Coffee or tea? Ready for some small chat

Planning a trip

Celebrations, Traditions and Stereotypes around the world

Flowers, Plants, trees and all about our mother Nature.

Gerunds or Infinitives?

Crossword

Latin Expressions in Modern English

How to write in English

I always encourage all my students to drop some lines in English. 

No matter the topic to write about. 

Then, I normally have a look at their writing, which they hand in quite regularly, and I leave a comment and several writing tips for them, together with the necessary corrections. Feedback and results may vary to a greater extent, but I just wonder if they are truly aware of my enormous effort to make them write real English.

Please, leave a comment about your English writing experiences.

Writing tools:

Connectors and linkers

Connectors, linking words and phrases

How to write a review

Writing a film review

Comparatives and Superlatives

Word-order

Christmas around the world

The Three Wise Men according to Wikipedia. Christmas is coming and I'd like to know how you celebrate this festivity. There are many different traditions all over the world and that's nice. So, let's discuss about different traditions at Christmas.

How do you spend Xmas at home? Anything special? Please, let us know and leave a comment about your customs.

Youtube videos about Christmas

For further information about Christmas time, click on here.

   Now, let's sing some Christmas Carols. Would you like to sing a special Christmas Carol? Which one? Have a look at: It's Christmas now below.  For carols click:    More Carols 

Last Christmas by George Michael (Spanish lyrics) Is this song really about Christmas? Well, it isn't. Actually, what is it about so? You could write your answer by leaving a comment for this post below. What about this Xmas song? Do you know any other artist who sings the same song?

Christmas vocabulary (1, 2, ), special dates and traditions. Christmas vocabulary doc Christmas Flashcards Xmas wordsearch (1, 2) Christmas board game for Basic 2 (poster) Christmas Winter Quiz for Basic 2 Santa Questions about Xmas for Basic 2 Winter questions_Christmas for Basic 2

How to make Christmas Crackers

How to make a Christmas pudding How to make Christmas Brownies

Would you sit on Santa Claus' lap like this?

Have you ever received candy coal at Christmas?

Come on! Let's join a Christmas Quiz! Yes, why not?   Now it's time for some current songs about Xmas:


And finally, here are my Christmas gifts for all my dear students. Some Xmas cards. Enjoy them! Happy Christmas!

Modals

Modals and passive voice from TESOL-TEFL on Vimeo.

Reported Speech

Relatives

Passives are used here

Conditionals

If I were you, I'd...

How would you complete the sentence above?

Conditionals are quite good for your imagination, aren't they?

So, if you're thinking about writing some more amusing couple dialogues like that one above, please feel free to leave us a comment below.

If I were you, I'd write a good if-comment right now.

English Stress and Intonation

Why do we take so long to understand stress and intonation in English?

Children learn stress and intonation very quickly, but what happens with English as a Second Language?


Through this post, you'll learn more about the importance of Stress and intonation in English. Now it's your turn to practise some stress patterns, using the presentation and video below.

I hope you find Intonation interesting. Please, feel free to leave any comments about Stress and Intonation below.

Translation into English

Do you think Google translate is good enough for your translations?

If you don't, here's some practice for you to rely on. 

Trust your instincts and translate into English, applying common sense, but not your clicks. 

Doctors say that using your memory and language skills, prevents you from getting Alzheimer or dementia.


So, next time you need to write in English, make sure you click on your own brain. Here's your Translation practice:

Expressing Quantity

Today's topic is not only about expressing quantity, but related to these bikes on the car. What I'd like to say is that there are many ways of counting things in English. However, let's study them and try to use the most common ones every day.

Quotations

All about verb tenses

Present, past or future?

How often do you...?

Adverbs is what you need to study for this section, among many other things.

Above you can read two essential questions for you to think about when you're doing some English Grammar. 

Any questions about verbs tenses?

Please leave us a comment below. 

For more practice on verb tenses, you could have a look at our Grammar links section on the right-hand side on this blog.

So, let's do some grammar!

Imperative, Present Simple & Continuous, Stative verbs

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Present through Youtube

Past through Youtube

Future through Youtube
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Imperatives through Youtube

Present Perfect through Youtube

English Grammar

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English through sketches

In this section you'll find all the sketches used in class, together with some other resources to get the most of all your theatre talents on stage. So, off we go and let's act those sketches out all day long. 

• The ticket inspector

• The Passport Office
• Fire Practice (audio 2)
• Fire Practice on YouTube
• The Bus Stop 

• Tea Break
• The King of Boonland
• The Restaurant
   

• Sketches
• English Sketches
• Theatre and drama at YouTube
• Drama resources and links.
• Theatre and drama for ESL.

And now it's time for the students:

• Congratulations, 1st BAC. What a great job! 


One more time, please!

Sense of Humour

Does everyone have the same sense of Humour? 

In this post, we will look at some principles that underpin the most hilarious humour around the world, and how different we all are when comes to laughing out loud.

Following these slides below, you will be introduced to the profession of a real comedian. Isn't that very interesting and fun?

  

Finally, you will be introduced to the world of classical literature and modern Stand-up comedy.

Pulling all this together should enable you to start improving your general comprehension and creation of any pun, joke or even the funniest prank ever.

   

Listening for B1

Prepositions

Word-building or Word-formation

Basically, we could start off by studying some basic word-formation suffixes and prefixes, which will help you to guess the meaning and grammar of English words.

So, here's your WORD-FORMATION theory and practice to do your best at school. Remember that there are not magical RULES for word-formation, and it's only a question of practice and loads of English exposure.

Let's put it this way...it's time for more words... - no matter your level of English.

Learning a language is like building a house. We need plenty of bricks to be able construct a venue with well-laid foundations and suitable enough for our living expectations: good sights, full of light, and comfortable for our family. By the same token, to produce a fluent speech, it’s necessary to manage a whole array of words, which must be assimilated, practised and used regularly, rather than only translated into the target language. Word-building takes time and what’s even more important: suffixes and prefixes must be recognized; otherwise you won’t make the most of your word-building. For further word-formation practice, you’d better click on words, words, words.

Listening for A1 / A2

Phrasal Verbs

Personal Pronouns

"OMG!" means Oh, my God! We say this when we are very surprised about something. Yesterday, I couldn't believe my eyes. My students have forgotten the Personal Pronouns! 

OMG! Well, please do not panic and make the effort to go over the Personal Pronouns. Here's something to start with.

Idioms and frases idiomáticas

Making a mountain out of a molehill

Please,  do not panic... we are not going up any mountain today. Don't worry about it. This is just another idiom in English, which is used for exaggerating the importance of something.  As learning English is like climbing up a mountain, we'll see how to add some meaning for our speech and writing, whenever we need to overstate, inflate or simply clarify what we're talking about. But before we do that, why don't we watch The IT Crowd? 

Let's talk in English for a change

Business Administration & Finance

Fashion Hacks

 

 And more about clothes:

 

How to write a good Book Review

Synonyms

Jobs, Professions & work

Office Administration

Web Design

Technology, inventions & Internet

Beauty Hacks