Friday, 16 March 2012

PAST SIMPLE GAME - BASIC

Learning the past simple can be fun too. I found this game to review this verb tense. If you get all the points, then you can say that you can use the past. Good luck!

Past Simple Jeopardy

Monday, 20 February 2012

SPEAK OUT - HOLIDAYS - BASIC LEVEL

This video is about people's holidays. They tell about their last holidays and their favourite places to go on holiday.


SPEAK OUT - VIDEO USING THE PAST - BASIC LEVEL

Listen to what people say about their lives using the past.


EPISODES FROM HEADWAY ELEMENTARY - BASIC LEVEL

This is a short film about a day in London. It was specially designed for elementary students. It has ordinary conversations and it is easy to follow.


This second video is about both a train driver and a teacher. It can be a bit more difficult but I think you can understand most of what it is said.


Friday, 17 February 2012

COMPARATIVES AND SUPERLATIVES - BASIC LEVEL




Watch how the comparatives are used in songs:


FIRST AND SECOND CONDITIONALS - INTERMEDIATE

More about these two types of conditionals. These are different ways to study them.
This could be a nice way to remember the second conditional:


Bits of tunes where conditionals are present:





Wednesday, 15 February 2012

GALA DE SAN VALENTIN

Éstos son los doblajes ganadores de Inglés, Francés y Alemán junto con las cartas ganadoras. Intentaré subir, durante al próxima semana, toda esta información a la página web de la escuela. En principio, este es un adelanto.

Titanic - Basic Level

Pretty Woman - Intermediate Level

It is a wonderful life - Advanced Level


Casablanca - Alemán


The bodyguard - Francés


Carta de amor - Alemán

Monday, 13 February 2012

VOCABULARY GAME - BASIC LEVEL

Read and listen to the word, then click on the image. You have to be very fast if you want to get a lot of points.
Fast hands
Desert Drag

Find the pairs in a concentration game.
Concentration

Here you can find a lot of games, depending on your preferences
Games to learn English

Thursday, 9 February 2012

CONDITIONALS EXERCISES - INTERMEDIATE

Links with exercises and grammar points on conditional sentences:

Zero and second conditional
Second conditional
First conditional
First and second conditional

THE PEOPLE WATCHERS - INTERMEDIATE


We have read about 'The People Watchers' but now it is time you learned a bit more about this British programme:
'The People Watchers' is a 20-part programme that aims to explain why people behave the way they do by performing experiments involving members of the public. Presented by Richard Wiseman, Emma Kenny, Jack Lewis and Sara Clarke.


LISTENING COMPREHENSION - INTERMEDIATE

Watch this short video about some of the work that goes into preparing for the great North Run to find out more. Then answer the questions.
Preparing for the Great North run


CONDITIONALS- ZERO, FIRST AND SECOND - INTERMEDIATE

This is a classroom game where students answer questions to win billions.Review conditional sentences, first, zero, second and third conditionals in this billionaire game- Wait for game to fully load before playing.


Do you want to be a billionaire? Conditionals

Friday, 3 February 2012

PRESENT SIMPLE, PRESENT CONTINUOUS AND SIMPLE PAST - BASIC 2

Welcome to the Snakes and Ladders game. Very simply, all you need to do in this game is answer questions correctly to get a chance at rolling the dice. Click Start to begin and Good Luck!
Snakes and Ladders -present simple vs continuous
Simple Past

This game is a hangman. A panel at the bottom provides (gives) you with the letters of the English alphabet and numerals zero to nine. Click on the letters and numbers to complete the sentence. After your sixth incorrect entries, the hangman says the answer. If you get the right answer, you are free of the noose and move on to the next question.
Escape the hangman

This is a word game where you need to form and spell irregular past tense verbs by reading the clues.All the best!
Irregular past tense


Pactice differentiating past tenses from present tenses by classifying them into the right groups. Tenses : Present simple, Present progressive, Past Simple, Past Progressive.

English Present vs Past Tenses


Pactice using the past simple by playing this television style jeopardy betting game. Read the sentence and enter the correct form of the verb in brackets. The game is timed.


PAST SIMPLE - BASIC 2

These are some activities that you could do to practise the simple past:


Reading and listening comprehension. I recommend you not to read the texts. The first two times, just listen to them. If you consider it is necessary for you, you can listen and read it a third time.

  1. Rafa Nadal
  2. JK Rowling
  3. The Opium Wars
Videos and Irregular verbs

CONDITIONALS - ZERO, FIRST AND SECOND - INTERMEDIATE LEVEL

This is a powerpoint presentation to learn how to use conditionals (zero, first and second)




Thursday, 2 February 2012

LOVE

Valentine's Day is round the corner. This is the first of so many activities we are going to enjoy these coming days. Love is around us and is a feeling that can cause strong feelings on us.  This is a humble contribution made by Misael, Intermediate 2. I hope you enjoy this presentation.


Wednesday, 25 January 2012

MUSIC - ALL LEVELS


Practice for TOEFL with English, baby!

Sunday, 8 January 2012

PHONETICS - ALL LEVELS

Here are videos to show you how to pronounce the different sounds in English. The site is very clear and can help you pronounce those new difficult sounds.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/pron/sounds/vowel_short_5.shtml

LISTENING - ALL LEVELS

Hundreds of free exercises to learn English online. Give it a try and improve your listening skills. If you are nosy, why not try other sections on the site?
http://www.agendaweb.org/listening/elem_interm.html

PHONETICS - /e/ /æ/ /ʌ/ - BASIC LEVEL

This is the link from BBC learning English to practise the pronunciation of these three sounds. The activities are fun. There are a lot of examples to do.

Egg, Cat and Cup


Thursday, 22 December 2011

CHRISTMAS IN FILMS - ALL LEVELS















These are segments of films that show what Christmas is about.


What Christmas is All About







Mashups



— MOVIECLIPS.com



SHORT STORIES - ALL LEVELS

As I know you love reading in English, I thought you could enjoy these websites which I took from another teacher. I hope you can have fun reading these short stories.
http://www.short-stories.co.uk/
http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/britlit

Sunday, 18 December 2011

DICTATION - INTERMEDIATE AND BASIC

A fellow teacher of English posted this link on his Facebook account and I thought it could be really useful to help you recognise English sounds.
http://www.dictationsonline.com/

Tuesday, 13 December 2011

ADJECTIVES - INTERMEDIATE

How many adjectives do you know? Test your knowledge with these interactive quizzes. Move the adjectives on the right to match the words with the oposite meaning on the left.

Opposites Quiz 1
Opposites Quiz 2
Opposites Quiz 3
Opposites Quiz 4
Opposites Quiz 5


PEOPLE AND PLACES - BASIC

This is another video which you can find in Speakout. People speak about their houses, families, friends, etc. It is a good practice to revise structures we have studied these last months. Try to answer the questions and use the vocabulary you can hear in the videos.



This is a video about places where people live.

DAILY ROUTINES - BASIC

Listen and watch this video from Speakout in which you can hear people talking about their daily routines.

CHRISTMAS VOCABULARY - BASIC LEVEL

Learn these English words for Christmas.
http://www.esolcourses.com/content/topics/christmas/beginner-christmas-vocabulary.html

These are words related to Christmas shopping. Do you buy them for Christmas as presents?
http://www.esolcourses.com/content/topics/christmas/christmas-shopping-picture-quiz.html

Now, do this matching exercise. You have to match pictures and words. Click on the word and drag it to the picture.
http://www.esolcourses.com/content/topics/christmas/beginner-christmas-picture-quiz.html

Here is a short reading about Christmas traditions
http://www.esolcourses.com/content/topics/christmas/elementary-christmas-reading.html

This is a bit longer but you can try reading it too. It also has got questions to answer.
http://www.esolcourses.com/content/topics/christmas/intermediate-christmas-shopping-reading.html

Finally, this is a famous carol for you to sing along.
We wish you a merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 


Monday, 12 December 2011

CHRISTMAS - ALL LEVELS

If you love Christmas and want to know a bit more about Christmas in the UK or the USA or you want to learn more vocabulary or even sing along Christmas carols, this is your website: http://www.esolcourses.com/topics/christmas.html


Tuesday, 6 December 2011

WHAT TIME IS IT? - BASIC LEVEL

These are some entertaining activities that you can use to learn the time in English.
Match the times with the clocks

Saturday, 3 December 2011

DEALING WITH WORK - INTERMEDIATE 2

Do you know anything about working in the UK? Here there is a quiz to test you what you really know about UK employment law.
UK Employment Law

This short information video about fair treatment at work will help you to practise your listening skills.

Click on the play button to the bottom left of the screen to watch the video. You can pause the video, or rewind it and watch it over again as many times as you feel you need to.
When you have watched the video, scroll down the page and do the quiz to test how much you have understood. If you get stuck on any of the questions, you can watch the video again to help you with the answers.
Your Rights at Work

These is useful information about English Law relating to fair treatment at work
Rules and Regulations

If you are interested in some other lessons on work, you will find plenty of them here.
English for work

Thursday, 1 December 2011

USED TO / GET USED TO / BE USED TO

This is the powerpoint presentation that explains how to use them and what they mean.

MODAL VERBS - INTERMEDIATE

English modal verbs are special verbs that are used to show possibility, ability, permission, and so forth. Really Learn English! provides you with excellent explanation to help you understand them better.

Tuesday, 29 November 2011

CAN / CAN'T - BASIC LEVEL

How well do you remember this modal verb that expresses ability? Can you remember everything or can't you remember anything? Try this exercise to find out! In each sentence choose which answer is needed to make correct sentences.

Learn English - can or can't

Note: Sometimes we replace 'can't' with 'cannot'. They have exactly the same meaning but can't is much more common.

Sunday, 27 November 2011

CHARACTER TRAITS - INTERMEDIATE 2

As we have been dealing with adjectives related to the character traits, I thought you might need some help to review those adjectives and look up their pronunciation. On the links below, you are going to find a lot of those adjectives. Open up those pages and try out pronouncing them.

Characte traits - A-B
Character traits - C
Character traits - D-E
Character traits - F-G
Character traits - H-I
Character traits - J-M
Character traits - M-P
Character traits - P-R
Character traits - R-S
Character traits - S-T

WINTER CLOTHES - BASIC 2

Vocabulary for elementary learner. These pages have exercises about winter clothes and weather.
Esol courses - winter

IRREGULAR VERBS GAMES

Do you want to play and learn the irregular verbs? I found this game on a website called letshavefunwithenglish.com. This game is only for past tenses.

This game is for past participles

ADJECTIVES AND JOBS - INTERMEDIATE 2

Feelings Adjectives:

Who’s that outside the school?

Lots of adjectives to do with feelings are highlighted throughout the article and there is a glossary to help you understand them below the article.

Sunday, 20 November 2011

Thursday, 17 November 2011

ADJECTIVES - BASIC 2

This is a listening activity. You listen to the adjectives and then find their opposite. ESL GAMES OPPOSITES

Sunday, 13 November 2011

LISTENING PRACTICE FOR BASIC 2

This website has got a lot of short listening texts. The audio goes slowly and there is also a transcription of the audio. It can be good to get better at English. The link is Super Easy Reading for Beginners. There are 100 different texts.

INTERNET ADDICTION - INTERMEDIATE

We have dealt with the topic in class but now you can continue your practice from home. Listen and do some of the activities designed for this topic.

South Korea's internet addicts

And now, after watching the video, would you say you are a web junkie?

PHONETICS - INTERMEDIATE LEVEL

This is a pronunciation quiz to see how well you can do it in phonetics.

Pronunciation quiz

MEANS OF TRANSPORT - BASIC LEVEL

Activities to remember the means of transports. It is fun.

Means of transport 1
There are two exercises. When you finish the first exercise, you have to click where it says 'exercise 2', at the top of the page on the right.

ADJECTIVES - BASIC 2

These are games to find the pairs. You can learn and play at the same time. Click on the links.
Opposites
Opposite game 1
Opposite game 2
Opposite game 3
Opposite game 4

Synonyms
Synonym game 1
Synonym game 2
Synonym game 3
Synonym game 4

Saturday, 12 November 2011

NARRATION - INTERMEDIATE 2

For those of you who have not come to school lately, here is the notes on how to write a narration.

LISTENING FOR INTERMEDIATE

Click on the link and enjoy a wide range of exercises.

Mosaic

The Mosaic project is designed for the EOI second level students (A2 or Pre-Intermediate) to practice, expand and consolidate the contents seen in the classroom. With the new curriculum for EOIs sometimes there is no time to do in class all the listening activities we would like to since they can be too time-consuming but essential to the student. Therefore the aim of this project is to fill this gap.

LISTENING FOR BASIC 2

Click on the links below to listen and answer the questions.

Family
A bad day
Reading preferences
coffe in heaven
At the tourist office
What city would you like to see?

Thursday, 3 November 2011

Wednesday, 2 November 2011

PREPOSITIONS - ALL LEVELS

This Sesame Street video shows the prepositions to children. I thought it could help you understand them better.

Thursday, 27 October 2011

JOBS AND OCCUPATIONS - BASIC LEVEL

For those of you that do not remember how to pronounce the jobs and occupations, you can practise these activities.

Jobs and occupations
Occupations 1
Occupations 2
Occupations 3

PHONETICS - / ǝu / - / o: / - BASIC LEVEL

This is the link from BBC learning English to practise the pronunciation of these two sounds. The activities are fun. There are a lot of examples to do.

Door and coat

Friday, 21 October 2011

ADJECTIVE ORDER - INTERMEDIATE

Here you can practise the order of adjectives in sentences. Remember that when you have some adjectives the order is: size, old, colour, origin, made of. Example:

a big old red Turkish wool carpet

Now PRACTISE.

Monday, 17 October 2011

HOME - MICHAEL BUBLÉ - BASIC 2

Here is the tune. Sing it along and become a singer for a day.



Another summer day
Has come and gone away
In Paris and Rome
But I wanna go home
Mmmmmmmm

May be surrounded by
A million people I
Still feel all alone
I just wanna go home
Oh, I miss you, you know

And I’ve been keeping all the letters that I wrote to you
Each one a line or two
“I’m fine baby, how are you?”
Well I would send them but I know that it’s just not enough
My words were cold and flat
And you deserve more than that

Another aeroplane
Another sunny place
I’m lucky, I know
But I wanna go home
Mmmm, I’ve got to go home

Let me go home
I’m just too far from where you are
I wanna come home

And I feel just like I’m living someone else’s life
It’s like I just stepped outside
When everything was going right
And I know just why you could not
Come along with me
'Cause this was not your dream
But you always believed in me

Another winter day has come
And gone away
In even Paris and Rome
And I wanna go home
Let me go home

And I’m surrounded by
A million people I
Still feel all alone
Oh, let me go home
Oh, I miss you, you know

Let me go home
I’ve had my run
Baby, I’m done
I gotta go home
Let me go home
It will all be all right
I’ll be home tonight
I’m coming back home

Friday, 14 October 2011

JOBS - BASIC 2

These are exercises with lists of jobs. The activities will help you pronounce and write the different jobs and occupations. Each page has got tabs (pestañas)with matching, completing or dictation activities.

Entertainers
Jobs and occupations
Occupations 1
Occupations 2
Occupations 3
People in food industry
Technical workers

Wednesday, 12 October 2011

PHONETICS - BASIC LEVEL

This picking FUN phonics video will help students remember the pronunciation of some sounds.

IRREGULAR PLURALS - BASIC LEVEL

This is a video with some plurals and their pronunciation. Repeat after the words



Games to remember how to form the irregular plurals.

Irregular Plurals 1 Find the singular and plural form and you make a pair.

Irregular Plurals 2 Move the words on the right to their singular form on the left.

Irregular Plural 3 Similar to exercise 2.

Irregular Plurals 4 Click on the letters and form the plural. You must be quick because you don't have much time to answer.

Tuesday, 11 October 2011

WEDDING PLANNING - INTERMEDIATE

Incorporating two families to the wedding. How to help both families get on well with each other when the wedding comes up.

Monday, 10 October 2011

AIRPORT VOCABULARY - BASIC

Revise the airport vocabulary.

FAMILY MEMBERS - BASIC LEVEL

We are all of us part of a family. Family members have various names in English. This video shows how the members of an extended family are related to each other. This video gives you all the words you need to describe your own family in English.



And now a bit of music to have some fun

Sunday, 9 October 2011

THE LECTURER's EFL Smartblog: Present Perfect Simple

THE LECTURER's EFL Smartblog: Present Perfect Simple: Have a go at practising the present perfect with this presentation Present perfect simple View more presentations from David Mainwood

Saturday, 8 October 2011

IT WILL RAIN - BY BRUNO MARS

It can be done as a Karaoke or filling the gaps. You can try more singers if you go to 'home'.

Lyricsgaps.com - English exercises - Mode KARAOKE - Fill in the gaps It Will Rain by Bruno Mars

WORK / LIFE BALANCE QUIZ - INTERMEDIATE

Are you in balance? Take this quiz to find out if you are in balance

Mind and Body fitness

When you do it, check out what your score means.

PRESENT SIMPLE - BASIC 2

Elementary video-activities for students of English practicing the present simple for habitual actions.







This one with frequency adverbs

THE LAZY SONG - BRUNO MARS

Here is the song you couldn't enjoy in class. So sorry. I hope you can enjoy it here. The lyrics is in the comments.

Friday, 7 October 2011

PEPPA PIG - BASIC AND INTERMEDIATE

Hope you enjoy this episode of Peppa Pig. This is an excellent way of practising English pronunciation and listening.

Wednesday, 5 October 2011

VOCABULARY - BASIC LEVEL


Do you need help with pronunciation and vocabulary? Did you forget how to say your routine, the classroom objects or the housework? No problem. I found this site that can help you remember all that. Choose the part that is more interesting to you. Each activity has different tags (pestañas) above (encima) the pictures.

Activities
Classroom 1
Classroom 2
Continents and oceans
Days
Housework
Months
Stationery 1
Stationery 2

Wednesday, 28 September 2011

Tuesday, 27 September 2011

OFFICE VOCABULARY - BASIC LEVEL

These are links to revise office vocabulary and stationery vocabulary.

Office stationery

office furniture

Office equipment

Vocabulary for meetings and presentations

POSSESSIVE ADJECTIVES - BASIC 2

As I promised you, here is the segment of the film 'Sunshine Barry and the Worm'. It was taken from an excellent blog run by Claudio Azevedo, a Brazilian teacher.

CULTURE - BASIC LEVEL

Do you know anything about the UK and USA flags? Here is a link to learn new things about those flags:
The UK flag is called 'The Union Jack'
The nickname for the American flag is 'the Stars and Stripes'

Do you know anything about the British and American culture? If not, do the quizzes below:
British quiz
American quiz

Monday, 26 September 2011

EMAILS FOR HOMEWORK

For those of you who havent bought the coursebooks yet, here are the situations for the emails you have to write for next week:

Situation 1

Next week you start a new job as Project Manager for a publishing company. Your job is to start new book projects and organise teams to work on the projects. Write to your new colleagues. Introduce yourself.

Situation 2.

You are going to Sydney for the first time. Your brother's friend, Tom, lives there. You have never met Tom. You want him to show you around the city. Write to Tom. Introduce yourself, and say when you are coming and what you want to do.

RELATIONSHIP PHRASAL VERBS - INTERMEDIATE

These are some phrasals related to the topic we are dealing with in unit 1, relationships.











Saturday, 24 September 2011

FACE MATCH - BASIC LEVEL

Do you remember how to describe faces? This is a game to choose the right person. Read the instructions and then the description. If you know who the person is, click on the face. This is great fun.
British Council - Learn English Kids - Face Match

THE WEATHER - BASIC AND INTERMEDIATE

Can you spell the words for the weather? This is a hangman activity to revise the vocabulary related to the weather. It is a very entertaining game that can help you with vocabulary.
British Council -Learn English Kids - Weather

STORY MAKER - BASIC AND INTERMEDIATE

Do you like writing? You can create your own stories here. The story maker makes three different types of stories: fairy, horror and science-fiction stories. What's your favourite? It can be fun because a machine makes up the story. You only choose the characters. Try it out because it can be nice to discover what is up.

British Council - Learn English Kids

MINE - TAYLOR SWIFT - SONG

This is a song taken from a wonderful website, called 'Daily elessons'. It goes with activities thought for the students who study English as a second language.

FAMILY FEUD

Family Feud is an American television game show created by Mark Goodson and Bill Todman. Two families compete against each other in a contest to name the most popular responses to a survey-type question posed to 100 people.

MEN'S AND WOMEN'S BRAIN - INTERMEDIATE

Watch these two videos on men's and women's brain in order to work out how the brain works. I am sure you won't get bored with this theoretical approach, on the contrary, you will get surprised at the original way of introducing the facts to the audience.

Two brains - part 1
Two brains - part 2

Friday, 23 September 2011

Monday, 19 September 2011

ALPHABET GAME - BASIC LEVEL

This game is called Alphabet Antics and helps you with the alphabet. You only have to say what letter of the alphabet it is. Click on the right letter but watch out for the snake!

Sunday, 18 September 2011

GREAT WEBSITE TO IMPROVE PRONUNCIATION

A student at EOI Ingenio sent me this incredible website to help you with your pronunciation. It allows you to create your own talking character and for free. If you do not remember how to pronounce a word or expression, you only have to type the word(s) and the character will say it for you. Sitepal

Friday, 16 September 2011

INTERMEDIATE - GREETINGS

Hello there,
Welcome to a new school year in the EOI Ingenio. To start with you have this nice video about different ways of saying hello & goodbye, that is, greetings.

Thursday, 15 September 2011

LIVING ENGLISH - BASIC LEVEL

This is an Australian series to help you with your English at a basic level. This first episode is about greetings, introductions, simple sentences, personal pronouns, that and this and adjectives. It is very easy because the characters speak very slowly and clearly.
Living English - episode 1

Thursday, 8 September 2011

AMY WINEHOUSE - WHAT REALLY HAPPENED

What is the truth about her death? Watch this and make your own theory of what really happened.
Amy Winehouse: What Really Happened

IRREGULAR VERBS - INTERMEDIATE AND ADVANCED


Who said that learning irregular verbs was boring? Here is a game to revise all those annoying verbs. Why not try to score the highest and lead the chart? Verb Dash