Speaking Task

In the following link you'll have access to the end of unit speaking task I told you about this week.

• Speaking task.

Remembering Mandela

Here are the links to the activities we did in class as a tribute to Nelson Mandela.
Video

• Remembering Mandela Worksheet

• Talking about a revolution with lyrics
• Talking about a revolution (worksheet)

Social networks in plain English

Here is the video we'll see in class where it explains what a social network is and how it works.

• Social Networking in plain English

Ayo Technology (Milow)

This is the song we did in class.

• Original video
• Video with lyrics

Listening on technology

Here you will find the listening exercise we are doing this week.

• Jeff talking about technology

Close to you (The Carpenters)

Here are the links to this beautiful song. Thank you Inmaculada! Enjoy!

• Video
• Video with lyrics

Join the Kindness revolution

I've just watch this video and I loved it. Kindness is my motto now. Do you agree?

Acceptable Behaviour in England

This is an interesting project carried out by pupils at a British school. They started dealing with acceptable behaviour but it has become a wonderful guide to British life ans culture. This is where I found the material we used in class today. We should try to do something similar about Spain. Don't you think so!

• Acceptable behaviour in England
• Project Britain

Candy-Robbie Williams

We have been doing this song in class so I post some interesting links here just in case you want to work with it.

• Official video
• Video With lyrics
• With some exercises
• Robbie Williams- Wikipedia

Little by little (Oasis)

This is the song we've done with  some groups and we'll do on Thursday with the other group. Thanks Carlos, for suggesting it. Enjoy it! It's a great song.

• Official video
• Video with lyrics
• Worksheet

Essa school: everybody has an ipad

Here is the link to the video and document we are going to use in class.

• Bookless school where everyone has an ipad.
• Class document
• Essa Academy official page

Now, the question is, would you like to study or to have studied in a school like this?

ePortfolio Europeo de las lenguas

I'm sorry for the delay but I had problems with my Internet connection. As I told you in class here is the link to the ePEL. The tasks I've asked you to do so far are:

• Register
• Fill-in personal details.
• Start completing your biography.

EUROPEAN PORTFOLIO

Writing an e-mail

As an end of unit exercise you are going to write an e-mail to a friend.
Task: write an e-mail to Jack talking about your best friend. Mention the following: 
how you met, description, what you have in common, what you do when you get together, have you ever lost touch, how do you keep in touch when you are not together, etc

Here are some links to help you with informal letters.

• How to write informal letters
• Cómo redactar emails y cartas informales en inglés.
• Cómo escribir un e-mail o carta informal. Writing First Certificate.(el blog del ingles)
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 You'll have to save your writing exercise as Office documents, attach them and send them to my email address. Deadline: a week (29th of october)

Vival la vida (Coldplay)

Beautiful song to practice USED TO and to have fun.

• Original video
• Video with lyrics
• Lyrics training

BBC express English: friends

Here you have the link to this wonderful page by the BBC.

• Your best friend.
• Friendship vocabulary

Lemon tree (Fools Garden)

Here is the song we did in class. Thank you Inmaculada for suggesting the song.

• Original video.
• Lyrics Training (Dance remix)
• Worksheet

Qualities of a good friend

We are going to be talking about this in class. I'd just like you to post comments on the things you consider important in friends. Here is a video to help you decide.

Talking about friendship

We are going to do this listening exercise in class.


Worksheet

Friends will be friends (Queen)

I told you I liked the 80s. Here is a great song and an amazing tribute to our good friends.

• Video
• Live video
• Video with lyrics

Welcome!

I'd like to give a special welcome to all my new pupils of Intermediate Level 2. I intend this blog to be one extra part of the class as well as a meeting point. I'm looking forward to your ideas and suggestions.
In the following links youll find the information I gave you in class on the first day.

• First day information 
• NI2 Syllabus

You could start by having a look at the blog. Check if you find anything missing and if so, add a comment.

Thanks a lot for being there again!

NI2: Listening on saving energy (elllo 757)

Here is the link to the Listening exercise we are doing in class this week.

• Saving Energy (Tim)

Writing blog for EOI students

I was surfing the net and I found this blog. It looks really interesting specially at this moment when you are revising for the final exam. Just have a look at it.

• Writingeoi

NA1: Let's get animals off the menus.

Last week Gacriel sent me this link full of reasons for people to turn to vegetarian food. It's got Spanish subtitles. Thanks Gabriel.

NA1: Crime Library

 

A few months ago Adrián suggested this great link about crimes and criminals. If you run out of ideas when it comes to talking about crime you could have a look at it. Thanks Adrián.

• Crime library.

NA1: Supersize me.

Here you can watch the video Michelle told us about last week.

NA1: Minisaga class winner

This is the mini saga which won the class competition. COngratulations to everyone you did an excellent job.

Hairy angel

An increasing heat woke Josie up. At first, she didn´t realize what was happening. She knew how to recognize danger wherever it could appear. Upstairs, Mary and her daughter Allison slept.

She was suddenly driven by a terrible feeling swiftly through the stairs, carried a sleepy Mary outside, but it took her endless minutes to find Allison, unconscious, but still alive.

Lying on the grass she stood staring to Allison’s crying eyes, barked proudly and close her eyes.

Carlos Bautista 

NI2: Listening practice on TV

Here are some links to the listening we did in class and also other listening exercises about TV.

• Is TV a good or a bad influence?
• Exercise we did in class (document).

More listening exercises.

• TV
• TV Remote Wars
• Best American TV Show
• TV shows
• The future of TV

NA1: Painesville Judge gives unusual sentence

This is the video about Mike Cicconetti we saw in class.

Best love song ever.

As I told you in class I would like you to post a comment with the title of your favourite love song. Here is mine. I hope you like it.

NA1: Oscar Pistorious kills girlfriend

Here is the link to the video we watched in class and to the listening exercise.

• Exercise

NI2: Listening on shopping: Shona (Elllo)

We did this exercise in class. Here you have the link to the track and the exercise. I'll post links to more exercises on the subject of shopping when we finish the unit.

• Track
• Exercise
• Key

NA1: Fly me to the moon

Beautiful song. Enjoy it with lyrics.

NA1/NI2: How Spain is coping in tough economic times

This is the link to the video we saw in class. I also include a link to the task we did with NA1.

• Video
• Worksheet.

ni2: Elllo 751 Job Options

This is the link to the listening exercise we are going to do this week just to finish with the unit of work.

• Job options

NA1: Narrative tenses

These tenses, as you probably know, are very important when it comes to telling a story or an anecdote. The following links are very interesting and full of exercises to practise them.

• English grammar notes: with explanations and xercises.
• Gap-fill exercise
• Gap fill (plane anecdote)
• Test on narrative tenses

NA1: The good consumer

Here is you can see the video and also the worksheet I gave you and the answers. It's very interesting from the point of view of vocabulary.

• The good consumer worksheet
• The good consumer key