Mc Fly

Hi, Guys!,

McFly is a pop rock band from United Kingdom. The group consists of Tom Fletcher (vocalist and guitarrist), Danny Jones (vocalist and guitarrist too), Dougie Poynter (backing vocalist and plays the bass guitar) and Harry Judd who plays drums.

In 2004, McFly released their first album called Room on the 3rd Floor and it debuted at number 1 in UK album chart. The second album Wonderland was released in 2005, and also, it soon became the number 1. The third album Motion in the Ocean was released in 2006. The fourth album was Radio: Active in 2008.

Now, let's listen to one of the most wellknown songs, I hope you'll enjoy it!






PS. To my dearest students, I hope you'll be happier now! Listening to music is a perfect way to improve your English!!! Let's listen again: "Falling in Love"

FISH and CHIPS

Hi, there!,

Have you ever eaten FISH'n'CHIPS in Ireland or United Kingdom?

Fish and Chips is a popular relatively inexpensive British dish. It was originated in UK at the middle of 19th century, when British started cooking French fries, influenced by French, as well as fried fish or "pescaito frito" introduced by Portuguese a long time ago. This simple dish became very trendy among working classes.

"Fish and chips" consists of plaice or cod fried in batter and served hot with fried, chipped potatoes. The dish is sold in special shops (Fish and Chip shops, commonly called Chippy or Chipper) either to be taken away, wrapped in paper, or you can eat them in the shop. Some young people buy the chips alone to be eaten as a cheap filling snack.

If you travel to London, don't forget to eat typical Fish and Chips! Nevertheless, you can't compare this dish with the Spanish fish fried with olive oil, they are traditional dishes, but quite different.

I hope you'll enjoy this post, you can tell it to your students :-)

Idioms that mean EASY

Hi, Guys!,

Do you really want to improve your English? Well, I encourage you to watch the following video and learn some idioms related to EASINESS, Jennifer is a good English teacher. Let's take a look!

"I can do it with my eyes closed"
"It's not rocket science"

"It's a child's play"

HEROE sung Enrique Iglesias, a good way to teach 2nd Conditional

Hi, there!,

I hope you'll like this romantic song HEROE sung by Enrique Iglesias. Besides, you can listen to this in class in order to practise the 2nd Conditional [If + subject + Past Simple, Subject + Would + Infinitive]
For example: "Would you tremble if I touched your lips?".

CALENDAR, Decorating Your ENGLISH Classroom

Hi, there!,

As far as I am concerned, creating an English Calendar is another amusing tool to teach English, specially with primary students, they feel more involved in English classroom, they are usually more cooperative, aren't they? Nevertheless, this year, I'm going to carry out this teaching recipe with my upper-secondarypupils, I hope they'll learn more...

Well, if you're a teacher, you can design your own calendar or look at this webpage: http://www.projectbritain.com/calendar/ Then, you must hang this on the wall. Below the calendar, you must add a new word everyday, with a picture, phonetic pronunciation, with a sentence showing the meaning of this new word. So, everyday, as an ice breaker, you can ask your pupils the date, read and learn a new word. Even more, you can design your own calendar focusing on a particular semantic field every month.

Do you like my teaching recipe? I hope so!!! From my experience, children and young secondary sutdents are more enthusiastic with this idea.


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NETSPEAK, Internet slang (2)

Hi, Guys!,

How technology is affecting our language? Sometimes, it's quite difficult to understand a message, you may get confused with NETSPEAK. This is a mode of communication based on abbreviations, acronyms and initialisms, this always includes intentional mispellings and symbols.

So, if you're interested in NETSPEAK, I encourage you to watch the following video and learn more about the Internet Slang. For example:

• BRB = be right back
• AFK = away from keyboard (I'm gone for a few minutes).
• KK = OK
• TTYL = talk to you later
• CYA = see you
  
• THX = thanks
  

Are You Decorating Your ENGLISH Classroom?

Hi, Teachers!,

I think that a teacher's classroom says much about the teacher and his /her style and class expectations. If your students are young, you can ask them to make some posters for the classroom with some useful sentences, such as: "Can you repeat, please?, How do you say it in English?, Can you write this word on the board?".

Then, obviously, these senteces must be used in class. By this way, we can improve their speaking and they feel more involved. It is also important to decorate all the corridors and rooms with English labels. It's not very difficult, you can make these labels with your students in the first lesson, I'm sure they will improve their English vocabulary.

Besides, you can ask your secondary students to decorate the classroom with motivational inspiring posters, such as "No Mountains Too High For You To Climb".

I encourage you to do so with your students, it's easy and rewarding, bear in mind they will learn more, when they are active and creating ;-)

If you are more interested, click on Decorating Your Classroom