Group 903

INSPIRED

 

Hi dear students, as we are going to have a long, long weekend, here you have an activity based on words and phrases of unit 4 to keep on working and improving our language.

Click on the following link,  go to unit 4, download and save the documents and do the activities, take these activities to class this Monday. We will be checking the answers in class. See you and take care!

words and phrases FCE unit 4

Group 405

Why are you studying English?

Hi dear students, as we are going to have a long, long weekend, here I have a wonderful activity that will help you to improve your speaking and listening. It's a video about your reasons to study English.

First, you have to click on the link you will find below, when you have done so, you will see the following image:

Then, you have to sign in or "registrarse" I have drawn a red bubble on the right to show you where. Once you have signed in, you have to do the following: watch the video, learn the new words, record your voice repeating the phrases of the video and get your score as it's shown in the following picture:

As you can see on the right there are the scores. In this case is "B+ and A". You have to take your score to class  by this Monday. Print the screen or take a picture with your cell.

Here you have the link:

What's your reason to learn English?

See you and take care! See you on Monday!

Group 502

Judging people by the clothes

Hi my dear students, I really hope you enjoy this long, long weekend. As I know you need to practice a lot you listening and pronuciation skills, here  I set this activity for homework, I think you will find it interesting, helpful and a bit challenging.

Go to the following link, it's about a site called "English Central". You will find the following image:

In order to be able to do the activity, you will have to sign in " registrarse" as it is shown in the previous image, once you have signed in, you can watch the video, and do the other activities that come with it. The video is called " Clothes have powers over your mind"· You have to do the 4 activities, wacth the video, write the missing words, record your voice and check your final score. You have to bring your score to class next Monday. The screen that shows your score looks like the following image:

As you can see, on the right you have the grades about your recording and about the vocabulary exercise. Do it and enjoy it. Here you have the link:

Clothes have powers over your mind


See you nexrt Monday!

Group 903

Hi dear students, It's a pleasure for me to welcome to this new adventure of using the technology to learn, practice and consolidate your English. As we have a long, long weekend coming soon, I've decided to set some activities for homework, to help you to try to put things in your long-term memory.

 

To begin with, we have two activities on vocabulary, the first one is to use colective nouns, and the second one is about extreme adjectives and adverbs. click on the following links to go to the website.

 

 

Colective nouns

 

 

Extreme adjectives

 

 

You have to do the activities and print your score, if you can't print it just take a picture and take it to class next Tuesday.

 

 

Then as we didn't do an exam for the second unit, here you have a mini quiz about the vocabulary seen in this unit, download it, answer it and take it to class to provide feedback. I'll be giving you the answer key as we have checked that everybody did the activity, and it will be posted here in the blog. Click on the link below.

 

 

Vocabulary practice unit 2

 

That's all for today. I hope you really enjoy your long weekend and sorry for the homework, but I want you to improve your level of English, and I know you can do it. Take into consideration that everything is part of your grading scale.

 

 

See you and take care!

 

 

 

 

 

 







Group 405

Word stress

Hi there, we have been working hard recently, haven't we? Well, anyway, as I know that some of you told me that the aspect or learning English that you find most difficult is listening, here you will find a link to a very interesting site on "Word stress". Check all the information you will find there and after that, record your voice with 3 examples of each topic, I mean. Choose 3 words which appear in the first topic "compound nouns", then 3 words of the topic "noun+ noun compunds" and so on. In the end you will have 12 words in total.

Sounds of English 

Sentence stress

Then, the second activity you will have to do is about "Sentence stress" and after you have read all the information and listen to all the examples that you find there, record the last sentence which appears right there, if you don't know which is the last sentence, here you have it:

"I am a proFESsional phoTOgrapher whose MAIN INterest is to TAKE SPEcial, BLACK and WHITE PHOtographs that exHIBit ABstract MEANings in their photoGRAPHic STRUCture."



It's important to follow the rules that are clearly explained in that website, so that you can sound as native- like as posible.

Sentence stress

Send you two recordings to my mail by this Monday, so I have enough time to revise them and give you feedback.  See you and take care.

 

Group 502

Word stress

Hi there, we have been working hard recently, haven't we? Well, anyway, as some of your told me that the aspect or learning English that you find most difficult is listening, here you will find a link to a very interesting site on "Word stress". Check all the information you will find there and after that record your voice with 3 examples of each topic, I mean. Choose 3 words which appear in the first topic "compound nouns", then 3 words of the topic "noun+ noun compunds" and so on. In the end you will have 12 words in total.

Sounds of English 

Sentence stress

Then, the second activity you will have to do is about "Sentence stress" and after you have read all the information and listen to all the examples that you find there, record the last sentence which appears right there, if you don't know which is the last sentence, here you have it:

"I am a proFESsional phoTOgrapher whose MAIN INterest is to TAKE SPEcial, BLACK and WHITE PHOtographs that exHIBit ABstract MEANings in their photoGRAPHic STRUCture."



It's important to follow the rules that are clearly explained in that website, so that you can sound as native- like as posible.

Sentence stress

Send you two recordings to my mail by this Monday, so I have enough time to revise them and give you feedback.  See you and take care.