Grammar snacks

Dear students,
The British Council offers everyone who wants to learn English some amazing resources, for example these Grammar Snacks, which show some grammar used in a natural way. Really useful!!!

See you...

This World BBC 2012 The Great Spanish Crash subtitulado

Relative pronouns

Dear students,
Some useful activities to use in class or at home.
1. Relative 1
2. Who or which?
3. Relative 2

See you in class

Subject vs object pronouns

Dear students,
I think it's a good idea if you check what you know about subject and object pronouns.
Try these activities in order (check your answers and write down your score,  any questions you may have, etc.)
Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3
Exercise 4
Exercise 5
Exercise 6
Exercise 7
Good luck and remember: Practice makes perfect!!!
See you in class.

From now on (Supertramp)

This one is for you, Miquel! One of your favourite bands...Wherever you are...
See you around.

Present simple or continuous?

Dear students,

Here you'll find some very interesting and useful activities to do in class to revise the present simple and continuous.
See you around...

History makers

Hello everyone,
These are some of the projects that our 1st ESO students produced about history makers. You've done a great job...
1. Núria B. (1r B) : Michael Jackson
2. Eva R. (1r B): Elvis Presley
3. Carla V. (1r B): Mozart
4. Carlos R. (1r B): Shakespeare
5. Jordi R. (1r B): Christopher Columbus
6. Anna C. (1r B): Marilyn Monroe
7. Carla P. (1r B): Leonardo da Vinci
8. Blanca V. (1r A): Thomas Edison
9. Adriana G. (1r B): Steve Jobs
10. Razvan Alin F. (1r B): Sabin Balasa

View more documents from Jose M. Truco

11. Marina S. (1r B): Freddie Mercury

View more documents from Jose M. Truco

12. Roger M. (1r B): Thomas Edison

View more documents from Jose M. Truco

Well done!!! Have a good summer!!

Conditional sentences

Dear students,
This is for the ones who are working on conditional sentences. If you practise, you'll improve.
1. First conditional I
2. First conditional II
3. First conditional III
See you around.

The Latest Craze

Dear students,
Our 3r ESO students have created some very nice blogs about their latest crazes. There are many different topics (apart from FASHION!!!!) and designs. Well done everyone!!

 Sara M., Thais and Mika (3r A) -  FF - Fashion and Films / Fashion and Films (2)
Sergi F. (3r B.) - Parkour
Pau and Dani (3r B) - The Walking Dead 
Paula and Núria G. (3r B) - Pets for Everybody
Sònia R. and Sabrina (3r B) - Fashion
Roger T. (3r B) - Music Today
Joan (3r A) - Mixed Arts
Ferran and Roger C. (3r A) - The Golden Ball
Clàudia and Júlia V. (3r A) - Celebrities and Fashion
Jordi (3r A) - Apple World 
Adrià and Manel (3r A) - Lestohack (!!!!)
Lluís (3r A) - Jumpstyle
Marc and Angela (3r A) - Music is my life 
Marcos (3r B) - Italian Food
Maria and Mònica (3r A) - About Fashion
Sara P. and Núria L. (3r B) - Crazy about Fashion
Roger V. (3r B) - Kenichi
Lorena (3r A) - Animals and Nature
Cristina and Montserrat (3r B) - Women
Andrea and Sònia N. (3r B) - Dresses

See you around...

British vs American English

Dear students,
Some videos related to British and American English and their different accents and pronunciation.
1. American Accent training
2. British English vs American English

Grammar videos

Dear students,

Here is a video about the past continuous:

And another video, this time about the present continuous:

CU....

Present perfect 3r ESO (II)

Dear students,
Here you are some of your presentations on the topic we have been working on. Well done!!
1.Júlia and Clàudia (3r a)

2. Sara, Núria l. i Andrea (3r b)

3. Marcos (3r B):

4.Roger and Marc (3r B)

See you around.

Present Perfect...(3r ESO)

Dear students,
Some short "movies" about the wonderful world of the "present perfect".
1. Present perfect for experience
2. Present perfect with "yet" and "already"
3. Present perfect vs past simple (1)
4. Present perfect or past simple (2)
4. Present perfect in songs
And some good sites where you can learn more about the "present perfect"
http://www.isabelperez.com/Already%20Yet%20Still.htm (already, yet, still)

http://www.aulafacil.com/Ingejerc/Lecciones/Lecc20.htm

http://www.eclecticenglish.com/grammar/PresentPerfect1D.html

http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/410/grammar/ppvpast.htm (Present perfect vs past simple)

http://personales.ya.com/mjandres/archivos/GRAMMAR4&5.PDF (a little bit of everything)

Thanks a lot for your contribution.

See you around

Past simple

Dear students,
Here you are some useful links if you want to learn more about the past simple:
Pau (2n A) :http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/grammar/simple_past_use.htm
Ramon (2n A): http://www.englishclub.com/vocabulary/irregular-verbs.htm
Albert A. (2n A): http://www.englishexercises.org/buscador/buscar.asp?nivel=any&age=0&tipo=any&contents=past+simple
Juliette (2n B):
http://www.englishbee.net/lessons/inter_exer/s_past/video/simple_past_time_expressions.html
Keep working.
See you around.

Object pronouns (Unit 4)

Dear students,
Some extra activities related to object pronouns:

http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=1965
http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/pronouns/personal_pronouns3.htm
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/pronouns/exercises?02
http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=999

See you in class.

Countable and uncountable nouns

Dear students,
Take a look at these links related to the "exciting" topic of countable and uncountable nouns:
Àngels (2r B):
http://www.fortunecity.com/bally/durrus/153/gramch16.html
Antònia (2n A) and Silvia (2n B):
http://www.englishclub.com/grammar/nouns-un-countable.htm (really useful)
See you around.

Quantifiers

Hello everyone,
These are some useful links related to quantifiers sent by some students in 3r ESO. Thanks everyone.
Roger T. (3r B) - http://www.ompersonal.com.ar/INTERMEDIATE/unit3/page4.htm
Marc B.  and Marcos (3r B) - http://www.edufind.com/english/grammar/Determiners7b.cfm
Marc Ba. (3r B) - http://www.wordreference.com/es/translation.asp?tranword=a%20few
Gerard (3r B) - http://www.usingenglish.com/forum/ask-teacher/14408-when-do-we-use-few-few-little-little.html
Gerard and Sònia (3r B) http://www.better-english.com/grammar/few.htm (really useful and practical - we can try this one in class;)
Mireia (3r B) - http://www.english-zone.com/teach/few.html
Jordi, Joan and Adrià (3r A) -
http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/english-grammar/determiners-and-quantifiers/quantifiers

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/flatmates/episode19/languagepoint.shtml
http://www.learn4good.com/languages/evrd_grammar/quantifier.htm

http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/vocabulary/much-many
http://my.opera.com/StManor/blog/how-much-how-many-contables-e-incon
http://www.better-english.com/easier/howmuch.htm
http://www.clafoti.com/imagenes10/how_much_many.htm
http://www.mailxmail.com/curso-ingles-facil-nivel-5/much-many-litle-few
http://www.aulafacil.com/Ingejerc/Lecciones/Lecc13.htm

See you around.

Prepositions of place (2n ESO)

Dear students,
Enric and Killian (2n B) found this page where you can learn more about prepositions of place. Take a look  at Prepositions of place. And if you find other interesting pages or activities on this topic, please let me know. Thanks a lot.
See you around.

Types of houses

Dear students,
We've been dealing with different types of houses and here you'll find the most frequent ones. Do you remember them?

Finally, take a look at Houses in England and you'll find out more things about this topic
By the way, let's see if you know the meaning of this saying: "An Englishman's home is his castle".

Grammar movies

Dear students, 

Grammar movies is a youtube channel where you can find lots of videos related to different grammar topics. I think it's really interesting and useful.

See you around.

Idioms

Dear students,

Albert (3r B) sends this link if you want to know more about idioms in English.

http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/idioms/

Thanks, Albert. See you soon.

Poor dog!!!

What would animals say if they could talk? Well so take a look at this video! Because the poor dog does talk:))

See you around

Conditionals

Dear students,

Mariona (4t B) sent me these links with some interesting activities on "Conditionals". Take a look and practise.

Conditionals 1

Conditionals 2

Conditionals 3

Thanks a lot, Mariona. I think they're really useful.

See you in class.

4t ESO - Indefinite pronouns

Dear students,

These are some activities that can help you practise some of the topics for the 2nd term:

1) Indefinite pronouns I

2) Indefinite pronouns II

3) Reflexive - reciprocal pronouns I

4) Reflexive - reciprocal pronouns II

5) Reflexive -reciprocal pronouns III

6) Reflexive - reciprocal pronouns IV

7) Relative pronouns I

8) Relative pronouns II

Hope they're useful

See you around

New Words

Dear students,

I was just surfing the net (working, of course:) and I came across a cool section of the Cambridge Dictionaries Online about New Words in English.

Some examples: Do you have a tweetheart? Can you guess what a lappy is? In your opinion, who is totally peng?

Let's see if you can find out what these words mean. Don't you think it's abs fun!!

See you around.

English Language Week 2011 (3)

Dear students,

Here you are some more glogs and other stuff you've done about MUSIC.

Sheherezade (4t B) - The Beach Boys

The Beach Boys on Prezi

Sandra (4t B) - Aretha Franklin

View more presentations from Jose M. Truco.

Sergi (4t B) -Music in the 60s

View more presentations from Jose M. Truco.

Robert (4t B) - The Yardbirds

View more presentations from Jose M. Truco.

Andrea (2n A) - Bruce Springsteen

Sonia (2n A) - The Cure

Sabrina (2n A) - Metallica

Alba (2n A) - Prince

Lluís (2n A) - Europe

Rosa (2n A) - The Police

Joan (2n A) - Madness

Júlia (2n A) - Bruce Springsteen

Ariadna (2n A)- Queen

Clàudia (2n A) - Duran Duran

Adrià (2n A)- Bon Jovi

Pau (2n B) - Scorpions

Mònica (2n A) - Duran Duran

Ana (2n B) - Madonna

Roger V. (2n B) - Bon Jovi

Mireia (2n B) - Michael Jackson

Thais (2n A) - Prince

Roger T. (2n B) - Scorpions

Maria (2n B) - The Clash!!!

Angela (2n B) - Bon Jovi

Gerard (2n B) - Kiss (oh yeah!!!)

Marc (2n B) - Michael Jackson

Jordi (2n B) - Queen

Manel (2n B) - Michael Jackson

Once more you have done a great job!!!

KEEP ON ROCKIN'!!!

Songs of the 60s

60's Music History

English Language Week 2011 (2)

Dear students,

Here you'lll find the links to some "glogs" created by our ESO 2 students. They're way cool and I'm pretty sure you'll become familiar with some popular names from the 80's.

Mireia (2n A) - Bruce Springsteen

Victor (2n A) - Metallica

Sara (2n A) - Cindy Lauper

Núria (2n B)- Michael Jackson (I)

Sara (2n B) - More music of the Eighties

Punk rock of the Eighties

Dani (2n A) - Michael Jackson (II)

(To be continued)

See you around

English Language Week 2011

Dear students,

So here we are again with our "English Language Week". I think it's a good way to deal with English from a different point of view and it's great fun too.

Besides, I'm so glad that this year's topic is MUSIC and I'm pretty sure we'll have a good time with the best songs and bands of the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s.

You all know that this blog means to be a tool for you to take part in all the activities regarding the English Language Week so I'm looking forward to receiving loads of glogs, videos, links, pictures and whatever you may find interesting and worth sharing with your classmates.

To start with, take a look at these videos:

Wordle

Dear students,

A new tool that helps you clarify and organise ideas for your presentations.

It's called Wordle and this is an example:

Hope you like it.

An account of a decade

Dear students,

Here we are again. Once more you've done an excellent job with your presentations on different decades ( the 60s, 70s, 80s, etc.)

I think it's a great way to travel back in time and learn a few things about "the good old days".

See you around.

The Noughties by Judit (4t B)

View more presentations from Jose M. Truco.

The 80s by Maria (4t B)

View more presentations from Jose M. Truco.

The eighties by Sheherezade (4t B) on Prezi

And also some excellent GLOGS:

Ares F. (4t B): Lost in the Sixties

Irene C. (4t B): Living in the 70s

Sofia S. (4t B): The Sixties

Juan Pedro (4t A): The Noughties

Sandra (4t A): Fashion in the sixties

Pol dlC (4t A): The Eighties

Mariona (4t A): The Seventies

Well done:))

See you around

I used to...

http://www.englishgrammarsecrets.com/usedto/menu.php

Lyrics training

Dear students,

I hope you're having a great summer. I know you'll be doing many interesting and funny things but if you have some time and you want to improve your English in a different way, Lyrics Training is an easy-to-use website to practise your English by listening to music and writing lyrics.

I think it's cool and really useful. Why don't you try it?

See you around.

Voki

Dear students,

I wanted to show you a new tool which is called VOKI. You can create your avatar and you can customize it, record messages (in English, of course), etc.

This is my avatar (you can even make it younger, attractive..:)

I think it can be interesting if you want to practise your English!

See you around

LOVE IS IN THE AIR!!!

Dear students,

This is the original version of "Love is in the air", the song that we're going to use next week:)). We might use a different, more "disco" version, but in the meantime you take a look at the video and so you can become familiar with the rhythm and the words:

These are the lyrics by the way(quite easy actually...):

Love is in the air
Everywhere I look around
Love is in the air
Every sight and every sound

And I don't know if I'm being foolish
Don't know if I'm being wise
But it's something that I must believe in
And it's there when I look in your eyes

Love is in the air
In the whisper of the trees
Love is in the air
In the thunder of the sea

And I don't know if I'm just dreaming
Don't know if I feel sane
But it's something that I must believe in
And it's there when you call out my name

(Chorus)
Love is in the air
Love is in the air
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh

Love is in the air
In the rising of the sun
Love is in the air
When the day is nearly done

And I don't know if you're an illusion
Don't know if I see it true
But you're something that I must believe in
And you're there when I reach out for you

Love is in the air
Every sight and every sound
And I don't know if I'm being foolish
Don't know if I'm being wise

But it's something that I must believe in
And it's there when I look in your eyes

(Repeat Chorus 4X)

Well, get ready for next week!!!

See you around

Songs!!!

Dear students,

I know it's been a long time since the last post but, as you know, we've all been pretty busy. Some students keep sending songs that we might use in class one of these days.

Here they are:

The Pretty Reckless (never heard of them): Make me wanna die. (Nikol - 3r B)

Timbaland ft. Katy Perry: If we ever meet again (Ares - 3r B)

Mitchell Musso: The Three R's (weird but nice song about recycling - Cristian - 2n A)

Thanks everyone. CU around!!

VOCAROO

Dear students,

Vocaroo is a voice recording service so I thought it would be great if you used it to practise speaking skills. You just need to sign in, a microphone and you can start...

By the way, this is my first voice message!!! (click PLAY)

See you around

Modal verbs (3r ESO)

Hi there!

Our 3r ESO students are working on Modal Verbs and I asked them to look for information and activities related to the topic on the Net. This is what they found:

Nikol (3r B): The Grammar Aquarium - Modal Verbs

Thanks everyone and see you around

The latest craze (2)

Dear students,

This is the second post on your latest crazes. Here you'll find more links to some other blogs created by our 3r ESO students.

Jordi T. (3r B) - Football

Marta M. (3r A) - Beyoncé

Jordi R. (3r A) - Barça

Mariona (3r A) - Cameron Diaz

Anna (3r A) - Agata Ruiz de la Prada

Joel and Miquel (3r A) - Basketball

Núria and Clàudia (3r A) - Jeans

Roger (3r A) - Champions League

Jaume, Xavier M. and Gerard B. (3r A) - BMX

Gerard R. and Oscar (3r A) - World of Warcraft

Mariona (3r B) - Extreme Makeover

Adrià (3r A)- Snow

Alejandro (3r A) - Kickboxing

Sergi (3r B) - Freeride

Ariadna (3r A) - Types of music

That's all for now. See you around

The latest craze!!!!

Dear students,

Here we are again with your great blogs on your latest crazes. I just wanted to say that you've done an excellent job. Congratulations!!! By the way, I think it could be a good idea to take a look at your classmates' blogs and become a follower of all of them. We have blogs on many different topics, such as music, fashion, snowboarding, hip-hop, drums, the 60s, etc...

Here's the whole list of blogs:

Ares: Crazy about fashion

Nikol: Evanescence

Xavier D.-T.: Drums

Sofia: Music debate

Sergi M (3r A): Snowboarding

Sandra: La Oreja deVan Gogh

Marta and Sandra: The Sixties

Pol d.l.C.: Lady Gaga

David: Warhammer

Aitor: HipHop

Irene: Tennis

Well, that's all for now. It's worth taking a look at these great projects!

See you around

English Central

Dear students,

First of all, welcome back after Christmas (I hope you all had a wonderful holiday).

Back to work and I've heard of this amazing website - English Central - where you can practise your oral expression through videos of different levels. The only thing is that you need a microphone in order to record your short speeches. Take a look because I think it's quite interesting.

See you around.

And the winner is...Penélope Cruz

Dear students,

These are the results of the survey "Who speaks English better":

1. Penelópe Cruz : 40 votes (57%)

2. Antonio Banderas: 20 votes (28%)

3. Paz Vega: 5 votes (7%)

4. Pedro Almodóvar: 5 votes (7%)

* Votes: 70 (thanks a lot to the people who voted)

See you around.

Who speaks English better?

Dear students,

Our second survey has to do with some very famous Spanish film stars and their English. So, who do you think speaks English better? I know that maybe it's not fair because Antonio Banderas and Penélope Cruz live or have lived in the US for some time but... well, it's just a survey.

So, take a look at the videos and then vote for the film star who, in your opinion, speaks English better.

Antonio Banderas

Penélope Cruz

Paz Vega

Pedro Almodóvar

See you around

SURVEY RESULTS!!

Dear students,

These are the results of our 1st blog survey on your favourite music videos:

a) Outta my head - Lucas Grabeel: 3 votes (7%)

b) Automatic - Tokio Hotel: 11 votes (26%)

c) Wake me up when September ends - Green Day: 19 votes (46%)

d) None of them: 8 votes (19%)

And the winner of our 1st survey is...well, you know that already, don't you?

Thanks a lot to the 41 "brave" students who voted.

See you around

P.S. WATCH OUT for our next survey!

Engvid

Dear students,

Engvid is a useful website if you need help with some grammar or vocabulary topics by means of short and easy-to-understand video lessons, for example, on "much, many and a lot of" or "How to talk about the weather in English".

See you around

SONGS

Dear students,

Here we are again with some more music. These are two nice songs that two 3r ESO students sent me. Thanks to Nikol and Adrià. Enjoy the videos!

Outta my head - Lucas Grabeel (from the musical "I kissed a vampire)

Automatic - Tokio Hotel

See you around

THE BEATLES

Dear students,

Have you ever heard of them? I hope so. They're one of the most famous bands in the history of music. I know maybe it's not the kind of music you like but I'm sure many of their songs will ring a bell with you.

Have a look at this amazing website and you'll get to know everything you need about John, Paul, George and Ringo.

See you around

Your Favourite Music (2n ESO)

Dear students,

This is the TOP 10 of your favourite bands and singers:

1.- Green Day : 8 points

2.- Eminem : 7

3. - Simple Plan: 7

4.- Linkin Park: 6

5.- Black Eyed Peas: 6

6.- Taylor Swift: 5

7.- Katy Perry: 4

8.- Coldplay: 4

9.- Lady Gaga: 4

10.- Jonas Brothers: 3

Keep sending your votes until Sunday. In the meantime, have a look at this nice video of one of your favourite bands:

A Survey: Your Favourite Music (2n ESO)

Dear students,

We've started a survey with 2n ESO students about music and their favourite bands, singers, etc.

We'll publish the results next week so post your comments or send me your TOP 3 via email. For the moment, we have votes for Green Day, Taylor Swift, Paramore, etc.

See you around

Pronunciation

Dear students,

As you all know some English sounds are a bit difficult because we don't have them in our language. Here you'll find an introduction to English sounds through nice pictures and related to some easy vocabulary. I think it's a very useful resource if you want to improve your pronunciation.

See you

IDIOMSITE

Dear students,

Here we are again. It's been a long, long summer-or maybe not so long- but everything comes to an end. And so today we're back to work.

I hope you've used your English a lot. If you haven't, this might be a good way to refresh it.

This is a nice site where you can find lots of idioms -what's an idiom, teacher?. Well it's sort of a fixed expression. Some idioms are similar to Spanish or Catalan ones and some others aren't.

Have a look and see how many you can understand: Idiomsite

For further information, have a look at the "Idioms" section on the labels cloud on the right part of the screen.

See you soon