Hallelujah

Listen to this song and answer these questions:


Who sings the song?
What do you know about the singer?
Who wrote the lyrics of the song?
What do you know about him?
What is the song about?
How many verbal tenses are there in this song?
Write the Infinitive, Past Simple, Past Participle and Meaning of all the irregular verbs that appear in the song.

Thanksgiving

What do you know about Thanksgiving?

Where is Thanksgiving celebrated?

When do these people celebrate this festivity? Why?

What do they eat at Thanksgiving?


Watch these videos and answer the questions

History of Thanksgiving

Gerunds and Infinitives

Information on Gerunds and Infinitives

Verbs followed by Gerunds

Verbs followed by Infinitives

Gerunds and Infinitives with exercises

Why is recycling important?

Nowadays people are more aware of the importance of recycling in order to save the environment. 

Useful Vocabulary on Environment

Why is our Environment important?


QUESTIONS:

- What things can be recycled?
- Do you recycle?
- What do you do to protect the environment?
- How many types of alternative energy do you know?

Interesting Recycling Facts.


ACTIVITIES:

1. What else can we do with our rubbish?          Answers
   
2. Paper recycling                Answers

Bram Stoker

Bram Stoker was born on November 8th in Dublin 165 years ago and he died in 1912. Although this Irish writer is best known for his novel Dracula, he also wrote other novels, short stories and poetry.

You can find more information about him here .

The true story of Dracula

- Who was the real Count Dracula?
- When and were was he born?
- What is the meaning of the word "Dracula"?

Halloween History

Tomorrow, some people around the world celebrate Halloween, but do you know the origin of this festivity?

Read the information on Halloween History.   Now answer these questions:

1. When is Halloween celebrated?
2. Who were the first people who celebrated this festivity?
3. Who did they want to honour and why?
4. Who brought Halloween to USA?
5. What is the difference between Halloween and All Saint's Day?
6. What are the main elements of Halloween?

 Now watch some videos on Halloween here.

Which of the two stories did you like most? Why?

What's this song about?

Leave your comments on this entry and you'll get extra marks.

Halloween Recipes

If you want to prepare some scary cookies or cakes for Halloween, this link will help you:

Halloween Recipes

At the Restaurant

The following videos will help you prepare your dialogue at the restaurant:

Questions:

1. What does the man order to eat?

2. What does he have for drink?

3. How much does he pay?

Some ideas to use in your dialogue:

Vocabulary on Vegetables and their pronunciation

Fruit and Nuts, pronunciations

Herman Melville

The most important novel by Herman Melville, Moby Dick, was published on October 18, 161 years ago.

If you want to know more about this American author and read this novel online, click here.

Food and Nutrition

Watch this video about Food in Britain. Then answer these questions:

1. What do British people have for breakfast?
2. What time do they have lunch?
3. What is the main meal?
4. What traditional food does the video mention?
5. What is a vegetarian?
6. Write the name of the different kinds of food and drinks that appear in the video.





Food Pyramids and Plates: What Should you really eat?

- What kind of food should you eat to have a healthy diet?
- What is your favourite food?
- What kind of meat should you eat?
- How often should you eat fruit and vegetables?

The Months Poem

Learn the months in English by listening to this poem

Now answer these questions:

- What is the poet's name?
- What do you know about the poet?
- Write the flowers that appear in the poem and their translation into Spanish.


To know more about the poet, click here

Present Simple vs Present Continuous

Do you remember the differences between Present Simple and Present Continuous?  Watch this video to learn more about these verbal tenses:

Introducing people in English

There are different ways of introducing people in English. Watch this video and learn some of them

Introductions and Greetings

Introducing Oneself and Others

Now prepare your dialogue to introduce yourself and others in English.

Formal and Informal Emails

It is not the same to write a formal or an informal email. You can find some information about their differences here.

Writing Emails and Letters

Informal Language vs Formal Language

Formal and Informal Language in Emails 

Example of a formal email 

Example of an informal email




Now do these activities:

- What is the main difference between formal and informal emails?
- How do you start a formal email?
- How do you finish an informal email?
- What can't you use in a formal email?

Listen to this song  and answer these questions:

Who sings the song?
What do you know about the singer?
What is the song about?
Does the singer use formal or informal language?

Lyrics of the song

Types of Intelligence

If you want to know more about the way we learn and about your type of intelligence, click here

Types of Intelligence

Multiple Intelligence Types

Howard Gardner's Seven Types of Intelligence

Phrasal Verbs in Songs

Phrasal Verbs Structure

Introduction to Phrasal Verbs:

Phrasal Verbs in songs Group 1

Phrasal verbs in context

Phrasal Verbs

If you want to know more about phrasal verbs, click here

Exercises on Phrasal Verbs

More exercises, explanation and list of Phrasal Verbs

Three-part Phrasal Verbs

Watch this video on Phrasal Verbs

Britain, Great Britain or UK

Are Britain,  Great Britain and UK the same?

Find the information here and answer these questions:

- How many countries are there in Great Britain?
- Where is Edinburgh?
- What is the capital of Wales?
- Where is Dublin?
- What is Belfast?
- Which countries form the UK?

European Day of Languages

The European Day of Languages is tomorrow, September 26. If you want to find out more about the importance of languages in the world and participate in different games, click here

School Year 2012-2013

Welcome to a new school year at IES Carlos Haya. This is a blog to learn English with fun. I hope you enjoy learning languages as I do.

Time to say goodbye

As you already know, next year I won't be at IES Heliche, I will be teaching at IES Carlos Haya in Seville. It's been a real pleasure to teach you English, I had a great time with you, although I sometimes got angry with you when you didn't speak English as you should. I've learnt a lot from you and I'd like to thank you for everything.

Have a wonderful summer holidays, good luck everybody and keep learning!

Some pictures from the last day of school, June 22, 2012.

Heliche Times 2012

Our school newspaper was supposed to be in English, French and Spanish, but after having waited for so long for articles in these languages, I've decided to publish it only in English with the news  some of you sent me. Thank you for all your participation.

This is the link for the newspaper:

Heliche Times 2012

Taylor's Farewell Party

Last 31st May we had Taylor's farewell party as it was her last day at our school before the holidays. Thank you very much for your help and good luck next year.

The Theatre

Vocabulary on theatre

Words, definition and pronunciation


Basic vocabulary

What is a play?

There are four basic genres in drama: comedy, tragedy, melodrama and tragicomedy. To know the differences of each type of genre, click here.

The Old Globe Theatre History. In this link you can find information about Shakespeare's biography, poems, plays

Talk about the Press and Interview

Luis Márquez, the TV journalist and reporter from 75 Minutes, came to our school to talk about the Press and different mass media. He was also interviewed by the students of the bilingual class 2 ESO-B.


- Did you like the talk?
- What have you learnt about being a journalist?
- What is the most important thing when you write some news?

Structure of a news article

What is the main structure of a newspaper article?

What is the structure of a newspaper?

As you are going to write your own classroom newspaper, click on this link and find more information about it.

Parts of a Newspaper

Publicity in the Press

- What is an advertisement?
- Where can you see adverts?
- What are they used for?
- Who is the target audience of adverts?

To find information for these answers , click here


Now watch this video about e-publicity and write a summary of the most important points.

Types of Magazine Articles

Today we looked at different types of magazine articles. Look at them here:

http://theadventurouswriter.com/blogwriting/types-of-feature-articles-to-write-for-magazines/

Types of Newspaper Articles

• A local news article focuses on what's going on in your neighbourhood. An example of a local news story would be an article on a city council meeting.
  
  

• A national news article focuses on what's happening in the country. An example of a national news article would be an article on the Canadian government passing a new bill.
  
  

• An international news article focuses on news that's happening outside the country. A story on an influenza outbreak in China would be considered an international news story.
  
  

• A feature article is an article that is about "softer" news. A feature may be a profile of a person who does a lot of volunteer work in the community or a movie preview. Feature articles are not considered news stories.
  

• An editorial is an article that contains the writer's opinion. Editorials are usually run all together on a specific page of the paper and focus on current events. Editorials are not considered news stories.
  
  

• A column is an article written by the same person on a regular basis. A columnist (the writer of the column) writes about subjects of interest to him/her, current events or community happenings. Columns are not considered news stories.

There are certain aspects that characterize a newspaper article. These distinguishing features need to be considered before writing about a topic in order to have a well structured article.

The Press

This week we're going to talk about the Press and mass media in general. Before starting with this topic, check that you know the meaning of these words:

- Advertisement
- Blog
- Broadcast
- Column
- Columnist
- Editorial
- Journalism
- Journalist
- Magazine
- Mass media
- News
- Newspaper
- Press
- Propaganda
- Tabloid
- Television
- Yellow journalism

You can find the information here

Vocabulary on Mass Media

Exercises on the Press and newspapers

Exercise on Newspaper

Crossword exercise on mass media vocabulary

Cupid

With this song you can practise different structures and vocabulary. After listening to the song, do the exercise. Then answer these questions:

- Which words rhyme in this song?
- What is the song about?
- Who sings the song?
- What do you know about the singer?
- How many verbal tenses are there in the song?
- Write an example of each?
- Do you like the song? Why?

Find information about the singer here

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1561881/bio

http://www.people.com/people/amy_winehouse/biography/0,,20163926,00.html

Shel Silverstein

Today we talked about Shel Silverstein. He is an American poet, musician, illustrator and author of children's books. He began writing poetry at the age of 12.

Here you can see some of his poetry and illustrations:
http://www.squidoo.com/my-favorite-shel-silverstein-poems

Here you can do some activities with his poetry:
http://www.etni.org.il/literature/sokel.html
http://www.shelsilverstein.com/pdf/EveryThingOnItActivities.pdf

His website also has lots of his works and other activities:
http://shelsilverstein.com/indexSite.html

Don't Worry, Be happy

In this link you can listen to this famous song, improve your pronunciation, your listening skills and revise vocabulary. Then answer these questions:

Who sings this song?
What do you know about the singer?

When and where was he born?
When was this song released?
What is the message of the song?

What do you think about the song?

To find out information about the singer, click here

Comparatives and Superlatives Game

A fun game to practice Comparatives and Superlatives while playing basketball:

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Basic Sentence Structure

Types of Sentences

How many types of sentences do you know?
Do you need more explanation about the different types of sentences? Watch this video

Sentence Structure

Simple, Compound and Complex Sentences

Can you write an example of each sentence?

Do you need more practice? Click here

Parts of Speech

A useful and easy video to revise the parts of speech.  Can you remember how many parts of speech are there?

What's the name of the character?
What's his problem?
How does he feel at the beginning of the story?
What  happens at the end?

Now listen to this song 

Interactive Parts of Speech Quiz 

Parts of Speech Photostory

Pronouns and Determiners

An interesting link to practice Pronouns and Determiners.

Object Pronouns Pronunciation and examples

Now do some exercises here

Personal Pronouns: Subject and Object. Grammar revision and exercises

Adjectives and Pronouns

Personal Pronouns song

The Fantastic Flying Books

The Fantastic Flying Books. Watch this short video about the importance of books in our lives.

What is the story about? Write a short summary of the story. Use different verbal tenses, adjectives of feelings and adverbs.

Love Poems

These are some of the poems you've written and read in the School Library today for St Valentine's Day:

Love songs

Fairytale


Because you loved me

I will always love you


Because of you



Who sings the songs?
What do you know about the singers? Ifyou don't know anything about them, Look for information in the web.
What is the song about?
How many verbal tenses are there in the songs?
Do you like these songs? Why?

Valentine's Day

Origins of Valentine's Day:

http://sunniebunniezz.com/holiday/valenday.htm

Valentine's Day Poetry:
http://sunniebunniezz.com/holiday/valenday.htm

School and Classroom Rules

Some rules you must respect to learn more:

More Irregular Verb Practice!

Here are some more videos (Max the Cat):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ov2v50af7bo&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWSESCNvf4k&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18NlPMAiWXQ&feature=related


And a game!
http://www.quia.com/cb/8111.html

Someone like you

Subingles.com - Canciones Subtituladas de En - Ejercicios - Ejercicio Cancion 763 - Aprender Ingles gratis con Canciones

- Listen to the song and fill in the gaps with the right words

- Who is the singer?
- What do you know about this person?
- What is the song about?
- Do you like the song?
- How many verbs are there in Past Simple?
- Write the Infinitive and the Meaning of each verb.

Regular Verbs

To practice regular verbs pronunciation, watch this video.

Personal Pronouns

To correct some mistakes and revise Personal Pronouns: Subject and Object, watch this video. You can also improve your pronunciation.


Now do these exercises here


More exercises on Pronouns here

Irregular Verbs

To revise the pronunciation and learn the Irregular Verbs, watch this video.

The Current State of Women in Developing Countries

Today we watched a video on the current state of women.

Here is a link to the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhCWumfOhA0


Some of your summaries:

Writing Poems

After reading the poem Autumn Song,by Margaret Sangster, and learning about Rhyme and Rhythm, here are some of the poems you wrote: