Prezi: Writing about Formal Letter of Application

This prezi has different paragraphs and phrases to help our students in this task.

Hope you like it!

https://prezi.com/n8ap6ziefsot/write-a-formal-letter/

Power Point: Modal Verbs

This is a presentatio I used with my secondary students before using Prezi.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1RHkUruHHD_NZ9x2oMJzlwKb_WOUQtCxy

Prezi: Writing a Review

This Prezi explains how to write a good review. It has many sentences your students can use in their compositions.

https://prezi.com/fbuiqbrzq38d/writing-a-review/

Power Point: Guessing Game

I use this game with primary students. It is about objects in the house.

Have fun!

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1_zY4N_bQgpZ7D_F702lcd4Hfk9V64KlW

Vocabulary of Sports: Unscramble the letters!!

SCRAMBLED OLYMPIC SPORTS  --  UNSCRAMBLE THE LETTERS TO FIND THE NAMES OF THE SPORTS!

1.  CHOKEY	21. MIM WINGS
2.  SCORCE	22. NIX BOG
3.  FLAT BOLO	23. CISS MY TANG
4.  SELL BABA	24. I SHOOK TEN GETS (2)
5.  DON BIT MAN	25. I WRONG
6.  RED LUSH	26. THAT ONE PLAN
7.  IN SENT	27. CIDS US
8.  BLAK TABLES	28. PRINTS
9.  TINOS HOG	29. PH HUG JIM (2)
10. BE LOVLY ALL	30. GRIN WELTS
11. CRY HEAR	31. CUN GIRL
12.  PLOT VALUE (2)	32. NEC FING
13.  NNOPPIGG (2)	33. YANK A KIG
14. FLOG	34. GYN CLIC
15. I SING LA	35. GRINS
16. I JUST UJI (2)	36. A LION BATH
17. KATS NEED PIGS (2)	37. PUSH TOT
18. ZINC SED HORNY MIMS WING (2)	38. LIVE JAN
19. I GIVD IN	39. POLITER MAN
20. NO RAT HAM	40. NUN GRIN

Vocabulary: Traffic Signs

Telling the time

Speaking Questions

These questions are very useful to start new conversations and to practice speaking with beginners.

·         What´s your name?

·         What´s your surname?                             

           Can you spell your surname?

·         What is your marital status? (single/married)

·         What are you hobbies and interests?

·         Where are you from?

·         Are you married, single or divorced?

·       What´s your phone number?

·       What is your address? Avenida –Avenue

CALLE- STREET

 I LIVE ENSANCHE DE VALLECAS AVENUE, 28 NUMBER 6, 1ST FLOOR DOOR B

MODULO- PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATION GRADE AT SPORTS IN THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT

·       What is your email address?

·       What do you do?

·       Can you drive?

·       How many languages can you speak?

·       What are your strengths?  I am responsible, organised, punctual, dynamic,

·       What are your weak points? I am too competitive. When I get home I worry a lot about my job,

·        Why do you want to work with us? I love this job, I love sport, I love the company

·        What do you know about our company? It is very well-known, it is good. The atmosphere is relaxed. It takes care of employees

·        Tell me about your qualifications ( education) and proffesional experience.

Board Games: Passive Voice

I also found this game about the Passive Voice. It is very entrtainin gnad my students practice passive voice really well with it.

Enjoy it!

Board Game: Conditionals Type 1 and 2

I found this game on the Internet.

Hope you like it!

PPT Talk for a minute

This presentatios is very useful to make our students speak for a minute. At first it is more simple but it becomes more and more difficult with every letter.

Hope you like it!

https://drive.google.com/open?id=12yJPCBxypfwAA8i_wDQbDP0dJNa2eae_

Phonetics

English Ponemes are very important for a good pronunciation in English.

This is a complete chart and also very visual with the vowels and consonants.

Reading Comprehension: Travelling

TRAVELLING

 The government has recently presented its plans for air travel. It wants to make the two London airports bigger. Some people have already started complaining. They say that planes already make too much noise and cause too much pollution. They also say that the air travel is very cheap and easy. They think that the government should make air travel more expensive and stop people travelling by plane.

Of course there are problems with air travel but there are also so many good things about it.

My grandparents never went abroad and they didn’t know much about the rest of the world. They thought that the north of England was a foreign country. My life is very, very different. I work for a German company, so I often need to travel to Germany, I live with my Argentinean wife, and we go to Japanese, Italian, Spanish restaurants. We watch films from all over the world. We speak three different languages.

 Long ago it took days to travel from Europe to America and only rich people could travel, but now things have changed a lot. You can find very cheap tickets in the Internet. We sometimes go to Holland to spend the weekend –or France or Spain.

1. Give full answers to the following questions:

a) What are the plans the English government has?

 b) Do people agree with those plans? Say why/why not?

 c) What do they say about airplanes?

d) How different is the writer’s life from his grandparents?

e) Where does the writer sometimes spend the weekends?

2. Say if these statements are true or false. Provide some evidence from the text.

1. My grandparents thought that the south of England was a foreign country.

2. People can find cheap tickets in the Internet.

3. Find words or phrases that mean:

1. Contamination

2. In a foreign country

3. Business

4. 1 Change into the passive voice: “ The government has recently presented plans for air travel”

4.2 Write the question for the underlines part of this answer: “Some people have already started complaining”

4.3 Write the following sentence into the reported speech: “ My grandparents never went abroad and they didn’t know much about the rest of the world”

PPT Who wants to be a millionaire?

This is the perfect game for students. It is very motivating and it reviews the vocabulary about sports!

Enjoy it!

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1atEvSi0MOw_yk6MEkJ992CWIyZCGO6DS

Basic Reading Comprehension: Speedy

1.                  Fill in the gaps using the right option.

SPEEDY

She can do amazing things with a bike but, can she win an Olympic gold medal? Meet Shanaze, the queen of BMX racing.

Who is Shanaze?

Shanaze Reade, nineteen, is fast and brave and she wants to win. Her friends call her ‘Speedy Readey’ and you can see why, as she flies 1)_______ the race track on her bike.

What is BMX?

BMX, which was a new sport for the Beijing Olympics, is an extremely 2)______ race. Shanaze has  broken many bones because riders have to jump 3-4 metres up in the air. It’s a long way down.

Why did she take up this sport?

Shanaze is ‘sports-mad’, so when she saw her cousin race his BMX bike, she had to try it 3)_________ ! She was only ten and couldn’t 4)_________  a new bike, so she bought her first BMX bike second-hand for 1 pound.  By the 5)_______ she was fifteen she was under the eighteen world champion. When she is 6)______ ready to race, Shanaze can’t be nervous. ‘I visualize putting my brain into a box and closing it’, she 7)______ . ‘I become like a robot’.

Did she win an Olympic medal?

So what happened in the Olympic fainl? At the last turn, Shanaze knew she could win silver 8) ________ , but that wasn’t enough. Shanaze didn’t 9)_____  to think – she only wanted gold. She tried to overtake the bike in front, but crashed onto the 10) _____. She couldn’t win the gold medal. Was it the right choice? Shanaze thought so, it’s the Olympics and you have to give it everything and go for gold.

1-             a.  at                              b.  on                   c.  round

2-             a. Dangerous                  b. bad                   c. dirty

3-             a. also                            b. and                   c. too

4-             a. hire                            b. sell                   c. afford

5-             a. time                           b. end                   c. way

6-             a. being                          b. getting              c. doing

7-             a. says                           b. speaks              c. talks

    a. easy                           b. easily                c. easier

    a. should                        b. have                 c. must

10-                 a. ring                            b. track                 c. course

Grammar: We play, we go...

Speaking Activity: Taboo Sports

Types of bikes

Parts of a Mountain Bike and activities

PARTS OF A MOUNTAIN BIKE

1.       It’s the metal ring that holds the tire: ________________

2.       This device moves the chain to change the gears: d_______________

3.       The front one is called suspension fork and the one at the back is the _________________

4.       The metal body that holds all the different components_______________

5.       You hold this to steer (guide) the bike ______________________

6.       They slow down or stop the bike _______________________

7.       You sit on it ______________________________

8.       You put your shoes on them _________________________

9.       Made of rubber. It contacts the ground __________________

10.   Long metal pieces that connect the hub to the rim ________________

Watch the video (while looking at the list above) ANATOMY OF A BIKE

https://youtu.be/9XsI52Tt194

Game: bring a real bike from the school workshop and play: touch the part. First one to touch the right piece gets a point for his group.

Writing Composition: My Blog

I created this document for my students. It has two parts to teach them how to write a good composition.