SO/NEITHER

Hello guys,
How are you? I am sure you feel great like me since today is Friday...and The weekend has landed!!!
I want you to have a look at this exercise for you to practice the expression of things in common with other people by using SO/NEITHER

Have a look at this page in the website USINGENGLISH.

And also:
http://www.learn-english-today.com/free-english-lessons/free-english-lesson_contents/so_neither-ex.htm

http://www.oup.com/elt/global/products/englishfile/preint/a_grammar/file08/grammar08_d01/

Happy Weekend!!!

Present Perfect

And some exercises:

We have studied present perfect, and I just found this page in which you have a very good explanation of the situations in which we use this tense followed by plenty of activities. But for now you just have to do Verb tense exercises 5 and 6.

http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/presentperfect.html

COCKNEY AND RHYMING SLANG

Good evening everyone,
after today's class with my group of Basico 2 I want you guys to listen to Cockney accent, so listen to this boy:


And also have a look at this website:
http://www.cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk/
It is a RHYMING SLANG/ENGLISH ENGLISH RHYMING SLANG dictionary.
For a definition(better than the definition I gave today) go to:
http://www.cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk/cockney_rhyming_slang

Simple Past

Hello Students at BASICO 2!!!
We will start unit 2 next week, in this Unit we are going to review

SIMPLE PAST...

And I found this website with readings and exercises to work with the simple past.
ENGLISHWORKS

You just have to click on the text that you find interesting and do the activities. They are all biographies, the perfect text type to practice with the

simple past,

the perfect tense to talk about finished and completed actions.

In Isabel Perez's website you have also one section dedicated to SIMPLE PAST:
http://www.isabelperez.com/happy/tenses/past_simple.htm

Making Learning Easier and More Fun

Sorry Guys, I forgot:
This week I have mentioned a nice way of learning and classifying new vocabulary, MIND MAPS, and I have also mentioned who created this method, Tony Buzan.

Have a look at this website to see some examples of mind maps and how they work:
http://www.nlpmind.com/mind_mapping.htm

First Unit Review

Good morning everyone,
We have finished now UNIT 1. And Maybe some people want to do extra practice on the tenses we have studied this week....

Here you have some links that you will probably find interesting:

Exercises 1 and 2 in:http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbtenseintro.html

An explanation of the tenses in:

http://www.englishclub.com/grammar/verb-tenses.htm

And an excellent page from Isabel Perez's Website, with a grammar summary and activities to review the tenses:
http://www.isabelperez.com/happy/tenses.htm

And some listening practice in Randall's Listening Lab(do the EASY ones):

www.esl-lab.com
Happy Weekend!