MERRY CHRISTMAS !!





I wish you Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year for you and your family. Relax and don´t eat too much because we need a lot of energy to start the New Year. See you in January!!

Here you have some interesting links you can browse if you have time or you want to know more about Christmas.

Christmas quiz

Christmas games

Christmas e-card

PROJECT FOR 3ºDIV: SHOPS AND FOOD IN BRITAIN

Today you have to look for information about shops and food in Britain. You have to go through the next links to read the information needed. Good luck!

Shops in Britain
Food and drinks

When you have finish you can go into the next links about Christmas.
Christmas quiz
Christmas activities

CULTURE PROJECT FOR 3ºESO C



Here you have the webs you need to do the project, each group has to read the information of the link related to their topic. Good luck! Remember that it is for 17th December.



1. UK GEOGRAPHY

2.ROYAL FAMILY

3.SHOPS

4. SPORTS

5.SUPERSTITIONS

6.FESTIVALS

7. FOOD AND DRINKS

THANKSGIVING DAY - 25th November 2010

This year Thanksgiving will be next Thursday and students of 3ºdiv are going to do some activities to know a bit more about this day that it is very special for Americans. Next you have the browse the following links.

Thanksgiving quiz
Thanksgiving puzzle

Also you can practise a bit about the grammar we are learning in unit 2.
Present simple 1
Present simple 2
Present simple 3
Present simple test
Plurals test
Fill in the gap

ACTIVITIES FOR 1ºESO

Hello everyone, today you are going to practise the vocabulary and grammar of unit 3. I hope you like it. See you!

1. SPORTS
2. MORE SPORTS
3. PLAY, GO and DO
4. PRESENT SIMPLE: affirmative
5. PRESENT SIMPLE: affirmative
6. PRESENT SIMPLE: negative
7. PRESENT SIMPLE: questions
8. PRES. S: affirmative, negative and questions.
9. Listening activities: one, two and three

CULTURE PROJECT FOR 3ºDIV

You are going to work in pairs to do a project about the countries of the UK. You have to search for information in the following links to fill in the worksheet given in the class. Each group will look for a country and later you will do a poster with the information learnt to present it to the rest of the class. I hope you enjoy with this activity and learn more about the British Culture.

USEFUL LINKS FOR YOUR PROJECTS:

1. UK FILE

2. Project Britain

3. Ireland

HALLOWEEN ACTIVITIES FOR 1ºESO

Hello everyone, today we´re going to learn more about HALLOWEEN, go into the next links to do the activities. I hope you enjoy them!

1. Halloween puzzle

2. Spooky match game

3. Paint your own pumpkin

4. Magic puzzle

5.Smackdown game

6. Haunted house

HALLOWEEN ACTIVITIES FOR 3ºESO





Hello, you are going to do a webquest about HALLOWEEN HISTORY, you have to browse the following links to answer the questions of the worksheet given to you.

1. Jack o´latern

2. Trick or treat

3. HALLOWEEN QUIZ

4. HALLOWEEN VOCABULARY

5. HALLOWEEN GAME

HALLOWEEN ACTIVITIES FOR 3º DIV.





Hello everyone, here you have the links you need to go into to do the activities about Halloween, I hope you like it. Remember you will get a mark with this lesson!


1. HALLOWEEN VOCABULARY


2. HALLOWEEN QUIZ


3. HALLOWEEN QUIZ 2


4. HALLOWEEN GAMES

ACTIVITIES FOR 3ºDIV.

Hello, here you have the activities you have to do during the class on 2oth October.



1) THE FAMILY

2) NUMBERS

3) THAT or THOSE

4) POSSESSIVE ADJECTIVES

5) TO BE AFFIRMATIVE

6) TO BE NEGATIVE

7) TO BE INTERROGATIVE AND SHORT ANSWERS

8) READING A TEXT : MY FAMILY

WELCOME EVERYONE TO THIS NEW ACADEMIC YEAR

Hello, I´m here again to continue with the blog that I started last academic year. I ´m at a new High School, IES Aldonza Lorenzo, in Puebla de Almoradiel (TOLEDO). I hope my new students like to improve their English through the variety of activities, links and useful stuff that they are going to find in it this year.

Mainly the activities will be for 1ºESO, 3ºESO and 3ºDIV which are the courses I teach and also some useful information for 2º BACH.

See you soon!

SUMMER HAS COME!

Finally, the academic year has already finished and now it´s time to relax, have fun with friends and why not, enjoy practising English on-line. So I have chosen some of my favourite links. They are divided into groups to make easier your choice. I hope you like them. Happy holidays!

DICTIONARIES

http://www.pdictionary.com/ . Dictionary with images

http://www.infovisual.info/ Thematic dictionary (music, biology...)

http: //www. macmillandictionary.com Monolingual dictionary (English-English)

http://www.blogger.com/%20//www.%20wordreference.com The most known bilingual dictionary on the web.

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/ Monolingual dictionary

GAMES

http://www.vocabulary.co.il/ Many kinds of games (crosswords, spelling, word order...)

http://www.miguelmllop.com/games/games.htm Games of grammar revision.

VOCABULARY

www.languageguide.org Very useful, vocabulary with pronuntiation

http://www.learnenglishfeelgood.com/vocabulary/index.html Many tests of vocabulary topics

http://www.expandyourvocabulary.com/ Some common topics with a variety of exercises

LISTENING

http://www.learnenglishfeelgood.com/listening/index.html Pronunciation activities

http://www.isabelperez.com/songs.htm Songs with lyrics and vocabulary help.

http://www.mansioningles.com/listening00.htm Many listening activities of different levels.

READING

http://www.mansioningles.com/Lectura01.htm Many texts with exercises.

http://www.isabelperez.com/tests.htm Interactive texts with questions.

GRAMMAR

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/ One of the best webs to learn English. You have grammar, quizs, listenings, podcasts... up to date.

www.shertonenglish.com Grammar explained in Spanish.

www.spokenenglish.org Grammar with exercises

http://www.visi.es/grammarexercises.htm Basic grammar exercises

CULTURE

http://projectbritain.com/ Complete page about British Culture, festivals, traditions...

HELLO, I´M ALIVE

Hello everyone, after a long period without writing on the blog, I´m here again. I´ve been very busy with my classes and other personal matters. The academic year is nearly ending, summer is just around the corner and it´s time to think about to take a rest and enjoy your free time. On these days I´m going to give you some ideas of what you can do to practise your English in a relaxed way, not thinking about exams or school work. So today I invite you to listen to the following song, I listened to it the other day on the radio and it´s perfect to dance because of its disco rythm. Enjoy it!

RELEASE ME by Agnes Carlsson

Agnes - "Release Me" 2009 - Metro Cl

Release me (lyrics)

ST GEORGE´S DAY

Every 23rd April is St George´s Day, patron saint of England and it is also celebrated worldwide, the Book day so we are going to have the opportunity to know more about St George´s life and why he is always related with a dragon in many pictures throughout history. I invite you to click on the next links and learn more about this day. Have a good time!
St George´s day information

The legend of St George and the dragon

St George´s day quiz

EXERCISES FOR 3ºESO

Hello everyone, here you have some exercises to practise some skills, I hope they help you to improve your level. Have fun. Click on the next links to do them
reading ( put in order a story)
reading: The story of a town (multiple choice)
reading: Shakespeare( gap fill)
Finally you can practise your listening comprehension watching the following video of a famous American pop group of the 90s, you also have the lyrics to make it easier. Enjoy it!
R.E.M Losing my religion

HELLO EVERYONE

Hello, how were your Easter holidays? I hope you enjoy them. I´ve been very busy before, during and after Easter. Today, I´ve found a gap to update the blog. You can practise your English with the following links and exercises. Have fun!

EXERCISES FOR 1º ESO
food vocabulary
memory game about food
food vocabulary 2
there is / are
there is / are 2
there is / are (aff. / neg / int)
some / any / a / an

ST PATRICK´S DAY-

On March 17th Irish celebrate St Patrick´s Day, this day is also celebrated in America with a green parade as Irish people started to commemorate this traditional day when they emigrated to America in the 19th century because of the great famine. There are some words related to this magic island such as shamrocks, leprechauns, harps, etc. If you want to know more about this fascinating country and its patron saint day, click on the next links to read, practise and enrich your English culture. Have fun!

St Patrick´s story (videos)
St Patrick´s reading comprehension

St Patrick´s symbols quiz

USEFUL ENGLISH

Hello everyone, I´m here again and I´d like to present you a new section for the blog called USEFUL ENGLISH. The aim of this section is to learn some vocabulary and phrases that are common in the oral language, in other words, colloquial English. Every week I´ll include some new words and phrases with examples to learn them easily and above all in order to put them into practise as much as possible. See you!

YUMMY (adj) : tasty, delicious.
That cake is yummy. (Ese pastel está riquísimo)
I´m going to eat my grandma´s omelette. Yummy! (Voy a comer la tortilla de mi abuela. ¡Qué rico!

CHEERS (n): a word that people say to each other as they lift up their glasses to drink.
He raised his glass and said Cheers! (Levantó su copa y dijo. ¡Salud!)

THE WEATHER (1ºESO)

What´s the weather like today? You can practise weather vocabulary going into the following links to do the interactive exercises I have selected from internet. Have fun!

weather photos

Ali and the magic carpet

what´s the weather like?

ST DAVID´S DAY

On 1st March, Welsh celebrate St David´s day, the patron saint of Wales, which is one the countries that make up UK together with England, Scotland and Northern Ireland. This day is not an official holiday as St. Patrick´s and St. Andrew´s day, it is an ordinary day. On the right you can see St. David´s flag which is not so well-known as the flag on the left which is Wales´s national flag. If you want to know more about this day, you can read more information on the next link.

PRESENT PERFECT VS PAST SIMPLE (3ºESO)

As I´ve told you this morning, here you have the video with a clear explanation about the difference between Present Perfect and Past Simple. I hope it helps you to learn better the difference and at the same time you are doing listening comprehension. Besides, I have included some links to practice this grammar point. See you!

Present P. vs Past S.
Present P. vs Past S.
Present P. vs Past S.

EXERCISES FOR 1ºESO

Hello everybody, you can revise vocabulary with the following activity about clothes. Also, you can practise your reading skills with the following activity, Reading. I hope you like them. See you soon.

SAINT VALENTINE´S DAY

Saint Valentine´s day is next Sunday, on 14th February. It is a day celebrated all around the world, it´s a day to express your love, friendship and good will to everybody. You can send valentine´s cards, give flowers or offer confectionery. This celebration comes from a Roman called Valentine. You can know more about this day history watching a video in the next link, Valentine´s history . Also I invite you to learn more about this day browsing the next links. Happy St Valentine!!

Write a love poem

St Valentine´s quiz

Love calculator

Send a Valentine card

Being happy for the other ... (a nice poem)

MORE THAN WORDS (a great love song)

See you next Wednesday. Have a nice carnival!!

EXERCISES FOR 3º ESO

Hi, we have already studied the Present Perfect in unit 5 so I think the more you practise, the better you learn it. Besides, there is an exercise about making questions, the same as the one we have done in class. Click on the following links. See you soon with some activities about St Valentine´s.
Present Perfect 1
Present Perfect 2
Present Perfect 3

Present Perfect 4 (for / since)

Questions of underlined answers

P.S: Where can you find the photo on the right? Do you understand it?

WEAR SUNSCREEN FOR 3ºESO

Hello everyone, I invite you to listen the following video that I think it is a good summary of what LIFE is. I hope you enjoy it. It has subtitles in Spanish! Bye.

EXERCISES FOR 1ºESO

Hello everyone, you can practise present continuous with the following exercises, I hope they help you to learn it well. See you soon!
Present Continous 1
Present Continuous 2
Present Continuous 3

GROUNDHOG DAY (Día de la marmota)

On February 2nd, it is celebrated the Groundhog Day, an annual holiday in America and Canada. It is said that the groundhog comes out of its hole at the end of the winter. If the sun shines and the groundhog sees its shadow, it is said that there will be another six weeks of winter. This holiday began as a Pennsylvania German custom and if you want to know more about this curious day , click on the next link

EXERCISES FOR 3ºESO

Hello, you can practise the grammar of unit 4 in the next links, I hope they help you to understand it better. See you soon!
Past S. vs Past Cont. 1
Past S. vs Past Cont. 2

HUMAN by The Killers

Hello everyone, here you have a video I think you would like it. It has a short story. It is said that Guardiola, Barcelona´s coach, put this song to his players in the changing room to remember them that although they have won all the football championships, they don´t have to forget they are HUMAN. I hope you enjoy it. If you want to have the lyrics, click on the next link. Human lyrics.

EXERCISES FOR 1ºESO
Hello everyone, here you have some exercises to practise the grammar and vocabulary of unit 4. I hope you like it. See you!
The links to the exercises are the following:
Crossword with Numbers
Body parts, Body actions
have got (affir.),have got
Word order
Short answers

EXERCISES FOR 1ºESO

Hi, how are you? You can do some exercises that I´ve found about verbs + nouns, verbs + nouns 2. Also you can improve your vocabulary with the next exercises: adjective+nouns and adjective +nouns 2. I hope you like it. Have fun!

NEW MATERIAL ON THE BLOG

Hello, today I have included new information on the blog. First, you can see a CALENDAR at the end of the page, where you can find the important dates in UK and America every month and where I will write important dates to remember, such as: exams, works, projects, etc.
Besides, on the right column you can find new webs, a visual dictionary to revise vocabulary with photos and a wordsearch web to look for words of different topics in a puzzle of words.
See you soon!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

Our holidays are nearly finishing and it is very common among British and American people to make New Year´s Resolutions (nuevos propósitos para año nuevo), for example: do sport, study hard, learn to play an instrument, don´t eat sweets and etc. Besides why don´t start reviewing some grammar and vocabulary before coming back to classes? Here you have some exercises to refresh your English.

Exercises for 1ºESO:

a or an
am / is / are

plurals

Possessive case ('s)

Possessive adjectives

this-these, that-those

Present S. (affirmative)

Present S. (negative)

Present S. (questions)

the family