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Posts publicados polo club de lectura A árbore vermella no 3º trimestre do curso 2011-2012:

- Adiviña quen é - edición 3º trimestre. 

- Visita de Estevo Creus.

- Grazas, Estevo.

- A árbore xenerosa.

- Grazas!!!

- A Manta. 

Click HERE to do an exercise on the past simple (regular verbs - positive statements). After doing it, make the sentences negative and then interrogative.

Click HERE as well.

Click HERE and then go to 3º ESO - difficult - Woodstock.

Click HERE, here , here, here, here, here, and here for more practice on WAS and WERE.

As you probably know if you are a regular follower of this blog (CLICK HERE), some of my 1st ESO D students are going to be models on the catwalk (the others are going to describe what their classmates are wearing). We have already learnt vocabulary and the present continuous ("he/she IS WEARING"). Below you have what the "speakers" have written to describe what their classmates are going to wear. I have recorded their texts so that my 1st ESO D "speakers" can listen to them and practise the pronunciation. Soon the video on this blog!!!!!!

“As soon as I got a microphone in my hand, when I was about 14, I realised I wanted to do this,” Adele says.

Adele Laurie Blue Adkins (born 5 May 1988), better known simply as Adele, is an English recording artist and songwriter. Adele was offered a recording contract from XL Recordings after a friend posted her demo on MySpace in 2006. The next year she received the Brit Awards "Critics’ Choice" and won the BBC Sound of 2008. Her debut album,19, was released in 2008 to much commercial and critical success in the UK. 19 was certified four times platinum in the UK. Her career in the US was boosted by a Saturday Night Live appearance in late 2008. At the 2009 Grammy Awards, Adele received the awards for Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.

Adele released her second album, 21, in early 2011. The album was well received critically and surpassed the success of her debut. 21 helped Adele earn six Grammy Awards in 2012 including Album of the Year, equalling the record for most Grammy Awards won by a female artist in one night. The album has also helped her receive numerous other awards, including two Brit Awards and three American Music Awards. The album has been certified 15 times platinum in the UK; in the US the album has held the top position longer than any other album since 1985.

The success of 21 earned Adele numerous mentions in the Guinness Book Of World Records. She is the first artist to sell more than 3 million copies of an album in a year in the UK. With her two albums and the first two singles from 21, "Rolling in the Deep" and "Someone Like You", Adele became the first living artist to achieve the feat of two top five hits in both the UK Official Singles Chart and the Official Albums Chart simultaneously since the Beatles in 1964. With her third release from the album, "Set Fire to the Rain", becoming her third number one single in the US, Adele became the first artist in history to lead the Billboard 200 concurrently with three Billboard Hot 100 number ones. Adele is also the first female artist to have three singles in the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 at the same time, and the first female artist to have two albums in the top five of the Billboard 200 and two singles in the top five of the Billboard Hot 100 simultaneously. 21 is the longest running number one album by a female solo artist on the UK Albums Chart and is the longest running number one album by a female in Billboard history. In 2011, Billboard named Adele artist of the year.

My students are going to listen to the first two singles from 21, Someone like you and Rolling in the Deep, and to do some listening comprehension exercises (on top, under the videos).

HERE Irregular verbs in El Tinglado blog.

CLICK HERE AND HERE.

Present continuous HERE and HERE (1 ESO - difficult - MY ACTIVITIES)

On THIS PAGE you will find guides, practice tests for each level of the test, test tips and guidance published by the Council of Europe on the functions and notions that learners should be able to use effectively at Level A1 (Foundation) - Level 1 (Elementary) - Level 2 (Intermediate) -Level 3 (Upper - intermediate).

My first year ESO D students are going to be models on the catwalk (activity to include in their portfolio).

Since they are learning vocabulary about clothes and the present continuous (click HERE), some students are going to "do the catwalk" (in front of a photocall drawn by Javier Díaz, Plastic Arts teacher and some of  his students), while others describe what they are wearing.

You also have a fill in the gaps to be done while watching the videoclip I’m too sexy (on top).

examenglish.com is a website for people studying for an English language exam.

It contains Free Online Practice Tests for the most important international ESL/EFL exams: IELTS, TOEFL, TOEIC, and the Cambridge ESOL exams such as CAE, FCE, and PET

Project Gutenberg is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks". Founded in 1971 by Michael S. Hart, it is the oldest digital library. Most of the items in its collection are the full texts of public domainbooks. The project tries to make these as free as possible, in long-lasting, open formats that can be used on almost any computer. As of November 2011, Project Gutenberg claimed over 38,000 items in its collection.

Wherever possible, the releases are available in plain text, but other formats are included, such as HTML, PDF, EPUB, MOBI, and Plucker. Most releases are in the English language, but many non-English works are also available.

At last, thanks to Javier’s hard work (Javier Rodríguez, Science teacher, fantastic photographer and editor), The Water Cycle Rap videoclip is ready.

Click HERE , HERE and HERE for more information about this project.

We hope you will enjoy it!!!!!!!

By the way, The Water Cycle Rap has a version in Galician language, O Rap do Ciclo da Auga. Click HERE.

On top you have a lot of question cards for you to practise your speaking skills.

Besides, if you click HERE, you will have the chance to answer Elementary level questions about you, your family, your job, your routine, your free time, food, your last time out, your home and your town, your country, your last holiday and your next holiday.

HERE Pre-intermediate level questions about you, your future, food, films, holidays, jobs, profile, sports, your town.

HERE Intermediate level questions about travel, celebrities, dating, kids and schooldays, parties, relax, sport, stereotypes, time, books, films, eating out, friends, home and family, money, tourism, food and diet, cars, education, music, traffic, work.

HERE Upper- Intermediate level (Modules 7,8,9, That’s English!) questions about English, money, language and behaviour, the cinema, homechores, education (Mod. 7) Shopping, the environment, immigration, two countries, homeless, books, prejudice (Mod. 8)  Humour, newspapers, technology, politics, old age, television, English beyond That’s English! (Mod. 9)

BESIDES, you can learn how to ASK FOR SOMETHING, OFFER SOMETHING, OFFER HELP, ASK FOR A FAVOUR, ASK FOR PERMISSION, INVITE OR SUGGEST, GIVE ADVICE, ASK FOR SUGGESTIONS, ASK FOR DIRECTIONS.... HERE (EL TINGLADO BLOG)

Practise listening comprehension/SPEAKING by answering these 200 three-level questions from four teachers. Many of them are typical questions in First Certificate or CAE oral exams.

El Tinglado, as you probably know if you follow Oracle Night is an amazing blog, a must, one you have to "visit". HERE you have a post by Alejandro Valero with activities to be done after watching the short film Sintel in Search of a Dragon.