Maria's recipe

Maria, one of the students of our class treats us with delicious pastries, this is the recipe of her delicious "buñuelos" or fritters.

Read it carefully and check the vocabulary! 





Follow the instructions and if you are brave enough, prepare them and take a photo. 
Good luck!

A CHRISTMAS CAROL PART 1

LISTENING ACTIVITIES

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

LISTENING COMPREHENSION

PART ONE

Listen and watch the first part of the story and answer the following questions:

1.  Where does the story take place?

2.  What time is it?

3.  Is Ebenezer Srooge happy with Christmas?

4.  What is the expression is Scrooge always using?

5.  Mr. Scrooge and Mr.Cratchit  are working. Who comes in?

6.  What does he want?

7.  Two other gentlemen also want something. What do they want?

8.  Mr. Cratchit also wants something: What does he want?

9.  Mr. Srcooge goes home. What does he have for dinner?

10.             Somebody visits him. Who is it?

11.             What does the ghost want?

12.             Does Mr. Scrooge believe what he sees?

Multiple choice – Easy

Listen and watch the first part of the story and answer the following questions: Choose the correct answer.

1.  Where does the story take place?

a.  In Dublin       b. In London

2.  What time is it?

a.  It’s a quarter to seven

b.  It’s a quarter to six

3.  Is Ebenezer Srooge happy with Christmas?

a.  No, he isn’t    b. Yes, he is.

4.  What is the expression is Scrooge always using?

a.  Humbug!       b. Bugs!

5.  Mr. Scrooge and Mr.Cratchit are working. Who comes in?

a.  Mr Scrooge’s son   b. Mr. Scrooge’s nephew

6.  What does he want?

a.  He wants to invite his nephew to a dance.

b.  He wants to invite his nephew to dinner.

7.  Two other gentlemen also want something. What do they want?

a.  They want money for the poor.

b.  They want food and clothes for the poor.

8.  Mr. Cratchit also wants something: What does he want?

a.  He wants a day off.

b.  He wants some money, too.

9.  Mr. Srcooge goes home. What does he have for dinner?

a.  A special Christmas dinner.

b.  His usual dinner.

10.             Somebody visits him. Who is it?

a.  It’s Mr. Marley, his partner.

b.  It’s Mr. Marley’s ghost.

11.             What does Mr. Marley want?

a.  He wants to warn him.

b.  He wants some money too.

12.             Does Mr. Scrooge believe what he sees?

a.  No, he doesn’t.     b. yes, he does.

countable and uncountable

Let's review countables and uncountable nouns

 with this simple and easy presentation made by Inma Rodríguez: thank you!

 

Countable and uncountable nouns from Inma Dominguez

I hope it helps you with your work.

Countables and Uncountables

How many items can you identify? Can you classify them in countables and uncountables?

Singular and plural nouns

Nouns	You	Examples
Most nouns	add -s	Apple – apples   Lemon-lemons
Nouns ending in –s, -x,-ss,-ch,-sh	add -es	Peach- peaches Box-boxes Watch-watches
Nouns ending in -o	add -es	Tomato-tomatoes Potato-potatoes
Nouns ending in consonant+ –y	change y for -ies	Strawberry- strawberries Cherry- cherries Lady-ladies Baby-babies
Nouns ending in –f/-fe	change –f/-fe to -ves	Leaf-leaves Wife-wives Knife-knives Half-halves
Some special nouns		Foot – feet Tooth- teeth Mouse- mice Man- men Woman- women Child- children
Some animals	Make no change	Fish-fish Sheep- sheep

Write the following singular nouns in plural 

Place , City ,  Table , Ash ,  Toy ,Workman, Wolf ,Egg , Volcano Butterfly, Dwarf, Cat, Tiger, Door, Desk, Watch, Picture, Blackboard, Wallet, Wall,  Match, Nationality.

First lessons 2014 - 2015

What's your name?

The greetings song

How are you today? 

What's your favourite colour? 

What's your favourite day? / Which day is your favourite day?

What's your favourite sport?

Keep working and have fun!

SUMMER REVIEW

Hello, everybody! 

I am going to include some activities so that you can review what we did during the course. 

Hope you have time to do them!

Let-s remember the verb to be

PERSONAL QUESTIONS

Watch this video and answer the following questions. Take your time!!!

- See more at: http://www.eslvideo.com/esl_video_quiz_beginning.php?id=19626#sthash.IadVle8Z.dpuf


Hope you enjoy this activity!

HAMLET ACT 1 SCENE 3

This is a listening activity. Listen and complete the different tasks.
First read the activities.
Secondly, listen to the record and choose the correct options. (twice- x2)
Finally, listen again and check your answers.


 Just give it a try!

Hamlet

LET'S GO TO THE TEATRE: FURTHER DETAILS

Let's go to the theatre!!!

Next Wednesday we are going to go to the Theatre!. The company HAZ TEATRING Recursos is presenting DOCTOR JECKYLL AND MR HYDE. It is an adapted version. The author is ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON. Here you can read some details about his life.

http://www.slideshare.net/teteg662/robert-louis-stevenso-nb-32487360

http://www.slideshare.net/teteg662/robert-louis-stevenso-nb-32487360

Robert Louis Stevenson from teteg662

We are also going to watch this short adaptation of the play. Don't try to understand EVERY WORD. Try to get some ideas and understand what happens.

Place description

What can you do in Vigo?

Things to do in castrelos park from teteg662

This is an example of the activity you have to prepare. Follow the instructions and enjoy yourself.

Daily routines in English: Beginners

Meet my new friend. She is going to help you with vocabulary. Tell me if you like her! 

http://www.voki.com/pickup.php?scid=9492238&height=267&width=200



For websites and blogs that support iframes: Vertical Player: Horizontal Player:

20 QUESTIONS ABOUT YOU

Review of 20 basic questions about you ... try to answer them

You should know them all by the end of the course.

Daily Routines

This is a good way to practice and review vocabulary related to DAILY ROUTINES.

Getting to Know Vigo

This is an activity for Third Year ESA and we are going to put it in practice throughout the following months. 

It was designed for the course “ Deseño de actividades TIC para o ensino das linguas extranxeiras” and I hope you like it.

This is the explanation of the activity.

Now it is your turn!!

HELLO EVERYBODY!

Dear students,

Welcome to this blog where you are going to read and write about English culture and language!

I have told you several times that I wanted to use a blog in our lessons and this is it!

I am going to use it as a complement to the lessons we have at school. I will also include some of your works so that you can comment them and feel proud.

I know you are working really hard and that’s why you are doing so well! But some of you want to learn more and review at home. That’s why I am including a selection of the activities in the blog.

I hope it will be useful for you.

Let me know!

Welcome again!

I am going to use this blog to publish some activities I will be using with my ENGLISH COURSE FOR ADULT BEGINNERS.

First, let's have a look at some basics.

Have a look if you don't remember the right pronunciation. 

Now we are going to learn the number from 1 to 10

And from 10 to 20

Do you remember the song? Try to sing along.ALL TOGETHER NOW a children adaptation of the Beatles song.  

Or the original by THE BEATLES by Teacher Stephania