Practice your writing skills.

The only way to improve your writing skills is with practice. Write each day a short text about the topics of each of the units seen in class, about your favourite things, about your experieces, dreams, wishes or routines, etc. You can write a Summer Diary with all the things that you do this summer, or emails to a friend (real or imaginary)... The excuse is the least of your worries, the important thing is practice!

Here you'll find some webs where you can fin exercises and tips to improve your writing production:

https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/writing-activities

https://www.grammarly.com/blog/category/handbook/

https://www.esl-galaxy.com/writing.html

Reading practice for september

If you have to practice your English skills for september, here you'll find a number of webs that will help you:

http://www.isabelperez.com/tests.htm Here you'll find lots of readings with quizes. You'll love it!

https://www.englishclub.com/reading/ Lots of reading practice.

http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/skills/reading Click on this link and practice reading elementary texts. You can check your comprehension with online exercises.

http://easyworldofenglish.com/readings/sReadings.aspx?c=2f1dbe126863ea88&l=ac752434496ba82d Lessons on reading with texts, audio and exercises.

https://agendaweb.org/reading-exercises Reading comprehension exercises.

https://www.examenglish.com/PET/PET_reading_and_writing.html Reading and writing practice.

http://discovermagazine.com/ Read about science and technology.

http://mentalfloss.com/ Interesting facts about everything from nature and animals, to people and history.

https://lifehacker.com/ Tips and tricks for making your life easier.

I think you've got enough for now. Now, it's your turn! Practice, practice and practice!

10 Webs to practice grammar and vocabulary.

If you have a look at older posts in our blog, you'll find lost of webs to practice vocabulary and grammar. However, I thought it will be a good idea to give you my top ten. There you are:

http://www.isabelperez.com/happy/index.html In this web you'll find many interesting things but I'm
specially happy with the verbal tenses part. If you practice with the online exercises you'll become a "tense expert".

https://agendaweb.org/ Lots of execises on grammar and vocabulary, a many other things.

https://www.englishgrammar.org/ Theory and practice. Loads of practice...

https://www.englishgrammarsecrets.com/ Explanations followed by practice. Super useful!

http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/basic-grammar Here you'll find grammar points in context.

http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/basic-vocabulary Basic vocabulary in context. Clear and useful.

https://www.englishclub.com/vocabulary/ More basic vocabulary.

https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/ Many online exercises on grammar and vocabulary.

https://englishgrammarexercise.com/ More practice...

http://acacia.pntic.mec.es/agip0002/auro/inicio.html My favourite: games to have fun and learn.

I hope you like my top ten and overall I hope you use it!

Have a nice holidays!

Webs to practice listening

There are many ways in which you can practice your listening skills during the summer holidays. One of the easiest way is the Internet that offers you lots of opportunities to practice. Here you'll find my favourite webs to practice listening skills:

http://film-english.com/ Here you'll find shorts about any topic you can imagine. There are also activities based on each short. But just have a look and watch! It's awsome!

http://www.elllo.org/ This web offers you audios and videos of different levels. You can listen and read the script at the same time, you can have a look at some difficult words, or you can simply listen and make a quiz at the end to check you comprehension. You've got plenty of topics and levels!

https://www.biography.com/ In this web you'll know about famous people. You can read or watch videos about your idols. Don't miss it!

 http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/pronunciation/introduction Here you'll have a workshop on pronunciation.

https://www.abc.net.au/btn/ Fun videos in Australian English! Remeber Tori?

https://multimedia-english.com/ Cool videos, music and lessons. Superinteresting!

https://www.podcastsinenglish.com/index.shtml Loads of podcast in English!

https://www.youtube.com/user/VideoJug Videos of youtube of interesting topics. You'll love them!

https://www.engvid.com/english-lessons/ Video lessons on many topics. You mustn't miss it!

https://www.esl-lab.com/ Lots of listening quizes from the easiest to the most difficult. Test your self!

https://edition.cnn.com/studentnews/ Videos about news for students.

There you have my favourite webs. Maybe you know others. Please share the ones you use in a comment.

And remember, "practice makes perfect".

Enjoy your holidays!

The Rules Rap

We have discussed about the need of having the classroom rules
clear from the beginning. We made a debate and we reached
an agreement: our classroom contract. Great!

A good way to remember something is to associate it with
images or music.

Do you like music? What kind of music do you like?
Do you play any instrument? Do you like rap music?
Would you like to write a rap song?

Download this worksheet and go through the steps to write
our rules rap!

Do you like comics?

If you like comics this is your game. 

Click on the image and have fun writing your own stories.

Coming soon....VALLNEWS!!!!

Advertisements IV: Magic Shoes

Advertisements III: Unicorn swimming pool

Advertisements II: MAMMAOFF

Advertisement I: SWALLOW

Gingerbread men

This easy recipe for gingerbread men makes a lovely homemade Christmas present.
Do you want to try?

Advertisements

Your task is to work collaboratively to create an ad. You can work individually or in groups. Each team will invent their own product and choose a way to advertise it.

First, think about the following:

1.What is your product? Name? Function? Price? Description?

2.Who is your target audience? What is its age range?

What is the price range?

3.Why is your product necessary and unique?

4.What’s is your slogan? And your logo?

5. What persuasive techniques are you going to use?

Each team member will participate in creating the product and its ad.

Test yourself.

Do you want some practice for the test?
Click on the following links to review:
Present simple exercises.
Present continuous exercises.
Present simple/continuous game.
More games.

Oral Presentation.

365 GRATEFUL project.

In January 2008, in an effort to fight depression, Hailey Bartholomew started a year long photographic project which involved taking one Polaroid photo a day of something she felt grateful for. Watch this video to learn about why she decided to do this project.






Why do you think Hailey seems so much happier now than before the project?
How does the film make you feel?
Do you like the project?

I would like you to consider doing a project, but there is no obligation; you should only do it if you want to. You can choose the project which most appeals to you:

· Write one sentence a day during a month about something you feel grateful for.
· Take one photo a day during a month of something you feel grateful for. You should also write a sentence saying why you feel grateful.
· Take a one-second video using your mobile phone a day during a month of something you feel grateful for. You should also write a sentence saying why you feel grateful.

Watch this short video in which we see moments Hailey recorded on a summer holiday as an example of the one-second videos.

And the winner is....

Trick or treat?

This week we talked about Halloween traditions.
Do you want to know more about this spooky night?
Click on the image.

The new rules.

First thing we did this new year was to set a number of rules we considered important. But it was too boring and we decided to write a rap with them. Do you want to listen to it?
Watch and read and you'll freak out!

Welcome to our classroom!

Hi students and families!

This blog is meant to be a window through which you'll see what's up in our classroom. We are proud to show our projects and we love to receive your feedback. So, please, feel free to make comments on anything you find interesting.

Welcome to our English classroom!