Halloween images

candy corn- picture from Wikimedia

In today's classes we have been talking about how Halloween is celebrated in the US and how Día de los muertos is celebrated by the Mexican community in the USA.

Halloween at Chapelhill - picture from Wikipedia

chocolate and pumpkin cake - cookiteasy.com

Halloween at Chapelhill - socinnovation.worpress.com

children in a corn maze - www.denver.org

girls dressed up at Chapelhill - tarheel-blog.blogspot.com

día de los muertos, Mexico -from Wikipedia

You can see the Halloween party at Chapelhill, Taylor's city in North Carolina. The street full of people is Franklin street.

ESO-4 The French Revolution

Storming of the Bastille-picture from Wikipedia

These are the resources that you have for the unit about the French Revolution:

- unit 3

- presentation3

- glossary 3 

- additional text from Wikipedia 
- video: from Louis XVI to Napoleon
- video: song Revolution
- revision test

- audio1

- audio2

- audio3

- audio4

ESO-3 Political organisation resources

picture from Wikimedia Commons

These are the main resources we have for unit 3 about Political organisation:

- European Union Constitution

- The European Union timeline 

- Glossary

- Revision test

- Match these definitions

- Crosswords

- Gap-fill exercise

- audio1

- audio2

- audio3

- audio4

- audio5

- audio6

In memoriam

Today is a day of mourning as our classmate Juan Pablo Ares has died in a hunting accident. We will never forget him and school will never be the same without him.

Halloween

This presentation will tell you about this important festivity in the USA and other English-speaking countries.

Halloween from Ana Arias Castro

American bills and coins

This presentation by Taylor shows the different coins and bills used in the USA:

Moneymaterials from Ana Arias Castro

And this other presentation will tell you about British money:

British currency from Ludivina

ESO-3 ESL Comparatives and superlatives

These last weeks we have been studying comparative and superlative structures in our classes.  This chart summarizes the main points that you have to keep in mind:

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:

• more detailed grammar rules 
• written exercise (printable sheet)
• exercise sheet
• this Hot Potatoes exercise.
• geography quizz
• crosswords from the BBC Learning English website

ESO-4 ESL Revision of past simple and past continuous

In this unit we are going to revise the form and uses of past simple and past continuous. These two common tenses are often used in the same paragraph so it is useful to pay attention to the differences both in form and use:

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 / past continuous / jobs / questions)
Shakira's life (past simple exercise)

ESO-4 Unit 2 The American Revolution

These are the classroom materials for the next CLIL unit about the American Revolution:

- unit 2

- presentation 2

- glossary 2 

- additional text from Wikipedia
- video: the American Revolution in 2 minutes
- video: the American Revolution in 4 minutes
- revision test

- audio1

- audio2

ESO-3 Unit 2 States of the World

These are the materials you will use in unit 2 about the States of the world:

- world Map: countries and capitals

- planet

- Europe-political 
- US Department of State: information about all the countries in the world. Just select the country (on the right)
- Wikipedia: list of sovereign states (Click on the country you are interested in)
- Glossary
- Revision test

picture from Wikipedia

- Match these definitions
- Crosswords
- Gap-fill exercise
- audio1
- audio2
- audio3
- audio4
- audio5
- audio6
- audio7
- audio8
- audio9

About Taylor

This week Taylor has been telling us about her life and family in the USA. If you want to have another look at her presentation, here it is.

ESO-3 Malala's speech in the UN

from Wikipedia

Malala is a Pakistani girl who was shot in her head because she is an activist for women's rights. This is the speech in the United Nations that we have listened to in class.

You can read more about Malala's story in this article from the BBC News.

The Sounds of English and the IPA

The IPA or International Phonetic Alphabet was designed to represent the pronunciation of languages and therefore it consists of many different symbols but only some of them are used to represent each language.

Different dialects may have other sounds but the ones in these sheets are the most common ones in English language dictionaries.

• sheet with the most common spellings
• sheet with the sounds of English from www.antimoon.com
• click on each symbol and listen to the pronunciation

ESO-4: Revision of present simple & present continuous

In this unit we are revising the form and uses of two very common tenses: present simple and present continuous. These links will lead you to useful materials for you:

• Summary of tenses
• Tenses in detail
• Worksheet: unit 1
• Revision test for unit 1: Unit 1

Present simple and present continuous from Cynthia Maurizzio

present simple and present continuous from jesusmarcos42