Sunday, 28 March 2010

Easter

Some links to know how Easter is celebrated in England and learn some new vocabulary!!!

Happy Easter to you all!!!

Easter in Britain (reading + listening)

Easter: history, recipes...

Holy week's vocabulary

Idioms and vocabulary

Sunday, 21 March 2010

World Water Day - 22nd March

If you want to know more about the World Water day, visit this website.

The following video makes us think about the importance of water...


Find out how much water you use in a day with this calculator.

Thursday, 18 March 2010

The Winter Olympics

Here you can find activities about the Winter Olympic Games, which last took place in Vancouver, Canada, in February this year.

Enjoy!!!





Sunday, 14 March 2010

South Africa celebrates 20 years of freedom for Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela's release from prison was the beginning of the transition from apartheid to multiracial democracy in South Africa. The 20th anniversary of this important event has started a debate on whether the promise of that great day has been fulfilled.

Reading activity

Thursday, 11 March 2010

At the airport

Match-up Game

This is a very good activity for those of you who are going to travel abroad this summer. You will have to check-in in a foreign country and you will need to speak English... Here you have a possible dialogue, but your task is to order it.

Tuesday, 9 March 2010

Vocabulary and pronunciation

If you want to practice vocabulary and listen to the words in English at the same time, this is a very useful site. You can find different topics: clothes, greetings, body, numbers, time, family, fruit, animals, the house, jobs. Definetly, I recommend it to all of you!!!

Language Guide English

Monday, 8 March 2010

International Women's Day

Happy Women's Day to all my students! I recommend you to go into this website to get more information about this important day.

See you!

Saturday, 6 March 2010

Past irregular verbs!!!

Are you learning the list of irregular verbs??? These two videos will make it easier for you and you can learn the verbs in an interactive way... The second one includes the pronunciation!



Past simple (regular and irregular verbs)

A piece of candy or an apple??? What did she choose?






In the meantime you are watching this video, you can learn how to prepare a fried egg ;)

Thursday, 4 March 2010

Pronunciation of past regular verbs

During the lessons we have been practising the pronunciation of the ending of past regular verbs: /t/, /d/ or /id/. I would like you to play this game so that you get even more practise.
Hope you'll enjoy it.

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