Cockney Rhyming Slang

Today we are going to learn something about Cockney, which is a type of English spoken in London. It is very funny, and I hope you will enjoy it!

SO, AND, BUT, BECAUSE

SO,AND,BUT,BECAUSE, by Houda Benbrahim
Find this and other conjunctions exercises in English Exercises .org

And, but, because

Conjunctions: AND, BUT, BECAUSE, by deinha
Find this and other conjunctions exercises in English Exercises .org

A Healthy Lifestyle

http://www.esl-lab.com/health/healrd1.htm

Dress codes: what would you wear if you....?

Yvonne and Alice talk about dress codes and what types of clothes are suitable for work. The Ukrainian government has recently published dress codes for men and women, suggesting that certain styles of dress are unacceptable for work. So what is acceptable?

This week's question:
Which African country banned men from wearing western-style suits and ties to show it had broken links with its colonial past?

a) Zaire (now known as The Democratic Republic of Congo)

b) Rwanda or

c) Uganda

Men are the weaker sex...

Traditionally, women are generally known as 'the weaker sex' so people say they need to be protected. However, in terms of health, women are the strong, healthy ones - so, men are supposedly the weaker sex. Yvonne and Rob have been discussing this.

This week's question:

Compared with the early 1960s, each year, the number of men who enter medical schools in the UK has doubled. But how many women enter medical school each year?

a) About the same number

b) Triple the number

c) Ten-fold

Let's review the conditional sentences:

1st and zero conditionals

- exercise 1

- exercise 2

- exercise 3

Future actions

Hello pupils!!!! This week we ARE GOING TO revise the future tenses used in order to talk about future actions and plans. First we are going to listen and then we are going to practice the grammar.

And now we are going to practice some new vocabulary we have learnt from the listening activities by listening to the following song:

Have a nice week!!!

Video of the Week

In this video our friends Beavis and Butt-Head are attending their Spanish lessons... Would you like to help them to improve their Spanish? Click here now!!!

To my pupil MªJosé

Hello and welcome back to our English lessons! Today we are going to learn how to improve our pronunciation and then we are going to practice our listening activities. See you later!

Pinoso Pupils: Hello, Hi!!!

Hello!!! Nice to meet you!. Here you are our first listening. It's very simple and easy. Open your ears and practice the dialogue as many times as you can.

London

Haver you ever been in London? Would you like to travel there? Just listen... and watch!

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Proyecto de trabajo multidisciplinar "La Industrialización, el siglo XIX"

Este es un proyecto de trabajo en grupo en colaboración con distintos departamentos de un hipotético curso de 4º de la ESO. El departamento de inglés en colaboración, entre otros, con los departamentos de Valenciano, Historia e Informática va a realizar la siguiente actividad:

1. Visionado de la película "Gulliver's Travels" de 1 hora y 12 minutos de duración.
2. Exposición de un resúmen en Power Point sobre la película (trabajo en equipo)

Antes de llevar a cabo dicha actividad, en el área de historia han tratado el tema de los viajes de descubrimiento en el siglo XIX y su importancia, y en el área de lengua valenciana habrán visto los rasgos más importantes del romanticismo. En las clases de informática les habrán explicado cómo organizar un Power Point.

En sus casas, podrán repasar la película pinchando en el siguiente enlace:

http://hombrelobo.com/dominio-publico/los-viajes-de-gulliver-dibujos-animados/

5th Week: 17-20 October

Hi pupils!!!! I'm preparing the classes for this week, and we are going to listen and work about this wonderful song: Candy. Here you are the two versions, we will listen to both of them and fill in the gaps. Then you will tell me which one you like the most (and why):





From now on we are going to learn some techniques to be fluent in English. Each week our friend A.J. Hoge is going to give us some interesting tips about how to improve our level of English. Please listen to the following video and answer the following questions:



1. Please, write down the first rule:

2. Say if the following sentences are right or wrong:
a. Learn English phrases, not just individual words.
b. This rule is very complex.
c. A phrase is not a group of words.

3. Can you write down an example of how to learn a new word?

4. Please, name the two advantages of learning phrases instead of isolated words.

4th week: 11-14 October

This week is very very short: we are enjoying a very long weekend!!!!
That's the way we say in English "puente": not bridge, but "long weekend".

So, we are going to review the things we have learnt till now.

See you soon,
Chris

3rd Week: 4-7 October

Hello dear pupils!!! I'm back!!!

This week we are going to focus on how to write discursive essays, and also:

- We are going to learn how to pronounce sounds /u/ and /u:/

- We are going to learn how to start a conversation

- We are going to practice the Present Perfect and Past Simple distinction

- In episode 6 our annoying friend meets a peculiar friend, a friend made of feet?

And of course, now with subtitles

And now let's watch the second part of Romeo and Juliet

Let's practice more with the Simpsons

2nd Week: 27 - 30 September

Hi!!! This week we are going to learn new things:

- How to differentiate and pronounce sounds /i/ and /i:/

- How to pronounce the -ed endings

- We are going to learn how to describe people

- We are going to watch two new videos about the life of our friend the Annoying Orange:

- In episode 3 Orange meets a Tomato, although he thinks it is an apple...

- In episode 5 our Orange friend meets another really annoying orange...

And now with subtitles

And finally, we are going to watch the first part of BBC Romeo and Juliet...

I hope you enjoy these lessons!!!

Present Perfect and Past Simple

"Last week I saw three movies, but this week I have seen seven!!!"

Maybe you, like Siro, are studying the differences between present perfect and past simple. Do you know when to use them? Please, follow the following link, read the wonderful explanation and do the exercises:

http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/410/grammar/ppvpast.htm