Creating modern videos

                                               Making videos through pictures 

Recipe of special American pumpkin pie

 

Irregular verbs

 

Listening to the song "Feel"

The following activity can be considered as a consolidation listening and speaking task to practice the present simple tense form in a funny way. One of the advantages of practising with youtube is that it is so motivating if you start practicing the lyrics song first with subtitles,and then without subtitles.You will like using lyricstraining in the beginner level,then you continue the following steps,so you keep all the time motivated.

As in commonsense education org has been said,lyricstraining must be used with caution because many contemporary songs include highly inappropriate language in a first or second ESO school setting.

I have introduced you what you have to do below,it's called 3 steps listening activity.Why don't you read them carefully before watching the video.I really hope you enjoy a lot.

3 STEPS LISTENING ACTIVITY

A) Watch the video ,listen to the song "Feel" and pay attention to present simple verbs.

B) Practice again and fill in the gaps beginner level enjoy lyricstraining.

C) Now you are ready to fill in the gaps activity in this worksheet Feel.

When you finish you can choose your favourite song and practice filling the words again and again.Remember ask your teacher before if the song is appropriate for you or not.That's very important!

Reading short stories in Duolingo

Reading becomes a motivating activity if you read and listen at the same time,this is how a great collection of short stories in Duolingo help you to understand what you are reading easily.

Why are they so easy? because you only answer some questions to check the information,you choose the right answer or just put in order words to make simple sentences while you are reading.It's so intuitive,just press the continue botton and magic!

The topics are so different,for example,una cita /a date,una sorpresa /a surprise,en el museo /at the museum,el examen /the exam and more.Why don't you start right now,the stories are adapted at different levels so you can go forward or try the times you need to get prizes.

Telling the time

According to Alex Case for usingenglish.com, in English there are basically three ways of telling the time.

A) “Ten past seven in the morning”

B) “Seven thirty five p.m.” 

C) “Sixteen twenty”

telling the time in english

practice worksheets

Now we are going to use the first method to review how to tell the time in English.Let's study a mindmap,some bingo cards,oral pairwork practice,listening activities and production exercises.I'm sure you know more things than you remember.

Let's start clicking the first link,it is the explanation of the topic and then in the second one do activities to practice time expressions with your classmates.

Learning this vocabulary can help you to improve and reinforce,not only third person present simple tense form,but also the"let me introduce myself"writing task or the speaking task I have proposed you to do.

More resources:

exercise

dialogue exercises

Let's talk about you

• Interview another student by using the following conversation cards to talk about you (click on the link speaking about you below) 👦👧
• Use present simple tense and expressions to ask questions about pets 🐶🐱.music🎵,sports ⚽🏀
• Use simple structure: subject + verb + complements 💭
• Write your answers in your notebook 📓
• Tell the class about the person you interviewed  😄💬
• Why don't you record the audio through vocaroo and send to your teacher.

     Speaking about you

Grammar: present,past and future

Let's learn present ,past and future be going to in English through the following easy-to-learn lesson plans including explanations and some interactive activities too.They are the purple capital letters links.I hope you understand them well if you watch the video before since it is explained in Spanish.

I want you to concentrate first  on the present simple because you need to understand it before doing the tasks I have proposed you to do in other posts.

Do you know another form to express future simple in English?

                                            PRESENT SIMPLE

                                            PAST SIMPLE

                                           

                                            FUTURE GOING TO

Let me introduce myself

Now why don't you write an introduction yourself?

How can we do it? It's so easy,just follow these instructions,click the link below,it's so intuitive,isn't it?

1. Include your name,your city,your age,your favourite school subjects,your free time activities.🏡📐📕🎸🎥🎳
2. Write when is your favourite day of the week and month,then explain why.🌈
3. Next write about your favourite food and drinks.🍜🍔🍨🍶
4. Remember writing about why do you study English too.💖
5. To help you use the information in the boxes about months,school subjects,hobbies,movies,jobs and reasons.📋
6. Comment with your classmates.💬

👇let me introduce myself

At the beach video activity

This activity consists in learning structures,vocabulary,grammar in a contextualized and real situation. You can do it individually or pairwork.Enjoy watching the video with subtitles in Spanish about Suppandi at the beach,the second one without subtitles and finally answer these questions in your notebook,ask your teacher if you don't understand difficult words: 

  

A) What can Suppandi do at the beach?

B) Describe the picture on your own words.Use useful expressions like there is/are,it's...

C) Which words are confusing? Write down them and look up in the wordreference dictionary.

D) Do you know the meaning of these words or are new for you?

E) Can you see some examples of present simple tense do/don't,does/doesn't,verbs ending in -s?

F) Where do you think is Suppandi from? 

G) Do you understand him or it's difficult for you?

H) Do you like the video?

I)  Comment your answers with your classmates to correct the questions.