St. Valentines Day
Have a happy St. Valentines Day
If you are a teacher and you are interested in preparing activities for your students on St. Valentines day, here you have come links where you can find activities to do with them:
Isabel Pérez: Here you can find a lot of links to different types of activities
You can also listen to a romantic song in English class. Here you have a link to a song and an exercise prepared for this celebration.
Are you interested in doing some activities related with St. Valentines? Have a look at this site
Do you like Wallace and Gromit?
Let’s have a look ate this animated episode of Wallace and Gromit.
Let’s have some fun with Mr. Bean
Do you know Mr. Bean? He is a very famous English character and here you have an episode of his cartoon series
Can you complete the following questionaire about the text?
You are going to read a text about daily routines, can you answer the questions as soon as possible?
James and his wife, Joey are a happy couple. They have a daughter. Their daughter is very young. She is one year old.
James and Joey work from Monday to Friday. They usually get up early in the morning. At 8:35 A.M, Joey makes breakfast. They eat breakfast and drive to work. At 9:00 A.M, James gets to work. He drives fast. Joey gets to work at 9:20. She is a slow driver. At 10:00 o’clock she turns on the computer and reads her emails. Then she sends emails to her customers. At 9:05 A.M Jim checks his mail box and fax machine. He reads his fax and sends a fax. He also reads his emails and sends replies. At 10:00 A.M he sits down and writes business reports At 12:00 o’clock James and Joey meet at the Japanese restaurant. James eats noodles and drinks soup. Joey eats Chinese dumplings and tofu. Sometimes they have rice and Chinese soup. At 2:00 o’clock in the afternoon, they get back to their offices and work. At 4:00 P.M, they get to school and study English. After school, they go out for dinner. After dinner they go home. At home they watch TV and play mahjong. They go to sleep at 11:45 PM.
ANSWER THE QUESTIONS:
1.How many days do James (Jim) and Joey work?
2. What time do they usually get up in the morning?
3. What do they do after breakfast?
4. When does Jim get to work?
5. Why does Joey get to work at 9:20 a.m?
6. What does Joey do at 10:00 o’clock?
7. What does Jim do at 9:05 a.m?
8. What time does he write business reports?
9. Where do they meet for lunch?
10. What time do they get back to their offices?
11. What do they do at 4:00 P.m?
12. What do they do after school?
13. What do they do at home?
14. When do they go to bed?
Text taken from: englishmedialab
Learning the Alphabet
Now that you start learning English in Secondary school, we must revise some of the things you learnt in primary school. In this post I would like to revise the alphabet. It is important to know how to pronounce each letter and an easy way to do it is with a song. Here you have an easy song you can sing and learn by yourself
But why do we have to learn the alphabet? For example if you want to spell something as your name. Take a look at the following video to hear and see some real people using the alphabet in real life
Blog-learning
This has been a long and hard week as apart from teaching English to my students, I was at the same time a student myself. For the last five days, I’ve been learning a lot about new technologies in education.
On Monday I attended a very interesting lecture about this subject. The teacher who spoke was really wonderful and I already learnt a lot, or maybe I should say, I learnt lots of things that I’m interested in learning in a near future. His name was Jordi Adell Segura. So if you have the opportunity of listening to him, please do it!
On Tuesday and Thursday I kept on going to my Blog course, taught by Isidro Vidal. This was a bit harder because we are centered in a single subject: blogs.
In general, after these days, I’m taking into account that there are thousands of themes related to new technologies I’m interested in, but the question is: Will I have the time to learn about all of them?
Singing again: Roll It Gal
In case you want to read the lyrics click here: Roll It Gal
Johnny Deep’s last movie
I’m writing this post for those who love that fantastic, enigmatic, surprising, versatile, cute actor called Jonny Deep. If you liked his performance in Pirates of the Caribbean, Charlie and the Factory Chocolate, Sleepy Hollow or Edward Scissorhands, you’d love him in Sweeney Todd. As far as I know, it’s his first musical, but it is not as the usual ones like Cabaret or Mamma Mia, because it is quite dark. Maybe I shouldn’t be so surprised after knowing who the director of the film is; the great Tim Burton a very close friend of Mr. Deep.
As you can imagine I’m eagerly waiting for the film in our cinemas not only because of the main actor, who has even won a Golden Globe Award this week, but also to see this new musical.
If you are interested in knowing more about this film click here Sweeney Todd
Do you know the movie? Let’s have a look at the trailer
