Football English

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The Football World Cup is taking place at the moment. You will probably watch some of the matches from Brazil but, how much do you know about football in English?

First of all, have a look at this list of vocabulary at BBC Learning English website. The most basic words are listed first but then you'll find many more that are also very useful.

INTERESTING LINKS ABOUT FOOTBALL

• Short quiz about football
• Vocabulary (it is classified and each section has activities)
• Football phrases (with activities)
• Learn English with the Premier League
• Historical information about football: rules, history and stars
• Football quiz

The benefits of learning a foreign language

Song: Fortunate Son by Creedence Clearwater Revival

Listen to this 1969 song by Creedence Clearwater Revival and complete the activity in ESL Video:

ACTIVITY

This song is about the Vietnam War. If you want to check the lyrics, click here.

Movie Without Boundaries

Cheat the Cheater is the eTwinning movie that has been made collaboratively with our eTwinning partners in Poland . The script was written by everyone using Google Drive. Both schools have recorded different scenes of our action story and our Partners edited the movie whereas we have edited the trailer. 

Finally, a poster has been made to help make our film more popular among our school communities.

On the left you can see the poster that will publicise our film and you can also watch the trailer and film themselves:

• MOVIE
• TRAILER
• TRAILER (smaller file)
• POSTER
• ETWINNING WEBSITE - Twinspace
• ETWINNING WEBSITE - Project diary

School life - eTwinning movie

This is the eTwinning movie that has been made collaboratively with our eTwinning partners in Poland and Lithuania. The script was written by everyone using Google Drive.  All three schools have recorded different aspects about our schools and edited a part of it in which recordings from all schools were put together and edited.

Finally, a trailer and poster have been made to help make our film more popular.

On the right you can see the poster that will publicise our film and you can also watch the trailer and film themselves:

TRAILER

MOVIE

ETWINNING WEBSITE - project diary

ETWINNING WEBSITE - Twinspace

Passive structures

WHAT IS A PASSIVE STRUCTURE?
Active sentences usually focus on who did the action:

• My sister broke the window.

Whereas passive sentences usually focus on who or what suffered the effects of the action:

• The window was broken.

On most occassions the agent (who did the action) is not mentioned but, if relevant, it can be mentioned after the preposition by.

• The window was broken by my sister.
• Don Quixote was written by Cervantes.

HOW IS IT MADE?
Passive structures have these elements:

1. the passive subject (my sister)
2. verb be in the right tense (the same tense that would be used in the corresponding active structure)
3. the past participle of the lexical verb
4. only if necessary, the agent (by + ______)

CHANGING ACTIVE SENTENCES  INTO THE PASSIVE

1. The object of the active sentence becomes the subject in the passive structure
2. verb be in the same tense as the active verb in the active structure
3. past participle of the main verb
4. the subjet of the active sentence becames the object in the passive structure (by + agent)
• Peter builds a house. -> A house is built by Peter.
• They were cooking dinner when we arrived. -> Dinner was being cooked when we arrived.
• I will finish it tomorrow. -> It will be finished tomorrow.

PASSIVE SENTENCES WITH TWO SUBJECTS (ONLY ESO-4)
Some active sentences have both a direct and an indirect object. In English both can be the subject in a passive structure. The indirect object is introduced by to in the passive sentence.

• ACTIVE: My sister asked me a question.
• PASSIVE 1: A question was asked to me.
• PASSIVE 2: I was asked a question.

• ACTIVE. The teacher explained the exercise to the students.
• PASSIVE 1: The exercise was explained to the students.
• PASSIVE 2: The studens were explained the exercise.

Eso 3 passives from Ana Arias Castro

VIDEO

EXERCISES

• Exercise 1 (www.isabelperez.com)
• Exercise 2 (www.isabelperez.com)
• Exercise 3 (www.isabelperez.com)
• Exercises 4 (www.englisch-hilfen.de)
• Exercise 5 (www.itslj.org)
• Passives (easier exercises)
• Passives (more difficult exercises)
• Hot Potatoes ESO-3
• Hot Potatoes ESO-4

Abdication of King Juan Carlos of Spain

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Today, the 2nd of June 2014, King Juan Carlos of Spain has abdicated. The king appeared on Spanish television at 1pm, just hours after Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy announced that the monarch was to abdicate. 

HIS LIFE

Juan Carlos was born to Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona and Princes María Mercedes Bourbon-Two Sicilies in Rome in 1938, where his family had settled after the procalmation of the Second Spanish Republic.

King Juan Carlos I

In 1948 he moved to Spain to be educated.

In 1962 he married Princess Sophia of Greece and Denmark, daughter of King Paul of Greece and they had three children: Infanta Elena (1963), Infanta Cristina (1965) and  Felipe, Prince of Asturias (1968)

Juan Carlos was named Franco's personal successor and given the new title of Prince of Spain in 1969.

After Franco's death in 1975, Juan Carlos was proclaimed King of Spain and took the name of King Juan Carlos I.

King Juan Carlos quickly instituted reforms and appointed Adolfo Suárez as Prime Minister of Spain. Many reforms took place during those first years as King of Spain: PSOE and the Communist Party were legalized, the first democratic elections in 1977, the promulgation of the Constitution in 1978, etc.

King Juan Carlos's role has been decisive to build the present-day democratic Spain.

Read More:

• The King's abdication speech
• King Juan Carlos's timeline
• List of Spanish Monarchs
• The King's abdication (El País)

Song: Hey Brother

Listen to the song by AVICI and try to fill the blanks in the following activity.

Go to the ESL Video activity for this song


More songs in the Song Page of this blog.