Monday, 11 March 2013

BASIC 1 A New Neighbour Chapter 1

Watch this video and have fun!

 Answer this questions:
 Who´s Simon?
 What does he do?
What are his hobbies?
What time does the movie start?
Where do the men wait for the women?
How do they go to the cinema?

Saturday, 2 March 2013

ACCIDENTS AND CRIMES - ADVANCED

This is news on accidents or crimes to test your progress in English. You can choose the pace of the audio by choosing your own level. It goes from slowest to quickest. Remember not to read the news until you have listened to it a couple of times.

Car hit a group of people
Car hit a woman and a child
Men steal things from cars

Thursday, 28 February 2013

Sunday, 24 February 2013

Wednesday, 13 February 2013

BE THE JUDGE - ADVANCED

You be the Judge gives you an opportunity to sit in the judge's chair. You will hear the facts of the case, weigh up the aggravating and mitigating factors, and consider the offender's circumstances and the sentencing guidelines. As the judge, you get to choose the sentence and compare it to the actual sentence given. You'll also get to see what other people chose.
Thousands of people have already used the site, and interestingly their sentences are often more lenient than those given in court.

Be the judge

Thursday, 31 January 2013

FOOD VOCABULARY QUIZ - BASIC LEVEL

Read each question carefully and choose the right answer from four options:

FOOD QUIZ

At the bottom of the site there are more topics to choose.

DOS AND DONT'S OF COMMUNICATION - INTERMEDIATE 2

http://www.eslvideo.com/esl_video_quiz_intermediate.php?id=8014

Sunday, 27 January 2013

PREPOSITIONS OF PLACE - ALL LEVELS


STATIONERY AND OFFICE SUPPLIES - BASIC LEVELS


PHRASALS WITH LOOK - ALL LEVELS


NARRATIVE TENSES - ADVANCED

This blog will help you with narrative tenses before writing down your stories. It has a lot of gap-filling activities to practise.

Random stories

PHRASAL VERBS - ADVANCED

Phrasal verbs. Ah! those little annoying things that the English use to make it difficult to learn the language!
But don’t worry, here’s an English test to confirm and/or improve your phrasal verbs knowledge. When you finish your test, you will immediately receive your score. You will also see all the correct answers!


GET has loads and loads of uses in English. There are 28 different GET phrasal verbs (get about, get above, get across and so on…) and most of these have 2 or 3 different meanings! So, I think we can all agree that really improving your English requires some practice with this very important verb. So try this GET test to learn some common-usage phrases that you might not yet be aware of.

When you finish your test, you will get the results immediately afterwards. You will also be able to view all the correct answers!

GET - phrasal verbs

We use phrasal verbs based on the verb take quite often. Test your knowledge with these exercises. Have a look at the table and try working out their meanings and doing the exercises without looking them up first.

Phrasal Verbs based on TAKE

LISTENING WITH ESL-LOUNGE - ALL LEVELS

You will find listening comprehension exercises divided into the following four levels of difficulty:

PREPOSITIONS OF TIME - BASIC LEVEL


Friday, 25 January 2013

Tuesday, 22 January 2013

EXTRA ENGLISH SERIES - BASIC LEVEL

This is a series sent to me by a student. I am going to post the first episode part 1, which is on YouTube too. You can click on the video where it says YouTube and you will be sent to the YouTube page. There you can continue watching the other parts using the menu.



Wednesday, 9 January 2013

THE PAST - BASIC LEVEL

Listen to different people talking about things they did.



What did you do on your last holiday?



Tuesday, 8 January 2013

BODY LANGUAGE - ADVANCED LEVEL

This video activity might have some connection with what we dealt in class last day. It is not exactly what we saw about rituals but it is another important aspect in communication: body language.

Body language

Thursday, 3 January 2013

SIMPLE PAST - BASIC LEVEL

This is a review on simple past. Listen and do the activities.

Simple Past

WHAT ARE YOU LIKE? - BASIC LEVEL

A review of this difficult structure. Remember you use it to describe character or personality. On the link below you can find an audio with activities.

What...like?

Tuesday, 1 January 2013

VIOLENT VIDEO GAMES - ADVANCED LEVEL

As advanced students have to write about the topic of violence and video games, I thought this site might be of great help to get ideas which could ease the task.

Violent Video Games

This blog below can guide you through the essay more easily. Firstly you need an introduction and this link explains how to do it: Introduction. Once you have your introduction, you can then continue with the body. Here is an example of that: Body. Included in the body is the conclusion but you can see it here as well: Conclusion

I hope all this makes your task easier

Friday, 21 December 2012

PRESENT CONTINUOUS - LEMON TREE - SONG

This is an old song with a lot of examples of present continuous. I hope you enjoy singing this beautiful tune.

Monday, 17 December 2012

PHRASAL VERBS - ADVANCED LEVEL

Phrasal verbs. Ah! those little annoying things that the English use to make it difficult to learn the language! But don’t worry, here’s an English test to confirm and/or improve your phrasal verbs knowledge.
When you finish your test, you will immediately receive your score. You will also see all the correct answers!

Sunday, 16 December 2012

ENGLISH TESTS

A site to help you learn English or teach English as a second language. Access to all pages is free.
English tests

CHRISTMAS - ALL LEVELS

Listen to Xmas carols and answer the questions.

Christmas carols

Now a bit about Xmas shoppings

Christmas shopping

WIN A MILLION - GAME - ADVANCED

For these Xmas holidays, here is the well-known TV quiz show ' Who wants to be a millionaire'so that you can rate your knowledge by playing the game. Who knows? you might be a good contestant in real life.

Who wants to be a millionaire?

Thursday, 6 December 2012

PRESENT CONTINUOUS - BASIC LEVEL

These are pages with exercises and videos on present continuous.

Present continuous 1
Present Continuous 2

CAN - BASIC LEVEL

Videos with interviews and exercises to practise. The exercises are clicking on the right top of the page.

Modal verb: CAN

WHAT ARE THEY LIKE? - BASIC LEVEL

Watch the videos without subtitles.  Click on the Exercises button and do all the exercises! On the right at the top of the page you can have access to the exercise pages.

What are the Americans like?




WEATHER - BASIC LEVEL

Watch the video without subtitles. Click on the Exercises button and do all the exercises!

The weather 
Exercises - on the right at the top of the page you can go to other pages with exercises.

Saturday, 1 December 2012

CONDITIONALS - INTERMEDIATE AND ADVANCED LEVELS

What would you do in the following situations?

Would you step in to rescue a woman from a man's unwanted advances?

A waiter examines how a girlfriend or boyfriend will react when they see that a waitress or waiter is hitting on their man/woman right in front of them. What would you do?

Thursday, 22 November 2012

PHONETICS /æ/ /e/ / ^/ - ALL LEVELS

Listen to the contrast in the different vowel sounds. Once you can identify the contrast, try to do the different activities. 

 

Friday, 16 November 2012

WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU WERE PRIME MINISTER - ADVANCED

As the world's largest democracy holds elections, BBC News Online asks people on the streets of India what they would do if they were prime minister. Read what they have answered

SECOND CONDITIONAL - INTERMEDIATE AND ADVANCED

In this exercise you use music and grammar at the same time. Enjoy this tune and review the second conditional.

If you had a million dollars

And now try these grammar activities:

Zero conditional: 1
First conditional: 1 , 2
Second conditional: 1 , 2

Thursday, 8 November 2012

Wednesday, 31 October 2012

MORE VIDEOS FOR ELEMENTARY STUDENTS

These are parts 3 and 4 to continue practising your listening skill.



HALLOWEEN LESSON - BASIC LEVEL

This is the lesson about Halloween. Click on the link below and you will be taken to a text about Halloween. Then, on the menu at the top of the page, you can have access to other activities: words, picture quiz, etc

Halloween
ESOL Courses

Monday, 29 October 2012

READING - ADVANCED


Watching horror films burns nearly 200 calories a time. Watching a horror film could burn off a whole bar of chocolate, according to new research released.

VIDEOS - BASIC LEVEL

These are two videos with subtitles to practise your listening skill.





Sunday, 28 October 2012

DESCRIPTION VOCABULARY - BASIC LEVEL

Vocabulary for the parts of the face

FACE

Vocabulary for clothes and accessories

CLOTHES

And now games to use that vocabulary

FACE MAKER
CLOTHES GAME

Saturday, 27 October 2012

THIS, THAT, THESE, THOSE + SHOPPING - BASIC LEVEL

It's a few weeks before Christmas and Sophie is working in India. She's doing her Christmas shopping in a local market.
We use this/that/these/those to explain what we are talking about. We sometimes use them with nouns and we sometimes use them on their own.
At the bottom of the page you have questions to answer.

Friday, 26 October 2012

HALLOWEEN - ADVANCED

Halloween Origins



The Haunted History of Halloween



Halloween Traditions

Thursday, 25 October 2012

PURALS - BASIC LEVEL

I thought you could enjoy these activities on plural. Some of them are games online whereas others are more traditional grammar exercises. I hope you enjoy doing them:

Matching pairs
Speedword
Change into plural form
Irregular plural of nouns
Plural forms of nouns
Write sentences in plural
Crossword
What is the plural?

Thursday, 18 October 2012

PHONETICS - /i:/ /i/ - ALL LEVELS


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

How to pronounce both sounds
Practise to hear the difference between those two sounds.




PLURAL GAMES AND GRAMMAR - BASIC LEVEL

I know that the rules for plurals can be difficult for you so I thought you could enjoy doing these games and learn the plurals at the same time.

These are the rules of plural nouns.


When you finish a game, you can click on the restart button and continue playing with different plurals.

Memory game 1
Memory game 2

Wednesday, 17 October 2012

Friday, 12 October 2012

POSSESSIVE ADJECTIVES - BASIC

This is a lesson to review the possessive adjectives. At the end of the page there are activities to do.

POSSESSIVE ADJECTIVES


JOBS - BASIC

The following link has a list of new jobs and at the end of the page you can click to have access to exercises.

LISTS OF JOBS WITH EXERCISES

This is a game to enjoy learning about jobs.

JOBS GAME

PLURALS - PRONUNCIATION - ALL LEVELS

Here is a video lesson to show you how to pronounce the final 's' or 'es' in plurals. The same rule can be used for the third person singular in present simple.

PLURALS PRONUNCIATION

ACTION VERBS - BASIC

Practice Action Verbs Vocabulary with this ESL Memory Game. These memory games have audio, images and text which makes it possible to practice spelling, reading, listening and word recognition. It is great for beginner and elementary ESL Lesson Plans. Please play this game twice to practise all words.



Wednesday, 10 October 2012

'th' SOUND - ALL LEVELS


Accent training: ‘th’ sound exercises

Having the accent of a non-native English speaker is NOT a problem.There are about 500 million native English speakers in the world and around 1 billion non-native speakers. So actually, there are far more people in the world who speak English with a ‘foreign’ accent, rather than a ‘proper’ accent.

However, if you want to soften your accent there are some basic exercises that you can do to help reduce your mother-tongue accent when you are speaking English.

Here’s a video of a comedian from Glasgow, Kevin Bridges having an accent reduction session. For English people, the regional accent from Glasgow is sometimes very difficult to understand.

As you will see, he has problems with the ‘th’ sound, which is also a big problem for lots of other nationalities.


CHARACTER ADJECTIVES - ADVANCED

Text on Chinese horoscope which describes people's character and explains the meaning of those adjectives. Now, give it a try and see if what is said about your animal has truth to you.

Enter the Dragon

PRESENT PERFECT LOVE STORY - INTERMEDIATE AND ADVANCED

Present perfect used in a cartoon strip as well as a grammar explanation of how to use this verb tense.

CARTOON STRIP


Sunday, 7 October 2012

PHRASALS - ADVANCED

This is the game we played in class to review the phrasals learnt so far.

PHRASALS GAME


PRESENT PERFECT PROGRESSIVE - ADVANCED

I have posted the slides we saw in class on present perfect progressive




CHECKING - IN - BASIC

This video can help you with check-in problems at a hotel.





And now some hotel vocabulary. You have to listen to it over and over again and it will automatically sink in :)
Try it :)



CHECKING IN - ADVANCED

About "English for Hotel and Tourism":
LinguaTV offers online Video Training which is designed for English learners and speakers at a intermediate level, who are employed in, or planning to work in the field of tourism. The focus of the video is on how employees in these fields communicate and deal with customers in a variety of typical work-related situations.

PERSONALITY ADJECTIVES - ADVANCED

Read the clues and solve the crossword puzzle. Then use those personality adjectives to complete the sentences. Finally turn the given adjectives into nouns.

Personality Adjectives, by serene
Find this and other describing people exercises in English Exercises .org


Monday, 1 October 2012

Wednesday, 26 September 2012

Tuesday, 18 September 2012

Sunday, 26 August 2012

LISTENING SITES - ALL LEVELS

This is something created by another teacher, Mª Reyes Ferreras, for her students. I took it from her and want to share it with you. It is an amazing site which you could use to save those interesting websites and group them by topics.

NEWS SITES - ALL LEVELS

These are websites where to read all the news worldwide.

News sites on symbaloo

Friday, 6 July 2012

SCHOOL DINNERS

Today we visit Scotland, to find out what a Scottish schoolgirl thinks of her school meals. And because the European Cup Football matches have reached an interesting stage, and poor old England have been knocked out by Italy, this might be a good time to learn a new football expression.


School dinners