Modals

Here you are this presentation to practise the verbs we are just studying, i hope it helps you.

Modals

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Merry Christmas!

I wish you all very merry Christmas and a very happy new year with this wonderful song



Have good holidays

Christmas time is here!

Christmas is the most widely celebrated festival in the whole world today, after New year. It has grown beyond being a religious Christians-only festival and now it is enjoyed by people from all faiths. In most of the countries, the whole week from 25th December to 1st is a holiday, which adds to the festive spirit. If you click on Santa you will find greeting cards, personalized Christmas gifts, wallpapers, screensavers, crafts, recipes, history, activities, decorations and many more.
Merry Christmas!

Past Perfect

We are going to work with the movie "Falling Down", here you are a sketch of it. Watch it, don't try to understand every word, just the global meaning and the action, we will work it in class next day trying to use the Past perfect we have just studied by writing sentences about what had happened by the time...



This is the Worksheet to work with, next day, you can start practising with it.
Past Perfect

Thanksgiving

The First Thanksgiving Day was celebrated to give thanks to God for helping the pilgrims survive the brutal winter. The first Thanksgiving feast lasted three days providing enough food for 53 pilgrims and 90 Indians. The traditional Thanksgiving menu often features turkey, stuffing, sweet potatoes and pumpkin pie.
Presently it is celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November,and it has been an annual tradition in the United States since 1863.

Past simple or Present Perfect?

Try this quiz to practise the difference between these two tenses. Remember I'll get your scores and time on my page. You can also practise on the pages I recommended you.

Past simple or Present Perfect? » Quiz Maker

Easy idioms

Here you are some easy idioms to work with. I hope you enjoy the exercise. We will correct it on Tuesday.
Idioms

Comenius: a new project

We are involved in a new project. It is an european program in which we try to encourage Reading. Our program name is "Reading for travelling through the paths of life" and our partners are: Bulgaria, Hungary, Italy, Romania and Turkey. The program consists of the exchange of experiences among these countries in order to improve Reading encouragement techniques. IES Mediterraneo library won the third prize on a national contest called: "Concurso nacional de buenas prácticas para la dinamización e innovación de las bibliotecas de centros escolares para el año 2007", announced by the Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia. Based on this project the school applied for the Comenius program and was accepted, that's why our school is now coordinating this Comenius program. We have made a web page on Wikispaces that we'd like to share with you. You'll be able to easily join our discussions.I hope you'll join us! Just click on the image on the right and you'll go there.
We have also a blog in which you can follow the news and write comments on them. If you click on its image you'll go there, too.

Halloween is here!

Tomorrow will be a great day! We've been preparing the play with effort an illusion and I'm sure everything is going to be perfect! I hope your comments after it. I am very grateful to my collegues Caridad Quevedo for her imagination writing the play and to Jose García because she made it possible with her great activity of organization. Thanks again to you all!

Time is gold

Add fun to your classroom games and activities with the time bomb counter. At the end of a given time the bomb explodes. Click on the image and you'll find more fun teaching tools. You can even download some of them.

Ciclo Superior Educación Infantil

Here you are a cute video to teach your future pupils the Alphabet. Listen to it and... REPEAT!


The Alphabet Song - Watch the top videos of the week here

A useful tool

I want to show you a place where you can get any text translated word by word. Its name is LINGRO and it is very easy: when you enter LINGO you write the address of the webpage you want to translate, choose the language and wait for a few seconds, afterwards you can click on any word you don't know and it will be inmediately translated, you can even listen to its sound. Fantastic! I've found it thanks to a colleague's blog. Thank you Carmen!

Present Perfect

You can download the presentation I have used to explain this tense. You only have to click on the "b" you can see at the left bottom of the presentation, it sends you to the page where you can download it. It is easy!
You can also practise the tenses we have seen by clicking on the left side bar under "Exercises on line" and looking for the tense you want to work. Don't forget to study the rules for the test on Tuesday.

Present Perfect

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Hello my new students!

Welcome to my blog. As you can see it tries to give you a little help with your English learning. I will explain how it works in class because I think it can be useful for you to find more resources to practise your english in a funny way.

Bye, dear Elcano students

My time as a teacher there is over. Thank you very much for helping me to enjoy my job, it has been wonderful to work with you all for these twenty years. You have been the best part of my job, sometimes it has been a challenge to get you motivated but when I got it, you really made me happy.
My new school is IES Mediterráneo and I will be there at your disposal, as usual. It’s exciting to have a new project ahead: after so many years working in the same school.
Remember this is also your blog and I hope you will keep taking part in it whenever you want. It’s always a pleasure to read your comments, they feed the blog and help me to improve it.

Thank you again, my dear students!

Rosanna's recipe

This a recipe Rosanna gave me last week, Victoria sponge cake, I've made it following her instructions and the result was fantastic, I recommend it to you all to celebrate the end of the classes.
Ingredients:
112g of unsalted butter or margarine (I prefer butter)
112g of flour with a teaspoon of baking powder
112g of sugar
2 eggs.
Preheat the oven to 180º. Grease two cake tins (15cm) with butter.
Stir the butter and sugar together. Stir the eggs, one at a time, then stir in the flour with the baking powder. Divide the cake mix into the tins and bake in the oven for around 20 minutes. Allow the cakes to cool slightly, then take them out of the tins to cool completely.
For the filling stir together 50g of butter and 100g of icing sugar. Spread some jam onto one of the cakes and the buttercream on the other, then sanswich them together.
Easy, isn't it?