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El blog está dirigido a alumnos de inglés de primero de básico. Decidí crearlo en el año 2009 para intentar ayudar a mis alumnos principiantes: yo busco las cosas para que vosotros dediquéis el tiempo a practicar.
Para acceder a las actividades de años anteriores tenéis que mirar en Contents y elegir el File o el tipo de actividad.
Espero que os guste y os resulte útil! / I hope you like it and find it useful!
-Order food with 'I'd like'. - Listenand tick what they order. -Readthe dialogue, listen to it and do the exercise. - Read the text and answer the questions. - Dictation: listen and write the sentences. - Game: write the food in the menu. - Listenand choose the right answer.
1. Game: find the things on your shopping list and put them in the trolley. 2.Recipe: make a banana milkshake. Order the instructions. 3. Reading: read the text about healthy eating and choose the right answer.
1. Learn some food vocabulary (American English). You can learn more words if you click on extra vocabulary 'otros alimentos'. 2. Learn some drink words (American English). 3. Choose the right word for each picture.
1. Renting a flat: listen and read the conversation between Bill and the agent. 2. Sightseeingaround town: listen to the conversation and choose the right answer. Then you can listen and read it. 3. Getting around Tokyo-train tickets: listen to the conversation and choose the right answer. Then you can listen and read it. 4. Asking the way: listen and read the conversation between a woman and a policeman. She wants to find the way to a bank.
1. Lookat the map and choose the correct preposition. 2.Followthe instructions and say where you are (you are driving on the left!).
Game"Destination Impossible": read and follow directions. (las instrucciones son un poco largas, pero el juego está muy bien, try it!!) - Click on 'play the game' and read the instructions (e.g. Help Liz get her kids to school in time), when you choose the character they give you two options for that character, you choose the one you prefer. The map with the route appears and you clik on 'start'. When the game starts they ask you if you want to play 'against time' or 'no timer'. There are 10 instructions for each destination. You are on the red spot, read the instruction and choose A, B or C. // Haz click en 'play the game' y lee las instrucciones (e.g. Ayuda a Liz a llevar a sus niños al colegio a tiempo), cuando eliges el personaje te dan dos opciones para ayudarle y tú eliges la que prefieres. Aparece el mapa con la ruta y le das a 'start'. Cuando el juego empieza te preguntan si quieres jugar 'against time' (contra reloj) o 'no timer' (sin tiempo). Hay 10 instrucciones para cada destino. Tú estás en el punto rojo que parpadea, lees la instrucción y eliges A, B o C.
Listening: 1.Watch the video. You can watch it first without subtitles and then do the exercises or you can watch it with the subtitles. 2. Listen and follow the instructions to find the place on the map. Then click play again and the route will appear on the map.
-Listen and read. Some places in town (American English).- Play this game to practise vocabulary about places in town and pronunciation. First click on the ear to listen to the word and then drag the letter'a', 'b'... to match the picture / primero haz click en el dibujo de la oreja para escuchar la palabra y luego arrastra la letra al dibujo correspondiente.- Look at the map. Listen and choose true or false. Then listen and read the text. - Visit New York: listen and read. Then answer the questions.- Listen to six people talking about the place where they live and if they are happy there. Answer the questions. Then you can listen and read the text.
Waterloo Sunset is a song about the view of London over the River Thames in the evening, when millions of people are going home from work. It was a big hit for The Kinks in the mid 1960s.
a.Complete sentences 1-9 with adjectives from the list. See comments to check the answers.
1. The opposite of dangerous is _________________ . 2. When you feel _________________, everything is going round in circles. 3. How are you? I’m _________________, thanks. 4. Some people never travel by plane because they are _________________ of flying. 5. Somebody who doesn’t like working is _________________. 6. The opposite of clean is _________________. 7. The lights in a TV studio are always very _________________. 8. When you have a lot of things you need to do, you are very _________________. 9. Another way of saying quite cold is _________________.
b. Listen to the song. Complete the gaps with an adjective. Some adjectives are used more than once. (See comments to check the answers)
1______________ old river, must you keep rolling Flowing into the night People so 2______________, makes me feel 3______________ Taxi light shines so 4______________ But I don’t need no friends As long as I gaze on Waterloo sunset I am in paradise
Every day I look at the world from my window But 5______________, 6______________ is the evening time Waterloo sunsets fine
Terry meets Julie, Waterloo station Every Friday night But I am so 8______________, don’t want to wander I stay at home at night But I don’t feel 9______________ As long as I gaze on Waterloo sunset I am in paradise
Every day, etc.
Millions of people swarming like flies round Waterloo underground But Terry and Julie cross over the river Where they feel 10______________ and sound And the don’t need no friends As long as they gaze on Waterloo sunset They are in paradise
Waterloo sunset’s fine
Glossary Keep rolling:continue to move So (+adjective):very I don’t need no :I don’t need any As long as:if I can Gaze on:look at Be in paradise:be very happy Wander:go for a walk Swarming like flies:moving like little insects Safe and sound:sano y salvo (activities taken from New English File Elementary, OUP)
Grammar 1. Read the explanation of different uses (English and Spanish). 2.Watchthe video with the explanation and examples in English.
Exercises 1. Choose present simple or present continuous. 2. Choose present simple or present continuous. 3. Complete with present simple or present continuous. 4. Complete with present simple or present continuous. 5. Complete with present simple or present continuous. 6. Complete with present simple or present continuous.
1.Write the –ing form of the following verbs. Then see comments to check the answers (ver comentarios para comprobar las respuestas). Wait / drive / sit / step / turn / waste / take
2. Listento the song and complete it using those verbs:
LEMON TREE By Fool's Garden I'm ______________ here in a boring room it's just another rainy Sunday afternoon I'm ______________ my time I got nothing to do I'm hanging around I'm ______________ for you But nothing ever happens- and I wonder I'm ______________ around in my car I'm ______________ too fast I'm ______________ too far I'd like to change my point of view I feel so lonely I'm ______________ for you But nothing ever happens- and I wonder I wonder how I wonder why yesterday you told me 'bout the blue blue sky and all that I can see is just a yellow lemon-tree I'm ______________ my head up and down I'm ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ around And all that I can see is just another lemon-tree I'm ______________ here I miss the power I'd like to go out ______________ a shower but there's a heavy cloud inside my head I feel so tired put myself into bed where nothing ever happens- and I wonder Isolation - is not good for me Isolation - I don't want to sit on a lemon-tree I'm ______________ around in a desert of joy Baby anyhow I'll get another toy and everything will happen-and you'll wonder I wonder how I wonder why yesterday you told me 'bout the blue blue sky and all that I can see is just a yellow lemon-tree I'm ______________ my head up and down I'm ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ around And all that I can see is just another lemon-tree
Glossary: to waste time: to spend uselessly, without profit. to hang around: to spend time in a certain place or in certain company. nothing ever happens: nunca pasa nada. to wonder: to be curious to know. isolation: the state of being separated from others. joy: emotion of great happiness.
3. Watch the song with the subtitles and check your answers.
