Valme's English Corner

Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Gerunds and Infinitives exercises

Hi, Guys!!!,

Before doing these worksheets, you must look at the following pictures, these are really practical for your, ok? Then, just click on these links:

1. Gerunds and Infinitives Exerc + key answers
2. Gerunds and Infinitives exerc. + key answers
3. Verbs plus Gerunds or Infinitives + answers
4. grammarbank.com/gerunds-infinitives
5. islcollective- gerund_or_infinitive

Friday, March 18, 2016

RiDDleS, a fun way to learn English

Hi, Guys!!!,

Riddles can be an useful entertaining way to learn English. Some of these are easy, and even very similar to your language, but some others are difficult. Ready, steady, GO!!!

1. What is at the end of everything?
2. What starts with "t", ends with "t" and is full of "t"?
3. What starts with "e", ends with "e" but only has one letter?
4. What starts with "p", ends with "e" and has 10,000 letters?
5. Brothers and sisters have I none, but that man's father is my father's son. Who is that man?
6. Take off my skin. I won't cry, but you will. What am I?
7. I run all day but I'm always at the same place. What am I?
8. What is as big as an elephant, but weighs nothing at all?
9. What has four legs but cannot walk?
10. What has to be broken before you can use it?

ANSWERS:
1. The letter G.
2. A teapot.
3. An envelope.
4. The post office
5. My Son.
6. An onion.
7. A clock.
8. The shadow of an elephant.
9. A table.
10. An egg.

Monday, March 14, 2016

MiXeD TeNSe ReViSiON

HI, Guys!,

You may need some extra practise before taking your exams. So, click on the following links and do these exercises!

1. Mixed Tense Revision + key answers
2. ISL Collective Mixed Tenses + key answers
3. Present Tenses, Going to and Fut. Will + key answers
4. Past Simple, Past Cont., Pres. Perf. and Past Perf. + key answers
5. Future Perf. and Fut. Cont. + key answers
6. Mixed Tenses (multiple choice) + key answers

Sunday, February 14, 2016

ICT in English Language Teaching and Learning (post 1)

Hi, Teachers!!!,

How can you make your lessons more attractive to your students? Well, our young learners are regarded as the digital generation, it's obvious! and most of them are good at ICT, they love computers, apps, ... For these reasons, there are plenty of useful tools which can help you teach English and they can feel more motivated and active in the process of learning. Let's see some interesting tools!!!

PADLET: educationworld.com/a_tech/using-padlet-in-the-classroom.shtml

(Padlet is a free online virtual wall, you can post a photo, some comments, ... if you click on the link, you'll see lots of examples and uses).

2. FOTOBABBLE http://www.fotobabble.net/what-to-do-with-talking-photos-in-the-classroom/(talking photos, it's an online app to post photos, projects, and then, you can add some comments). Also, click on: magicineducation

3. WORLDE: you can create WORD CLOUDS, you only need to provide a text and click on: wordle.net (I really love this tool, I think it's great and you can do many different activities with your students. Sometimes, I create a word cloud to introduce a reading text, I ask my pupils to concentrate on the most important words -which are the biggest ones- and try to guess what the text is about. The last time I used wordle was two weeks ago, because I wanted my students to make up as many sentences as they could using the words from the cloud). Click on this link and find interesting ways to use Word Clouds: edudemic.com/45-interesting-ways-to-use-wordle-in-the-classroom/

Monday, February 1, 2016

OrOrO.TV

Hi, there!!!,

Have you ever heard about ORORO.TV? It's one of the best web to learn English!!! You can find lots of movies and TV series such as Modern Family, Castle, Scandal, ... with English subtitles. Since I recommended my students to visit this web, they have watched many TV series and they (as well as me) are delighted!!! Learning English is always fun!;)