WEATHER FORECAST

Hi!

I've just found this great page: you can watch the weather forecast for today and tomorrow in many cities, just click on the letter for yours! 

To revise weather words, you can go here.

What will the weather be like tomorrow?

Have a nice day!

LISTENINGS

Hi there!
Do you feel that you need to improve your listening?
Then this post will help you a little.
To start with, these are some beginner listenings. The listenings on this page are less easy, and more your level. This page contains news videos with subtitles; the vocabulary is harder, but you'll probably get the main idea if you read while you listen.
You can also do the listening comprehension activities of the "nivel básico" on mansioningles.com
For more practice, this post has plenty of useful links for podcasts.
Good luck!

Jornadas culturales 2009: PROGRAMA

SEMANA CULTURAL E.O.I. ARUCAS 2009
15º ANIVERSARIO

MARTES 17 DE NOVIEMBRE

4-5
Sketch in English
Who wants to be a millionaire?
Talk about Ireland
Quiz de alemán
Taller de crêpes
5-5.45
Scottish dancing
Comida alemana
Película en francés: “L’homme qui plantait des arbres”
5.45 – 6.15 Café y té

6.15-7
Taller de crêpes
Degustación de productos alemanes. Quiz de cultura alemana
Pub quiz
Talk about Ireland
7-8Karaoke
Pasapalabra/ Karaoke
La caida del muro de Berlin
Qui veut être millionaire?
MIÉRCOLES 18 DE NOVIEMBRE4-5.30Taller de crêpes
Pub quiz y película en inglés: “Wallace and Gromit”
Taller de teatro (inglés)
Película en francés: “L’homme qui plantait des arbres”

5.30-6.30 concurso de tartas

6.30-7.15
Taller de crêpes
Karaoke
Who Wants to be a Millionaire?7.15-8
Scottish dancing
Qui veut être millionaire?JUEVES 19 DE NOVIEMBRE9:30-12.00Who wants to be a millionaire?
Teatro
Dulce’s diary
Scottish dancing
Concurso de tartas

FILE 2

It is always good to do some EXTRA PRACTICE: 

• all the GRAMMAR points are here, 
• you can also practise "calling reception" 
• and reading (choose the files we've seen, click on "next", take out some words and try to complete the text as fast as you can)
• Subject and object questions seem to be still a bit hard for some of you. For extra practice go here, here, and here.
• For the pronunciation of -ed: read this. Then listen to the podcast and repeat the verbs and sentences. You can download the transcript in word format here, on the right, below the little face.

• Finally,  this is some cool practice on prepositions of location, and direction; then revise them here. This presentation will also help you; click here.
  

Guy Fawkes Day

This is the video we couldn't watch properly. Enjoy!

Happy Halloween!

How was Halloween?

Hey ho for Halloween

When the fairies all are seen;

Some black and some green,

Hey ho for Halloween!...

(Traditional Irish Rhyme)

What are its origins? Watch this to find out.

For further practice on UNIT 2:

• grammar, holidays vocabulary and reading (text building, just choose the lessons we have seen). 
• This is a game for the prepositions. If you like games with a joystick, go here and practise questions. This other game is easier to play and choose the correct prepositions.
• By the way, if you want to revise the pronunciation of verbs in the past, go here and do not forget to check this post by Laura. Really useful!
• Finally,  this is for the "Practical English" section.

Now you can sing along if you wish:

What did you do yesterday?

Hello everyone!
Watch these videos and do the activities on the worksheet.

Here goes the second one:

GRAMMAR REVISION: KEY

present simple or present continuous
1) b) is waiting    c) are we going    d) don't believe    e) am reading    f) Does Susan like
2) b) A                c) C                    d) B                    e) C                f) C
3) b) don't           c) are                 d) doesn't           e) do                 f) does
4) b) A                c) B                   d) B                    e) C                 f) C        g) B
5) b) I'm not working hard                c) Sara does not like sport                   d) I always get up at 6.30
    e) We do not speak German          f) Pierre often goes to the beach          g) George never drinks beer
    h) We're not having a good time
6) b) OK                c) How much does it cost?          d) What are you doing?          e) I usually get up at 6.00              
    f) I don't understand it            g) ok                h) Do you know the way to the museum?

PRACTICE
A
1.works ... is doing                                  2.washes
3.is trying ... is playing                              4.are sitting
5.do you listen                                         6.am writing
7.do they drive                                        8.doesn't get
9.rains ... isn't raining                               10.am baking ... are you smiling ... am I doing
B
1.get up                            2.ok                                 3.ok
4.finish                              5.ok                                 6.am working
7.am eating                       8.is drinking                      9.ok
10.play                             11.ok                               12.watch
13.don't understand          14.do you like
C
1.You aren't eating much at the moment. Are you ill?
2.She knows three words in Italian
3.I'm taking the bus this week, but I usually walk
4.I'm studying Japanese this year. It's very difficult
5.Are you watching TV at the moment?
6.I don't remember the name of the hotel
7.She speaks three languages
8.The sun is shining! It's a beautiful day!

Ain't got no...

Hello everyone!
Here's the original version of the song we heard in class


And this is what the song really says (in more correct English)...

EXTRA LISTENINGS

Do you have problems with your listening? Then this is for you!
Visit VOA News (Special English section) regularly and you will listen to some news read SLOWLY.
First listen to the story once or twice WITHOUT READING IT. When you feel that you understand the general idea, then LISTEN AND READ the news. It is important that you do it in this order. If you read it first, you are not testing your listening... you are just cheating!
This is the tale of the 3 little pigs... more or less! Good luck!

Tate Modern

This is the link you'll need for the search . Remember that for task 2, one is a future exhibition, the other is a current one. Good luck!

But meanwhile... have a laugh with Gomaespuminglish!

ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Do you want a free online dictionary for your computer? This is a toolbar gadget from Macmillan Dictionary for Explorer or Mozilla, you choose. It's monolingual, but you can hear the pronunciation of words too. Useful, isn't it?

Just type your word and you'll get the definition in English.

UNIT 1

New English File has more resources online to revise. These are the links for unit 1:

GRAMMAR:

• 1A word order: here and here.
• 1B Present simple: here and here.
• 1C Present continuous: here and here.
• 1D Defining relative clauses: here and here.

VOCABULARY: there are crosswords and word searches on personality adjectives, classroom languageand the body.

PRONUNCIATION problems? Listen and repeat the sounds you find difficult. The page is a bit slow, so be patient.

GRAMMAR IN SPANISH

Someone asked for a grammar they could look at... with the explanations in Spanish! Try mansioningles. Then choose the point you want to study.

For example, this is the explanation for the verb "to be" and this one for the "present simple".