Origins of Halloween

If you want to know more about Halloween, watch the following video:

Vocabulary Exercises

Online Exercises, Beginners and Advanced


Test

Families and Homes

Some of the work you have done on Families and Homes:

  

EXERCISES: Elementary - Intermediate

Family Exercises

Homes Exercises 

Houses and Furniture Exercises

School Dialogues

School Dialogues:

EXERCISES

Types of Families

How many types of families do you know?

Types of Families  

EXERCISES:     EASY

Subject and Object Questions

Explanation:

Exercise 1, Exercise 2, Exercise 3, Exercise 4,

Climate Change and Global Warming

Learn the basic vocabulary to talk about Climate Change and Global Warming. Then click on the following articles to find out more about this issue and write your opinion about it.

Vocabulary and Exercises

Environmental issues (Vocabulary, Reading, Listening, Speaking)

The Effects of Climate Change 

What is Climate Change? 

Youth Climate Strike 


Who is Greta Thunberg? What can we do to stop Climate Change?

Global Warming and Climate change

Can we solve global warming?

Active and Passive Voice

Active and Passive Voice Exercises


Exercise           Impersonal Passive   

Carl Sagan - Un punto azul pálido (versión original subtitulada)

Online Task

Writing an Online Brochure

In the following link, you can find a model to write your online task:

Seville: important places


You can also watch this video:

English Vocabulary - Emotions and Adjectives with ed vs ing endings

Verb Tenses Exercises

You have already learnt the English tenses, but if you still have some problems and doubts, have a look at this link:

English Tenses, Grammar Explanations

Present simple / Present Continuous (Explanation and exercises)  Exercise 1, 2, 3(A1-B2)


Past Tense

Irregular Verbs Table

Past Simple: Explanation and exercises, 1

Past Simple / Past Continuous  Exercise 1, 2 (A2-B2) 

Present Perfect Simple and Continuous  Exercise 1 (A2-B2),  2, 3

Past Perfect (Simple and Continuous) Exercise 1 (A2-B2)


Future   Exercise 1 (A1-B2),  2,  3, 4, 5


Game on tenses 

Thoughts on Catalonia

Click in the following link and read the article about Catalonia. Then make a comment on this topic:.


https://casualnotebook.wordpress.com/2017/10/01/thoughts-on-catalonia/

Past Simple Tense

How to describe people

To describe people you have to talk about physical appearance and about people's character.

Clik on: Describing people

- Using descriptive words

- Describing Physical appearance

- Describing personality - Elementary

Nobel Prize Winners

We have talked about the Nobel Prize Winners and important people in History. To know more about some of these men and women, watch these videos, listen and read about their lives and achievements.

Alfred Nobel  

Albert Einstein

Marie Curie

Florence Nightingale

Macbeth

       


 Historical  Facts about Macbeth 


A study guide of Macbeth

Watch the videos about the play: Summary with key

ACT III        ACT IV      ACT V 

ANIMATED TALES

BRIEF SUMMARY

Othello

After reading and watching this play, you can answer some questions about it:

Themes:


Othello, The Moor of Venice


Quiz 1   Quiz 2

Shakespeare and Cervantes

Shakespeare and Cervantes. This term we are going to work on a project about these famous writers, but what do you know about them? Click on the links and watch the videos to find out the answers to these questions:



1. Who was Shakespeare?
2. Where was he born and died?
3. What are the main differences and similarities between Shakespeare and Cervantes?
4. How many works did they write? Name some of the works they wrote.
5. Why are they still famous nowadays?


Shakespeare's Works
Shakespeare vs Cervantes

Shakespeare's life and time     

Is it fair for Shakespeare to overshadow Cervantes? 

Nine reasons why Cervantes is better than Shakespeare 

Shakespeare's Theater


Beliefs and superstitions 

Elizabethan England 


The Globe:

  

Shakespeare's music and dance

   

Important facts about Shakespeare's life and time

Plays we are going to read:

The Tempest

Midsummer Nights's Dream

Romeo and Juliet

The Tragedy of Richard III

Macbeth

Othello

Eckhart Tolle - Naturaleza/Nature

Eckhart Tolle - Information


From his book Stillness Speaks:






     

How to talk about fashion in English? Free Spoken English and Vocabulary...

A brief history of clothing

VOCABULARY:

Words related to the fashion industry

Words used to describe clothes

General words for clothing