HALLOWEEN (2)

Dear ESO students,
Some more links to spooky Halloween activities.
1) British Council Halloween
http://www.britishcouncil.org/kids-topics-halloween.htm
2) Halloween Vocabulary
http://www.isabelperez.com/halloween1.htm
3) History of Halloween Webquest
http://stbern.com/Classroom%20Pages/computer/Halloween%20Web%20Quest/scary_web_quest.htm
Well if you find any more interesting activities about Halloween, please let me know
Happy Halloween

HALLOWEEN

Dear ESO students,
It's Halloween time. Maybe you'd like to have a look at these videos and activities which are so scary and full of Halloween creatures.
1) This is Halloween
2) Thriller (Michael Jackson)
3) Halloween party
http://www.quia.com/rr/249081.html
4) History of Halloween
http://www.history.com/minisites/halloween/
5) Halloween facts
http://www.wsl.edu.pl/~azetka/halloween.htm
6) Halloween riddles and hangman
http://www.quia.com/hm/335479.html
Happy Halloween

State and action verbs (2n ESO)

Dear ESO students,
As we are dealing with the progressive form of verbs with 2n ESO students, here you'll find some more information about the difference between state and action verbs:
http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/410/grammar/stat.htm
http://www.eclecticenglish.com/grammar/PresentContinuous1H.html
I think they can help you understand the difference.
See you soon

Get Stupid (Madonna)

Dear ESO students,
Pol (2n A) wanted me to post this video by Madonna. Here you are. I think it's a cool video and the words are also interesting. Thanks a lot, Pol.
This is the link: http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=um3Id7riTWM
See you soon.

Adverbs of Frequency (2n ESO)

Dear students,
Once more THANKS because you're helping me a lot with the blog.
Now, some links to adverbs of frequency activities (2n ESO)
http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/410/grammar/adverb1.htm
http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/grammar/archive/frequency_adverbs01.html
http://www.saberingles.com.ar/lists/adverbsfrequency.html
http://www.autoenglish.org/gr.frequ.i.htm
Thanks, Judit L., Sheherezade and Mariona (2n B)
See you :)

The village with the longest name...

Dear ESO students,

Miquel (2n ESO A) has sent me the name of the village with the longest name in the world. It's in Wales and it's got 58 letters!!!! Amazing, isn't it?

(In Welsh)

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

(And in English)

"St Mary's church in the hollow of the white hazel near to the rapid whirlpool of Llantysilio of the red cave"

Thanks, Miquel.

More About Idioms

Dear ESO students,
3r ESO students know that we're working on Animal Idioms in English. Miquel (3r B) has linked me to this amazing website about.....ANIMAL IDIOMS!!!!!
http://www.doghause.com/idioms.asp
Thanks a lot, Miquel

Help Wanted (2)

Dear ESO students,
Adrià (2n A) has just sent me this link to a good website for students of English. I think you can find it quite useful.
http://www.saberingles.com.ar/exercises/index.html
And Nikol (2n B) sent another link as well.
http://www.english-the-easy-way.com/
Sandra (2n B) also sent this link to these nice games and activities about singular and plural nouns
http://www.quia.com/jg/67715.html
Thanks a lot, Adrià, Nikol and Sandra