XMAS FUN

We wish you Merry Christmas and a Happy New 2016!!

The force is calling you!

When it comes to talk about science fiction, space battles, army of robots, legendary heroes, interplanetary trips or dozens of weird alien tribes, most of the people think about one of the main known movie sagas: Star Wars.

If you are a fan of them, you can enjoy next Christmas with the newest episode: “The force awaken”.

Remember, “The force is calling you”.

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Extra information.

1^st question.

Can you remember the names of the most popular Star Wars’ robots?

Yes, you’re right. They are called C3PO and R2D2.

2^nd question.

Can you call those robots in Latin Spanish?

Can’t you? It’s worth it.

Citripio (in English “ce” “three” “pee” “ou”) and Arturito (“are” “two” “dee” “two”)

It’s crazy. Isn’t it?

BLACK FRIDAY

"Black Friday" is the  term for the phenomenon that takes place in the U.S. on the day after Thanksgiving Thursday, when millions of consumers who get the day off from work or school crowd into stores for what is traditionally considered the beginning of the Christmas shopping season.

To know more about its origin let's watch the video!

HELLO

Should I say “hello” in class, everybody would say “hello”, but if I added “Adele”, I bet most of you would answer “it’s me”. Who, in this planet, hasn’t heard Adele’s new single a thousand times already? And this is good, believe me, at least for teaching purposes.Mindful of the fact that one of the most important ingredients in learning a language is motivation, what could be more motivating than singing along Adele’s song now that it is being played everywhere?

I’ve just got here, and I think I’m losing signal already. Hello? Can you hear me now? Sorry. I’m sorry, I’m — Sorry
Do you know the meaning??

You are going to watch the video without sound; your task will be to narrate the story in the video.

Find the following answers in the video:

• a verb meaning  to desire to know something.
• three phrasal verbs.
• an informal contraction that some people consider incorrect.
• an idiomatic expression meaning to be lucky, successful and greatly admired.
• a modal+ perfect infinitive
• an idiomatic expression meaning to cause someone great emotional pain.
• a combination that goes against grammar, but which is very common in casual registers.
• an idiomatic expression meaningto achieve a goal, to be successful.

  We hope you learn by singing out loud!!

Inspiring father explains Paris tragedy to his child

Listen to how a father helped his toddler son who is afraid and trying to understand what happened after the terrorist attack in Paris.

IT'S THANKSGIVING DAY!!

It's Thanksgiving, a very important day in the USA and in Canada. It is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November. Watch this video to learn more about this holiday. And don't forget to leave a comment!

Simple past vs Present perfect

If you want to check and practise for these two tenses, just click below! Have a try!

http://myenglishscrapbook.blogspot.com.es/2011/10/past-vs-present-perfect.html

GREENWICH MEAN TIME

Have you ever wondered....
How many degrees does the Earth rotate in an hour?
Why the time in England is 5 hours ahead of the time in Virginia... for example?

To find all these answers let's watch this video!

IT'S HALLOWEEN!

If you click on "subtítols" you'll see the English subtitles. Enjoy the video!

After watching the episode, left a comment about the video or about Halloween.

LEARNING VOCABULARY CAN BE FUNNY

Try it! Instead of memorizing words, why not play with them? Have a go!!

HOMEWORK 5th and 6th GRADE: THE AUTUMN

Now say what do you think of the Autumn. Do you like it or not? Why? What is your favourite season? What do you do in Autumn?

The BBC

Good morning everyone!

Have you ever tried to spend some minutes listening to the BBC Radio before getting up in the morning? It could be a great way to improve your listening abilities! Here you can have a look at its stations so that you choose the one you feel like listening to. However, the BBC not only offers radio services but also TV channels for those who love watching news, movies, series, etc.

And last but not least, this public-service broadcaster has a web designed for learning English as a second language. Browse a little bit and make the most of it!

HOMEWORK 1- 5th grade

HOMEWORK 1- 6th GRADE

Welcome.

Come with us and have a good time using this blog.
See you soon. Bye!

Welcome

Welcome to our Elementary English blog. Let's enjoy together.

NATURAL ENGLISH

Spending more time using natural English resources will help you in understanding the language intuitively.
Additionally, when you are learning new vocabulary you should learn it as a part of a sentence, never learn single terms.
Listening and reading music lyrics is a good way to do it, for instance you can practise with this song you surely know....

Reality-Lost Frequencies

Unpronounceable.

The dictionary says that “unpronounceable” means: “difficult or imposible to pronounce” or “not able to be uttered or articulated”.

Two weeks ago a weatherman became famous on the net when he pronounced the temperature of a little village in Wales. This village is now famous as well.

There are more odd and weird names in English too. There are a little list of some words that sound strange for us.

• gallimaufry – a heterogeneous mixture
• to transmogrify – to change or alter greatly and often with grotesque or humorous effect
• tintinnabulation – the ringing or sounding of bells
• hobbledehoy – an awkward, gawky adolescent
• unclubbable – unsociable
• moiety – one of two equal parts: half
• termagant – an overbearing or nagging woman
• to discombobulate – to upset, to confuse
• sesquipedalian – having many syllables, i.e. long
• to cachinnate – to laugh loudly or immoderately

Do you know any curious words you would like to share? In case you’re also a word lover, here is an article about curious words in many languages.

Back to school

It's that time of the year again when the summer has come to a close and school time is back.We need MOTIVATION, don't we?

Time to get back into a routine, plan your new year ahead, new goals, new school year resolutions...

What is the difference between Education & School?

But you know, you can always count on us, the teachers!

Have a great time here with us!

SUMMER SIGHT

Hello followers. Now we are attending  the end of the course and the summer is knocking at our doors.
But summer is also a great moment to learn or improve languages. I’ll talk about English.
What should we do to enjoy and learn English at the same time?
Have a look to the following advices.

http://www.skola.co.uk/tips-improving-english.html

So, if you consider yourself as a hardworking person and you must increase your communication skills click on the link below.

Enjoy the summer time and don't forget what have you read.
Bye for now!

REPORTED SPEECH

Reported Speech practice

Today we are going to revise Reported Speech. 

REMEMBER: We use reported speech when we talk about something that someone else has said. You describe what somebody has told you or actually said.

 More practise! Here we go....

Reported requests or orders

Reported statements

Reported questions

Miscellaneous

Are you tired?? Let's listen to the Beatles!!!

LYRICS TRAINING!

Do you enjoy listening to music and learning English at the same time? If this is the case, look over es.lyricstraining.com. Here you'll find lots of famous songs to train your ability of guessing the lyrics while listening to them. You can choose the level of difficulty depending on the amount of missing words.

Try to start at beginner level with Thinking out loud, the well-known hit of Ed Sheeran. How many words can you get right?

CNN STUDENT NEWS

Watching TV news is a good way to learn English.
Sometimes the English level of the TV news is too high for some of you to understand all the infomation.
Here you have news specially for you! Yes, for students!
In CNN Students News, if you want you can get the subtitles or the transcription as well. Now you can follow the everyday news in English! It's a good way to learn English and to be informed at the same time!
Don't you think?

What has happened today? Let's watch CNN Students News!

SHAKESPEARE AND CERVANTES' WEEK

How well he's read, to reason against reading.

William Shakespeare

On April 23rd 1616, two giants of Spanish and English literature died. Spain's Miguel de Cervantes, author of Don Quixote, one of the world's greatest novels, died in Madrid at 69 years of age. England's William Shakespeare, author of wonderful poetry and many great plays, also died in England at the age of 52(April 23rd was also his birthday).
People throughout the world are celebrating today World Book Day, to honor these two great figures of Universal Literature.

Here's a jewel from the Spanish National Library, the interactive Don Quixote.

And here you have one of Shakespeare's sonnets, get inspired!!

SONNET 18

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st;
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

"Borrow" or "lend"? That's the question.

Sometimes it’s difficult to remember when we have to use one instead of the other, mainly if you are a Catalan speaker. Let’s see the rule and some exercises. Remember: the more you use them the more confident are you going to be.

1.     We use borrow to say that we take something temporarily with the intention of returning it.

·       Can I borrow your car?

·       She borrowed $100 from her father.

2.     We use lend to say that we give something temporarily with the intention of having it returned.

·       Can you lend me your car?

·       Her father lent her $100.

·       Her father lent $100 to his daughter.

To know more about this, link this website.

http://www.ecenglish.com/learnenglish/lessons/lend-or-borrow