Self-study activity:
Get together with an English-speaking friend and discuss these questions:
What's your favourite day of the week? Why?
What day of the week do you dislike most? Why?
What special things do you do on each day of the week? For example, on Mondays and Wednesdays I go to the language school, on Tuesdays and Thursdays I go to the gym.
Now listen to the song Friday, I'm in love, by The Cure. The first time you listen to it, just enjoy this great number. Then listen to it for a second time and try and count how many times each day of the week is mentioned.
Thank you, David (ddeubel) once again.
martes, 5 de octubre de 2010
lunes, 4 de octubre de 2010
10:10 No pressure!
Self-study activty:
I know you are always asked the same questions when discussing environmental issues, so here it is again: What small everyday things can we do to protect the environment? Get together with an English-speaking friend a draw up a list as exhaustive as possible.
Now watch this four-minute long video and check if any of your ideas are mentioned. The clip was filmed in four different settings. For checking your ideas, pay special attention to the first location, a school, and the third one, a football pitch.
I guess you must be in a state of shock now and must have forgotten about checking your list. That's quite understandable, as the video, created by the 10:10 Global organisation, is so controversial and has come in for such severe criticism that the organisation has had to withdraw it from the campaign.
Self-study activity:
Get together with an English-speaking friend and give your opinion about the video. What point was Richard Curtis, the director, trying to make? Did he get his message across? Is it right to withdraw the video?
You can read the transcript of the video here.
Many thanks to Jeffrey Hill for drawing my attention to this video.
I know you are always asked the same questions when discussing environmental issues, so here it is again: What small everyday things can we do to protect the environment? Get together with an English-speaking friend a draw up a list as exhaustive as possible.
Now watch this four-minute long video and check if any of your ideas are mentioned. The clip was filmed in four different settings. For checking your ideas, pay special attention to the first location, a school, and the third one, a football pitch.
I guess you must be in a state of shock now and must have forgotten about checking your list. That's quite understandable, as the video, created by the 10:10 Global organisation, is so controversial and has come in for such severe criticism that the organisation has had to withdraw it from the campaign.
Self-study activity:
Get together with an English-speaking friend and give your opinion about the video. What point was Richard Curtis, the director, trying to make? Did he get his message across? Is it right to withdraw the video?
You can read the transcript of the video here.
Many thanks to Jeffrey Hill for drawing my attention to this video.
domingo, 3 de octubre de 2010
Daily routines
Interactive game created by A Clil to Climb where we can practise and revise this tense and some everyday vocabulary.
Abracadabra
Abracadabra is part of a literacy programme of the Canadian government. The main focus of the site is on developing users' reading skills and vocabulary, but all the other skills (speaking, listening, writing) can also be practised while getting lots of fun.
Don´t be misled by how easy all the tasks seem. We can make them as hard as we wish.
Don´t be misled by how easy all the tasks seem. We can make them as hard as we wish.
sábado, 2 de octubre de 2010
Migrant education
Watch this short video by Elízabeth Suárez where she explains her job with immigrants in the States.
As Elízabeth is Mexican I don't think her English poses great problems for us. Simply I would like to draw your attention to the endless difficulties immigrants face anywhere in the world.
Self-study activity:
Get together with an English-speaking friend and discuss the problems immigrants face when coming to Spain. What help from the public administration do immigrants get? What programmes do Spanish schools have to help immigrant students adapt as quickly as possible?
I learnt about this video in sharon's share: Next Vista for Learning.
As Elízabeth is Mexican I don't think her English poses great problems for us. Simply I would like to draw your attention to the endless difficulties immigrants face anywhere in the world.
Self-study activity:
Get together with an English-speaking friend and discuss the problems immigrants face when coming to Spain. What help from the public administration do immigrants get? What programmes do Spanish schools have to help immigrant students adapt as quickly as possible?
I learnt about this video in sharon's share: Next Vista for Learning.
viernes, 1 de octubre de 2010
Expressing opinions
Whenever we wish to express our opinion in English, most of the times we use the phrase I think... to introduce our ideas.
Nothing wrong with it. The only problem is that we tend to abuse this expression and, consequently, we sometimes hear people using I think... six, eight, ten times in a very short period of time like the oral exam.
One of the factors that influences the final marks in the oral exam is the variety of structures and richness of vocabulary students use. So why don't you try and learn these other phrases to introduce your opinions?
In my opinion ...
In my view ...
Personally, I think ...
Personally speaking ...
It seems to me that ...
I get the impression that ...
The structure we must avoid isFrom my point of view. We use From somebody's point of view to express someone's ideas from their position in life (as a student, as a housewife, as a doctor, as a Catholic). But personal opinions are not introduced by this structure. Compare:
In my opinion, war is always wrong.
He wrote about the war from the point of view of an ordinary soldier.
In my view, it's a very good school.
You have to judge a school from the child's point of view.
Self-study activity:
Get together with an English-speaking friend and express your opinions about the billboards that you can see after clicking on the picture below. Do you like the billboards? What products are being advertised? Is the design effective?
Nothing wrong with it. The only problem is that we tend to abuse this expression and, consequently, we sometimes hear people using I think... six, eight, ten times in a very short period of time like the oral exam.
One of the factors that influences the final marks in the oral exam is the variety of structures and richness of vocabulary students use. So why don't you try and learn these other phrases to introduce your opinions?
In my opinion ...
In my view ...
Personally, I think ...
Personally speaking ...
It seems to me that ...
I get the impression that ...
The structure we must avoid is
In my opinion, war is always wrong.
He wrote about the war from the point of view of an ordinary soldier.
In my view, it's a very good school.
You have to judge a school from the child's point of view.
Self-study activity:
Get together with an English-speaking friend and express your opinions about the billboards that you can see after clicking on the picture below. Do you like the billboards? What products are being advertised? Is the design effective?
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