Showing posts with label English is Fun. Show all posts
Showing posts with label English is Fun. Show all posts

Monday, April 18, 2016

Amazing STEVE JOBS speech at Standford University

Hi, Guys!,


Have you ever heard about Steve Jobs? I suppose so, he was really wellknown. He was the chief of executive officer and co-founder of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Sutdios. And have you ever watched his speech at Standford University? It's really worthwhile. He encouraged those graduates to PURSUE THEIR DREAMS, no matter what could happen to them, ...


Friday, June 19, 2015

2º ESO Final Project: "ThiS iS WhO I aM"

Hi, There!!!,

Today, I'd like to show you some of my students' works, I'm really proud of them! These are really nice. From my point of view, these tasks are really motivating and enriching for them. So, whenever I ask my students to do this type of tasks, they learn and have fun while they are doing them. It's truly worhtwhile!!

This year, I asked them one question: WHO ARE YOU? Then, I told them: Take it easy and answer the following questions:




And the WiNNerS aRe ... !!! 3º ESO Project: Create Your Own English Game

Hi, Guys!!!,

Thanks to your effort, motivation, cooperation, creativity, ... I'm really proud of you all!!! Great Job! To me, all of you are WiNNerS, THANK YOU! 
1st Prize: Around the World


2nd Prize: Give Me a Candy








Wednesday, May 20, 2015

3º ESO - Project: Create Your own English Game

 Hi, Guys!!!, 

As I told you in class, we're going to work in this final project. I hope you'll enjoy and learn! ;) good luck!



Project: Create your own English Game

1. Members of the group (4 or 5 students).



2. Working together, you have to design the board game, the cards, the rules, the dices, the tokens, everything. We’d appreciate your originality, creativity, design, etc. (COLLECTIVE WORK and MARK).



3. The whole cards must be used to revise everything learned throughout  the year, i.e. vocabulary, grammar questions with multiple choice answers, fill in the gaps, mime these verbs, make up a dialogue, can you finish this sentence?, draw this word to your partners, … And this part of the project is individual, in other words, every member must work in class, choose one topic or part of the game, think and write his / her own task, etc. (INDIVIDUAL MARK)



4. DEADLINE: 12th June, 2015.



5. To get some inspiration, you can click on:





5. google: English board games (images): you’ll find many interesting examples.

6. Make Learning English Fun!!!

Saturday, July 19, 2014

Tips to teach English to children (who are less than 3 years old)

Hi, Guys!!!!, 

Nowadays, we are deeply concerned about the importance of learning English, but there are always some questions: "When should children start learning English?, How?, What would be the best methodology?, Who should teach them English? Native speakers or English speakers? and then, what about the experts' oponions?".

Well, as far as I am concerned, I prefer learning and approaching English in a very natural enjoyable way. In other words, we can stimulate some parts of the brain that control language, that's all for now! since they are very young. We'd better arouse their children's curiosity and desire of knowledge. Because of that, I'd like to give some easy tips to make them start learning English. 

1. ENGLISH SONGS: I recommend you to buy or download from iTunes these funny albums: Bilingual Songs or Kids Songs, and then, what do we have to do? Sing them aloud with our children! Sooner or later, you would be surprised by your kids singing them alone!!! ;)



2. FLASHCARDS: there are plenty of webs where you can download and print flashcards, they are really functional for children!! Not only you can teach them English with these flashcards, but also your mother tongue, they will learn many new words (animals, sports, colours, numbers, ... and so on).



3. READING AN ENGLISH FAIRY TALE: Everyday before going to bed, you can read them bilingual or English fairy tales, don't worry too much about your pronunciation, try to do it as best as you can! Your children only want to get relaxed and see the pictures of the book. Little by little, they will discover new words.



4. PUZZLES: there are many puzzles whose pieces can be used as flashcards. Even more, you can say that new word in both languages: English and your mother tongue.



5. TV PROGRAMMES: Fortunately, we can easily find many TV programmes which can help our children learn English. So, watching TV can be a really functional way of learning English! And it's also very simple, just change the language of your TV. So, don't waste time and make them watch their favourite episodes in your target language.

6. ROUTINES:
Every morning, when you wake up your children, you can sing an English song, such as: "Good morning, my friend, it's time to wake up!!!".  Besides, you can say some common routine instructions in English, for example: "Come on! Hurry up!"; "it's time to go to bed"; "it's time to brush your teeth"; or teaching them to say: "thank you", "hello, hi!", "bye, bye", "see you later, alligator".

7. Avoid asking them questions as if they were being examined, for example: "How do you say that in English? Come one!" If we do that, children may not dare to speak any English word. So, we can't forget our main goal: learning Enlgish is always fun!!!! It needs to be a natural learning!


I hope you'll find this post interesting!!!

Friday, April 18, 2014

Let Her Go by Passenger

Hi, Guys!!!,


As I say it, "Learning English is always fun". So, I invite you to listen to this popular song "Let Her Go" by Passenger. You can enjoy it while you are learning new vocabulary, pronunciation, grammar structures, and so on. I hope you'll like as much as me ;)

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Fairy Tales for Children

Hi, boys and girls!!!, 

As far as I am concerned, one of the best ways of learning a new language is watching videos, since it's a very easy fun way to get in touch with the new language. 

Because of that, I encourage you to watch the following videos with your little students or children. They already know all these fairy tales, so it can't be difficult to follow the story, as well, if they are older primary students, they can also read the subtitles in English. 

ONCE UPON A TIME, ... 



 Learning English is always fun!!!

Friday, September 7, 2012

FOCUSENGLISH.COM (Everyday English Conversations)

Hi, Guys!!!

It's time to start! So, why don't you click on the following link: FOCUSENGLISH.

It's a fantastic web, you'll find native speakers talking about various topics, you can improve your listening skills thanks to real English conversations: EVERYDAYENGLISH IN CONVERSATION, you can learn new idioms and vocabulary, etc.

Don't waste time! 
Learning English is always FUN;)

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

EUROPSCHOOL.NET


Hi, there!, 


I love all the European language projects, they are so enriching for everybody, students, parents and teachers! So, I'd like to share with all of you this fantastic web: EUROPSCHOOL, here you can find a visual dictionary plus the pronunciation of every word, and also, in different languages!!! It's really worthwhile, isn't it? 
 
Besides, if you click on 300 PHRASES EUROPSCHOOL, you can learn and practise many different useful phrases, and also, you can listen and repeat their pronunciation.

If you have a little brother or sister and you want him / her to learn English, you can play together these games: GAMES - EUROPSCHOOL

Come on!!! Don't waste time and 
let's learn English while you have fun!!!! ;)

Monday, September 12, 2011

Learn English with VAUGHAN (Aprende Inglés con Vaughan) Channel Canal Sur 2 Andalucía (Spain)

Hi, Guys!, 

 Once again, I'm going to talk about Richard Vaughan because not only he's a great wellknown English teacher, but also, he has an excellent method to teach English by means of his podcasts, radio, TV programs, links on YouTube, books such as "Si Quieres, Puedes", ... and now, he has two programs on Andalucian TV (Spain). 

Even more, you can find different levels (from elementary, intermediate to advanced), I think it's fantastic and interesting!
 
So, if you live in the south of Spain, I encourage you to follow Vaughan's TV programs, I'm sure you'll learn a lot!!! If you are more interested, click on Aprende Inglés on Andalucian TV (= Learn English).

Now, you can watch Common Mistakes Shorts Answers

I hope you'll like and enjoy these programs! :)


Friday, September 2, 2011

Free Apps for IPHONE 4 to learn and improve your English

Hi, Guys!, 

Most of you already have an Iphone, because of that, I'd like to show you some free apps, which obviously you can get in App Store,  and they help you to improve and learn English!!!

Take advantage of your Iphone now! I'm going to show you 20 free apps which I've already used and I can recommend you. I hope you'll find them useful and interesting, and once again, thanks to new technologies, you can see there are many different ways to LEARN and PRACTISE your ENGLISH! ;)

Busuu (entertaining and useful).

Prepare for TOEFL (great!!!! I love it!, try yourself).


Gengo Audio Flascards (flascards are practical).

EnglishPod: you can learn and practise your English on-the-go, there are audio-files.

Chat and Practise Your English with Matt: virtual dialogues.

Language Tests to check your English knowledge.


10 minute English (Lite) for intermediate levels learners. This app helps you with grammar, listening, vocabulary,...

LearnEasy: every month you have to learn 30 words, once you have memorised them, there is a test.

Vaughan Radio: radio alive, the first biliguial radio English-Spanish, I like Vaughan's system to help people to speak English.

Word Magic Compact (English-Spanish): dictionary

Trainer EN-ES which helps children to learn English and get familiar with the vocabulary and pronunciation.

English IRREGULAR Verbs (full of tests, very useful).

VocabWIZ TOEFL (practical)

Grammar Up for PHRASAL VERBS (worthwhile)

Grammar express: PREPOSITIONS lite (interesting, you can also find: Grammar Express: TENSES, REP. SPEECH, etc.)

Inglés Cotidiano (common idioms, but in English and Spanish).

English Idioms Illustrated (fantastic).

British SLANG (I like it!, truly interesting).

Advanced English Dictionary

 Learn British-English vocabulary

Finally Learn English (podcasts)



Monday, May 23, 2011

SpEAkiNG - Pick It Up!


Hi, teachers!,

Today, I'd like to share with all of you this easy fun game "Pick It Up", I hope your students will improve their speaking. All you need ...

1. Cut off some pieces of cardboard.

2. Then deliver these to your pupils and ask them to make up questions such as: What's the best movie you saw this last year? Why?, Do you like watching horror films?, What's the scariest movie you've ever seen?, How many hours a week do you spend watching TV?, If you could a character of a book, who would you be? Why?, etc. (They may need 10 minutes to think off their questions and write them down).

3. Encourage them to use all the vocabulary and grammar learned.

4. Collect all the pieces of cardboard.

5. Now one of the students have to pick up one piece of cardboard and answer this question. The other students can help and correct this pupil.

I hope you'll have fun learning English!!!

Monday, January 24, 2011

Speaking - Describing Famous People


Hi, there!,

I'd like to share with all of you the following motivating task (similar to GUESS WHO?), it's very easy to prepare and really functional for students. By means of this oral activity, they are going to learn and practise how to describe physical appearance and clothes.

1. Firstly, children must learn how to describe people's complexion, hair, eyes, etc. such as "She has got long straight brown hair", "He's relatively tall", etc.

2. Secondly, they learn clothes vocabulary and write down sentences such as "She is wearing fantastic red cardigan, blue jeans", etc.

3. Materials: You need to buy a magazine (for example: Hello!). Then, you cut some photos of famous people and celebrities (look at the picture).

4. You deliver these photos to your students, they must hide these from the other students. At first, you can ask them to write down the description of their famous person, and / or then, they have to read their description. Besides, children can add more extra information, such as "She is married to David Beckham", by this way, your students write a more detailed description, and this makes easier for the rest of students to guess the famous person or celebrity. The student who guesses the celebrity described has a "sweet point". Now, it's his/her turn.

I hope you'll find it interesting! ;)

Sunday, November 28, 2010

PSP Play English - SONY & VAUGHAN Systems


Hi, Guys!,

As you well know, I'm fan of VAUGHAN radio and his English system. And once again, I recommend you to follow Richard Vaughan on TV, radio, internet, ... he's a great teacher. So, I'd like to share with you this PSP PLAY ENGLISH game created by Sony and Vaughan Systems.

If you want to improve your English having fun, you can do so with this fantastic game. You'll become the Spanish detective Jaime Rubio, who is actually very intelligent, but he's not good at English. There is an important robbery in the National Gallery in London, he'll need to sort out different problems using his basic English, can you help him? You'll find different characters with several English accents, it's quite entertaining, although we can't forget the goal of the game is learning English! Price 24'99 euros.

Monday, October 4, 2010

AULA 365



Hi, there!,

One month ago, a new amusing tool for children, teenagers, parents and teachers emerged on the internet. AULA 365 is the most fantastic educative network that I've ever seen! This has been created by the famous Argentinian company Competir.com.

According to the experts, it is very safe for everybody, you can create your file, you can revise maths, history, Enligsh, etc. and the students' doubts can be always solved by virtual teachers. I think AULA 365 is FANTASTIC!!! Don't waste time and log in!!!

Moreover, not matter where you come from, you can join this social educative network from many different countries. It's awesome!

Would you like to check this?
http://www.aula365.com/default.aspx

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Gomaespuminglish, Lesson 12

¡Levántese! = Standarse!
¡Qué nos vamos de marcha! = Que nos vamos de parade!
Oh, sí, me quito el estrés = Oh, yes me quito el is-three



Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Gomaespuminglish, Lesson 11

¡Hola, amigos! = Good-bye, my friends!

probar
= to taste


sacar = to get out

plaza = square

¿aprobaste? = You to taste?

sí, saqué plaza = Yes, to get out the square.

¿Dónde? = Where?

En Salamanca = In-salt-one-handed


Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Gomaespuminglish ... Lesson 9

The most amusing English lessons, Flamenco for the tourists!!!


(Spanish)Te quiero yo, más que a la mare que me parió =
(Gomaespuminglish)I love you more squid to burn couple and ou

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Gomaespuminglish Lessons 7 & 8

English is really fun with Gomaespuminglish, isn't it?


Vámonos de vacaciones (=Spanish) =
Lets go to the actions of the cows ( = Gomaespuminglish)



¿Qués es eso? (=Spanish) = Cheese (=Gomaespuminglish)

Thursday, October 8, 2009

Gomaespuminglish Lesson 5 & 6

Gafas de miopes (=Spanish) = Mi open de glasses (Gomaespuminglish)




Sí, entre (=Spanish) = If, between (=Gomaespuminglish)