3 CAL 27 · Tuesday 17 December 2013
Hello friends! This is a summary of our last class of 2013. Nothing much to say except that we did a test on most of the topics we’ve dealt with during the first term of the year. The exam included…
4A 27 · Tuesday 17 December 2013
Hiya guys! Here’s our summary of our last proper class of the month, the term and the year. Basically, we corrected the exercise on question formation that had been given for homework in the previous class, and then we used…
It’s time to do some Christmas caroling!
Please listen to the Christmas songs below — we’ll be learning to sing one of them in class next week. Which one? The one the most students vote for in the poll below, so don’t forget to take it 🙂…
3 CAL 26 · Thursday 12 December 2013
Hiya guys! Let’s go for a quick summary of Thursday’s class, including some information about homework given. First we chatted about mobile phone etiquette, using the tips in the text in unit 4B. Then we reflected upon the ways in…
4A 26 · Thursday 12 December 2013
Hello friends! Here’s a brief summary of our latest class for those of you who couldn’t come. We did quite a few activities from our course book, so it’s definitely a good idea for you to have a look at…
4A · A survey: what’s in your name?
Hello friends! To round off our activities about names, let’s share some information about our own names. Please write your answers to the questions below (as usual, you just need to write the number of the question and then your…
3 CAL 25 · Tuesday 10 December 2013
Hello friends! Here’s a quick summary of Tuesday’s class (our first class at IES San Blas — many thanks to its management team!). We started a new unit from our course book — file 4B, Modern manners? In groups and…
4A 25 · Tuesday 10 December 2013
Hello guys! Yesterday we had our first class back at IES San Blas. I have to say that it was colder than we expected (it’s difficult for me to say whether it was colder than in our school building, what…
Notice to all 4A and 3 CAL students
From next Tuesday 10 December, groups 4A and 3 CAL will have their classes at the usual times (16:30 and 19:00 respectively) at San Blas High School of Aracena. It’s in Dª Elvira square, about 10-15 minutes walk from our…
3 CAL · Further practice on can / could / be able to
Hello guys! Please click on the links below if you want to take some more practice on how to speak about your abilities not only in the present or the past (with can or could), but also in all other tenses…
How about designing a Christmas card to represent your school?
Like in previous years, when Christmas is near our school needs some help from its creative students. Would you like to help us decorate our school? Would you like to create the Christmas card that our school will use in…
3 CAL 24 · Thursday 5 December 2013
Hello everyone! On Thursday we didn’t have a full class — basically because the room was almost empty :). Only one student attended the class, and we simply did some homework correction, and then left a little earlier than usual….
4A 24 · Thursday 5 December 2013
Hello guys! Enjoying the long weekend? I hope so! Well, for those of you interested, here’s our usual summary of our latest class. It started with an activity in which students worked in pairs using a photocopy with 20 pictures….
3 CAL 23 · Tuesday 3 December 2013
Hello guys! Here’s some information about Tuesday’s class. It started with some practice on the pronunciation of -ed words (not only regular past verbs, but also adjectives like bored/frightened vs. frustrated/disappointed). Then we
4A 23 · Tuesday 3 December 2013
Hello friends! This Tuesday we started our class with a revision activity based on the Practical English activity we had done the previous Thursday. In one of the dialogues that we role-played, a man was smoking in a no-smoking area,…
Quizzes on The Catcher in the Rye
Hi again! Have you finished reading chapters 1 and 2 from The Catcher in the Rye yet? If you have, you’re ready to take a comprehension quiz on them. There will be a new quiz for you to take after each…
4A · Further practice in using connectors
This quiz gives you some further practice on how to connect ideas using adequate linking words. Would you like to have a go at it?
4A · Further practice on question tags
Click on the links below to learn and practise a few more advanced points about the use of question tags: a4esl.org ihbristol.com englisch-hilfen.de
3 CAL 22 · Thursday 28 November 2013
Hello guys! Here’s a short summary of our latest class — last Thursday’s. First, we did an activity about how to pronounce sentences with ‘be able to’ in a natural way. If you weren’t in class, you can
4A 22 · Thursday 28 November 2013
Hello everyone! Here’s some information about Thursday’s class for those of you interested. During the first half of the class we finished dealing with the Practical English 2 section of our coursebook. We focused on
‘Jess, Jew are’ (all levels)
Click on the links below to practise the contrast in pronunciation between words like yes and Jess, you and Jew, etc. www.inglesmundial.com www.pronunciaringles.com
3 CAL 21 · Tuesday 26 November 2013
Hello everybody! On Tuesday we had quite a few power cuts in our school. After a couple of them between 7 and 7:10, we agreed to leave and make up the class (=recuperar la clase) as soon as possible (probably…
4A 21 · Tuesday 26 November 2013
Hiya guys! Tuesday’s class started off with a vocabulary activity focused on words with more than one meaning (e.g. run a race vs run a company). Then we
3 CAL 20 · Thursday 21 November 2013
Hello friends! On Thursday we watched another clip from the Practical English 2 section of our course book, and then did activities 2a and 2c from pages 32 and 33. After 2c,
4A 20 · Thursday 21 November 2013
Hiya guys! Here’s our usual summary of our latest class. We started off by trying to give adequate definitions of nouns, verbs or adjectives using expressions like ‘This is the type of person who …’,’This is what you do when…
3 CAL 19 · Tuesday 19 November 2013
Hello friends! Tuesday’s class started with a power cut — the lights went out and our class didn’t start until 7:20 or so. First, we did
4A 19 · Tuesday 19 November 2013
Hello everybody! Tuesday’s class started with an introduction to The Catcher in the Rye. First, some basic formation was given about its author, its protagonist (Holden Caulfield) and its themes. Then, we read (and heard) the first paragraph of the…
4A · A survey: what I like best about learning English is …
Hiya! Last Thursday we practised structures like ‘What I fancy doing now is … ‘ by completing the sentence beginnings in exercise 3c of unit 5C from our course book (page 77). Would you like to do some more practice on…
4A · Where can I buy “The Catcher in the Rye”?
Hiya! On Thursday some students asked me about places where you can get a copy of The Catcher in the Rye. These are some of the bookshops where apparently you can find the book (at prices ranging from 6 to 10…
4A 18 · Thursday 14 November 2013
Hello everyone! On Thursday we spent most of our time doing and correcting grammar exercises on the use of relative pronouns. First, we
3 CAL 18 · Thursday 14 November 2013
Hello friends! Here’s a summary of Thursday’s class (and also information about homework for the next). On Thursday we continued practising the prepositions that we need to use after
3 CAL 17 · Tuesday 12 November 2013
Hello friends! How’s everybody doing? Fine — here’s our summary of Tuesday’s class. We warmed up a little bit with a guessing game. One of the students thought of an action and the rest of the class had to guess…
4A 17 · Tuesday 12 November 2013
Hi everybody! Tuesday’s class started with a warm up activity in which students tried out their ‘telepathising’ abilities using exercise 4a in unit 5C from our course book. (We have speaking abilities, listening abilities, etc., so I guess we also have…
3 CAL · “Wonderful world”, by Sam Cooke
Samuel Cook (January 22, 1931 – December 11, 1964), known by his stage name Sam Cooke, was an American recording singer and songwriter. Cooke is considered to be one of the pioneers and founders of soul music and is commonly known as…
4A 16 · Thursday 7 November 2013
Hello friends! Here’s a short summary of Thursday’s class and some information about homework for next week and about this year’s reader — J. D. Salinger’s The catcher in the rye, a 20th-century American literature classic. But first things first. To…
3 CAL 16 · Thursday 7 November 2013
Hello friends! How are you doing? Ready to enjoy the weekend? Well, before that, here’s a short summary of Thursday’s class for those of you who might need it. During the first half of the class Rob conducted a really…
4A · Halloween quiz
After you’ve read the worksheet about Halloween, please take the quiz below to review some useful expressions we need to use on that holiday.
4A 15 · Tuesday 5 November 2013
Hiya everybody! Is everything going well? Great! This past Tuesday we did a pair work activity in which students had to guess nouns, adjectives, verbs or adverbs using prefixes and suffixes like the ones we’ve been learning in the last…
3 CAL 15 · Tuesday 5 November 2013
Hello friends! On Tuesday we heard the texts on stereotypes about men and women from unit 3A in our course book. Then we corrected the vocabulary exercise in which you had to match highlighted expressions from the text to their…
3 CAL · “I’m gonna be (500 miles)”, by The Proclaimers
Watch The Proclaimers sing their 1988 hit “I’m gonna be (500 miles)” while you read the lyrics using the photocopy that was given out in class. The second video is
4A · “You’re so vain”, by Carly Simon
Here’s Carly Simon singing her 1972 hit “You’re so vain” live on TV. Then you can sing along …
3 CAL 14 · Thursday 31 October 2013
Hello everybody! On Thursday we spent some time learning a few interesting things (many of them new to us) about Halloween in New York. Our English assistant Rob Harrison told us about them and
4A 14 · Thursday 31 October 2013
Hiya friends! Here’s a summary of our latest class — Thursday 31 October, Halloween. We started off with some homework correction: we checked the answers to a listening activity from file 5A in our course book (the answer key is on…
4A 13 · Tuesday 29 October 2013
Hello friends! Today’s class started with a game of hexagons in which we revised 25 of the nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs we’ve been learning lately. (There used to be a game show on a British TV channel under the…
4A 12 · Thursday 25 October 2013
Hello everyone! On Thursday’s class we read a text about a man with a really powerful memory and learned a number of tricks which we can easily use in order to remember such things as telephone numbers, email addresses or…
4A 11 · Tuesday 22 October 2013
Hiya friends! Here’s some information about yesterday’s class (which was less populated than usual, probably because of the heavy rains we had). We started off with another ‘do you have a photographic memory?’ activity which lead to a discussion about
4A 10 · Thursday 17 October 2013
Hello everybody! On Thursday we checked the answers to the exercises in Grammar Bank 5A from our course book. Then
4A 09 · Tuesday 15 October 2013
Hello friends! This is a brief summary of what we did in our English class on Tuesday. For starters, we tried to guess the meaning of a somehow enigmatic sentence: NO LISTEN THE ASK. It was heard
4A 08 · Thursday 10 October 2013
Hiya, friends! Everything alright? Great! This Thursday we started our class checking the answers to the exercises in the Vocabulary Bank section about animals from our course book. We drilled the pronunciation of some of the newer names (‘budgerigar’, ‘eel’,…
4A · A survey: so long, nap!
Hello friends! Now we’ve discussed the issue of whether the Spanish government should or should not change our country’s official time zone and turn our clocks back 1 hour, let’s start a survey to know what the students of our…
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