martes, 31 de mayo de 2016

Ain't your mamma - Jennifer Lopez

viernes, 27 de mayo de 2016

Volcanoes

What is a volcano?

Formation, Impact...

Volcano Vocabulary

Volcano Videos:

- National Geopgraphic

Docummentaries

Volcanoes for Kids

Curious people who want to know about science...

martes, 24 de mayo de 2016

viernes, 20 de mayo de 2016

Check this link to multimedia english

Lesson Plan

Come on, come on, turn the radio on
It's Friday night and I won't be long
Got to do my hair, I put my make up on
It's Friday night and I won't be long

Till I hit the dance floor
Hit the dance floor
I got all I need
No, I ain't got cash
No, I ain't got cash
But I got you, baby

Baby, I don't need dollar bills
To have fun tonight
-I love cheap thrills-
Baby, I don't need dollar bills
To have fun tonight
-I love cheap thrills-
I don't need no money
As long as I can feel the beat
I don't need no money
As long as I keep dancing

Come on, come on, turn the radio on
It's Saturday and I won't be long
Got to paint my nails, put my high heels on
It's Saturday and I won't be long

Till I hit the dance floor
Hit the dance floor
I got all I need
No, I ain't got cash
No, I ain't got cash
But I got you baby

-I love cheap thrills-
-I love cheap thrills-
I don't need no money
As long as I can feel the beat
I don't need no money
As long as I keep dancing

-I love cheap thrills...-

Sia - Cheap thrills

COVER by Leroy Sánchez

lunes, 16 de mayo de 2016

Obvious to you. Amazing to others.

OBVIOUS TO YOU. AMAZING TO OTHERS.

Step 1

Write the following words in a column on the board: good, bad, surprising, clever, interesting, sad, happy, scared, angry,funny. At the top of the column write “Standard adjective”. Add another column and write “Extreme adjective”

Step 2

Elicit extreme adjectives for the first standard adjective “good”. Students should come up with adjectives such as “great”, “wonderful”, “fantastic” etc.

Step 3

Pair your students and tell them to come up with examples of strong adjectives for all the normal adjectives.

Step 4

Get the students to give their examples of strong adjectives and write them in the Strong adjective column. They should come up with something like this:

Normal adjective Strong adjective

good great, brilliant,amazing, i incredible,wonderful, fantastic, excellent, brilliant, perfect, marvellous, great, exciting, gorgeous, awesome, etc.

bad terrible, awful, wrong, horrible, awful, disastrous, devilish, negative etc.

surprising amazing, stunning, astonishing, shocking, impactful, jaw-dropping, touching, moving,etc

clever brilliant, genius, smart, intelligent, hard-working, talented/gifted, outstanding, geek/nerd, etc

interesting fascinating, curious, nosy, spell-binding, important, etc

sad miserable, devastated, overwhelmed, stunned,etc

happy delighted, ecstatic, funny, fun, extroverted, thrilled, excited, etc

scared terrified, petrified, misterious, stunned, afraid, dangerous, paralyzed, frightened, etc

angry furious, mad, moody, pissed off, unhappy, wild, etc

funny hilarious, LOL (laugh out loud)

Step 5

Tell your students they are going to watch a short video titled Obvious to you. Amazing to others. in which they will hear some of these strong adjectives. Ask them what they think the video will be about.

Step 6

Tell your students that as they watch and listen to the video they should try to understand what the video is about and what the narrator’s message is. Show the film

Step 7

Pair your students and ask them to compare what they understood. Play the film again.

Step 8

Get feedback from the whole class on what they understood.

Step 9

Give your students the transcript of the video. Ask them to read it and check what they understood when they watched the video.

Step 10

Ask them to read the text again and underline any words and expressions they don’t understand. Put them into small groups and ask them to try to work out together the words and expressions they don’t understand.

Step 11

Tell your students they are going to watch the video again; as they watch they should concentrate on the narrator’s pronunciation.

Step 12

Ask your students to summarise the narrator’s message in one sentence.

Step 13

Put your students into small groups and ask them to discuss the following questions:

 Do you agree with the narrator when he says we are bad judges of our own creations?

 Have you ever thought “my ideas are so obvious. I'll never be as inventive as that.”?

 Do you think you have be a genius to be creative?

 Do you think we are smarter than we believe we are?

Step 14

Hold a plenary session based on the discussion questions.
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Vocabulary:

in awe adv	(with amazement)	con asombro loc adv
		asombrado paticipio
	Lucius gazed in awe at the skyscraper, never having seen anything so big before. The child stood in awe of the skyscraper, never having seen something so big.
	Lucio miró con asombro el rascacielos; nunca antes había visto algo tan grande.
	Lucio miró asombrado el rascacielos; nunca antes había visto algo tan grande.
in awe adj	(admiring)	impresionado adj
		asombrado adj
	Your violin playing is incredible; I'm in awe!

Transcript Lesson Plan

All lesson plan taken from film-english.com

viernes, 13 de mayo de 2016

How good is your eyesight

Test your eyesight here

How many faces can you see here?

Which square has a different colour?

jueves, 12 de mayo de 2016

Best friend - Friend from Hell

The following exercise focuses on what students like best - least about friends. At the same time you'll have a video about your EQ (Emotional Intelligence Test)
It is taken from: about education

Building character adjectives vocabulary and a quiz about friendship.

What do you mean - Justin Bieber

Artista: Justin Bieber

Álbum: Purpose

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2015

Premios: Premio People's Choice a la Canción del Año Favorita

Nominaciones: Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Award a la Canción Favorita, Más

Link to the activity

Cover by Leroy Sánchez

Karaoke version

martes, 10 de mayo de 2016

Discussions

General ideas for Discussions in English

pdf with useful expresions

Useful Expressions (pdf)

Vocabulary and expressions to use in discussions

Link to British council material.

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Exercises.

A.

"Social networking can be too dangerous for young people and should only be available to adults"

Feedback:

1. The positives and negatives of using social networking sites.(article)

2. Video

3. More data.

4. Questions for discussions on internet.

lunes, 9 de mayo de 2016

Films in English and short videos

You have got a list of films useful to learn English.

1. The King's speech (2010) 1 2 3

2. Notting Hill (1999) 1 2

Short films 1

Motivational Videos

The Science of Happiness

Learn English from Extremadura.