PERFECT TENSES

Hi all,
This is a post for my NA1 Students. We have already finished the unit on sports, entertainment and hobbies. The last grammar point in the copies I gave you from Outcomes (Upper Intermediate) is the difference between present perfect simple and continuous. The differences between them are very subtle, and often it depends on what you want to emphasise to decide what tense you are choosing...

Well I propose that you take a look at the link below...please read the information and do one or two exercises...;-)Enjoy!

PRESENT PERFECT SIMPLE AND CONTINUOUS

Patricia

For those who love Cooking

Hi everyone,
Recently I decided that I want to learn how to cook properly, and to that end, I constantly use the Internet to find recipes and new methods. Thanks to that, I discovered this wonderful woman's website:

TITLIS BUSY KITCHEN

Take a look if you want, and also check her site in You Tube, she has lots of great recipes from all over the world. She makes cooking seem incredibly simple, and she is terrific, soooo so funny, and incredibly good at explaining how to cook things :-)

Here is a sample video on how to cook Chicken Dhansak. Enjoy!



Titli, thanks a lot!!!!!!!!

CONDITIONALS: ADVANCED

This is for advanced students,

We've almost finished UNIT 4 on Politics. The main grammar point is conditional structures. Here is a great website with a very good explanation:

ENGLISH PAGE
Please read the introduction, but also the different topics covered that you will find on the left sidebar, including the section on mixed conditionals Here's also this page with related points: alternative connectors, I wish and If only, etc.
Don't forget to have a look at the section OMMITING IF
Enjoy!

ENTERTAINMENT

FOR ALL MY STUDENTS:

I want you to have a look at the following document, where you wil find a huge amount of online reading materials. I hope you enjoy these links as much as I do.

READING BOOKS ONLINE


FOR ADVANCED STUDENTS



Please check what Morpheus says from minute 2.50 onwards...
Do you believe that my being stronger, or faster has anything to do with my muscles in this place?

FOR BASICO STUDENTS
These are some links to comics published on the web. Thank you Dani!

QUESTIONABLE CONTENT


DRESDEN CODAC

THE ABOMINABLE CHARLES CHRISTOPHER

SIN TÍTULO

BASICO 2: UNIT TWO

This is a post for Básico 2 students.
We have already finished unit 2, and have started the third, the unit about work and professions. If you want, in this post you can find some links with extra work to revise some of the things we have learnt in UNIT 2, titled BEGINNINGS...

We have decided to read some short stories during Christmas and in January, so here is a link where you can find lots of short stories. But let me tell you I am preparing a list with plenty of links where you can find lots of online literature to continue reading at home...

EAST OF THE WEB

We have seen in class the verb tenses needed to narrate things that happened in the past (remember the nice crime stories you have written), so here is a link where you can practice with some of the most useful and common verb tenses, from Isabel pérez's website

THE HAPPY VERB GANG

Here is a link to a wonderful chart with connectors to link sentences (but this year we won't need all these, only a few ;-) )

LIST OF CONNECTORS

And another with the explanations to use them correctly:

ENGLISH AT HOME

And finally, I want to talk to you about a wonderful website where you can practice your listening, called ELLLO.ORG

In this website, it is possible to find listenings and videos where people talk about any topic you can imagine, and the good thing is that it is possible to look at the tapescript (read and listen to what they say at the same time.And you can also download the recordings as MP3s to your PCs!!! I LOVE THIS WEBSITE!
Some examples:

BECOMING A CHEF

DREAM JOB

HALLOWEEN: WHAT IS TRICK OR TREATING?

FIRST JOB (UNIT 3;-))

Hope you enjoy!!!
Patricia

Your Crime Stories

Hi all,
This is a post for my NB2 students. I have seen your posts with the crime stories you have written and I have to say that I am really proud of you guys :-)

The stories are REALLY GOOD and very very well written!!!
Please continue like that, writing and doing that good work

WELL DONE!!!:-D
Patricia

THANKSGIVING 2011

Hi everyone,
I haven't been able to post in a long time...sorry about that :-(
Here you are some websites with information on a very important day for Americans, Thanksgiving, which is celebrated every year on the third Thursday of November...

SOME MYTHS AND FACTS

WHAT IS IT EXACTLY?

Recommended Movie: HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS, directed by Jodie Foster, with Holly Hunter