20 minutes: Two of our students will do the oral presentation.
15 minutes: You are going to practise listenings at esl-lab. You must do at least 3 listenings (doing the listening activities and the vocabulary [if you have time for that]). Listen to Christmas is coming (EASY), A Story to remember (MEDIUM) and A Free Cell Phone (DIFFICULT).
15 minutes: I don't know if this is going to work because of our low speed Internet connection, but let's try. If you can't do during the class, it will be your homework for next week.
We are going to listen to songs and fill in the blanks of the lyrics. Go here, create a new account (on the right, above the picture and under sign in), choose a song (easy or medium level to start with), choose a mode (you can start with elementary). Then, listen to the song and try to fill in the blanks. Write your comments here about the activity. Could you do it? Did the video download? Was it too easy/difficult? Don't forget to include your name in the comment.
Dear Students,
This weekend, it is quite simple. You have to give an opinion about the English play you saw last week: Pygmalion. You have to speak for at least a minute, so don't just say: "I like it" or "It was Ok" or "It sucked". Talk about the actors, the English, the costumes, the script, etc.
After connecting your headphones to the computer, open the program speech trainer (there should be an icon on your desktop), write your name, do the tutorial and then unit one of any of the books. Try to keep your microphone near your mouth, since there will probably be lots of noise in the classroom. Tell me how it went. Raise your hand if you have a technical problem in case I can fix it.
25 minutes: Go to the wonderful blog of my colleague Ana Méndez, listen to one of the stories as many times as you need and then some people will tell us what their stories were about.
-First row left: story number 1
-First row right: story number 2
-Second row left: story number 3
-Second row right: story number 4
-Third row left: story number 5
-Third row right : story number 6
-Fourth row left: story number 7
-Fourth row left: story number 8
5 minutes: You will all watch a video with the overhead proyector.
Have a nice weekend. I won't see you next week, since Thursday is a local holiday.
Javier
First of all, we are going to work with the CD-ROM from your book. If you don't have it, raise your hand and talk to your teacher. We are mainly going to revise module 1. For that purpose, you are going to do:
Do you believe in magic? Let's see if Akinator can guess the name of the famous person you have thought of. Think of a famous person, answer the questions and that's it.
10 minutes:
If you have time, go to jarroy68's videos on the right of the blog and watch video number 5, French learning English.
Write a comment in English to today's lesson here. Don't forget to include your name.
20 minutes: Nacho and Elena will do their oral presentations.
15 minutes: Do you believe in magic? Let's see if our genius, Akinator, can guess the name of the famous person you are thinking of. Try to think of a famous person and then click on play and answer the questions the genius will ask you. Let me know if he guessed your famous people.
15 minutes: To finish today, it is time to sing. I know it is going to be chaotic, but let's see if the Internet connection lets you all sing. It's karaoke time. Don't worry it you are not an expert singer, just have a good time. Go to this page, choose a free song (the ones with no padlock), wait for it to download, read the lyrics and sing at the same time. When you have finished, tell me your score. If you want to sing a song which has a padlock you will have to register first by clicking on "register" at the top right hand corner of the screen. Good luck.
This is the schedule for today's lesson: 15 minutes: Let's start with some phonetics. We will learn the phonetic symbols and their sound to help you improve your pronunciation in English.
Have you ever wondered what those strange symbols are that appear next to words in the dictionary?
They are a guide to pronounciation called Phonetics. Those symbols represent sounds, of which there are roughly 44 in the English language. Since there are only 26 letters in the alphabet, 44 characters are used to represent them all. Phonics should be a part of every student's tools for learning a language.
There is no end to our study of grammar and vocabulary but phonemic symbols are limited, visual and physical. They may seem challenging at first but it is like learning to swim or ride a bicycle. Once you can do it, it is easy and you never forget.
Why should you learn the different English sounds? Why should you learn the symbols? Watch the next video to find out:
We will be using to practice phonetics, BBC Learning English, to know the hows and whys of what we are going to learn about. Start by clicking on the sound /i/ and doing the activities in Unit 1. Then write a comment about the different exercises you have done.
15 minutes: Do you believe in magic? Let's see if our genius, Akinator, can guess the name of the famous person you are thinking of. Try to think of a famous person and then click on play and answer the questions the genius will ask you. Let me know if he found your famous people.
15 minutes: To finish today, it is time to sing. I know it is going to be chaotic, but let's see if the Internet connection lets you all sing. It's karaoke time. Don't worry it you are not an expert singer, just have a good time. Go to this page, choose a free song (the ones with no padlock), wait for it to download, read the lyrics and sing at the same time. When you have finished, tell me your score. If you want to sing a song which has a padlock you will have to register first by clicking on "register" on the top right hand corner of the screen. Good luck.
Javier
We are going to play a game of Trivial one of these days, so I think it would be interesting if you wrote some questions and answers for the game. Apart from English, there are 4 other categories:
1.- History and Geography
2.- Cinema and Sports
3.- Art and literature
4.- Science
I want you to send me an email to my usual address javiprofeingles@hotmail.com with AT LEAST 16 QUESTIONS, (4 for each category). Don't forget to write the answer (or the possible options with the correct one) and to include your name.
Hope you enjoy playing.
Javier
Since I didn't publish the post before, something simple and fun that will only take you about 20 minutes or so. You have to watch the first video on the right of this blog, the one with the blond guy making 24 different accents. Then, you have to send me an email to javiprofeingles@hotmail.com saying which accent did you find the easiest, which one the most difficult and the transcript of what he says in AT LEAST TWO ACCENTS.
Remember you have your first listening exam on Thursday, so listen to as much English as you can.
