Weekly Planning: 25th & 27th January 2022.

Weekly Planning: 25th & 27th January 2022. 

Let's start with a fun vocab game on how technology has evolved:

And it is never too late to fix some errors that we may have accumulated throughout the years:

Let's practice some reading. This time with an amazing story:

And of course, we must keep our listening skills in good shape:

Now it's time to speak! Try this conversation starters:

You can prepare as well a monologue for your EOI exams:

And our weekly dose of homework in the form of a writing: a film review.

And to finish, as usual, we can sing along:

Audio Libros - Books in English

 A great way to improve our vocabulary is by reading books.

Furthermore, when we can also listen to what we read the advantages are even more!

Hence, here you can find a great web page where to find lots of audiobooks:

Reading is always a great idea! Enjoy!

Weekly Planning: 18th & 20th January 2022.

Weekly Planning: 18th & 20th January 2022.

This week we are going to learn how to speak about people's personality.

For starters, let's watch this video about the most popular adjectives of personality:

And then, we can practice with this game:

If you want, you can also practice your listening comprehension and learn more about personality with this other video:

See this vocabulary bank about personality, as well:

And now, time to read about this topic, but this time, related to how birth order influences our personality:

And we can even practice further on, with a writing activity about it (as HOMEWORK for the weekend):

We can also take this personality test online and discuss about the results, whether they adjust to your reality or not:

Last but not least, let's watch this song about personality to practice vocab with some rhythm:

Weekly Planning: 11th & 13th January 2022.

Weekly Planning: 11th & 13th  January 2022.

Let's start with some fun about our New Year's Resolutions:

And recap about our previous year with this questions:

Since one of our NYR is to read more, let's put it into practice with this reading activity:

And let's review the use of countable and uncountable nouns:

Time to practice now some listening:

A team meeting about diversity

Here you can find the worksheet for the exercise:

And to finish, a song:

Dido "White Flag"

And for HOMEWORK: a piece of writing.

21st December: Before Christmas

21st December: Before Christmas 

To start with, a game about Christmas Traditions over the world:

You can even play "Taboo" with this one:

And maybe we cannot travel this year around Europe to visit some of the most beautiful Christmas Markets, so here you can enjoy this free tour:

And once you have visited a Christmas Market, you'd better try the Glühwein (mulled wine), a traditional german recipe that will make you feel warmer these Christmas nights...

For those who have run out of ideas for their dinner dishes, here you have a bunch:

And of course, there must be some Christmas carols:

And to finish with high spirits, a classical song from this time of the year:

"Last Christmas" Wham (1984)

And finally, for those of you who love a good book, here you are "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens:

And an illustrated graded reader for your kids:

(It takes a while to open due to its size)

December 2021 - End of Term Assessment

December 2021 - End of Term Assessment

We have finished the first term of our course and it is time to assess what we have learnt so far.

Here you can find the tests on the different skills to be assessed:

LISTENING:

READING:

WRITING & MEDIATION:

SPEAKING (MONOLOGUES):

SPEAKING (DIALOGUES):

Weekly Planning: 9th December 2021

Weekly Planning: 9th December 2021

To start with, a game about occupations:

And we can even practice our First Conditional:

Let's continue with some Reading+Listening:

<< Click on the dog to listen >>

Next stop, practicing our mediation skills:

And we can also discuss in class about this current and controversial topic, after watching this TedTalk video:

Discuss with your peers what you have seen on the video. 

And to finish, a song:

"Eye of the tiger" (1982)