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THAT'S ENGLISH - BASIC 1 - MODULE 2

Table of contents and links for all units ( 1 to 10 ) above and HERE as well.

ELEMENTARY COMMUNICATION GAMES HERE

ELEMENTARY VOCABULARY GAMES HERE

ELEMENTARY GRAMMAR GAMES HERE

THAT'S ENGLISH - BASIC 1 - MODULE 1

Table of contents and links for units 1 and 2 above. All units(1 to 10)HERE.

Famous people’s faces - People and nationalities -

At the Hotel and the Conference Centre - 

Typically English? (Present Simple)

Possessive adjectives: Click HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE 

ELEMENTARY COMMUNICATION GAMES HERE

ELEMENTARY GRAMMAR GAMES HERE

ELEMENTARY VOCABULARY GAMES HERE

AMERICA - WEST SIDE STORY

America is a well-known song from the musical West Side Story. Leonard Bernstein composed the music; Stephen Sondheim wrote the lyrics.

West Side Story is a 1961 musical film directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins. The film is an adaptation of the 1957 Broadway musical of the same name, which in turn was adapted from William Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet.

This movie transplants the play Romeo and Juliet to New York City in the 1950s. The two families that hate each other are replaced by two street gangs. The Montagues become the Jets (white immigrants, probably from Eastern Europe), led by Riff, and the Capulets become the Puerto Rican Sharks, led by Bernardo. At a dance, Tony, former leader of the Jets and Riff’s best friend, and Maria, Bernardo’s little sister, see each other across the room and it’s love at first sight. With opposition from both sides, they meet secretly and their love grows deeper.....

Here video with subtitles in English.

Here a fill-in-the-gaps/correct the mistakes exercise and the key.

HERE - María / Tonight / I feel pretty (Three songs from the musical)

HERE- TEXTS ABOUT SHAKESPEARE, HIS TIME AND  ROMEO AND JULIET ON FILM

CORRECT THE MISTAKES

Read the sentences above and then correct the mistakes.

HANDOUTS ONLINE

Below you have some free printable handouts from the webpage handouts online.(CLICK HERE ) :

Your last holiday :

Target Structure:	Past Simple
Level:	Elementary
Vocabulary:	General
Time:	30 minutes or longer
Description:	This worksheet has conversation, role-play, vocabulary and discussion questions. It’s great for both reviewing the Past Simple, and improving students’ fluency skills

A day in the life:

Target Structure:	Present Simple for Routines
Level:	Elementary
Vocabulary:	General
Time:	40 minutes
Description:	This worksheet is great for practicing the Present Simple tense. There are lots of different activities, including reading, writing and plenty of speaking.  There’s also lots of useful vocabulary and collocations for your students to learn. It’s ideal for building your students’ confidence and fluency.

Crime and punishment : 

Target Structure:	Reading, Vocabulary, Discussion
Level:	Upper-Intermediate to Advanced
Vocabulary:	Crime / Legal English
Time:	90 minutes
Description:	This worksheet looks at some common expressions used when reading and talking about crime. There are four different crime stories in a newspaper format, with a gap-fill exercise. There are extended exercises, recycling the vocabulary and collocations. There are also discussion questions about crime. The lesson rounds off with a crossword, which can also be set as homework.

Talking about movies :

Target Structure:	Conversation / Fluency Builder
Level:	Elementary
Vocabulary:	Movies / Entertainment
Time:	30 minutes
Description:	Movies make a great discussion topic. However, many lower-level students lack the language skills to talk about it effectively.  This two-page worksheet teaches some useful phrases and has info-gap exercises and speaking practice. Recommended for elementary and pre-intermediate level students.

Making an appointment :

Target Structure:	Telephone English
Level:	Elementary to Pre-Intermediate
Vocabulary:	Business / Telephone
Time:	40 minutes
Description:	This business-English worksheet looks at making appointments over the telephone. There is lots of practice of the Present Continuous for future plans, and your students will have the chance to brush up on their telephone English. There is a conversation, information-gap activity, role-plays and discussion. The worksheet is designed for elementary to pre-intermediate level students.

Ordering coffee :

Target Structure:	Real-life Situation
Level:	Elementary and above
Vocabulary:	General
Time:	40 minutes
Description:	Handouts Online has lots of situation-based worksheets. They teach the language your students will need in order to get by on a daily basis. Can your students order a a double-latte with ease? Find out with this worksheet!  There’s a conversation, role-play practice and lots of easy discussion questions to keep your students busy. It’s a great way of increasing your lower-level students’ confidence with English.

Past simple irregular verb crossword :

Target Structure:	Irregular Verbs
Level:	Elementary and Pre-intermediate
Vocabulary:	Verbs
Time:	20 minutes, or homework
Description:	If your students need practice of past simple irregular verbs, this could be just the ticket. This crossword is suitable for lower level students, and can be used either in the lesson, or as homework.

Looking into the future :

Target Structure:	Future Perfect Simple and Continuous
Level:	Intermediate
Vocabulary:	General
Time:	60 minutes
Description:	’Looking into the Future’ is a great way of building your students’ abilities with more complex future tenses. This worksheet has extensive practice of both the future perfect, and the future perfect continuous (progressive). There’s a conversation, grammar-based exercises and lots of speaking at the end. There’s a choice of having a discussion, or (if you have lots of students) a ’find someone who’ exercise. This worksheet is designed for intermediate classes, but can easily be adjusted for other levels.

HAPPY SUMMER HOLIDAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

USEFUL EXPRESSIONS IN ENGLISH

Visit SECOND NATURE ONLINE ENGLISH and you’ll learn plenty of useful expressions to be used in conversation. Click HERE. You have the TABLE OF CONTENTS below:

Module I	Basic Conversational Expressions
Unit 1.1	Greetings
Unit 1.2	Responding to "How have you been?"
Unit 1.3	Introductions
Unit 1.4	Saying Good-bye
Unit 1.5	Sample Dialogs
Module II	Conversational Strategies
Unit 2.1	Getting Someone’s Attention
Unit 2.2	Back Channeling Cues
Unit 2.3	Responding to Something Surprising
Unit 2.4	Agreeing & Disagreeing
Unit 2.5	Asking Someone to Repeat
Unit 2.6	Checking for Understanding
Unit 2.7	Clearing Up Misunderstanding
Unit 2.8	Interrupting
Unit 2.9	Revision Exercises
Module III	Socializing
Unit 3.1	Making, Accepting, Declining an Invitation
Unit 3.2	Host - Greeting a Guest
Unit 3.3	Host - Making a Guest Feel at Home
Unit 3.4	Guest - Upon Arrival
Unit 3.5	Small Talk
Unit 3.6	Saying Goodbye
Unit 3.7	Sample Dialogs and Revision Exercises
Module IV	Telephoning
Unit 4.1	Answering the Phone
Unit 4.2	Offering Help to Caller
Unit 4.3	Wrong Number
Unit 4.4	Ending a Telephone Conversation
Unit 4.5	Revision Exercises
Module V	Shopping
Unit 5.1	Common Expressions
Unit 5.2	Shopping
Unit 5.3	Payment Methods
Unit 5.4	Revision Exercises
Module VI	Eating Out
Unit 6.1	Talking about Food
Unit 6.2	Restaurant 1
Unit 6.3	Restaurant 2 (Ordering Food)
Unit 6.4	Restaurant 3 (Complaining)
Unit 6.5	Sample Dialogs and Revision Exercises
Module VII	At a Hotel
Unit 7.1	Reserving a Hotel Room
Unit 7.2	Checking In
Unit 7.3	Requesting and Complaining
Unit 7.4	Revision Exercises

Click here as well (useful phrases and pronunciation)

A few exercises for students with "ACI"

1st ESO D ON THE CATWALK

1ST YEAR ESO D students are excellent models. In fact, after studying the present continuous and vocabulary related to clothes (click here , here and here), yesterday some of them did "their little turn on the catwalk" while their classmates were describing what they were wearing (video above and under the video you can read what the speakers said).

Thank you, Javier Rodríguez (Science teacher), amazing photographer, and thank you very much Javier Díaz (Plastic Arts teacher), for your incredible photocall.

 HERE photos.

1st year ESO (elementary) Oral test

ORAL TESTS, GRAMMAR, VOCABULARY, CULTURE...FOR 1ST YEAR ESO

HERE you have a great site with useful resources and materials for 1st year ESO students designed by Fernando, English teacher at IES La Patacona - Valencia.

1st year ESO - SAMPLE TEST (2nd half - 3rd term)

THE PAST SIMPLE

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.

1st year ESO - Sample Test (1st half - third term)

VERB TO BE - PAST SIMPLE

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

1 ESO D - MODELS ON THE CATWALK

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!!!!!!

ADELE

“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).

IRREGULAR VERBS

HERE Irregular verbs in El Tinglado blog.

FOOD AND DRINK (some-any-much-many)

CLICK HERE AND HERE.

Video about meals, utensils, cuisines....HERE and exercise HERE..

Videos "At a restaurant" HERE, HERE and HERE

TOM'S DINER

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

Click HERE, as well

Cross out (cross out) the information about the song that is incorrect. Assume that the “I” in the song is “the singer”.

The singer is sitting at the diner at 5pm.  She is waiting for the man to pour the coffee. He serves her coffee and milk.  She is not happy when he fills the cup only half way.  The man doesn’t pay attention to her because he sees somebody coming in.  When this costumer comes in, he says, “It’s nice to meet you.”  The woman shakes her umbrella. The man and the woman kiss and say “hello.”

The singer opens up a magazine and sees the story of an actress who had died while she was eating.  It was her favorite actress.  Then, she looked for the horoscope and the finantial section.  Then, she raises her head because a woman on the outside is looking at her.  The woman says hello.  The woman is wearing a dress and stockings.

It continues to rain.  She can hear the sound of the train and remembers her mother’s voice.  She also remembers a picnic one afternoon some time ago.  Later, she finishes up her tea and it’s time to take the train.

HERE Activity for 1 ESO - Drawing Tom’s Diner