Group 405

Hi dear students, welcome to my blog where you can practice, consolidate and have fun in English. The first thing you have to do is a video about giving advice using should and shouldn't.

• You can make your video using a cell phone, webcam, video camera or any other electronic appliance.
• You can upload you video on YouTube, twitter and send the link to my mail or just send the video, you can also bring it to class and share it using bluetooth or an usb memory.
• The video has to be between 40 seconds to one minute and a half, it must be of an appropriate size and quality but make sure is not too big, so you can use a low resolution in your video.
  
  
  Go to page 71 check the section of Writing and Speaking choose one of the problems and record yourself giving advice to the person's problem.
  
  
  Make sure you use the vocabulary range according  to your level. Remember to use should and shouldn't to give advice and the expressions seen in class to support your point of view.
  
  
  • You have to send your video to my mail or take it to class by this Monday.

  See you and take care!
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

Group 502

 

 

 

Hi dear students, welcome to my blog where you can practice, learn and have fun. To begin with, you have to make a video to start practicing and improving your speaking.

 

 

• You can make your video using a cell phone, webcam, video camera or any other electronic appliance.
• You can upload you video on YouTube, twitter and send the link to my mail or just send the video, you can also bring it to class and share it using bluetooth or an usb memory.
• The video has to be between 40 seconds to one minute and a half, it must be of an appropriate size and quality but make sure is not too big, so you can use a low resolution in your video.
• Go to page 9 of your student's book Speaking section, read the instructions about how to tell and anecdote, choose a topic and record yourself answering the questions you will find on that activity.
• Use the vocabulary range and grammar structures seen in class, such as: linkers (but, because, so, and, etc) and time sequencers ( then, later, after that, etc.) to improve your video, add any interesting detail that makes your anecdote more interesting. Remember to use the narrative tenses (past simple, past continuous, etc.)
• You have to send your video to my mail or take it to class by this Monday.

See you and take care!

 

 

 



Group 703

 

 

 

Hi dear students! Are you ready for this week exams? I really hope so and I wish you the best of luck. sorry for not writing earlier, but I couldn't. Here you have the general guidelines to do your video and as I am writing until now, You will have until this Wednesday to hand in your video, remember that you can put it in dropbox or send it to my mail. anyway, here we go.

 

1. Make your video using your cell phone, camera, laptop or any other electronic appliance.

2. Avoid using high definition format, because this makes your video heavier and more difficult to handle

3. Your video must last between one or two minutes.

Go to page 67 in the section: Can you say this in English? and choose 2 of the 3 tasks which appear right there. The first one is about the use of conditionals, the second one is about making speculations about someone's past actions or criticize how someone acted in the past using should have. Finally, the last one is about why body language is important and explain what certain gestures indicate.

 

Examples:

 

1. I failed my exam. If I had studied harder, I wouldn't have failed my exam and if I hadn't failed my exam I wouldn't have been told off by my teacher. If I hadn't been told off by my teacher I wouldn't be feeling so down in the dumps now.

 

2. A: Did you see John at Teresa's party yesterday? B: John? It can't have been John, because he was sick at home, I saw him. A: Oh, really? I thought it was him, oh no! I shouldn't have said to his girlfriend that it was him, I think I put my foot on it. B: Yes, you are right, now she must be thinking that he was cheating on her and she must be devastated.

 

3. I think that one of the most important ways to express your feelings is by our body language. That's why it's important to know how to convey meaning and what kind of hand and arm gestures we have or need to use to express our feelings correctly. But why should we know this, because for example, imagine you have a job interview and you need to show that your are a relaxed and self-confident person, but if you start fidgeting with your arms or tapping the table with your fingers, you will show a completely different image of yourself.....

 

So as you can see, here you have some clear exmples on how to make your video more successfully.

See you and take care.

Group 703

Hi my dear students I hope you are ready for your next exams, and to help you be more prepared, here you have some activities on line, do them and take your scores to class tomorrow.


Narrative tenses

Adverbs

Flying high colloquial English

Finally, download the following material and take it to class tomorrow. We will be working with it.

See you and take care!

Group 703

How are you doing? Are you looking forward to your holidays? Well, thanks God today is our last day of classes, but I need you to do some activities to have further practice on some things. First, go to the following links, do the activities and take your scores to class next Tuesday 2nd April.

The first activity is to practice vocabulary about clothes. It's up to you what activity to do, the crossword or the wordsearch.

Clothes and fashion


The following activity is to remember some expressions used in the previous file, the topic is the future.

What does the future hold?

To have a bit of fun, play the following game about adjetive order.

Adjective order

Finally, do the following grammar exercise is about so and such.

so/ such that

I hope you can enjoy your holidays, and have a great time. Thanks for your attention and see you soon. Take care!

Group 105

Hi dear students. You are happy because this is our last day of classes and then we go on holiday. Como se que necesitan repasar y practicar ciertas cosas les dejo las siguientes actividades.

Necesitarán para hacerlas su iTutor. Primero vayan al file 2, seleccionen el file 2A y luego den click en el área de "pronunciation" les pongo la imagen para que no se pierdan. Les indiqué con una flecha negra en donde dar click.

Luego, escuchen y repitan las tres partes de presentación que vienen ahí con los sonidos marcados y posteriormente hagan el ejercicio 1 que se encuentra en la parte superior derecha, a continuación les pongo la imagen.Marqué con una flecha roja la parte en la que se encuentra el ejercicio.

Una vez que estén ahí el ejercicio es de un dictado. Háganlo, en esa parte encontrarán las indicaciones y el cómo hacerlo, cuando lo terminen  impriman su score y traiganlo a clase el martes regresando de vacaciones.

 

Posteriomente elijan el file 2B, pero ahora le dan click a "Reading". Es sobre Hollywood stars. Revisen la lectura que viene con audio y posteriormente hagan el único ejercicio que viene ahí. En esta ocasión ya no les pongo la imagen de ayuda, pues espero que ya no tengan ningún problema para encontrar esta actividad. Cuando la terminen impriman nuevamente su score y tráiganlo a clase.

 

Ahora vayan al file 2C y hagan el ejercicio de lectura denominado "The Carter Family" lean y escuchen la lectura y posteriormente hagan el ejercicio. Nuevamente, cuando terminen, impriman su score y llévenlo a clase.

 

Finally, go to file 3A click on  "Pronunciation" do an activity about the third person "s", listen and repeat the sentences in presentation 1 and 2 and then do the exercise that is about putting the words in the correct column. Once again, print your score and bring it to class on Tuesday.

Como pueden ver las indicaciones de la última actividad están todas en inglés, espero que no tengan ningún problema con ello.

 

Pueden poner el score de todas sus actividades en una sola hoja o en dos para ahorrar papel. O pueden tomarle una foto con su celular para que me los muestren en clase el martes. Como estas actividades traen la retroalimentación en el mismo ejercicio, no daremos las respuestas, sólo aclararemos dudas si es que alquien tiene una en particular.

 

Enjoy your holidays, have a great time and see you the following week. Take care!

Group 303

 

Hi! boys and girls, How do you feel? excited about our next holidays? I hope so. As I told you in class, you will have to do some activities to have extra practice on some important grammar points. Below you have 3 photocopiables about 3 different topics, download them, save them if you want and print them. Answer the exercises and bring them by  next Tuesday April 2th. We will be cheking the answers in class.

past simple: regular and irregular

 

 

 

past simple or past continuous?

 

 

 

questions with and without auxiliaries.

 

 

 

 

Then, go to the following links, do the exercises, print your score or take a photo of them and take the score to class on the same date.

 

Lesson A past simple regular and irregular

 

 

Lesson B past continuous

 

 

Lesson C questions with and without auxiliaries

 

 

That's all. Thank you for your attention and enjoy your holidays.