Group 105

Hi my dear students, welcome to this new way to learn and practice English. Como esta es su primera vez que trabajan con un blog en inglés y son principiantes, estaré usando inglés y español para darles instrucciones. Es importante que se empiecen a familiarizar con términos como: "download" que es bajar. "go to the following link"   que significa ve al siguiente link, "you have to" que significa tienes que. Para que poco a poco vayamos usando inglés para comunicarnos, leernos y escribirnos.

Para empezar, tienen que bajar las siguientes imágenes que son de actividades complementarias de gramática y vocabulario. Las pueden guardar en sus documentos, o sólo imprimirlas, las contestan y las traen el próximo martes a clase ya contestadas para que demos retroalimentación y solucionemos dudas.

Verb to be

 

Verb to be negative and interrogative

 

 

Grammar Possessive adjectives

 

 

 

 

 

Recuerda, para imprimirlas sólo tienes que dar click derecho y guardar o sólo imprimir.

 

Saludos

 

Group 703

 

 

 

Hi dear students. welcome to this new adventure of learning English using blogs. As you will discover, I'll ask you to do different things in order to help you practice or consolidate any thing related to learning English. As you can see, the name of my blog is "Sharing and Creating knowledge", because we all can learn from each other, and we can also share this knowledge.

 

I hope you find blogs powerful learning tools, and make the most out of them.

 

 

Let's start!

 

 

The first activity you have to do is a video. The video is about the speaking activity we saw in class called "reacting and asking for more information" page 7. What you have to do is the following:

 

• work in pairs but if  you can't find a partner, work in trios.
• ask and answer a couple of questions about some of the topics we discussed in class or any other you find interesting, shocking, amazing or embarrasing.
• The purpose of this activity is that you both react properly when your ask for any kind of information. Remember to use the right expressions, rhythm, intonation,  and sentence stress to convey meaning. For example, if you are shocked by something your classmate has just told you, make sure you use expressions such as: Oh my gosh! Are you kidding me? or You must be kidding me, right? or you must be joking, that can´t be true. Another example: if you have just heard something sad or depressing, you should say something like: Oh! I know what you mean, I've been there. Poor you! you must be feeling terribly. And so on.
• Be careful with your body language, because it also says a lot about what you mean.
• You can make your video using your mobile, a camera, your laptop webcam or any other electronic appliance you want or you have at hand (tablets, maybe) Do not use high definition format, because it takes a lot of space. Your video must last between 1 or 2 min length as much.
• You must send your video to my email or put it in dropbox if we already have a shared folder by this Monday.
• Finally, remember to use the vocabulary range according to the level you are in.

 

 By the way, if you want extra help on sentences stress, click on the link below, read and listen to the information you'll find there. You will be able to listen to 5 recordings and practice pronouncing them as many times as you want, and I hope that eventually, you improve your sentence stress and this helps you with your listening skill.

BBC sentence stress. Recordings


See you and take care!

 

 

Group 704

How are you doing dear students? How was your weekend? busy?, tiring? or exciting? Anyway, let's start working. As you told me a long time ago, listening is one of your major concerns, so here you have another activity about sentence stress and rhythm that has a lot to do with the topics we will be checking in class. Go to the following link, read and listen to the information and do the exercise you will find almost at the end, it has 3 sentences you have to read these sentences and record  them using your voice with your cell phone or whatever you want, but you also have to include the following 3 sentences you have below:

 

1. They're studying harder to get better grades.

2. Do you think you'll be able to repair them soon?

3. What time did Mandy say she was coming?

 

Send you voice recording to my mail, or in dropbox or take it to class by this Wednesday, this time you can transfer your files with a mini  Multi in one Memory Card Reader that I have, so don't worry, this time it will be easier.

Sentence stress and rhythm

See you and take care!

 

Group 802

 

 

Hi beautiful girls! How are you today? Eager for the long weekend ahead of us? because I am! Anyway, as I told you in class, here you have the link to have further practice on sentence stress and rhythm. "The Rhythm of English: Which words do we stress in a sentence:" Read and listen to the information you will find there and do the exercise which appears almost at the end, it has 3 sentences, make a recording using your voice with these 3 sentences and include the 6 sentences with "wish" that we checked in class.  Send your recording to my mail, or dropbox or take it to class by this Wednesday.

 

See you and take care! 

 

Sentences stress. Information and practice

 

 

 

Group 503

Hi boys and girls!  How was your weekend? I hope just fine. Let's start to work. As we have been working with sentence stress on this occasion I want you to go to the following link to read and listen to the useful information you will find there on "The rhythm of English: which words do we stress in a sentence?, check everything and record with your voice the exercise that has  3 sentences,  you'll find it almost at the end of the activity. Send your activity to my mail or take it to class this Wednesday for me to check. You can use your cell phone or any other electronic appliance. See you and take care!

Sentence stress practice

Group 802

How are you doing girls? Ready for your next exams? I hope so, on this occasion we will be working with differents aspects that we have checked in class.

First, do this activity on "have something done" it's extra practice on this interesting topic.

Have something done

Then the following activity is to check what you know, so do this exercise to check your knowledge.

ing or infinitive?


How do you feel about articles? I'm sure that this activity will be a pice of cake for you.

Articles

Finally, let's practice with countable and uncountable nouns.

Countable and uncuntable nouns


Do all the activities, copy your score and print it. Take it to class by this Thursday.

See you and take care!

Group 503

Hi beautiful students how are you? Ready for your next exams? I hope so! Today I want you to have some practice on different aspects. The first one is about "how words work" Go to the following link, do the exercise and print your score.

How long + take

Then the following activity is about present perfect and past simple. Do the activity and once again print your score and take it to class on Thursday

Present Perfect and past simple

It's also important for you to practice something about comparatives, so here you have the activity

Comparatives and superlatives


Finally, have some fun with the following game, it's about strong adjectives.

Strong adjectives


Print all your scores and take them to class by this Thursday.  See you and take care!