well. I hope they also help you to practise the irregular verbs, as you know they are very important this course. The exercise nº4 includes sentences with irregular verbs of the whole list you have to learn for the next exam. See you soon!

Click on the next links:

Exercise nº1: Past simple (regular and irregular verbs)

Exercise nº2: Odd one out: Regular and irregular verbs.

Exercise nº3: Past simple 1, Past simple 2

Exercise nº4: Irregular verbs 1, irregular verbs 2, irregular verbs 3, irregular verbs 4, irregular verbs 5, irregular verbs 6, irregular verbs 7, irregular verbs 8

EXERCISES FOR 1ºESO

Hi, for this week I propose you some exercises about unit 3 and the culture spot of our book. The following exercises are to practice grammar and vocabulary. I hope you like it. See you soon!
Click on the next links to carry out the exercises.

Exercise nº1: Present Simple affirmative
Exercise nº2: Present Simple Negative
Exercise nº3: Present Simple Interrogative
Exercise nº4: Plurals
Exercise nº5: Prepositions of place
Exercise nº6: Sports , Sports
Exercise nº7: this, that, these, those

ST ANDREW´S DAY

On 30th November is St Andrew´s day, patron saint of Scotland, also the day of all the people called Andrew. On the left you can see the Scotland´s flag that it is part of the UK flag. If you want to know more about this day click on the next link:

St. Andrew story

BETTER IN TIME by Leona Lewis

My students of 3ºESO can watch and listen to the official video of the song Better in Time, I hope you like it.

VIDEOS FOR 1ºESO

Today I have included a list of cartoon videos (on the left) for 1ºESO, they are very funny and interesting, you can improve your listening and English vocabulary, they also have exercises, a grammar revision on each video and the list of the vocabulary used. You can watch two chapters. I will include a new video every week. Have fun!

THANKSGIVING

On 25th November, 2009 Americans are going to celebrate a very important festivity: thanksgiving. It is celebrated on the last Thursday of November to thank the harvest of the pilgrims and the indians. The traditional Thanksgiving meal is roast turkey, sweet potatoes, corn, cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie.

Some links to know more about this day:

The First Thanksgiving: Voyage on the Mayflower, Daily life, The Thanksgiving Feast (all levels)

The history of thanksgiving (3ºESO)

Thanksgiving puzzle (1ºESO)

EXERCISES FOR 1ºESO

Hello, this week I invite you to practise the grammar of unit 3, present simple in the affirmative, negative and interrogative form. I hope they help you use it properly. See you!
P.S: here you have a memory game about sports, this is the vocabulary we´re going to learn on Friday 19th.

EXERCISES FOR 1ºESO

Hello, how are you? Today I invite you to read a bit in English, here you have a link to read a text and do the exercise about it.
Also you can do a listening activity going into the next link. I hope you like it!
BYE.

ARE YOU SUPERSTITIOUS ?

Today is Friday the 13th, an unlucky day for British and American people, for us the unlucky day is Tuesday the 13th. It is said that it is a bad day to start a job, a journey, marriage, etc. The idea of an unlucky started in the medieval times and also because Jesus was crucified a Friday.

If you want to know more about superstitions, I invite you to read and browse the next link about general superstitions . One curiosity, a black cat in Britain is good luck! Besides you can do a quiz about this topic.

ACTIVITY FOR 3ºESO

Hello, you have here the link to the text about PAUL KLEE, copy it and paste it on a word document to read it carefully on your computer or print it out. I ´ll deliver you the worksheet with the activities about the text tomorrow, Thursday 12th November. See you soon! Remember, with this activity you will get a mark!

Video about GUY FAWKES PLOT

EXERCISES FOR 2ºESO



These are some exercises about grammar and vocabulary you are learning in unit 1 and 2. Have fun!

Click on sports
Click on present simple, present simple negative, present s. questions
Click on adverbs of frequency

Click on fruit, vegetables
Click on some or any, plurals,there is / are 1, there is / are

These exercises are to practise the grammar of unit 3. Click on present continuous affirmative,present continuous negative, present cont. questions

EXERCISES FOR 3ºESO

I have included some activities to practise vocabulary and grammar of unit 2. Enjoy it!
Click on personality adjectives
Click on present simple vs present continuous

EXERCISES FOR 1ºESO

This is a different activity and it is a good example to improve your English. Click on the next link to fill in a story.

Besides, you have some other exercises to prepare the next exam.
Click on present simple
Click on the family

SPECIAL DAY IN BRITAIN: GUY FAWKES´ DAY or BONFIRE NIGHT

"Remember, remember,

the fifth of November,

Gunpowder, treason and plot.

We see no reason whyGunpowder treason

Should ever be forgot!"

Rhyme about Guy Fawkes

In November 1605, the infamous Gunpowder Plot took place in which some Catholics plotted to blow up the English Parliament and King James l, on the day set for the king to open Parliament. The men were angry because the king had treated them badly and they didn't like it.
The story is remembered each 5th November when 'Guys' are burned in a celebration known as "Bonfire Night".

Bonfire Night is celebrated all over the UK, every year on 5th November, the anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot, Guy Fawkes is remembered.
Throughout England, towns and villages...

light huge bonfires,
let off magnificent fireworks,
burn an effigy (a homemade model of a man, like a scarecrow) and
celebrate the fact the Parliament and James I were not blown sky high by Guy Fawkes.

(taken from projectbritain.com)

HALLOWEEN POEM

Halloween
Witches flying past on broomsticks,
Black cats leaping here and there,
White-robed spooks on every corner,
Mournful moaning in the air,

Goblins peering out of windows,
Spirit-things that rap and run-
But don't be scared-it's just October,
Having one last hour of fun!

EXERCISES FOR 3ºESO

I attach you below some exercises about the grammar of unit 2. I hope you learn it easily.

Click on comparative sentences (as..as)
Click on comparative sentences

HALLOWEEN ACTIVITIES for 3ºESO

Halloween is coming, next 31st October is celebrated one of the most famous festivals in the English world, I invite you to know more about this festival surfing the links below and also have a good time. Happy halloween!

Click on Halloween history

Click on Halloween quiz

Click on halloween story

Click on pumpkin game

INTERNET LESSON FOR 3º DIV

These are the exercises you have to do on Monday, 26th with the laptops.
Click on body
Click on to be affirmative
Click on to be negative
Click on to be interrogative
Click on apostrophe ´s
Clicl on family
Click on numbers

PRESENT SIMPLE (AFFIRMATIVE)

EXERCISES FOR 1ºESO

Click here and here to practice the present simple in the affirmative form. Be careful with the third person singular. Enjoy it!

EXERCISES FOR 1ºESO

What time is it?

Click on the following links to practise the time. Bye!

Click here
Click here

EXERCISES FOR 3ºESO

Click on the following links to practise PRESENT SIMPLE and PRESENT CONTINUOUS. I hope they help you a lot. See you!

Click here
Click here
Click here

Patience

Take That

WELCOME MESSAGE

Welcome to English Corner! I´m Amparo Sánchez, English teacher at IESO Juan Patiño Torres in Miguel Esteban (Toledo). The main aim of this blog is to help my students of the Bilingual Project to improve their English as well as learn more about English culture. Everybody is invited to surf this blog and I´ll try to update it every week.

See you soon with lots of links and nice activities, curiosities, etc!