2º ESO: English Central

My 2º ESO students are going to work on a speaking & listening-based project through which I put them to a monthly test. They must reach the goals that I set every month by watching and speaking some videos. Thanks to this online tool they can improve enormously their oral skills in English. They can enrol their respective class by clicking on one of the following links:

http://es.englishcentral.com/class/11017-colegio-montpellier/2esoa

http://es.englishcentral.com/class/11017-colegio-montpellier/2esob

http://es.englishcentral.com/class/11017-colegio-montpellier/2esoc

http://es.englishcentral.com/class/11017-colegio-montpellier/2esod

Halloween: idioms of fear

Hello folks. This time I am going to dare you guess the three idioms (expressions whose meanings can't be inferred from the meanings of the words that make them up) that this misterious man explains talking about Halloween. You should hand me a brief composition with a scary story using the three idioms and the past simple and past continuous tenses in it before Thursday 7th November. Don't forget to decorate the sheet of paper and write your name on it!  Click on the following link to watch the video.
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/the_teacher/mp4/teacher_halloween.mp4

3º Diversificación: Introduce yourself

This is the first online activity that my Diversificación students have done this school year. They introduced themselves with the help of Oddcast PhotoFace.
These are the links of some of the results of this assignment:

http://host-d.oddcast.com/photofacev2/?mId=50215354.3

http://host-d.oddcast.com/php/application_UI/doorId=357/clientId=1/?mId=50215338.3

http://host-d.oddcast.com/photofacev2/?mId=50215357.3

I invite you to check them out. Congratulations, you did a good job!

Create your own avatar

Hello! I am sure you all would like to change your identity image in your Voicethread account. You can create an awesome avatar on the following website:

http://www.faceyourmanga.com/

Do not forget to sign up first... and have fun!

2º ESO: Movie Challenge

I dare you to guess the titles of the following movie segments (obviously the original titles). In each segment you can read some of the most famous lines said in films. Those 2º ESO students who get the answers will get a special prize. Do not forget to write your answers in the comments! Deadline: Tuesday 7th May.

2º ESO: Parts of a house

The main topic in the next unit is 'household items'. This video can help my students remember or learn some vocabulary related to a house. We will watch it in class pausing it word by word. In any case, it can be a useful list for them in the future!

History of St. Patrick's Day

On March 17, Irish and Irish descendants celebrate St. Patrick's Day. Somehow we are going to share this festival with them by answering some questions after watching the following video:



Questions:

1. The story goes back to the
 a. 5th century
 b. 15th century
 c. 1st century

2. St Patrick was born in
 a. Ireland
 b. Britain
 c. Scotland

3. He was
 a. a slave
 b. a missionary
 c. both

4. He became a priest and got back to Ireland in
 a. 432 BC
 b. 32 BC
 c. 432 AD

5. It is a fact that St Patrick
 a. drove snakes from Ireland
 b. converted Irish people to Christianity
 c. worked miracles

6. St Patrick used a shamrock to explain the Holy Trinity
 a. True
 b. False
 c. We don't know

7. Many Irish people emigrated to America in the
 a. 1940s
 b. 1840s
 c. 1880s

8. The first place to celebrate St Patrick in the USA was
 a. New York
 b. Chicago
 c. Boston

9. The traditional food on St Patrick's Day in the USA is
 a. corned beef and cabbage
 b. baked potatoes and shepherds pie
 c. roast beef and yorkshire pudding

10. St Patrick's Day is the Patron Saint of
 a. Ireland
 b. USA
 c. both

Once again, send me the answers by writing a comment in this post. The deadline is Monday 18th March. Come on, have a go!

3º & 4º Diversificación: EnglishCentral

My Diversificación students are working hard on a speaking & listening-based project through which I put them to a weekly test. They must reach the goals that I set every week by watching and speaking some videos. Thanks to this online tool they can improve enormously their oral skills in English. You can check out their development by clicking on these links:

http://es.englishcentral.com/class/11017-colegio-montpellier/3diversificacion

http://es.englishcentral.com/class/11017-colegio-montpellier/4diversificacion

2º ESO: Teacher for one day

Some 2º ESO students have volunteered to prepare a lesson based on a song for their respective classmates. They are the first students at Montpellier school to participate in a wiki project. They can create and edit webpages. You can see the astonishing result of their hard work by clicking on the following link:
http://montpeenglish.wikispaces.com/Music

4º Diversificación: phone conversation

Hello again!
This is a speaking activity that I prepared in Voicethread.com for my 4º Diversificación students. They had to record several phone conversations.

 

They have done a great job!

3º & 4º Diversificación: Glogster Edu

By the end of the first term my Diversificación students worked on a couple of interesting topics: 'Household items' and 'Sports'. Each of them created a poster with the help of an outstanding online tool called Glogster. Here are some examples of the superb outcome of this activity:

elenamartin
dikramohamed
miguelbravo
Rober1995

They are really made of the good stuff!

Learning English through music: Lyrics training

Lyrics training is a great tool for students to improve their understanding of lyrics. The site includes YouTube videoclips which are organised in different levels of difficulty and cloze-type activities to complete the whole song.