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

PLAY!!!

Dear ESO students,

Have you ever seen this programme on TV3 (or K3)? I guess so.

You know it's a good way to practice your English by listening to some songs and playing loads of funny games.

This is the link to one of the programmes.

See you soon.

10 things you need to know...

Dear ESO students,

It's good to have some information on some of the most important cities around the world and in English, of course.

To start with, have a look at these series of 10 things you need to know about...

London

Dublin

New York

CU around

Sporcle

Dear ESO students,

This is a great site for those who love categories-and learning English, of course!!

Sporcle offers a lot of "mentally stimulating diversions", such as "The 100 most common words in English", "US English vs UK English", "Finish the Movie Quotes", etc. Why don't you try them?

See you soon

Hugosite

Dear ESO students,

I've just found this interesting site with lots of videos on what many people call "Survival English".

Have a look at Hugosite. I think it's quite easy to understand and useful.

See you soon