International Women's Day 2018: The Time is now

Good afternoon Elementary III and IV Students! 
Please, have a look at this video before coming to our English class next Thursday 8th of March :)

Thanks in advance



 Kisses, 

 Julia

Video: The small and surprisingly dangerous detail the police track you about

Listening: Contact

Good evening English IV Students!

I attach you the link of the listening we did today.

As you know,  you just have to do the  first task in which you are supossed to listen to the four problems that the speakers mention.




Have a nice long week. 

See you the 14th of December. 

Kisses and love, 

Julia

Listening: My that's English. Tiny texts

Listening: Tiny texts

Video: The news

Friendship Discussion

Before discussing those questions below, let's watch the trailler

DISCUSSION

1. Who is your oldest friend?
2. And your closest friend?
3. What is your relationship with them like?
4. In what ways are the two relationships similar or different?
5. What do you have in common with these two friends?
6. Do you usually have a lot in common with your friends or do they introduce you to new things and ideas? Which is more important?
7. Which of your friends is most different from you in personality?
8. What is he/she like? 
9. What do you mainly expect of a friend, support or to have fun?
10. Do your friends come from the same background as you?
11. How long can a friendship last when you keep in touch but don't spend time together? 
12. Do you get on well with people of different ages?
13. Do you ever talk to strangers? If so, in what situations?

Taken from: http://mythatsenglish.blogspot.com.es/2016/10/talking-point-relationships.html

Kisses,

Julia

Advanced writing: A book review

Good morning Advanced Students!

Here I send you a link where you might find useful language expressions for your book review!

Book review: Useful language expressions

REPHRASING WEB PAGES

Good evening!

Yesterday you told me you were interested in practicing rephrasing at home.

Here you can find hundreds of exercises!

Rephrasing activities


See you tomorrow!!

Julia

Grammar: The Passive Voice

THE PASSIVE VOICE

Structure: Subject + auxiliar verb to be + past participle

We must take into account: 

1. The CO in the active sentence is the subject in the passive sentence. 
2. The main verb is substituted by the verb to be in the same tense, and the main verb is the past participle. 
3. The subject in the main sentence is the CA in the passive. 
4. If we want to say who does the action we have to introduce it using "by".

Online activities: 

Activity 1.- The Passive Voice

Activity 2.- The Passive Voice: Present Simple

Activity 3.- The Passive Voice: Past Simple

Activity 4.- The Passive Voice: Present Perfect

Activity 5.- The Passive Voice: Future

ELEMENTARY AND ADVANCED KAHOOTS

Good afternoon!

In this post I attach three kahoot links for the Elementary I,  Elementary II and Advanced Students. 
We will play tomorrow in class :)


Kahoot: To be vs Have got
Kahoot: Present Simple vs. Present Continuous
Kahoot: Vocabulary revision

See you!!

Kisses

Julia

Advanced video: Secrets

Good morning Advanced Students!

Today, we are going to start a new unit "Secrets", so that to illustrate the topic I have uploaded this interesting video. Probably we will work on it next Thursday. 



Have a nice day!

Julia

Advanced Grammar: Perfect Tenses

Good afternoon Advanced Students!

I have created a PPT in order to explain you the different Perfect tenses. 
It is not finished, as we have to work on it today in class. 

Here I attach the link, so if you want you can download it for you.

Link: Perfect tenses PPT

See you later!

Julia

Advanced Listening: What's in a name?

Good morning Advanced Students!

Today in class, as you know, you are going to do a couple of reading comprehension exercises. 
As I don't know if everyone will finish on time or you will need extra time, I have prepared for those fast learners an interesting listening. 
It is related to the first unit we learnt this course, do you remember? It was called "Origins"

This is the link: Listening: What's in a name?

Please, before doing it, read the following instructions: 

1st.- Do the "Preparation activity"
2nd.- Listen to the audio once
3rd.- Check your understanding by doing a true or false exercise
4th.- Check your understanding by a gap fill activity
5th.- If you want, you can listen to the audio while reading the transcript too

See you later, 

Julia

Law and Order: Discussion

1. Are the activities below against the law in your country?
2. Do you think they should be illegal?
3. How do you think they should be punished?

• Illegal downloading of music, books and films.
• Hacking into someone else's computer.
• Posting aggressive or threatening tweets or messages.
• Photographing someone and posting the photo on the internet without their permission.
• Using false identity online.
• Creating a computer virus.
• Owing an aggressive breed of dog.
• Squatting in an unoccupied house.
• Getting on strike without having previously agreed / announced it.
• Painting attractive graffiti on a wall or fence.

Taken from: http://mythatsenglish.blogspot.com.es/search/label/Justice

Social Justice

Social Justice

Promoting tolerance, freedom, and equality for all people regardless of race, sex, orietntation, national origin, handicap, etc... except for white, straight, cisgendered males.

Annie Lennox.- Annie Lennox information

Sting.- Sting Information

Al Gore.- Al Gore Information

Vocabulary: Describing places

Good afternoon Advanced Students!

Please, have a look at the following adjectives to describe places. 

Next Tuesday (10th January) we will do an activity in class! :)

See you!!

Julia

·         Airy ·         Ancient ·         Breathtaking ·         Bright ·         Bustling ·         Chilly ·         Deserted ·         Dilapidated ·         Dreary ·         Gaudy ·         Gloomy

·         Luxurious ·         Magnificient ·         Picturesque ·         Poky ·         Rundown ·         Shabby ·         Shady ·         Spacious ·         Stunning ·         Tranquil ·         Unspoilt

Advanced Test

Good morning Advanced Students!

Here I have attached a link in which you can find a test so that you can practice what we have learnt this term!!

Advanced Test

See you soon!

Julia

READING: Hotel Chelsea (Advanced Group)

Hotel Chelsea

To say the Hotel Chelsea has an interesting history would be an understatement. Since the early twentieth century, the hotel has been home to dozens of celebrties. the fame of the building itself pre-dates its fame as a hotel; when it was constructed in 1883 as a block of flats. It was New York's tallest building. It became a hotel in 1095. Although prosperous at first, during a period of maladministration the hotel began to degenerate. It went baknrupt and changed hands in 1939. Its proactive new managers soon got it up and running again hard in the post - war era, its fame grew. 

As a part of the New York astistic scene, the hotel is irreplaceable. Its famous residents have included actors, artists, singers, writers and numerous anti-establishements figures. Frida Kahlo, Jean Paul Sartre, Jackson Pullock, Marilyn Monroe, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Madonna and Una Thurman all lived there for a while, and the hotel has been immortalised (and some would say overexposed) in dozens of songs, books and films (The Interpreter). Always a place of non- conformity, the hotel's management sometimes allowed penniless residents to pay for their rooms with artworks, some of which still hand in its lobby today. Its famous residents have found the hotel conductive to creativity, Arthur C Clarke and Jack Kerouac wrote, respectively, 2001: A Space Odyssey and On the Road while living in the hotel, and Madonna used it for a photo shoot for one of her books. Unfortunately, the hotel is also associated with artistic misbehaviour and tragedy. One of numerous examples of wild adventures behind its closed doors, the poet Dylan Thomas collapsed in room 205 of the hotel after partying too hard. He died four days later. 

Text taken from: Speakout. Advanced Student's book. Pearson

READING: LONELY PLANET (Advanced)

Every month the BBC Lonely Planet Magazine runs a photo competition. They ask readers to send in pictures they have on their travels and tell the story behind them.

1. Sangkhlaburi, Thailand: Taking the plunge

"We were in a long boat crossing the Khao Laem reservoir in Sangkhlaburi, close to the Burmese border in Western Thailand, when our driver took us on a detour to Thailand's longest wooden bridge. As he cut the engine and we idled up to the bridge for a closer look, some local boys were enjoying a bombing (diving) competition. When they saw us, they seized the moment to showcase some of their diving and one after the other plunged into the water. We were only there for a few minutes but this impromptu performance remains one of the highlights of my time in Thailand. This shot embodies the spontaneity of the country , and its people's vibrancy"
Alistair McDonald was on a two - week holiday in Thailand.

2. Havana, Cuba: Seeing the light

"The Malecón is a five - mil - long, six - lane sea road, laid out by US Marines from 1901 and fronted by nineteenth - century buildings in various states of disrepair. It is where Habaneros hang out and party at the weekends and is the unique fingerprint of Havana. When I got there, the sun was barely peeping through  the clouds when I noticed a 1950s Pontiac approaching in the distance. I waited until it drew closer before pressing the shutter. For me this photo captures the essence of Havana: a uniquely photogenic city frozen in time for fifty years"

Anthony Mc Evoy was in Cuba for work and a short holiday.

3. Matera, southern Italy: Time stands still

"Nothing could have preparated me for my first sight of the Sassi di Matera. I wasn't sure what to expect from a cave town where the locals live in the same houses as their ancestos did 9000 years ago. I felt like I'd wandered onto a film set. The jumble of stacked cave houses appeared to tumble down a ravine. Adding to the magic of the placee was the fact that I was the only person there and it felt like a ghost town. I left feeling slightly humbled -maybe it was knowing that my hotel room was once a cave dwelling for a family of ten and their livestock!"

Greg Jackson spent his summer holiday last year in Italy.


Text taken from: Speakout. Advanced Student's book. Pearson. 

VIDEO: PLACES

Good morning Advanced Students!

Here I have uploaded the video we watched last week in class related to our topic: Places. If you want you can watch it again, as it was pretty hard.

See you later!!

Julia