Thursday, October 18, 2012

Describing People

Verbs "to be" and "to have" and adjectives to describe people.

Present Simple

Try these activities to use the present simple.

What about your weekend? (Past Simple)

Listen and complete the conversation to practice the past simple.

Telephone conversation

Listen and complete this phone conversation.

Daily Routines

Watch this video to review the daily routines. Enjoy!





In a bar

Watch the video and answer the questions.

Shopping at the supermarket

Watch the video and answer the questions.

Exchanging Phone Numbers

Watch this video and answer the questions.

Jobs, Ordinal numbers, Dates, Days, Months


Practise some vocabulary here.

House

Listen to 5 sentences about the house and write them down and correct them (clicking on "revisar").

Family

Listen to 7 sentences with American accent and write them down. Then correct them please.

Buildings and Street Directions


There are 4 steps (pasos) you can follow to practise vocabulary related to the city and giving directions.

The City


Here you can practise vocabulary related to the CITY. Some words are in American English, for example:

store = shop
bookstore = bookshop
drugstore = pharmacy or chemist
movie theater = cinema
laundromat = laundry
gas station = petrol station

Food

With these exercises you can review vocabulary related to FOOD.

At the restaurant

Listen to a dialogue at a restaurant and tick the food you listen to.

Family Description


Listen to the description of some family pictures and tick the names of the people you listen to. Then click on "revisar" to correct your answers.

Family

With these activities you can practise the vocabulary of the FAMILY

and more

Possessives and how to ask QUESTIONS

Very useful webpage to practice questions in English (HOW, WHERE, WHEN, WHAT, ...).

House Description

Here you can find dialogues and exercises to practice "There is" and "There are" and vocabulary related to houses and furniture.

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Professions by Sandra Vila

See her tagxedo here.

Short Poem by Aurora

God find a low branch for the birds that cannot fly

Adjectives by Loli

See her tagxedo here

Past Simple by Antonio


See his tagxedo here

Occupations by Marina

Times by Isabel

http://www.tagxedo.com/art/5f50b2ff857e409a

Jobs by Rocío Quirós

Common Objects by Laura

Fruits by Natalia

Plane by Daniel

Thursday, March 29, 2012

Past Simple of Irregular Verbs by José Luis

Adjectives by Carmen

Frank Sinatra: 40 songs


If you go to this link you can listen to 40 songs by the great Frank Sinatra, see the lyrics and the Spanish translation.

Sinatra was born in 1915 and died in 1998. He was an American singer and film actor.

Hope you enjoy his music!

Unchained Melody

This is a glog (a digital poster with videos, images, texts, etc). The digital activity for Easter is to create a glog similar to this one. It can be a film, a song, a friend description, your family, your favourite season, a journey, your free time activities, etc.

I hope you enjoy this web application: GLOGSTER


Sunday, March 25, 2012

Podcast by the British Council

This podcast is a bit long (24 minutes) but very interesting. It talks about: Introducing your friends; Angelina Jolie; things you can find in a kitchen; Central Park in New York; celebrities working for charity; a Venezuelan girl in Britain etc.

You can listen to it little by little. While you listen, you can answer some questions.

Hope you enjoy it!

Saturday, March 24, 2012

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Monday, March 12, 2012

What time is it?

In this video you can listen to people telling the time:


Telling the time: exercise

You can listen to the times and write them down on a notebook. Then, you can check the correct answer.

Do you like music?

You can learn and practice English through music. This is a website where you can listen to your favourite songs and sing along. Enjoy it!

Talking Dictionary of English Pronunciation

Para saber la pronunciación de alguna palabra, podéis ir a este diccionario online y escucharla tantas veces como queráis.

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Where are you from?

This is a video where people with different accents tell where they are from :


What's your name? ... Nice to meet you!

In this video you can see and listen to different people introducing themselves (presentándose).