lunes, 19 de marzo de 2012

FAREWELL VIDEO

I wish you the best on your final stage and I hope that you can put some of the things you have learnt into practice.

THE VIDEO



lunes, 30 de enero de 2012

Eyes

Students carry out some moments of a didactic unit called EYES.

lunes, 28 de noviembre de 2011

SHORT AND LONG I


1- Listen to the sentences and repeat



1- No more green beans to eat please.
2- Would you like some more veal, Jean?
3- Does your niece need more tea?
4- For dessert: ice-cream or cheese?
5- At least these three peaches are easy to peel.
6- I'd like to eat more meat and peas.

2- Listen and choose the right words.

miércoles, 23 de noviembre de 2011

CHAIN OF EVENTS

Students act out a situation to practise with the future conditional.

jueves, 10 de noviembre de 2011

CHANTS

BIG MOUTH JOHN BROWN.



Who did you see?
I saw John.
John who?
John Brown.           
I can't hear you.
I said John Brown.
I can't hear you.
I said John Brown.
I can't hear you.
I said John Brown.
I said John Brown.
John Brown.
John Brown.
What did he say?
Who?
John Brown.
John Brown?
Yes. What did he say?
He didn’t say anything.
Nothing?
Not a word.
I don't believe it.
I don't believe it.
Big Mouth John Brown didn't say a word?
Not a word.
I don't believe it. I don't believe it.
Big Mouth John Brown didn't say a word?
Big Mouth John Brown didn't say a word.



SOME STUDENTS DOING THE CHANT

miércoles, 9 de noviembre de 2011

SURVIVING IN POLAND


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Click here to do the listening exercise.

lunes, 7 de noviembre de 2011

THE SCHWA SOUND (IV)





1- I had a salad and a main course.
2- Give her an egg if she's hungry.
3-She went to look for the fruit.
4- He gave me a basket of bread.
5- Get some pasta and rice.
6- I like to cook.
7- She ordered a soup.
8- Have some orange juice.
9-He invited me for lunch.
10- He made this jar of jam himself.


1- It's time for lunch.
2- Some egg and chips.
3- The bag of nuts.
4- To drink and eat.
5- To cook some rice.
6- As fast as that.
7- A meal for two.
8- the box of food.
9- Some fish or meat.

viernes, 4 de noviembre de 2011

HALLOWEEN SONGS


Here you can see some of the songs we acted out to celebrate Halloween.

THE SCHWA SOUND (III)



miércoles, 2 de noviembre de 2011

PRACTICE ON THE "ING" FORM

Listen to your partners answering some questions. Write down their complete answers.

miércoles, 26 de octubre de 2011

LEARNING TO SING

lunes, 17 de octubre de 2011

THE SCHWA SOUND (II)


Listen to these questions. Please note how, in fast speech, the speakers pronounce many of the questions with only three syllables. The rhythm is OooO in most of them. When the rhythym is different, it is witten in brackets.



1- What do you want?
2- What does he do?
3- Where have you been?
4-Where did he go?
5- What did he do?
6- Where do they live?
7- What did he say?
8- Where will they work?
9- What did you see?
10- Where have you gone?
11- Who did we meet?
12- Where will he sit?
13- When will it end?
14- Where have you been?
15- Who has she asked?
16- What do you do? I'm a doctor.
17- Where do you live? I live in Kingston, Jamaica
18-Where do you work? I work in the University Hospital.
19- Are you married? (ooOo) Yes, I'm married. My husband is a teacher.
20- What does he teach? He teaches History and Geography.
21- Where does he teach? At the Grove Road Secondary School.
22- Where did you meet him? (OooOo) I met him when I was on holiday in Florida.
23- When did you get married? (OoooOo) We got married in 1999.

sábado, 15 de octubre de 2011

WHAT NOT TO SAY TO PEOPLE AT PARTIES




miércoles, 5 de octubre de 2011

REVISION OF LINGUISTIC TERMS RELATED TO ENGLISH TEACHING




Click here and do the crossword.

miércoles, 28 de septiembre de 2011

THE SCHWA SOUND (I)


Listen to these pairs of words. Then listen to the sentences and repeat.



1- Woman or women? What time did the women arrive?
2- Dress or address? Where's Kate's address?
3- Manager's or manages? The team manager's well.
4- Teacher's or teaches? The German teaches English.
5- Weight's or waiters? The waiter's heavy.
6- Dancer's or dances? The woman dancer's fast.
7- Officer's or offices? The officer's here.
8- Away or way? Take that away.
9- Driver or drive? What a nice drive!
10- Racer's or races? The races finished.

PARTIES


Listen to some of your partners' points of view about the topic "parties". I'll give you some feedback (look this word up in the glossary of teaching terms if you don't know its meaning) next week.

lunes, 19 de septiembre de 2011

How children acquire their first language

In this video you can see how a child makes use of the "-s" for the plural instead of the irregular form. What's the name of this natural mistake the child is making? Look up the glossary!

miércoles, 27 de abril de 2011

DESCRIBING A SCENE

You are going to hear a person describing a scene. Choose the scene that best suits the description. Then, write a sentence for each segment which describes what the man and/or the woman is/are doing.





jueves, 14 de abril de 2011

BROWN BEAR, BROWN BEAR VERSIONS

Students show their own versions of the famous book by Eric Carle Brown Bear, Bear.

martes, 5 de abril de 2011

CHILDREN STORIES

A wonderful story by Eric Carle, author of Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?



PAPA, PLEASE GET THE MOON FOR ME