Halloween activity

  Why don't you play this question and answer activity in your classes?

Halloween Trivia de Ana Arias Castro

Compare these elements

Comparison india 2020 from Ana Arias Castro

Happy Days for Boys and Girls

In today's class we have two tasks:

1. Design a logo for our project. Bear in mind that this is the summary of your project: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights says, on its first article, that “all human beings are born equal in dignity and rights”. However, even in the 21st century, the opportunities are not always the same for men and for women. Sometimes, in some small details, the society tends to divide the world of boys and the world of girls, keeping barriers between them.
   With this project, we want to work with our students that girls and boys should have the same rights in this open and free world that we live. You can use a white sheet and a pen or any photo editing program.
2. The other option is to choose one or two slides and work on this presentation about Guntín and our school. We want to show our school and school life to the other members of the project.

subject and object questions

Most questions are object questions. They ask about an object.

• Where do you live?
• Who did you see? 

And there are also subject questions. Questions we ask to find out about the subject. These questions are asked using 'who', 'what' and 'which'.  

• Who plays football in this class?
• What happened?
• Which machine did Marconi invent? 

You can take a look at the following chart of question forms:

Form	Examples
Object Questions wh- + auxiliary + subject + main verb	Where do you live? What will you do? When is she coming?
Subject Questions wh- (=subject) + auxiliary + main verb Notice that this structure is like affirmative sentence structure without the question word.	Who loves you? Which car will arrive first? What type of food costs less?

Subject object questions from Ana Arias Castro

SOME MORE EXERCISES:

• Perfect English
• ESL Lounge
• English Zone
• Learn English - British Council
• Servator

Grammar revision exercise

Grammar revision for 4º ESO from Ana Arias Castro

Compare these people

Compare these people from Ana Arias Castro

Food in Britain

There are several aspects of food and eating in Britain that are shocking or at least surprising for a Spaniard:

• Meal times and names:

Marmite by Malcolm Farmer

• Large breakfasts. A proper traditional breakfast might include fried eggs, sausage, baked beans, bacon, toast, fried tomatoes, mushrooms, toast or fried bread ... and, of course, a cup of tea or coffee. However, nowadays, most people in Britain just have a simpler breakfast with cereal, toast, a cup of tea or coffee and some juice. A "nice cuppa" refers to a cup of tea.
• Many people will drink tea or coffee while having a meal, instead of drinking water. It might be difficult to imagine someone eating soup while drinking soup, but not from a Briton.
• Almost anything can be eaten on toast: beans, Marmite, egg, tomato, cheese...



Tea time at Lucy's by MrsWoman

• Tea is the national drink. It is drunk at all meals, any time of the day and any time of the year, not just for the meal called "tea".
•  There are also some foods that may seem strange to foreigners:
• haggis
• Scotch eggs
• Toad in the hole
• black pudding
• Welsh rarebit
• Fish and chips. If you don't know what to eat any time, you may pop into a fish and chips shop and buy your dinner there.

Penny Lane fish and chips shop by Loco Steve

Fish and chips by Richard Allaway

Traditional british food from comeniusnewclans

British food from Anthonny Garcia

QUIZZES:

• Proprofs: British Food
• Quizly

READ MORE:

• Project Britain
• 21 Things Everyone Should Know Before Visiting Britain
• British Etiquette for International Students
• British Habits That Confuse the Rest Of the World
• British Food Habits That Americans Will Never Understand
• Ten Strange British Foods
• Food Quirks That British People Don't Realise Are Weird

https://britainexplorer.com/ten-strange-british-foods/

https://www.buzzfeed.com/tabathaleggett/food-quirks-that-british-people-dont-realise-are-weird

Comparatives and superlatives

These next weeks we are going to study comparative and superlative structures in our classes.  This chart summarizes the main points that you have to keep in mind:

Eso 3 comparatives & superlatives from Ana Arias Castro

If you want to download the worksheet used in class, click here and if you want to check if you already know this grammar structure, you may try:

• Summary of grammar and exercise (the sheet at the top)
• more detailed grammar rules 
• exercise sheet
• this Hot Potatoes exercise.
• geography quizz
• crosswords from the BBC Learning English website
• English at home: grammar summary
• English at home: online exercise
• Englisch-hilfen comparatives 1
• Englisch-hilfen comparatives 2
• Englisch-hilfen superlatives 1
• Englisch-hilfen superlatives 2
• Englisch-hilfen as...as
• learnenglishfeelgood.com online exercise
• a selection of exercises from tolearnenglish.com
• basic comparatives: grammar and exercise from English at Home
• British Council: modifying comparatives
• Comparatives exercise (English at Home)
• Superlatives exercise (English at Home)

Now try comparing the pairs and groups of elements in this presentation:

Comparison groups from Ana Arias Castro

Comparatives from Ana Arias Castro

Last exercise: Compare the people in this picture:

Christmas time in Spain

Christmas in Spain from Ana Arias Castro

Christmas in English-speaking countries

Christmas time from Ana Arias Castro

Christmas in Spain

Christmas spain 2015 from Ana Arias Castro

Christmas in the USA

Christmas in the usa from Ana Arias Castro

Christmas trivia game

Basic Christmas Trivia from Ana Arias Castro

Christmas Trivia Game from Ana Arias Castro

Relative sentences

RELATIVE PRONOUNS

• who → when we talk about people
• which → when we talk about things
• whose → instead of his/her or their
• We also use that for who/which.
• where → when we speak about places
• when → when we speak about a period of time

Relative Pronouns from JoshBCN

OMISSION OF THE RELATIVE PRONOUN

We leave out the relative pronoun (who/which/that) if it is not the subject in the sentence.

• That is the book I like.

If there is a verb after the relative pronoun who/which/that, do not leave out the relative pronoun.

• He is the teacher who spoke to us yesterday morning.

Examples with the relative pronoun who

1st part of the sentence			2nd part of the sentence
This	is	the boy	who	was	at the party yesterday.
Subject	Verb	Rest	Subject	Verb	Rest

who is subject in the sentence, do not leave it out.

1st part of the sentence			Pronoun	2nd part of the sentence
This	is	the boy	who	I	met	at the party yesterday.
This	is	the boy	can be left out	I	met	at the party yesterday.
Subject	Verb	Rest		Subject	Verb	Rest

who is not subject in the sentence, it can be left out.

Examples with the relative pronoun which/that

1stpart of the sentence			2nd part of the sentence
This	is	the bike	which	was	in the shop window.
Subject	Verb	Rest	Subject	Verb	Rest

which is subject in the sentence, do not leave it out.

1st part of the sentence			Pronoun	2nd part of the sentence
This	is	the bike	which	I	bought	yesterday.
This	is	the bike	can be left out	I	bought	yesterday.
Subject	Verb	Rest		Subject	Verb	Rest

which is not subject in the sentence, it can be left out.

TYPES OF RELATIVE CLAUSES

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To understand the distinctions between that and which it is necessary to understand defining (restrictive) and non-defining (non-restrictive) clauses.

Learning these distinctions is one technical aspect of grammar that every user of English should understand, because it is at the root of an assortment of grammatical errors.

NON DEFINING RELATIVE CLAUSES

A non-defining, or non-restrictive, clause is one that can be regarded as parenthetical:

• My house, which has a blue door, needs painting.

The italicized words are effectively an aside and could be deleted. The real point of the sentence is that the house needs painting; the blue door is incidental.

Use commas to set off non-defining elements, which contribute to, but do not determine, the meaning of the sentence. These elements may be clauses (groups of words that contain a subject and a verb) or phrases (groups of words that do not contain both a subject and a verb).

DEFINING RELATIVE CLAUSES

A defining, restrictive, clause is one that is essential to the sense of the sentence.

• My house that has a blue door needs painting.

Here the blue door is a defining characteristic, it helps to distinguish that house from my other houses.

Defining clauses or phrases are not separated off with commas. A restrictive clause or phrase is essential to the meaning of the sentence; it defines the word it modifies by ›restricting‹ its meaning. Eliminating a restrictive element from a sentence changes its meaning dramatically.

EXERCISES

• who / which / whose 1 (Englisch Hilfen)
• who / which / whose 2 (Englisch Hilfen)
• who / whose / which 3 (English for You)
• who / which / whose (Ego4you)
• Link sentences with that / who (Perfect English Grammar)
• who / which / that / where / when (Montse Morales)
• Write the sentences in order-at the bottom (British Council)
• Merge two sentences using a relative pronoun (Ego4you)
• Merge two sentences using a relative pronoun (English Grammar)
• Merge two sentences using a relative pronoun ( English Practice)

Physical description in English

Physical description in English from Ana Arias Castro

Physical description vocabulary from Ana Arias Castro

Describing people from Ana Arias Castro

Halloween

Halloween from Ana Arias Castro

Halloween trivia from Ana Arias Castro

Physical description in English

Physical description in English from Ana Arias Castro

Physical description vocabulary from Ana Arias Castro

Describing people from Ana Arias Castro

Revision of present simple, present continuous, past simple and past continuous

PRESENT SIMPLE

GRAMMAR:

• Isabel Pérez
• Englisch Hilfen

EXERCISES

• Isabel Pérez-affirmative1
• Isabel Pérez-affirmative2-word order
• Englisch Hilfen-affirmatives1
• Englisxh Hilfen-affirmatives2
• Ego4you affirmatives
• Really Learn English-affirmatives
• Really Learn English-affirmatives2
• Really Learn English-affirmatives3
• Really Learn English-affirmatives4
• Really LEarn English-affirmatives5

READING COMPREHENSION EXERCISES

• Tim's day text & questions
• My name is Ben
• Simple present stories from The ESL Times

PRESENT CONTINUOUS

EXERCISES

• affirmative sentences (Englisch Hilfen)
• affirmative sentences2 (Englisch HIlfen)
• negatives (Englisch Hilfen)
• questions (Englisch Hilfen)
• affirmatives-negatives-questions (Englisch Hilfen)

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PRESENT SIMPLE AND CONTINUOUS

Eso 3-present simple and present continuous (1) from Ana Arias Castro

• EXERCISES
  • exercise 1 (Englisch Hilfen)
  • exercise 2 (Perfect English)
  • exercise 3 (Englisch Hilfen)
  • exercise 4 (English page)
  • exercise 5 (English Grammar)
  • exercise 6 (ESL Lounge)
  • exercise 7 (Ego4U-1)
  • exercise 8 (Ego4U-2)
  • exercise 9 (Ego4U-3)
  • exercise 10 (Ego4U-4)
  • exercise 11 (Ego4U-5)
  • exercise 12 (Ego4U-6)
  • exercise 13 (Ego4U-7)
  • exercise 14 (Ego4U-8)
  • exercise 15 (Ego4U-9)
  • exercise 16 (Ego4U-10)
  • exercise 17 (Ego4U-11)
  • exercise 18 (Ego4U-12)

PAST SIMPLE AND PAST CONTINUOUS

Past simple is often used for past events in a past time. Most stories are told using this tense and it is often used together with past continuous.

Past continuous or past progressive is one of the tenses we are going to study this year.

The following chart summarises the most important aspects you'll have to learn about both of them:


USES:

• Past simple is used to tell about past event or stories:
• We went to Ireland and there we met your sister.
• My parents spent a weekend in Coruña but they didn't go to the port.
• When did they release the film? Last Friday?
• Past continuous is often used to talk about what was happening at a specific time in the past (talking about memories...)
• We were watching the film at lunch time.
• Two past continuous tenses can be used to talk about long, simultaneous actions in the past:
• We were studying while the dogs were barking in the yard.
• Both tenses are used to talk about something that happened at one point (in the past simple) while a longer action was taking place (in the past continuous). In this use, the clause referring to the longer action, is often introduced by while or as; or, alternatively, the shorter action clauses is introduced by when:
• We weren't watching the film when my sister rang.
• They found the lost key as they were having a walk along the river.
• Myrtle broke here leg while she was exercising in the park.

EXERCISES:

past simple

• Revision of regular verbs -englisch-hilfen.de
• Revision of irregular verbs1 -englisch-hilfen.de
• Revision of irregular verbs2 -englisch-hilfen.de
• Revision of irregular verbs3 -englisch-hilfen.de
• Revision of irregular verbs4 -englisch-hilfen.de
• Past simple Boy -www.isabelperez.es 
• Questions in the past simple
• Past continuous and past simple exercise -British Council
• Complete with the right affirmative form of past tense-My English Pages
• Write affirmative sentences in past simple (Don't forget punctuation)
• Write these sentences in the negative
• Fill the gaps with past simple forms- Learn English Today
• Fill the gaps with past simple forms - To Learn English
• Present simple or past simple - To Learn English
• Sentences and questions in the past simple1-Englisch Hilfen
• Sentences and questions in the past simple2-Englisch Hilfen

past continuous

• Past continuous 1
• Past contunuous 2 - statements
• Past continuous 3 - statements
• Past continuous 4 - negative
• Past continuous 5 - questions
• Past continuous 6 questions
• Past continuous use

contrast:

• Past simple versus past continuous 1
• Past simple versus past continuous 2
• Past simple versus past continuous 3
• Past simple versus past continuous 4
• Past simple versus past continuous 5
• Past simple boy (from www.isabelperez.com)
• Lady past continuous (from www.isabelperez.com)
• Choose the right tense exercise (perfect-english-grammar.com)
• Revision exercise for unit 2 (past simple)

Extreme sports

Extreme sports from akopali

Places in a town

Places in a town from Ana Arias Castro