My favorite day

Describing a friend :)

Practice your reading skills and look up for the words you don't understand in the dictionary.

Games and exercises to practice English

1)  After doing the last sesion,  you can play a bit with the classmate next to you!  

Go to:

 http://www.eslgamesworld.com/Revision/Level1/play.html


2) What about plurals?

http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=723


3)  Let's practice demostratives here:

http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=4617


4)  This is a physical description exercise:

http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=8358

Sesion 2 (Afternoon group): Activities to practice first week with Monique

1.    Go to this link and play a game to practice numbers:

https://elt.oup.com/student/englishforlife/beg/a_games/e4l_game_7?cc=co&selLanguage=en

Now, test yourself with additions and complete the crosswords:

https://elt.oup.com/student/americanenglishfile/1/b_vocabulary/vocabulary1_1?cc=co&selLanguage=en



2.  Open this link and do lessons A and B

https://elt.oup.com/student/americanenglishfile/1/a_grammar/file01/?cc=co&selLanguage=en


3.  Practice the verb to be with ego4u:

http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/simple-present/form/exercises?06


4.  Next, practice countries and nationalities a bit

http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=2122

Sesion 3: Family

1. Practice the vocabulary related to the family.

https://elt.oup.com/student/americanenglishfile/1/b_vocabulary/vocabulary1_6?cc=co&selLanguage=en


2.  Play hangman with th vocabulary related to the family

http://www.englishexercises.org/hangman/game.asp?id=9959


3.  Read the description of this family and draw the family tree.

Jack is married to Alice. She is his wife and he is her husband. They have a daughter and son. The son's name is Henry and the daughter's name is Lisa. They live next to Alice's parents, Harry and Marjorie. Harry is Alice's father and Marjorie is her mother. Harry is Jack's father-in-law and Marjorie is his mother-in-law. Henry is Harry's grandson and Lisa is Marjorie's granddaughter. Alice has a sister and a brother. Her sister's name is Mary and her brother's name is Frank. Frank has two children, David and Sherrie. Sherrie is Alice's niece and David is Alice's nephew. Alice is their aunt and Jack is their uncle.


4.  Watch the video and write the relations among Simpson's family members according to the expamples. (Use the correct possesive) 

Links to study English by myself

• This is a list of interesting links you can use to study English by yourselves, or with Paula.  

https://www.duolingo.com/  
(All levels)

Curso de Inglés que sirve para practicar, aprender vocabulario y reforzar estructuras. También puede ser utilizado como aplicación.

http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/    
(All levels)

Explicación de la articulación de sonidos

http://www.elllo.org/     
(All levels)

Ejercicios de escucha sobre diferentes temas

http://www.listenaminute.com/   
(Level 3)

Ejercicios de escucha, ejercicios de comprensión.

http://eslgamesworld.com/

Juegos

http://www.ego4u.com  
 (All levels)

Gramática, vocabulario, tests

http://www.agendaweb.org/
(All levels)

Ejercicios de gramática, videos

http://ngl.cengage.com/products/worldlink    
(All levels)

Ejercicios de dictado

http://www.busuu.com/es/   
(All levels)

Curso de inglés con diferentes actividades de acuerdo con habilidades. Comunidad en línea para conversar con hablantes nativos de la lengua que queramos practicar.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/
(Level 2, 3)

Inglés general y de negocios, gramática, vocabulario, pronunciación, noticias, quizzes, comunidad.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learning/subjects/english.shtml 
(Level 3)

Artículos cortos relacionados con diferentes áreas.

http://www.ted.com/

Conferencias sobre diferentes temas.  Posibilidad de tener subtítulos en inglés o español.

Grupo en Facebook:   https://www.facebook.com/englishisgreat

http://text-to-speech.imtranslator.net/

Página en la que se puede escuchar los textos que se quieran practicar.

http://www.manythings.org/

Diferentes actividades,  ejercicios de escucha, pronunciación, videos

http://www.agendaweb.org/listening/elem_interm.html

Ejercicios variados

Sesion 2 (morning group): A place I want to visit

• After watching the presentation and listening to the music, think about a place you want to visit.

Prepare a short presentacion about the city or place similar to the one Paula showed and explained to you.

Sesion 1: How to use dictionaries

In this workshop with Paula, you are going to understand the importance of dictionaries and how to look words up in them.

1. First:  Go to this link: 

http://www.turtlediary.com/grade-2-games/ela-games/how-to-use-dictionary.html

2.  After  understanding how use dictionaries, it is time to practice a bit with the ones you can find on the            web.

Open these links:

http://www.wordreference.com/

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/es/

3.  (a)  Read this short article related to origins of words in English

     (b) Look the highlited words up in one of the online dictionaries you have openened.

     (c)  Write the correct words to complete the chart 

(a) 

(b)

                                                                                                                                             (c)

                                                                                                                     

4.  Let's practice with a song

Stand by me

Ben E. King

When the (1) ______ has come
and the (2) _______ is dark
and the (3)______ is the only light we'll see
no I won't be afraid, no I won't be afraid
just as long as you stand, stand by me
so darlin', darlin', stand by me, oh stand by me
oh stand by me, stand by me

If the (4) ______that we look upon
should tumble and (5) ______
all the (6) _______ should crumble to the (7)_______
I won't (8)______, I won't (8) _______, no I won't shed a tear
just as long as you stand, stand by me
and darlin', darlin', stand by me, oh stand by me
oh stand now, stand by me, stand by me-e

----- guitar -----

whenever you're in trouble won't you stand by me, oh now now stand by me
oh stand by me, stand by me, stand by me
darlin', darlin', stand by me-e, stand by me
oh stand by me, stand by me, stand by me

 (1)  

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

(7)

(8)

Listen to the song and check your findings!