Reading workshop, 10th March 2010

Today we worked with a text about Saint Patrick's Day. Click here to get a copy with the answer. We also did 2 cloze tests (ejercicios de comprensión en los que hay que rellenar huecos), click here to get them.
Please look at the answers after you finish the activities.

Remember there is no class next week!
Good luck with the exams!!

No class on Wednesday 3rd March

There is no class today. The teacher is ill, here is a photograph.

Wednesday 3rd February

Today some students volonteered to talk to the class about their family or/and about themselves. We practiced questions like:
What's  your name?
Where are you from?
What's your telephone number?
What do you do?
Where do you live?
Are you married?
What's your favourite day of the week?
Then we work with a handout on the daily routine of an English Teacher (click here)
Homework:
optional: describe the day of the English teacher and I will correct it for you
(repartí fotos de famosos y los alumnos traerán una descripción la semana que viene para que se adivine el personaje)

Wednesday 27th January 2010

Today we talked about "What's in your bag?" Students described bags from this webpage, click here  and then click on the different phtographs to have a look (si pasáis el ratón por los objetos veréis qué es y cómo se escribe). This is a similar page with vocabulary http://www.languageguide.org/english/
Then we played a domino game for questions and short answers and we identified famous families.



Homework: Wednesday 3th February 2010 Speak for 1 minute about your family or a famous family. You can write the description on the comment section (Para saber cómo escribir en la zona de comentarios click here.)

Cursos de inglés

Os dejo un artículo interesante sobre un curso de inglés en un pueblo de Salamanca, haz click aquí para leer el artículo.
También os dejo un enlaces para los profesores de centros públicos, haz click aquí.

Wednesday 20th January 2009

On Wednesday we had our Listening session and we had a special visitor. Please click here to get the handout.
This is what we did
Activity 1: Numbers and spelling. Click here to go to the web and get the audio tracks.
Activity 2:  First we watched this video on how to tell time.

Then we listened to this audio track  (click here to listen) and completed activity 2 in the handout.

Just for fun have a look at this video, the audio is in Italian but the subtitles are in English.

Activity 3: Family vocabulary click here for the audio.
Activity 4: Luigi's family click here for the audio (este enlace estará disponible el lunes por la tarde)

Handout with answers: click here

Wednesday 13th January 2010

Dear group, last week we had  our Reading Workshop and we worked with three different texts and increasing difficulty.

-text 1: The Oliveira Family  (students read Tony's family description and then completed a family tree and worked on True or False questions and practised the saxon genitive) This text was quite easy.

-text 2: Swedish and Kurdish Families (two texts described the "typical" Swedish and Kurdish family. Here students had to associate sentences to one text or the other: matching information) This text was not difficult.  
-text 3: British at Work ( a text on British at work and lunch break. Here students had to identify the general idea of he text, from three options, and relate figures (=cifras) to the text). This text was much more complicated but the questions where very general.

Hope you found the session useful, click here to check the answers. See you next week.

Note: "had" , "worked", "completed", "described" are the past forms of the verbs have, work, complete, and describe