Airports and flying

Here you have some activities to help you learn more about the topic we’re dealing with these days:

Air travel

Resolutions for 2012

2012 is already on the run and I haven’t made up my mind about what resolutions I want to accomplish this year. It’s difficult for me to decide what changes Iwant to make in my life, and there so many that I’m still thinking about them. On second thoughts, I guess the best resolution I can make is to try to be more decisive and spend less time taking decisions about what resolutions to take everyNew Year.

What I’ve not had difficulties to choose have been the activities to recommend you to learn more about this topic: BBC English,  Cristina Cabal’s blog.

12 Days of Christmas

At Christmas time one of the most popular English carols is  The Twelve Days of Christmas. However, here in Spain most people are more familiar with other traditional songs during this season, such as White Christmas or Jingle Bells. Personally, I find The Twelve Days of Christmas quite funny and enjoyable and less nostalgic.

Here you have three different versions of the carol; both are peculiar but in a different way. I hope you enjoy them.

 

 

 

I WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND

A HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Are you always a picture of health when you wake up in the morning?

That was one of the questions you had to ask each other in class today and probably the type of questions which make people smile. Well, at least that’s what happens to me when I think about the way I look first in the morning. Besides, I suppose that in this context we might well add: …and the older, the worse; so I mustn’t complain since I’m older than most of you, my dear students.

Anyway, here you have some links to practise more on the topic of health:

• Vocabulary on illnesses and medical advice:

http://www.esl-lab.com/vocab/v-illness.htm

• Listening and activities: What’s the matter with Steve?

• Listening and texts about health:http://www.manythings.org/voa/health/

• Video and exercises about a common illness, the flu: http://elenec.wordpress.com/2010/11/29/influenza/

• Two dialogues: making a doctor’s appointment  and at the doctor’s

• A unit on health: http://egitek.meb.gov.tr/aok/aok_kitaplar/AolKitaplar/ingilizce_7_w/1.pdf

• Alternative medicine:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/425986.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/426002.stm

http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/0812/081214-alternative_medicine.html

After all these activities on the topic of health, I hope you’re neither feeling nor being sick, but you’re still in good shape for the next lesson.

2nd INT (2ºB, 2ºE, 2ºC, 2ºD) 1st term-tests

2ºB (15:30h) , 2ºC (20:00h)

Monday 28th Nov: Listening

Wednesday 30th Nov: Reading+Writing+Oral

Wednesday 7th Dec: Oral

2ºE (17:00h)

Tuesday 29 Nov: Listening

Wednesday 3oth Nov: Reading+Writing+Oral

Wednesday 7th Dec: Oral

2ºD (20:00h)

Tuesday 29 Nov: Listening

Thursday 1st Dec: Reading+Writing+Oral

Friday 9th Dec: Oral

2nd BASIC (2ºC) 1st term-tests

Tuesday 29th Nov: Reading+Writing +Oral

Thursday 1st Dec: Listening

Monday 12th Dec: Oral

Describing a picture

In order to write (100-150 words) your own description of a picture -choose one that you’d like to describe to your classmates- I recommend you to look at this video that I took from a colleague from EOI Aracena in Huelva. Thank you Jesús for it; it’s really well-done and quite clearly explained.

The parts of the body

Start your revision of the parts of the body on BBC Learning English. You can look at the chart which shows the major parts of the body and listen to the words at the same time.

Later you can check what you’ve learnt doing this vocabulary activity or if you like it, playing the hangman.

Also I recommend you this listening from Elllo.

‘Do you believe in ghosts?’ ‘No, I don’t’

Oda Mae (Whoopi Goldberg) didn’t, either. But then she “met” Sam Wheat (Patrick Swayze, 1952-2009) and she… If you want to know what happened then, watch this funny scene from the film Ghost (1990) She’s hilarious.

If you want to read the script,click here: ghost scene

I’ve found this blog from another EOI teacher -whose name I don’t know- with more activities and information about this topic. Thank you, whoever you are.

Pronunciation of /s/ /z/ /iz/ endings

I recommend you this video if you want to learn and practise the pronunciation of the “-s/-es” endings.

But if you still have some doubts or you want to consolidate what you’ve learnt, look at these other sites.

English Pronunciation – Plural Noun Endings (-s/ -es) – Full Interview

Christine and Einstein – /s/ /z/ /iz/ endings

Word Final -s = /s, z, Iz/