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THE LOST THING

The Lost Thing is a 15 minute animated short film (Academy Award Winner) based on the highly acclaimed picture book by multi award winning author and illustrator, Shaun Tan.

The Lost Thing is a story about a boy who enjoys collecting bottle tops for his bottle top collection. One day, while collecting bottle caps near a beach, he discovers a strange creature, which seems to be a combination of an industrial boiler, a crab, and an octopus. This creature is referred to as "The Lost Thing" by the narrator.

The boy realizes the creature is lost and out of place. He attempts to find its owner but is not able to, due to the indifference of everyone else.....

HERE a fill-in-the-gaps exercise and HERE the transcript

ACI NOTEBOOK

A "notebook" with exercises for 1st cycle ESO students with ACI.

TESTS FOR BEGINNERS

On top you have a very useful "notebook" (by teacher Mª José Brito) with  tests for English learners (beginners).

WRITING - SAMPLE ESSAYS

Click HERE, HERE and HERE.

ENGLISH FOR KIDS

English for kids: flashcards, games and VIDEO TUTORIAL LESSONS. Click here as well.

CHRISTMAS CARDS 1 ESO D

On top you have some Christmas cards designed and drawn by my 1st year ESO (group D) students. They are going to include these cards in their Portfolio.

Javier and Víctor, Plastic Arts teachers, have chosen their four favourite ones (above). Thank you very much!!!!!!!!!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!

PRESENT SIMPLE (1 ESO)

The Present Simple is the most basic and common tense in the English language. Because of its easy form, it is the best tense to start learning/teaching English tenses. These are its most common uses:

1. Facts, generalizations and universal truths
2. Habits and routines
3. Permanent situations

Click here, here, here and here.

Click HERE to go to the post "Tell us about your everyday life" in EL TINGLADO blog.

Christmas (1 ESO)

Click here to do some "Christmas Activities".

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!

1st year ESO (sample test - 1st term)

CONDITIONAL SENTENCES - EXERCISES (BAC)

CONDITIONAL SENTENCES.

Click HERE (MIXED CONDITIONALS GRAMMAR GAME).

Click HERE (ANOTHER FASCINATING GAME)

RELATIVE CLAUSES - EXERCISES (BAC)

RELATIVE CLAUSES.

GAME 1 - GAME 2

More games HERE.

Relative Clauses with The Devil’s Dictionary ----> Here and Here

HERE BBC Learning English Course.

INDIRECT (REPORTED) SPEECH EXERCISES (BAC)

INDIRECT SPEECH.

Game "En Garde" HERE. Another game HERE.

PASSIVE VOICE EXERCISES (BAC)

PASSIVE VOICE. Click here and here as well.

Active/Passive voice quiz HERE and HERE.

Passive causative (Causative have/get) HERE.

Impersonal Passive HERE.

VIDEO - EXPLANATION HERE.

FULL / BARE INFINITIVE - ING EXERCISES

Click here  , here, here , here and here for more practice.

HERE

BASIC QUESTIONS IN ENGLISH

"Speaking" Exams (Intermediate Level) - Valencia EEOOII

On top my intermediate II That’s English! students have some speaking exams published by the schools of languages from Valencia. Have a good time practising your speaking skills!!! :-)

Here: Speaking Exam (Monologues) - Intermediate Level - Valencia 2008

Here: Speaking Exam (Interaction) - Intermediate Level - Valencia 2008

SONGS IN ENGLISH

My students are going to listen to three songs:

a) "When I’m Sixty-four", by The Beatles. (HERE a fill-in the gaps exercise)

b) "Feel", by Robbie Williams. (HERE another exercise for them to fill in the blank spaces with the missing words and to correct mistakes)

and

c) "Rehab", by Amy Winehouse.(Fill in the gaps exercise HERE)

THE PROBLEM OF WATER

Belén, Javier and Lorena are three first year Baccalaureate students who have been selected to take part in the Comenius project  our school (IES Xesús Taboada Chivite - Verín - Spain) has just embarked on (the three schools that are going to participate in this project are located in Lyngby(Denmark), Portogruaro (Italy) and Verín (Spain)). Next 20th November our students are going to travel to Portogruaro. The topic all the schools are going to work on is "Water". Belén, Javier and Lorena have designed a ppt entitled "The Problem of Water". On top you have the presentation and below you can listen to what they are going to say:

Audio File 1 (slides 1 to 9 )

Audio File 2 (slides 10 to  12)

Audio File 3  (slides 13 to 29 )

Audio File 4  (slides 30 to 32 )

Audio File 5  (slides 33 to 39)

Audio File 6  (slides 40 to 44)

Audio File 7  (slides 45 to 47  )

Audio File 8  (slides 48 to 57 )

Audio File 9 (slides 57 - last one)

Click here to read what Lorena, Javier and Belén are going to say.

THE WATER CYCLE

IES Xesús Taboada Chivite (Verín - Spain) has just embarked on  a Comenius project (the three schools that are going to participate in this project are located in Lyngby(Denmark), Portogruaro (Italy) and Verín (Spain)). Next 20th November our 1st year Baccalaureate students are going to travel to Portogruaro. The topic all the schools are going to work on is "Water". Belén, Javier and Lorena are three first year Baccalaureate students who have been selected to take part in this Comenius project and they have designed a ppt entitled "The Problem of Water", which you will see in this blog very soon.

As you know if you are regular followers of this blog (click HERE) , Xesús Taboada Chivite School also takes part in the European Language Portfolio Project. This year one of my groups, 1st ESO (Compulsory Secondary Education) D is going to carry out several activities which the students are going to include in their Portfolio. The first activity is connected with the topic the "Comenius students" are working on ("Water"), since we intend to spread the "Comenius Spirit" all over our school. My first year ESO students are going to learn about the water cycle. I’ll provide an explanation in English using the pictures above and once they have understood what the water cycle consists of, they will learn the rap "The Water Cycle" (above)by heart and sing it. We will record ourselves singing "The Water Cycle". VERY SOON in this blog!!!!!!!!

Listening Comprehension Exercises (Bridges 2 - Burlington Books)

On top you have some listening comprehension exercises for my 2nd year Baccalaureate students. These are the scripts.