English Learning

Hi guys! This is our last lab!!! Here are the links related to the movie V for Vendetta:

To check the poem organization: http://ingeb.org/songs/remembet.html

Play the game! Go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/interactive/games/gunpowder/index.shtml and find out more about the Gunpowder Plot. It is a game that tests your reading comprehension skills and is also fun. You must avoid the Parliament to be blown up.If you need extra information, go to:

http://www.bonefire.org 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/civil_war_revolution/gunpowder_robinson_01.shtml

Here are some links for you to practice the Conditionals and the last grammar topics:

1st. Conditional

http://www.better-english.com/grammar/firstconditional1.htm

http://www.better-english.com/grammar/firstconditional2.htm

Second Conditional

http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/StudyZone/410/grammar/2cond1.htm

http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/StudyZone/410/grammar/2cond2.htm

Third Conditional

http://www.englishgrammarsecrets.com/thirdconditional/exercise1.swf

http://www.englishgrammarsecrets.com/thirdconditional/exercise2.swf

http://www.englishgrammarsecrets.com/thirdconditional/exercise3.swf 

A / An:  http://a4esl.org/q/h/vt/a_or_an.html

Some/any: http://www.homepages.ihug.com.au/~adelegc/grammar/any_some/any_some.html

Hi guys! This week we’ll be working with content and meaningful activities. First, you will enter Jamie Oliver’s web page and watch a very short but illustrating video about Strawberry Jam, then you’ll enter a comment to the blog or send me an e-mail to give your opinion on how to prepare or eat strawberry jam. In the same comment or e-mail, you’ll enter the words you learnt from the recipes we read in class.

http://www.jamieoliver.com/about/jamie-oliver-videos/size-recipes-straw-jam

There are some grammar links that you’re required to work with:

Modal Verbs:  http://www.englishpage.com/modals/interactivemodal1.htm

Quantifiers:  http://www.learn4good.com/languages/evrd_grammar/quantifiers_quiz.htm

Relative Pronouns:

http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/pronouns/relative_pronouns2.htm

Participal Adjectives:

http://www.grammar-quizzes.com/passive3a.html

Finally, here’s a quiz which will tell you which superhero you are. Don’t forget to send me a comment to the blog or my e-mail telling me your result and your opinion about it. Have fun!

http://www.thesuperheroquiz.com/

Hi guys! Here are some links that will help you practice the grammar and vocabulary items studied during this week. Have fun!

Transportation Vocabulary Crossword: http://www.learnenglish.de/Games/Crossword10/transport.htm

Transportation Vocabulary List: http://www.learnenglish.de/vocabulary/transport.htm

Question Words: http://www.english-4u.de/question_words_ex4.htm

Present Perfect & Simple Past: http://www.english-4u.de/pres_perf_ex4.htm

Past Perfect & Simple Past: http://www.english-4u.de/past_perfect_ex2.htm

This week we’re working with the past tenses and literature. Remember our story about The Little Red Riding Hood? Well, today, you’re going to re-create your own story about a Frankenmonster!!! Just continue the story presented here:

“Once upon a time, there was a scientist who wanted to create a robot that could help people learn other languages in an easier way, so he input all the languages in the world into its database and gave it the abilities of speaking, reading, writing and listening. Everything was perfect until one night a lightening stroke the lab where he was working and made the robot become alive. Unfortunatelly, the robot hadn’t been programmed to assist and help the people yet, so, feeling scared, it wandered out the lab trying to communicate with everyone it found in its way. When the people saw it…” 

Post your continuation of the story in this blog. Try to write at least a 10 lines paragraph; pay special attention to your spelling and punctuation. Enjoy!

Welcome to this new period! During this course, we’ll be working together in order to acquire and develop new language competencies working with all the communicative skills. Let’s have fun together!!!

Remember to get your books as soon as possible in order to start working on the topics and class activities;  you can get copies for the first week.

Once this week has passed, you won’t be able to bring copies into our class and will not be given an attendance.