A2 English

Today we spoke about the speaking test. As the student know each other they introduce their partners in pairs. Apart from the name, age, location they described their clothes, their tastes, etc. They had to do a role-paper: They are now the examiners and their mission is to make up a speaking test.  The topic they chose among Family, Travelling, Hobbies, Food, Clothes, Business, Colours and Numbers was Sports . That was the questionaire: Why am I testing? Who are we testing? What am I testing? How am I scoring? How is my test benefitting learners? I, as a teacher, explained the different pronunciation of "their, they're and they". We played bingo games about the timing and flash cards rhymes.  Good luck with your Cambridge exam.

 Today the teacher explained the difference between... Present Simple versus Present Continuous Student's note The teacher explained the silent w: Silent Letters

The students wrote their daily routine.   Exercises: British Council

We listened the sample of the Cambridge exam and the students learnt how to pass the different parts. http://www.examenglish.com/KET/KET_listening.html part 1: pictures part 2: matching   part 3: m/choice   part 4: fill in a form   part 5: fill in a form   test 2 part 1: pictures   test 2 part 2: matching   test 2 part 3: m/choice   test 2 part 4: gapfill   test 2 part 5: gapfill   test 3 part 4: gapfill

Before the oral presentation they looked for all the difficult words in order to improve their phonetics. They read the recipes with the help of their Slide Show. After I corrected the pronunciation. We repassed the - ED in the Past Simple. -ED Rules Exercises:

Today they create a slide presentation with a recipe: First, they looked for the ingredients images and they organised the steps of the recipe. JACKET POTATOES http://www.simplybeefandlamb.co.uk/recipes/beefy-potato-jackets FISH AND CHIPS http://www.bcie.co.uk/ukculture ROAST TURKEY http://www.cbc.ca/bestrecipes/recipes/classic-roast-turkey-with-gravy Finally, they had to make an oral presentation. Adverbs Adverbs for Recipes

They created a personal blog, that is not public, it is private. That exercise was made for using the Present Simple with the routine verbs. They had to do it daily during a week.

Today they learnt how to read signs and posters. I gave them as an example the most common ones in a hotel. These are some samples: Door Signs Poster They had to translate them and to be located in their appropiate room or place. With this exercise they learnt a lot of things: How to form the Saxon Genitive: New vocabulary about the hotel accomodation:  The prepositions of the parts of the day: How to put the adverbs of frequency: And more...

Today they booked an air ticket to their favourite city. But firstly they searched information on the web pages. 1.Map of the city. Google Maps 2.Weather forecast. BBC weather forecast 3.What can I pack in my suitcase? (4 items of clothing) Images of clothing on Google 4.Currency Converter calculator Afterwards the students did an oral presentation with the information of the city. We played the hangman game to guess the name of the city. Flash Hangman Games for ESL Students   https://www.gamestolearnenglish.com/hangman Mary went to New York. Paula went to Dublin. Charlie went to Edinburgh. Charlie commented: Today, I learnt how to do an oral presentation. I learnt how to speak English more than I know too.

Today we went to London (simulation). We looked the weather on an application of the mobile telephone. In London in the afternoon it was very foggy and 11 degree Celsius. Celsius to Farenheit Weather   Exercises: http://www.bangkokpost.com/learning/easy/456986/is-it-cool-chilly-or-cold We decided what to wear in our suitcase to London. Winter clothes We saw in the map the distance from Valencia to London, almost 2 hours by plane.   U.K. Map We booked a ticket to travel to London in a low cost company. We decided how long we are going to stay. We thought the price was very expensive. It was 135,6 euros +10 for taxes . The teacher explained the prepositions: https://plus.google.com/105586404831735599363

Today we had an special visitor, A.J. Philp from U.K. She, as a fashion designer, explained us the diffent clothes, patterns and combination of colours in the English language. CLOTHES COMPLEMENTS She gave us an activity: 'Create your own design'   We were very competitive: Which one do you think is the best? Video coming soon She gave us an activity to do too: We enjoyed all the activities. Thank you, A.J.! We learnt that fashion is a repeating cycle.

They did the placement exam again. The conclusion was they have improved their English but they need to learn more theory to be satisfied. We explained the difference between Present Simple and Present Continuous tenses. They learnt the adverbs of frequency for the Present Simple . This was the model: These were the results:

We made up 'Love Poems' with this introduction: 'Roses are red Violet are blue...' We read and translated a text about Saint Valentine's day We differenciated the 'ould' sound such as in w ould , sh ould , c ould 'ud'. Writing an informal letter

The British royal family Members This is a list of current members of the royal family: Today we learnt the difference between an informal letter and a formal letter.

Firstly, we looked for the irregular verbs family where all are equal. Then, we looked for the '-ght' family and its pronounciation 't'. We distinguished between to take and to catch: http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/53764/catch-vs-take-a-bus-train s66.photobucket.com We knew how to make questions http://inglisticha.blogspot.com.es/2011/04/how-to-make-questions.html We learnt the auxiliary, modal and main verbs. http://inglisticha.blogspot.com.es/2013/08/auxiliary-verbs-versus-regular-and.html We played to the 'Broken Telephone' or 'Chinese Whisper' Wikipedia  Our e-mail letters: Hi, I'm Charlie!, From November to January I learnt new things: words, English culture, new songs... Some new words were: blond, bald, reindeer, carol... I learnt some things that an English person do at Christmas, at New Year's Eve... I learnt to make a Christmas cracker and a game too!!! Other than that, I met new people ver

We made a game: Guess Who Asking questions such as... "Is a man or a woman?   Has he got a hat? Is he bald?" They wrote a description of a person text. Activity

We read a text about how London and New York celebrate the New Year's Eve. The text was: British an American Festivities , Gina D. B. Clemen  We translated it into Spanish. clipartfox.com We played a game:      'Which is your favourite?        Name  Number  Colour   Subject   Song   Animal   City' You have to say "Stop" when you finish. The first one wins.