Valentine's Day vocabulary

Interesting Instagram accounts for English language students

BBC Learning English

Do you want to use Instagram to learn English? Try these accounts:

• Giner A1/A2 English
• Giner B1 English
• Test English Com (grammar)
• Ewa English
• Envision your English (vocabulary)
• EFL_ana
• BBC Learning English
• Heythere English
• Arnel's Everyday English (difficulties)

And also the BBC News page for short videos about the news.

Ewa English

Giner B1 English

Envision Your English

Test English Com

EFL_ana

Differences in spelling between British and American English

-ing and -ed adjectives

How to improve your English

Vocabulary about baby stuff

Christmas in English-speaking countries

Christmas time from Ana Arias Castro

Quantifiers in English

This is a chart with the main quantifiers in English. Pay attention to which ones are used in affirmative, interrogative and negative sentences:

FURTHER READING:

• My English pages
• English EFL

SOME EXERCISES:

• Bristish Council (exercise at the bottom of the page)
• To learn English: some, any, no
• To learn English: much, many
• To learn English: a few, a little, few, little
• Englisch Hilfen:
• exercise 1: a / an / some
• exercise 2 : how much / how many
• exercise 3 : much / many
• exercise 4: much / many 2
• exercise 5 : much / many in questions
• exercise 6: some / any
• exercise 7: some / any 2
• exercise 8 : some / any statements and questions

Football vocabulary

More vocabulary about football at Woodward English.

Be in contact with English this summer

Now our school year is over we have to start thinking of how to keep our English alive.

1. If you have failed, you should follow the directions given in class and write to your teacher if you need.
2. If you have passed English this year there are many ways of keeping it alive without having to study grammar or read thick books during the summer. These are some of the  things you can do:

• Listen to songs in English, read the lyrics and maybe even sing along. There are many websites where you can find the lyrics of your favourite songs in English.
• Watch our favourite TV programmes and films in English and even read the subtitles in English. this is a good option if we can't grasp much of what is being said.
• Watch YouTube videos in English with subtitles also in English.
• There is an interesting website where you can find short audio files to practise your English, audio-lingua.eu. Just choose levels A1 or A2.
• Read the news in English. Many newspapers have an interesting and easy to read website if we are learning English: USA Today, BBC English, Time, Newsweek, New York Times, etc. or choose a specific newspaper for English language learners, such as News in Levels.
• If you want to do some practice work without really studying you can go to the British Council website:
• Listening audios about different topics. You can do the tasks after listening and you can also read the scripts.
• Reading texts about a variety of topics. They are classified according to their level of difficulty: A2, B1, B2, etc. At the end of each story there are some tasks and you can also get a downloadable version.
• Vocabulary, you can read about some topics and then do some vocabulary activities.
• And there are also other sections you might have a look at: grammar, writing, videos...
• Try Duolingo to learn English or any other language on your own.
• And finally, just pay attention of whatever you see around. There are lots of notices, instruction booklets, etc. in English and you can certainly understand more than you problably think.

British and American English

Games for 1º ESO

In your computer, follow these instructions:

• Menú de Aplicativos
• Xogos
• Paquete Eductativos GCompris
• Language-English
• Games
• Choose the activites that are surrounded by a circle in this image.

Movies and their titles in Spanish

Movies and translations from Ana Arias Castro

How to organize the vocabulary you are learning

These are just some ideas:

1. Keeping a notebook to write down new words you come across is a good idea. However, you should revise  the words you've written down every now and them to make learning effective.
2. Classify the vocabulary into groups according to type of word, meaning, level of difficulty, etc.
   
3. Diagrams can also be a useful tool if visually organising words is helpful for you:
   
4. Writing down expressions, not just words, as you encounter them, will help you associate them in the future. Some words tend to collocate and appear in association with others:
• to and fro
• see you later
• do one's homework
• to make a noise
• to be in the red
• and so on

British vs. American English

Christmas in English-speaking countries

Christmas time from Ana Arias Castro

Tips for learning English

How to read numbers in English

BASIC NUMBERS

Remember that large numbers are separated by commas: 123,456,789 and decimals need dots: 1.25

MORE DIFFICULT NUMBERS
We don't normally write numbers with words, but it's possible to do this and, of course, this will show how we say the numbers.

In writing large numbers, American English uses a comma ( , ) to separate thousands, millions, etc. American English also uses a hyphen ( - ) to separate "tens" words (twenty, fifty, etc.) and
"ones" words (one, three, six, etc.)

Examples:

written   said
1,011   one thousand eleven
   
21,011   twenty-one thousand eleven
   
721,011   seven hundred twenty-one thousand eleven
 ....................................................................................................................................
1,256,721   one million two hundred fifty-six thousand seven hundred twenty-one
   
31,256,721   thirty-one million two hundred fifty-six thousand seven hundred twenty-one
   
631,256,721   six hundred thirty-one million two hundred fifty-six thousand seven hundred twenty-one
 ....................................................................................................................................
1,492,638,526   one billion four hundred ninety-two million six hundred thirty-eight thousand five hundred twenty-six
   
41,492,638,526 forty-one billion four hundred ninety-two million six hundred thirty-eight thousand five hundred twenty-six
   
941,492,638,526  nine hundred forty-one billion four hundred ninety-two million six hundred thirty-eight thousand five hundred twenty-six
__________________________________________________________________

 NOTES:

1. In American English, the order of large numbers is thousand, million, billion, trillion, etc. (1,000; 1,000,000; 1,000,000,000; 1,000,000,000,000; etc.)
2. In American English a thousand million is a billion, but in British English, a thousand million is a milliard.
3. When saying large numbers, do not make thousand, million, billion, trillion, etc. plural. (WRONG: *twenty thousands dollars; *five millions people; CORRRECT: twenty thousand dollars; five million people)
4. Commas separate thousands, millions, etc. (21,011-31,256,721-941,492,638,526)
5. People often say "a" instead of "one" before hundred, thousand, etc. and they often add "and" before the last number (a hundred and twenty-one / a thousand and eleven)

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BRITISH AND AMERICAN ENGLISH (from Wikipedia)

	Common British vernacular	Common American vernacular	Common British vernacular
	"How many marbles do you have?"	"What is your house number?"	"Which bus goes to the high street?"
101	"A hundred and one."	"One-oh-one." Here, "oh" is used for the digit zero.	"One-oh-one."
109	"A hundred and nine."	"One-oh-nine."	"One-oh-nine."
110	"A hundred and ten."	"One-ten."	"One-one-oh."
117	"A hundred and seventeen."	"One-seventeen."	"One-one-seven."
120	"A hundred and twenty."	"One-twenty."	"One-two-oh", "One-two-zero."
152	"A hundred and fifty-two."	"One-fifty-two."	"One-five-two."
208	"Two hundred and eight."	"Two-oh-eight."	"Two-oh-eight."
334	"Three hundred and thirty-four."	"Three-thirty-four."	"Three-three-four."

ORDINAL NUMBERS AND FRACTIONS

Ordinal numbers are also used for fractions:

• 1/10 - one tenth
• 3/4 - three quarters
• 15/16 - fifteen sixteenths

SPECIAL NUMBERS

Some numbers have special names in certain contexts:

0:

• zero: formal scientific usage
• naught / nought: mostly British usage
• aught: Mostly archaic but still occasionally used when a digit in mid-number is 0 (as in "thirty-aught-six", the .30-06 Springfield rifle cartridge and by association guns that fire it)
• oh: used when spelling numbers (like telephone, bank account, bus line [British: bus route])
• nil: in general sport scores, British usage ("The score is two–nil.")
• nothing: in general sport scores, American usage ("The score is two–nothing.")
• null: used technically to refer to an object or idea related to nothingness. The 0th aleph number (\aleph_0) is pronounced "aleph-null".
• love: in tennis, badminton, squash and similar sports (origin disputed, often said to come from French l'œuf, "egg"; but the Oxford English Dictionary mentions the phrase for love, meaning nothing is at risk)

1:

• ace in certain sports and games, as in tennis or golf, indicating success with one stroke, and the face of a die, playing card or domino half with one pip
• birdie in golf denotes one stroke less than par, and bogey, one stroke more than par

2:

• couple
• pair
• eagle in golf denotes two strokes less than par
• duo

3:

• trio

6:

• half a dozen

12: 

• a dozen (first power of the duodecimal base), used mostly in commerce

100:

• A century, also used in cricket scores and in cycling for 100 miles.
• A ton, in Commonwealth English, the speed of 100 mph[5] or 100 km/h.

120:

• A great hundred or long hundred (twelve tens; as opposed to the small hundred, i.e. 100 or ten tens), also called small gross (ten dozens), both archaic

144: 

• a gross (a dozen dozens, second power of the duodecimal base), used mostly in commerce

10100: 

• googol (1 followed by 100 zeros), used in mathematics; not to be confused with the name of the company Google (which was originally a misspelling of googol)

COMBINATIONS OF NUMBERS IN SPORT

1–0    British English: one-nil; American English: one-nothing, one-zip, or one-zero

0–0    British English: nil-nil, or more rarely nil all; American English: zero-zero or nothing-nothing, (occasionally scoreless or no score)

2–2    two-two or two all; American English also twos, two to two, even at two, or two up.

REFERENCE:
http://www.studyenglishtoday.net/cardinal-numbers.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_numerals

Summer English

Now our school year is over we have to start thinking of how to keep our English alive.

1. If you have failed, you should follow the directions given in class and write to your teacher if you need.
2. If you have passed English this year there are many ways of keeping it alive without having to study grammar or read thick books during the summer. These are some of the  things you can do:

• Listen to songs in English, read the lyric and maybe even sing along. There are many websites where you can find the lyrics of your favourite songs in English.
• Watch our favourite TV programmes and films in English and even read the subtitles in English. this is a good option if we can't grasp much of what is being said.
• Watch YouTube videos in English with subtitles also in English.
• There is an interesting website where you can find short audio files to practise your English, audio-lingua.eu. Just choose levels A1 or A2.
• Read the news in English. Many newspapers have an interesting and easy to read website if we are learning English: USA Today, BBC English, Time, Newsweek, New York Times, etc. or choose a specific newspaper for English language learners, such as News in Levels.
• It's also a good occasion to have a look at the materials we've been making this year for our eTwinning project, East or West, Home is Best.
• Try Duolingo to learn English or any other language autonomously.
• And finally, just pay attention of whatever you see around. There are lots of notices, instruction booklets, etc. in English and you can certainly understand more than you problably think.

Punctuation