I wish I could take my students around the world,
we could speak in English all the time;
since I can't,
I write this blog,
and I hope it helps them to learn
and love the English language as much as I do.
Before we go on holidays, I want to introduce you the new page that the English Department at the Moodle platform. My mates have been working hard to upload the activities you can do during the summer to review English and pass the exam in September. They have already uploaded activities for 1st and 2nd ESO (both at the 1st ESO section of Moodle, just follow the link on top). When you enter the page, you have to register to get access, but it is very simple and in Spanish! If you want to know the dates of the exams in September, you can also have a look at them at the official website of IES Tartessos, you have a summary of the English dates, all of them on the 2nd September:
1st
language
2nd
language
1st ESO
10h00
11h00
2nd ESO
11h00
10h00
3rd ESO
10h00
11h00
4th ESO
11h00
10h00
2ºPCPI
11h00
X
1st
Bachillerato
8h00-9h45
(Hz 1&2)
9h45-11h30
2nd
Bachillerato
9h45-11h30
(Hz 3&4)
X
All the ESO exams will last one hour and will be held in the SUM of the school. The bachillerato exams will last longer and will be held in Haza.
Dear Students,
At last you areon holidays, after a few months of hard work, we have two months and a few days to recover ourselves and enjoy life. Some of you will have to study still because you did not get good results, not many in English, because this year many of my students have passed.
In the month of August I will be visiting the United Kingdom and I will probably be telling it to you here in the blog.
I wanted to say thank you to all of you who read this blog and follow me on Twitter. I always have you in mind when writing these posts and most of the times when twitting. I know I said in class I would follow you when holidays come, but I changed my mind: I will look at your timelines and decide, but probably, will wait until you go out of school, that is, until you are ex-students. I tell you this just to make things clear and also to let you know that I completely understand if you want to unfollow me.
It has been a pleasure teaching you this year and I wish you a great holidays full of experiences. HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!
Same bed but
it feels just a little bit bigger now
Our song on
the radio but it don't sound the same
When our friends
talk about you, all it does is just tear me down
Cause my heart
breaks a little when I hear your name
It all just
sounds like oooooh…
CHORUS:
Mmm, too
young, too dumb to realize
That I should
've bought you flowers
And held your
hand
Should 've
gave you all my hours
When I had the
chance
Take you to
every party
Cause all you
wanted to do was dance
Now my baby's
dancing
But she's
dancing with another man
My pride, my
ego, my needs, and my selfish ways
Caused a good
strong woman like you to walk out my life
Now I never,
never get to clean up the mess I made, ohh…
And it haunts
me every time I close my eyes
It all just
sounds like oooooh…
CHORUS
Although it
hurts
I'll be the first
to say that I was wrong
Oh, I know I'm
probably much too late
To try and
apologize for my mistakes
But I just
want you to know
I hope he buys
you flowers
I hope he
holds your hand
Gives you all
his hours
When he has
the chance
Take you to
every party
Cause I
remember how much you loved to dance
Do all the
things I should 've done
When I was
your man
Do all the
things I should 've done
When I was your man
Preparing ourselves for the holidays... I chose this song by Bruno Mars which contains the perfect modal "should have" that makes part of the only unit we have not seen this year, you can learn more about modals in this post and enjoy this song as much as I do.
In the second term, we have worked on the Word of the Day project of which I have already told you. I show you some of the examples. For me, the most important thing is that my students get to expose their works in public and in English!! Thanks to all of them!!
We have been working in the second term on how to present and learn new vocabulary, so my students chose a word and explained it to their mates with the support, digital or not, that they wanted. On this day, @SergioVeil presented the word leader with the help of a powerpoint presentation.
We are finishing the course, and it is true that we, teachers have worked a lot, but I am very happy to say that some of our students have worked hard too. I am going to present you some of the works that my students have done, starting with @Nerea_Lobo and @MariaAlonso1998. They accepted the challenge of imagining how Phileas Fogg would travel today and also of using a digital tool to present it, you can see the result on top, and if you press the link, you see it completely. Good work girls!!! What do you think of their work? Please leave your comments and say!!
When we write or speak, we use all the verb tenses, not one at a time. However, we tend to follow a coherent TIMELINE, that is, verbs that are at the same level of sentence organization, tend to have the same verb tense, unless there is a marker ( adverb, time complement...)
Issues to take into account:
When we speak about general topics (which are the same in the past, present and future), we use the simple present.
When we are talking about the time of speaking or an extended time of speaking (that is, not only now, but these six weeks in opposition to the next or past six weeks), we use the present continuous.Markers: now, right now, at the moment, this term, this year, this week...
When we are talking about things that are finished in the past, we use the past simple. Also when we are talking about things that happened one after the other, or actions that interrupt another action in progress (this one in the past continuous) Markers: ago, last week, last year, in+year, in a time clause when the main clause is in the past coontinuous...When we are talking about simultaneous actions in the past, we use the past continuous, as well as if we want to describe a scene in a narration. We use the past perfect simple when we want to talk about something that happened before something else in the past. Markers: ever, never, already, just, still, yet, for and since, also with the first time... When we are talking about routines or habits in the past, we use the structure used to, we can also use the modal would if we talk about actions and not states. If the action we are talking about started in the past but is somehow related to the present we have to use the present perfect. Markers: already, just, still, yet...if we wan to emphasize the progress, we use the present perfect continuous.
For the future, we also have several uses which you can see in this post.Markers: tomorrow, next week, next month
In order to practice all this, go to these places:
Complete revision, tenses chart and exercises at English page
I think this is enough for the moment, remember, if you have any problems, you can always contact me, write down your doubts while doing the exercises.
We have been working on food and recipes and verbs and everything which has to do with that, we have been very, very hungry. We decided that we would not make the composition that comes in the textbook, but that we would make posters with the food of the place that they chose, and here we have the results:
Are you hungry now?
As we do not have much place on our class' walls, we will see them here ;-P
