Merry Christmas!

Happy Halloween!

- Click here and learn some vocabulary about Halloween.
- A memory game to practise vocabulary.
- More vocabulary here.

English Halloween from Padme Vader

Yesterday

Watch the video and answer the questions or complete the sentences. Then check your answers in ‘comments’.

1.       Why didn’t she answer her friend’s calls?

2.       In the morning she ___________________________ . She had ___________________________there and a very hard test.

3.       Then she ___________________________ to her mother and some friends.

4.       What did Mark invite her to?

5.       What did she watch?

6.       What did she think of it?

7.       Next she ___________________________ and ___________________________some cola and ___________________________, but the guys ___________________________ and ___________________________.

8.       When did she get home?

9.       Did she do her homework?

Summer Nights

Watch the first video and complete the song. Then watch the second video and check your answers.

Past of be

Watch the video. Review the past simple of be and listen to two conversations.

Regular and Irregular verbs in the past

Regular verbs in the Past Simple

1. Regular verbs: look at the grammar explanations below and then watch this video.
2. Watch this video and learn how to read and write the past simple of regular English verbs.
3. Try this quiz.
4. Irregular verbs: look at the grammar and the watch the video.

DON'T FORGET TO LOOK AT OLD POSTS IN FILE 5!!!

23rd April World Book Day

Cookie Monster speaks 'Me want this'. Watch his conversation with the librarian. Check your answers in 'comments'.




1. What books does he want? Tick from the list:
A novel      Little Red Riding Hood     A detective story    A book of Nursery Rhymes   A dictionary
A grammar book      A Picture Book      A book about cookies
2. What does he want with the books that the librarian doesn't have?
3. What does Cookie Monster ask for at the end, apart from the book?

22nd April, Earth Day

Click here to help clean up the planet.

Object pronouns

Look at old posts in File 4.

Clothes

To review clothes go to File 4.

The weather

To review the weather have a look at File 5.

Irregular verbs

1. Here you have a list of irregular verbs with their pronunciation (it's a bit fast).
2. Another list.


Look at old posts in File 5 to watch a video with irregular verbs. Remember you only need to learn the verbs in your book.

Present Simple / Present Continuous

1. Watch the video and learn the difference:



2. Click here to hear another explanation (you also have the text to read it).

Practice:
1. Choose PS or PC.
2. More sentences to choose PS or PC.

Don't forget to look at File 6 for more posts about Present Continuous and Present Simple.

Present Continuous

1. Watch the video and read the explanation.
2. Click here to do two exercises.

A day in London

Watch this video and answer the questions (answers in 'comments'). The video was recorded in the 1980s so it is a bit out of date... London has changed, clothes have changed and prices have changed too.

1. Where's Paola from?
2. What does she do?
3. What does David do?
4. Where are they at the beginning of the video?
5. What does he buy?
6. How much is it?
7. What does she think of the underground?
8. Which bridge do they see?
9. What do they have at the café?
Paola: a tuna ____________ and a ____________ 
Dave: a chicken ____________  and a ____________ 
10. What time is the next boat to Charing Cross?
11. What kind of tickets does she buy? Single / Return
12. How much are the tickets?

My favourite day

Another example of an avatar reading a text I have written.

St Patrick's Day

Look at older posts about St Patrick's Day in 'Festivities' and learn about this National Holiday.

Can / Abilities

1. Watch this video with examples of 'can' to express abilities.

2. Watch this video and learn how to pronounce CAN.

Who wants to live forever?

Watch the first video and do the activity in the photocopy. Then watch the second video (with the lyrics) and check your answers.

This is the video with the lyrics.

Louisa's Day

Read the text.

Happy Valentine's Day

1. Learn some vocabulary.

2. Match the words and the pictures.

3. Read the text and answer the questions.

Don't forget to have a look at old posts about this festivity.

My dad

Listen to the story (first without the text) and take notes. Then, listen and read the text to check your answers.

Mike's daily routine

Listen to Mike talking about his daily routine (don't read the script). Do the comprehension questions on the right and the vocabulary. Finally, listen and read the script.

People's daily routines

Listen to different people and answer the questions (check them in 'comments').

Robert

1. 1.Where does Robert live?

2. What time does he get up?

3. Order these things:
   Eat breakfast
  Get dressed
 Brush my teeth
 Drink a cup of coffee
 Take a shower
 Put on his shoes

4. How does he go to school?

5. What time does school start?

6. What time does he have lunch?

7. How long is his lunch break?

Jennifer

1. 1, 1.What time does she get up?

2. What does she have for breakfast?

Keely

1. What time does she get up?

2. What does she have for breakfast?

3. What time does she have lunch?

4. What time does she have dinner?

Maryse (an English Assistant)

1. Where's she from?

2. Where does she live?

2. What time does a typical school day start?

3. What classes do students have?

____________, Social Studies, Math, ___________

4. What time do they have lunch?

5. How long is the recess?

6. What time does school finish?

7. What do students do after school?

8. What do students do after the activities?

Time and Daily Routine

Do the activities in this great interactive book.

Daily routines

Vocabulary:
1. Click here and do the exercises.
2. Watch the video and review some daily activities.
3. Complete the sentences. Then listen and check.
4. Do the exercises.

The family

1. Review the vocabulary. Move the cursor around and listen to the words.
2. Watch this video and answer the following questions (check your answers in 'comments').
Glossary: 

Younger: más joven            

Older: más viejo                   

Grew up: crecimos (pasado)      

Passed away: murieron (pasado)

1.       How many people are in her family? 

2.       How old is her brother? 

3.       How old is Jo? 

4.       How old is her sister? 

5.       Where does most of her family live? 

6.       Where does she live? 

7.       Where does her sister live? 

8.       Does she have any grandparents?

9.       How many aunts does she have? 

10.   How many uncles does she have? 

11.   How many cousins does she have? 

12.   Does she have nephews and nieces? 

13.   When does she see her family? Tick the correct answers.

On holidays       at Christmas      in summer         on birthdays      on weddings    

Telling the time

1. Watch this video and learn to tell the time.
2. Watch this video and learn to tell the digital time.
3. Watch this video. The second part has the same scenes but with the subtitles. At the bottom of the page you have the explanation.

Martin Luther King

One important day to commemorate falls in the middle of January and is certainly a cause for thanks and remembrance: Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday. People honor and celebrate the life of Dr. King for many reasons, but most importantly, for his role in working to achieve race equality in America. Martin Luther King Day is celebrated in the USA on the 3rd Monday of January.
Click here to learn about Martin Luther King's life.