Peace Day

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Tea time activity

This is the presentation to be used in our tea time activity class:

Tea time from Ana Arias Castro

Another recipe for our eTwinning project

CHICKEN WITH RICE

This is Lucía Villar's video with her family recipe for Chicken and rice.

Have a look at all our recipes at our eTwinning blog.

Some / any

Try these exercises to practise the use of some and any:

• exercise 1
• exercise 2
• exercise 3
• a /an / some
• some / any (Isabel Pérez)
• some / any / no
• some / any (English test)
• a / an / some / any (Bradley's)

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 her leg while she was exercising in the park.

VIDEOS AND PRESENTATIONS

WHEN/WHILE PAST CONTINUOUS TENSE & PAST SIMPLE from Münevver Çelebi

EXERCISES:

• Past continuous 1
• Past continuous 2 - statements
• Past continuous 3 - statements
• Past continuous 4 - negative
• Past continuous 5 - questions
• Past continuous 6 questions
• Past continuous use
• 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 / past continuous / jobs / questions)
• Shakira's life (past simple exercise)

Interesting websites for EFL students

Here you are some interesting websites you might want to have a look at:

NEWS & INFORMATION

• News in Levels
• BBC Learning English
• Time for Kids

GAMES

• Crosswords from iteslj
• BBC Learning English quizzes
• English at Home Games

TEXTS

• Nick Jr - Stories from around the world
• Reader's Digest

VIDEOS

• ESL video
• Many Things TV (YouTube channel)
• Voice of America (YouTube channel)

EXERCISES

• Many Things
• English at Home

10 years of eTwinning projects

E-PEL for ESO students

This is a presentation designed to help you use the electronic version of PEL, the e-PEL:

If you want to start using your e-PEL click here.

Saxon genitive

It is a structure that indicates possession:

FORM

• Add 's after the possessor:
• Mandy's car
• The women's room
• The queen's jewels
• Add 's after the plural and after endings in 's':
• My friends' house
• Her granparents' car
• Lewis' job
• Frances' boat
• Add 's after the possessor's name, or use a possessive pronoun:
• A friend of my mother's (=one of my mother's friends)
• A friend of your teachers' (=one of your teachers' friends)
• Some expression take the possessive form (without the noun):
• We went to Peter's
• At the Simpson's
• At the doctor's
• Macy's

USE

• It tends to be used if possessors are people, animals or institutions:
• the cat's tail
• Mary's supermarket
• the government's proposal
• But remember:
• the leg of the table
• the end of the process
• the boot of the car

VIDEO

EXERCISE

Now try to describe who's who in the British Royal family:

taken from http://www.henry4school.fr/UK/monarchy/pdf/The%20British%20Royal%20Family%20Tree.pdf

And who's who in the Spanish Royal Family?

from bbc.co.uk

First recipes for our eTwinning project

These are the first two recipes written by Carla Fernández and Jenny Vázquez for our eTwinning project, Let's Cook Together.

How to Create a Curriculum Vitae online

A Curriculum Vitae (CV) or Resume is easy to write if you use the Europass Website, where you just have to fill in the fields given. 

Even though you may choose any language for the website, or even change from one language to another during the process, you should use English at the end so that the final CV is generated in that language.

This is the link to the Europass CV page.

CV created at the Europass website- http://europass.cedefop.europa.eu/es/home

Let's Cook Together - eTwinning recipes

As part of our eTwinning project you have to make some recipes of meals that you can cook or that you particularly like. They are going to be uploaded at the Twinspace we have for the project as well as at the project blog we have.

You might consider other designs for your recipe but we suggest making a short movie or a presentation.

After your movie or presentation is finished uploading it at YouTube or Slideshare will let us show it in the blog as you can see below.

SHORT FILM

1. record yourself / record somebody / let somebody record you while cooking
2. a mobile phone camera will do
3. carefully record the ingredients first
4. then all the steps to make the recipe
5. you can speak and tell how to make all the steps or record your voice later on
6. show the result, the dish as it is ready to be served
7. put all the bits together using MovieMaker or any other programme for film edition
8. write subtitles with the text (they should correspond to what you say)
9. if you have not spoken during the recording you might record your voice as you watch the film and then add  the audio file at the end (you probably have an audio recorder in your mobile)
10. add an opening and closing slide:
1. the opening slide should have the title of the recipe, the name of the project (Let's Cook Together) and you name
2. the closing slide should have the credits: the names of all the people who have helped you (family, friends, etc.), the school, etc.

PRESENTATION

1. first take pictures of the ingredients, they can be all in one picture or one picture per ingredient
2. then take pictures as you or somebody else is cooking the recipe
3. make a presentation and describe the process thoroughly
4. the first slide should be for the title of the recipe, your name and the name of the project, Let's Cook Together
5. the second slide (or maybe more than one) for the ingredients
6. and then the rest for each of the steps of the cooking process.
7. include text explaining each part
8. finally, show the resulting meal

How to write a recipe from Ana Arias Castro

A, An, Some & Any

Exercises about a, an, some and any:

• a / an (a for ESL)
• a  an 2 (a for ESL)
• some / any 1
• some / any (Isabel Pérez)
• some / any /no (a for ESL)
• some / any 1 (Englisch Hilfen)
• some / any 2 (Englisch Hilfen)
• some / any 3 (Englisch Hilfen)
• some / any (Ego4u)
• some / any (Ego4u)
• some / any (Auto English)

Nothing Else Matters by Metallica

If you like ths song, try this ESL video activity:

http://www.eslvideo.com/esl_video_quiz.php?id=22057

If you want to have a look at the lyrics, you'll find them in the transcript section.

More songs like this in our songs for EFL classes section in this blog.