Common Words in English

Practise the pronunciation of these frequently used words!

IT'S CHRISTMAS TIME!

Learn some basic vocabulary about "An English Christmas" with this video from Mansion del inglés.

Enjoy this classic by Wham!

If you have ONO Digital, this post explains how to use it to improve your English.
Sorry about the delay... HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYBODY!

FILES 2 & 3: extra practice!

Hello again!

Here's some extra practice for these two units, please have a look:

• grammar: file 2, file 3. You can also revise the present simple with many activities here, here and in this text. 
• vocabulary: you can do some crosswords and wordsearches to practise jobs, verbs, the family, common adjectives, countries & nationalities, common objects, daily routines, times & dates. Click HERE to hear the pronunciation of many of these words. Listen and repeat them!
• These listenings are quite slow and easy: interesting conversation, opening & closing times, shopping, telephoning, offers, breakfast, Ireland, Australia. You can see the words (if you click on "menu"), but please listen once or twice first WITHOUT LOOKING... before you actually read them
• practical English: checking in; buying a coffee.
• reading: choose the texts for these two units. Read them, take out some words and try to rebuild the original text.

Now sing along with Alesha Dixon and her "The Boy Does Nothing"!

CULTURAL WEEK

YES!!! We are having some cultural days at the EOI Arucas and you are all invited to come. Activities will be on Tuesday and Wednesday evening and Thursday morning (17th-19th November). Of course you are expected to come in your lesson time but you are free to come to any of the other activities.

Meanwhile, you can start getting ready by preparing a cake recipe for the cake competition. Send it to arucaseoi@gmail.com and bring your cake on Wednesday evening (around 5.30) or Thursday morning (around 11am). Yummy!If cooking isn't your thing, then why not prepare a bookmarker (for ideas go here, here, here) or take part in the mini saga competition? Write a story of no more than 50 words and hand it in to your teacher in order to compete. To see some examples, visit the intermediate blog here.

For the programme, click here.

London Calling!

The BBC was the first radio and television company in Great Britain. It is very prestigious and people listen to and watch its programmes in many, many countries of the world. It also helps people learn English. This is the link to an activity on its webpage about languages.

That's not cricket!

"That's not cricket" is an old-fashioned phrase that some English people use when they think that something is unjust. But what do you know about the actual game of cricket? Click here to learn about where and how people play this game.

Beryl Cook

Do you like fat ladies? If so, you'll like the work by the English artist, Beryl Cook. Her paintings are very, very funny and usually show people having a good time. If you'd like to see more of her art, click here. Do you think her style is similar to that of the Colombian painter, Botero? Compare by clicking here. (By the way, -a propósito- do you think that's El Teide in the background?)

Colours

What's your favourite colour? Is it blue or green? Pink or white? Perhaps you like black or red? Maybe it's purple or lemon? Listen to the Yellow Lemon Tree song by clicking here. (Thanks to Pino at EOI Las Palmas I for sharing the link.)

Songs and more

Do you remember The Cure? Do you want to hear the song again? Click here: Friday, I'm in Love

This is the videoclip of the song by the Bangles we heard in class :  "Eternal Flame"

Worried about pronunciation? It's just normal; have a look at this post from el blog para aprender inglés.

Meeting people

This is a very easy activity from contenidos educativos digitales: listen and then do the activities 1-8 at the bottom of the page. To practise nationalities go here.