Reported speech Review

Use the following link to review the main points of unit 7. Reported Speech and Crime vocabulary

Reported Speech Resources

Here are a grou of interesting resources to review the reported speech

Another Presentation

A bit more of theory...

And now, exercises
Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3

Weird Sports Compilation

Here is our video compilation for the Strange Sports Listening Test

Chessboxing

Ostrich Racing

Underwater Hockey

An interview to Albert Casals

Did you know that there is a film about the life of Albert Casals? Check the trailer

The Present Continuous Class Overview

In Unit 6 we start talking about the present continuous. Let's start by having a quick overview about the topic

Now let's go to the following activity

Now listen to the following song. How many Present Continuous forms can you see?

Global Problems

What are, in your opinion the most important global problems we must face today? Check the following videos and discuss

The Candidate

An interesting video to prepare for our Job World Topic

Comparatives and Superlatives Guide

An interesting tool to review all grammar theory from comparatives

and also an interesting exercise

Adverb Test

Can you identify the adverb in the correct sequences?

Adverbs product game

Can you put the right adverb to the following products?

Adverbs matching pairs

Match the adjectives with the proper adverb

Don Justo's Cathedral

here is an interesting documentary film about Don Justo's Cathedral

Destiny's Child - Survivor

Next Thursday we start with our song choice to study comparatives, and this is our first option. Survivor by Destiny's Child

Practising the Prepositions of Place

practice the prepositions of place with this simple game: Where is the mouse?

Places around the town

Good Morning! In this new topic we learn about different places around the city. Do you recognize any of them?

Jesus Del Valle de Slidely by Slidely Slideshow

CLIL Advertisement Project

Here we post a summary of our next CLIL Project; Advertisement and Bullying.

OBJECTIVES

-Create an advertiement in groups against Bullying in Secondary School
-Use the English Language as a vehicle for communication in an audiovisual media

TASK SEQUENCE
- 1st  Organize groups to create your filming crew. You should work in groups of four. All of you must cooperate and take a part on the video
- 2nd Create a simple script of your project
- 2nd Create a Storyboard. A storyboard is a draft of your video where you mix script and image. In this way, we can get an idea about how your video will be.
- 3rd Think of an interesting slogan for your video
- 4thThen, record your video, you can use  Windows Movie Maker for this
- 5th Summit your video to the teacher

IMPORTANT RULES
- You can use any format you like, but all of you have to speak in English, whether if you appear on camera or you don't. You have to take a role.

ASSESSMENT
Assessment of the task will be processed through the following rubric. Here you will take an individual and group mark

EXAMPLE VIDEOS

Here are some example videos that you can use to get inspiration

Music Videos:

Flashcards:

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Animation:

Music videos

DATES TO REMEMBER

-November the 28th: Slogan and Storyboard
-December the 5th: Final Date to handle your video presentation

Listening. A matter of taste

Here is a small listening exercise for pre intermediate students. Interesting as we are now learning to talk about our tastes. Just follow this link:

http://www.esl-lounge.com/student/listening/2L8-a-matter-of-taste.php

enjoy!

This is Liverpool!

Here I post an introductory video featuring Liverpool, the topic of our next Reading assignment. Watch the video before reading the text so you make sure what we are talking about

Oral Presentation Sample: My Dream City

Here I post a nice presentation template that I prepared for my students. It's intended to be used as a model to a "present your favourite city" kind of activity
Enjoy!

Past simple vs Past Continuous

Here are more exercises to work the difference between these two tenses with our students

-Exercise 1

-Exercise 2

-Exercise 3