Back to school!

Welcome to the new academic year!!!

I hope you all have a wonderful year and enjoy learning English!





Let´s start with a video : Watch Mr Bean going back to school and have fun!

If you like learning English you will love this lesson!

I think you will understand this example really well!




 Watch Dan´s 90 seconds review from BBC Learning English for a quick explanation.


Now watch these videos for a more grammatical explanation:



Listen to this dialogue from BBC Learning English to understand IF situations:

How many songs that include the word IF can you find?

A very famous one is "If I were a boy"



  Now listen to this wonderful song to understand the 2nd conditional sentences:




Another great song by Katy Perry : If We Ever Meet Again

Do you know your grammar?

Today we are going to revise some tenses that are difficult to use in English.

Let´s start with a joke:



If you understand the joke, then you understand how to use the present perfect in English!

Watch this video to remember the rules and compare it to the past simple tense:






Now watch this other video for more practice:



Follow this link for more explanations

I am sure you will never forget participles after you listen to the rap in this video!

Now, do you understand the joke bellow?
 I hope so!



How well do you know IRREGULAR VERBS?
Follow this link and practise putting them in groups to understand them better.

To practise further visit BBC Learning English and go through the different sessions.

HEALTHY EATING

Eating healthy is a very important part of a healthy life style. That is why in this lesson we are going to learn how to have a balanced diet and how to design a healthy menu!

Let´s start by looking at a food pyramid and the different food groups  represented according to how important they are in our diet:

You are now invited to post a comment including your favourite healthy recipe!

Listen to Rob from BBC Learning English preparing a full English Breakfast. Watch the video and complete the activities on the webpage.



Want to learn how to cook a great lasagne? Watch Jaime Oliver, the famous British cook, in this video:

Marking the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare´s death. A Midsummer Night´s Dream

To mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare´s death, in our 1st of ESO lessons we are working on one of the funniest and most magical plays by Shakespeare: "A Midsummers Night´s Dream". Watch the video bellow to warm up:



Power point presentation including slides to explain the play.

Would you like to learn more about theatres at Shakespeare´s times?

Folow this link to learn about Shakespeare´s Globe Theatre!




Read about the history of The Globe Theatre from the official site.

EARTH DAY 22nd April

Earth Day

From Wikipedia, the free enciclopedia

    

Earth Day Flag created by John McConnell

 

Earth Day is an annual event, celebrated on April 22, on which day events worldwide are held to demonstrate support for environmental protection. It was first celebrated in 1970, and is now coordinated globally by the Earth Day Network, and celebrated in more than 193 countries each year.




Watch these videos from the History website to learn more about Earth Day and how it is celebrated

Now let´s listen to this  great song and think about what YOU can do to help the planet!




 

Let´s listen to this great song by Michael Jackson: Earth Song

A fish sandwich with tea

Watch this great video of Mr Bean making a sandwich and write down the answer to these questions:

- What does he need to make his sandwich?
- How does he prepare it?
- What did Mr bean use instead of .....
a knife, a peper mill, a kettle, a bottle, a kitchen towel, a feeding bottle, scissors and credit card, a sock, a hankerchief and a shoe, a hot water bottle ?





Now complete the activities on this worksheet

WELCOME SPRING

It was snowing and hailing this morning but spring is already here!

Listen to this famous song by The Beatles to celebrate the coming of spring.



Now complete the lyrics in this worksheet.

You can also listen to the Glee version sung by Demi Lovato:

Welcome back!

I hope you had a good Easter holiday!

We are now starting our third term and have loads of work to do before the end of the year, so let´s get started!

We are going to look at how passive sentences are constructed in English  and do some exercises.







WATCH THESE VIDEOS AND DO THE EXERCISES IN YOUR NOTEBOOK:





Let´s now learn a more difficult structure:


Follow this link from BBC Learning English to understand the causative

Happy Easter!

Easter is already here!

Folow this link to learn about Easter. This webquest by Luke Vyner includes activities on the history of Easter, Easter symbols, celebrations around the world and little-known facts about the spring festival. Published by onestopenglish.

Limericks

A limerick is a humorous poem with five lines. It has a very specific format: it must have five lines. The first, second and fifth line all rhyme with each other.  The third and fourth lines also rhyme with each other. The most common scheme is the 8-9-6-6-9 syllables per line. Limericks also tend to have a surprise ending. They come from old songs about the town of Limerick, Ireland.

Watch this presentation to learn about Limericks

Visit this web page to read lots of funny Limericks!



These videos will help you write your own Limerick:

The Republic of Ireland. St. Patrick´s Day

Irish people around the world celebrate St. Patick´s Day on March the 17th.

How much do you know about Ireland, its symbols and traditions?


                   


This week we are going to learn about Ireland´s history and St Patrick

Let´s start watching this video:





Click on this link to take a quiz about St. Patrick

Now follow this link to learn about  the Irish flag.







Take the quiz

Learn some important facts about Ireland.

You can learn further information about Ireland in this history website

Do you want to know more about St.Patrick´s? Click on this video-listening activity and answer the questions online.

Now try to complete this webquest by onestopenglish!



Watch this video and find out who Molly Malone was: