On this site you can select from a number of videos dealing with varied and interesting topics. Many of them may be helped with subtitles, though it is unnecessary. Enjoy it! Excellent idea for a 10-minute session of listening practice. The website is TED.
Monday, 26 December 2011
Watch Videos on Different Topics
On this site you can select from a number of videos dealing with varied and interesting topics. Many of them may be helped with subtitles, though it is unnecessary. Enjoy it! Excellent idea for a 10-minute session of listening practice. The website is TED.
Thursday, 22 December 2011
The 7-letter game
If you wanna play for a while... try this. But be careful --it's a bit addictive...
Monday, 19 December 2011
Nothing ventured, nothing gained...
One of today's Mira que Luna's posts... interesting blog to follow with tons of resources for learning English. Browse through it, you'll love it!
Wednesday, 7 December 2011
Animated Minds
A classmate invites us to watch some visually dynamic, exciting and worrying at the same time short films, which will make us think of the meaning of normality. Incredibly impressive images: Animated Minds, a series of short animated documentaries which use real testimony from people who have experienced different forms of mental distress.
Wednesday, 30 November 2011
Splendid Speaking
Samples of speaking activities (27), useful advice and the tapescripts (in the pdf files) here.
Monday, 21 November 2011
Spain General Election
The Guardian, BBC,
The Washington Post,
CNN,
El País.
Some vocabulary to speak about the latest Spanish general election here.
Friday, 18 November 2011
Sunsets all over the World
Check out this SlideShare Presentation:
Sunset
Choose four pictures and describe what you can see using adverbs and adjectives from the unit.
View more presentations from Ali Tamay.
Wednesday, 16 November 2011
Friday, 11 November 2011
Friday, 4 November 2011
Selva de Irati
If you like the colours of Autumn, see the breathtaking photographs of this natural park full of beech and fir trees.
Thursday, 3 November 2011
Tuesday, 13 September 2011
Saturday, 13 August 2011
Friday, 8 July 2011
A Song for the Summer
I just wanted to say See you in September with a song.
The video is fun, I love the song and we drink beer responsibly, don't we...?
Enjoy Summer!!!
If you want to sing along, learn the lyrics.
The video is fun, I love the song and we drink beer responsibly, don't we...?
Enjoy Summer!!!
If you want to sing along, learn the lyrics.
Tuesday, 14 June 2011
No Room for Doubt
·All the vocabulary sheets are below. Hope they're useful.·I'll be answering any problem / doubt / question you post me
Advice for exam:
-Revise notes taken down during the year
-Revise mistakes in writing tasks
-Practise exam-like speaking
-Do different writing tasks (the difficult ones for you) pp. 199-214 in textbook
-Listen to the news DAILY
-Review vocabulary dealing with topics not studied in detail in class
-Talk to people (or to yourself) in English aloud. Meet classmates for English Tea conversation!
-Do ALL the above.
Monday, 6 June 2011
Friday, 3 June 2011
CASTILDELENGUAS
This is the name of a wonderful magazine written by our colleagues in Tudela EOI. I have chosen a couple of articles written by an advanced student (like you) and an English teacher (like me) from Tudela school. I just wanted to share them with you. Enjoy them!If only I had been taught at the age of three...! and Wishes, hopes and resolutions.
If you happen to have a look at the whole magazine, click Castildelenguas.
Wednesday, 1 June 2011
Keep your English Up 2 Date
Have a look at this series of BBC Learning English. Check the words on your left and listen to Professor David Crystal talking about their usage. You can always start with series 1 or series 2. Enjoy them!
Tuesday, 31 May 2011
elllo Listening Practice
Get listening practice on elllo advanced page: these listenings can be fast, long, and/or complicated.
Thursday, 26 May 2011
Wednesday, 25 May 2011
Monday, 23 May 2011
LAW: Crime & Punishment
You can find extra activities dealing with the topic here. Watch the videos and the whole activity here.
Many more interesting ideas can be found on ELLA website.
It is a truly fantastic website to visit.
Friday, 20 May 2011
What are you passionate about?
Listen to one and read 92 answers to this question on BBC Learning English. A bit more, this time about dangerous passions.
Tuesday, 17 May 2011
Wednesday, 6 April 2011
Thursday, 31 March 2011
Monday, 28 March 2011
Friday, 25 March 2011
Self-study Idiom Quizes
To review, check, learn idioms / comparisons / phrasal verbs / slang... visit this helpful website.
Friday, 18 March 2011
Monday, 14 March 2011
Check the entry of the word END.
Every now and then it is an extremely useful habit to visit the entry of a well-known word in a dictionary. You will learn many new expressions (or even new meanings) of the word. You will refresh your memory and check old and new collocations with it. Surprisingly, we are going to start this series with the word END. ;-D
Friday, 11 March 2011
Wednesday, 9 March 2011
Monday, 28 February 2011
It's "Wicked"
Check the meaning of this and other words in BBC Learning English: Keep your English Up to Date 2.
Friday, 25 February 2011
Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED) Conference Videos
On this site you can select from a number of videos dealing with varied and interesting topics. Many of them may be helped with subtitles, though it is unnecessary. Enjoy it! Excellent idea for a 10-minute session of listening practice. The website is TED.
Thursday, 24 February 2011
Wednesday, 23 February 2011
Family Ties
Review the vocabulary from the texts on pp. 68 + 69 here.
If you feel like doing an activity about Overparenting, this is the place. Key soon.
Human Planet (series trailer) BBC1
Just Watch!!! (Full screen and with your loudspeakers on if possible)
Friday, 18 February 2011
Hablamejoringles.com
Hablamejoringles.com is an interesting blog to improve your English. Have a special look at stress on word stress and also read (and hear) el sonido schwa en inglés.
Zac, the author of the blog, is an American teacher and translator who shares experiences and ideas specially related to Spanish speakers. Browse his blog, it's worth while... and thanks to Ana Fuster (once more) who gave us the link.
Zac, the author of the blog, is an American teacher and translator who shares experiences and ideas specially related to Spanish speakers. Browse his blog, it's worth while... and thanks to Ana Fuster (once more) who gave us the link.
Thursday, 17 February 2011
Happiness
Latest OneStopEnglish-The GuardianWeekly reading activity dealing with "How to be Happy". Interested? Read it and answer the suggested questions. Key at the end, as usual.
Exam revision grammar and vocabulary
Here is some vocabulary and grammar seen in class dealing with the exam.
Monday, 14 February 2011
Friday, 11 February 2011
Useful Business English Expressions
...and you will ask me "Why Business?"... and I'll answer: "Because the important points are "Useful" and "Expressions". You can use most of them in the oral interaction part.
Useful Business English Expressions
Useful Business English Expressions
Thursday, 10 February 2011
Script for Wed 2nd Video Entry
If you want to understand every single word they say (and you didn't), click here.
Wednesday, 9 February 2011
Friday, 4 February 2011
Exam Reading Comprehension Practice
You can practise Reading Comprehension tests on UsingEnglish.com. Choose two or three texts and check your knowledge.
Friday, 21 January 2011
Thursday, 13 January 2011
Monday, 10 January 2011
Writing: References
Check typical mistakes in reference writing here.
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