SKILLS

VOCABULARY
GRAMMAR

READING

WRITING

LISTENING

WRITING

LET'S COOK
1. DBH 4E

1. COMPARING PEOPLE: you are going to see people's pictures . Choose one of the characters and compare his or her pictures to his or her image today. CELEBRITIES AS KIDS
2. WRITING ABOUT PAST EXPERIENCES: How to include Past Continuous tenses in your writing. AN IMPORTANT DAY IN MY LIFE
3. TELLING A STORY. Organising ideas.
4. TIME EXPRESSIONS: TIME, CAUSE AND EFFECT, OPPOSITION, CONDITION

DAILY ROUTINES

LISTENING

USEFUL LINK

A SOPA OPERA

BBC WATCH AND LISTEN

Present Perfect and Past Simple.

Meet Bart Simpson's Voice

Daily routines

READING

GRADED READINGS: you can find texts and short stories of different levels. If you double click on any word of the texts you may get a Spanish translation.

1. FASHION ( DBH3)
2. THE HARD ROAD TO STARDOM (DBH4)
3. CRAZY CRIMINALS. ( DBH4)

VOCABULARY

1. Adjectives

HELPFUL LINK

2. Crime and Criminals

3. Vocabulary Games

GRAMMAR

1. COMPARATIVE AND SUPERLATIVE ADJECTIVES.

HELP!

LIST OF ADJECTIVES

1.1. Exercise 1

1.2. Exercise 2

1.3 Exercise 3

1.4 Exercise 4

1.5 Exercise 5

1.6 Exercise 6

2. PRESENT SIMPLE.

HELP!
USEFUL VERBS!
2.1 Exercise 1

2.2 Exercise 2
2.3 Exercise 3
2.4 Exercise 4
2.5 Exercise 5
2.6 Exercise 6
2.7 Exercise 7
2.8 Exercise 8
2.9 Exercise 9
2.10 Exercise 10
2.11 Exercise 11
2.12 Exercise 12

3. PRESENT CONTINUOUS.

4. PAST SIMPLE.

4.1 Exercise 1

4.2 Exercise 2

4.3 Exercise 36. PRESENT PERFECT.

HELP!

6.1 Exercise 1

6.3 Exercise 3

6.4 Exercise 4

6.5 Exercise 5

6.6 Exercise 6

6.7 Exercise 7

6.8 Exercise 8

6.9 Exercise 9

7. CONDITIONALS

HELP!
HELP!

7.1 First Conditional
7.2. Second conditional
7.3 First or second conditional
7.4 Third conditional
7.5 Second or third conditional
7.6 All conditionals quiz
7.7 All conditionals quiz

8. MODAL VERBS

HELP!
CAN
COULD
HAVE TO
MAY
MIGHT
MUST
SHOULD

8.1 Exercise 1
8.2 exercise 2

9.VERB TENSES

SIGHTSEEING

THE TRUMAN SHOW TASK 2

COMPREHENSION

* What is the meaning of the following phrases or expressions?

Couldn't be better
I have an appointment
One way or return?
That's amazing?
What the hell is wrong with your job?

* What is "The Truman Show"
* What falss from the sky?
* What is Fiji?
*Who is Lauren or Sylvia Garland?
*Why doens't he get on the boat?
*What kind of job has he got?

OPINION

* Did you like the film? Why? Why not?
* What messages does the film try to transmit?
* How do Truman's feelings change through the film?
* What is your opinion about the behaviour of the other characters in the film?
*Do you think Truman took the right decision?
* What would you do in his situation?
* Do you think the technologu to make "The Truman Show" will ever be possible?
* Is Christof an inmoral person? If Truman had died on the boat during the computer generated storm, would Christof had been guilty of murder?

THE TRUMAN SHOW

1. Task 1.

2. Task 2.

FOR ESO 3B STUDENTS IN DUNBOA

Dear Students, read this note and follow the instructions:
1. visit the following page http://www.bbclearningenglish.com/
2. write a comment about something you saw on the page.
3. write a letter about what you did at the weekend and about your plans for the following weekend.
Good Luck

FOR DBH3E STUDENTS IN DUNBOA

Dear Students, if you can read this messages it means that you have been successful in becoming a member of my blog. Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now it's working time: remember you have to write a letter talking about past experiences and future plans or predicitons. You must also remember to use SO in your writing: Good Luck. I will publish an answer to your letter on the blog so be alert.

ENGLISH LEARNING WEB PAGE DIRECTORY

THIS ARE ENGLISH TEACHING AND LEARNING PAGES THAT MAY HELP YOU. ( if they are in green it means I have checked on them and they could be useful, if they are still in blue it means I haven't double checked on them yet and I can't be sure of their adequacy)

1. http://www.eslcafe.com/

2. http://www.its-online.com/

3. http://news.bbc.co.uk/

4. http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/lzone/

5. http://www.countryschool.com/ylresources.htm

6. http://www.sla.purdue.edu/fll/JapanProj/FLClipart/Verbs.html

7. http://www.sla.purdue.edu/fll/JapanProj/FLClipart/NounsPeople%26animal.html (animals)

8. http://www.sla.purdue.edu/fll/JapanProj/FLClipart/Verbs.html (Verbs)

9. http://www.sla.purdue.edu/fll/JapanProj/FLClipart/Adjectives.html (adjectives)

10. http://www.sla.purdue.edu/fll/JapanProj/FLClipart/Nounsfood%26drink.html (food)

11. http://www.sla.purdue.edu/fll/JapanProj/FLClipart/NounsSports.html (sports)

12. http://www.sla.purdue.edu/fll/JapanProj/FLClipart/NounsThings.html (things)

13. http://www.sla.purdue.edu/fll/JapanProj/FLClipart/NounsTime.html (time)

14. http://www.sla.purdue.edu/fll/JapanProj/FLClipart/NounsVehicle.html (vehicle)

15. http://www.englishclub.com/

16. http://www.englishinstitute.co.uk/intro.html

17. http://www.vokabel.com/

18.http://www.english-test.net/esl/learn/english/grammar/ii078/esl-test.php

9- http://www.usnews.com/
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/home.htm (homepage)
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/home.htm (education, pplly US)
10- http://www.tesol.com/
http://www.tesol.com/
http://www.tesol.com/tesol/teachers/index.html (The English Zone ; Teachers’ World)
http://www.tesol.com/tesol/students/index.html (The English Zone; Students’ World)
http://www.tesol.com/tesol/students/index.html (The English Zone; funny stories )
http://www.tesol.com/tesol/software.html (The English Zone; download software)
11- http://www.britannica.com/
http://www.britannica.com/ (homepage)
http://www.britannica.com/brit/0,8532,14,00.html (Britannica Education homepage)

11- Time For Kids: GAMES and other interesting sites
http://www.pacificnet.net/useful/entertainment.html#games (great range of games)
http://encarta.msn.com/find/search.asp?search=games (info on characteristics, history etc. of games)
http://www.smarterkids.com/prod_list.asp?searchtype=keyword&keyword=free_games (http://www.smarterkids.com/ ) GAMES
http://dir.hotbot.lycos.com/Games/ (GAMES at www.hotbot.com )
http://search.britannica.com/search?query=educational+games (EDUCATIONAL GAMES)
http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/ (www.timeforkids.com (homepage)
http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/games/index.html (GAMES)
http://www.yahooligans.com/tg/thinking.html (thinking games)
http://www.yahooligans.com/tg/wordgames.html (wordgames)
http://www.lycos.es/cgi-bin/pursuit?matchmode=and&mtemp=main&etemp=error&query=games+for+children&cat=lycos&x=49&y=8 (Web pages with Games to buy)
http://www.lycos.es/cgi-bin/pursuit?matchmode=and&mtemp=main&etemp=error&loc=searchbox&adv=1&query=free+games+&cat=lycos&x=28&y=11 (free games to download)
http://zone.msn.com/ql.asp ( free games!!!)
http://www.pokemon.com/ Pokemon
http://www.wizards.com/Pokemon/ (Pokemon games (free??)
http://www.speedyclick.com/ (free games)
http://www.yourdictionary.com/crossword/index.html (Crossword puzzles)
http://www.monopoly.com/ (MONOPOLY GAME ???)

13- books
http://www.barnsnoble.com/ (homepage)
http://www.amazone.com/ (homepage)
http://www.waterstones.co.uk/ (homepage)
http://www.penguin.co.uk/ (homepage)

14- MORE miscelaneous
http://www.eleaston.com/ (Homepage)
http://eleaston.com/world_english.html (English around the world : Materials for teaching & Learning)
http://eleaston.com/english.html (Materials for teaching & Learning)
http://www.yourdictionary.com/ (Besides dictionaries, it provides a large range of activities: games, grammar, quizzes etc.)
http://www.yourdictionary.com/diction1.html#translate (Translation Engl. Vs Spanish)
http://www.yourdictionary.com/grammars.html (here you can find ENGLISH Grammars (UNDER English) and Spanish Grammars for foreigners learning Spanish)
http://www.lyrics.com/ (MUSIC –MUSIC – MUSIC (they provide texts to your favourite songs) !!!!!!!!!!!!)
http://www.net-friends.com/ (free pan pals service )


15- download.cnet.com ( many of’em are FREE (check!)
http://download.cnet.com/ (homepage)
http://download.cnet.com/downloads/0,10150,0-10028-106-0-1-3,00.html?st.dl.cat10.subs.sub11 (Teaching material download site)
http://download.cnet.com./ (searcher)
http://download.cnet.com./downloads/0-10011.html?tag=st.dl.10001.dir.10011 (great site for a teacher looking for all sorts of classroom stuff !!!)
http://download.cnet.com./downloads/0,10151,0-1635591-106-0-1-3,00.html?tag=st.dl.10011.dir.1635591 (TEACHING TOOLS)
http://download.cnet.com./downloads/0,10151,0-10046-106-0-1-3,00.html?tag=st.dl.10011.dir.10046 (calendars & planners)
http://download.cnet.com./downloads/0-10011-102-0-1.html?tag=st.dl.10011.dir.10011-102-1 ( MOST POPULAR CNET sites )
http://download.cnet.com./downloads/0-1635474-100-1645181.html?tag=st.dl.1635474_106_1.lst.td (helps pupils to read properly)
http://download.cnet.com./downloads/0-1635474-100-1845028.html?tag=st.dl.1635474_106_1.lst.td (helps pupils to spell, read and write properly)
http://download.cnet.com./downloads/0-1635474-100-2302998.html?tag=st.dl.1635474_106_1.lst.td (helps pupils how to learn new vocabulary)
http://download.cnet.com./downloads/0-1635474-100-1556343.html?tag=st.dl.1635474_106_1.lst.td (Aladdin reads to YOU)
http://download.cnet.com./downloads/0-1635474-100-2342061.html?tag=st.dl.1635474_106_1.lst.td (Engl. Grammar skills (intermediate)
http://download.cnet.com./downloads/0-1635474-100-2136495.html?tag=st.dl.1635474_106_1.lst.td (animated beginning phonics)

http://www.un.org/ (United Nations)
16- NASA
http://www.nasa.gov/ (NASA homepage à AMAZING !!!)
http://education.nasa.gov/ (education - homepage)
http://education.nasa.gov/sitemap.html ( general site map for education)
http://education.nasa.gov/educators.html (resources for educators)
http://education.nasa.gov/students.html (resources for pupils)
http://www.nasa.gov/projects.html (PROJECT homepage )
http://www.nasa.gov/visitors.html HOMEPAGE (Visiting any place at NASA (planetarium, star observer, etc., etc.)
http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/visit/visitor.htm (visiting Kennedy Space Centre)
NASA FOR KIDS!!!!!! à à à http://www.nasa.gov/kids.html NASA FOR KIDS!!!!!!
17- MORE MISCELANEOUS
http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/educate/ (educators choice search) GREAT SITE!!!
http://infomine.ucr.edu/ ( scholarly Internet Resource COLLECTION (Univ. of California) great!!!!
http://www.disney.com/
http://disney.go.com/park/homepage/today/flash/index.html?clk=1004398 ( Disney “where the magic lives online)
http://www.unesco.org/ (United Nations Webpage)
http://www.vatican.va/ (Homepage Vaticano)
http://www.english-to-go.com/ ( ready-made lessons for teachers)
http://www.educationunlimited.co.uk/tefl/ (lesson plans for teachers)
http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/links/TESL/Lessons/ (TESL lessons) GREAT!!!
http://www.longman-elt.com/dictionaries/tlpwks.shtml (teacher’s Lesson Plans and Worksheets)
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/ (New YorK Times Learning HOMEPAGE)
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/students/xwords/index.html (New York Times monthly crossword puzzle)
http://www.nytoday.com/scripts/staticpage.dll?ep=9002&ck=27182276&version=867594&adrVer=917383931&ver=cg2.1
this web site provides a place called “get a map” and enables you to look for a place on a specific map)
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/NIE/index.html (Teaching with the New York Times)
http://www.schoolworld.asn.au/ (to get your pupils involved into Internet)
http://eslsv001.esl.sakuragaoka.ac.jp/teachers/BR/Songs%26Stories/CandleSong2.html text to SONG: “candle in the Wind” (fill in gaps)
http://www.ruthvilmi.net/hut/help/grammar_help/ (Grammar help and many other items. Songs, quizzes etc.)
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/internet/resources/web.html (how to create your own web page, how to work & write for the Web)
à à see also this page (same as page before ) http://owl.english.purdue.edu/workshops/index.html
http://www.scholastic.com/ (Lesson planning, games, new books etc. for Teachers, kids and parents)
http://www.smithonian.com/lovik.htm (searcher)
http://www.hotbot.com/ (searcher)
http://www.greenpeace.org/ (Greenpeace)
http://www.languagelearn.co.uk/ (Association for Language Learning)
http://www.study.com/ (EFI à English for Internet. Your FREE English School On the Net)
http://www.pntic.mec.es/ Enlaces de Internet del MEC ( Un ejemplo de proceder: ir a profesorado, de nuevo a profesorado, luego recursos, luego a aula y elegir por ej. Bachillerato , luego Lenguas extranjeras, luego inglés.)
http://www.bucknell.edu./tools.shtm (Internet resources, searchers, map sites etc. etc.)
http://www.bucknell.edu./tools.shtm#scholar (Internet resources and interesting links)
http://www.pacificnet.net/useful/index.html (Useful links at http://www.pacificnet.net/ )

18- NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ (NationaL Geographic HOMEPAGE)
http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/education/index.cfm (Nat. Geogr. EDUCATION)
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/maps/index.html ( Nat. Geogr.. mapas)
19- BRITISH COUNCIL
http://www.britcoun.org/ ( British Council HOMEPAGE)
http://orb.britishcouncil.org/ixbin/hixclient.exe?_IXDB_=orb&%24rec+resource+and+((ix_uniq+with+res_admin_subject_th_h+from+1.b.E+to+1.b.E.~))=.&_IXSPFX_=y&_IXthbterm=Learners&_IXrthbterm=%3cregion%3e&_IXthhcode=1%2eb%2eE&_IXrthhcode=2&%24+sort+res_name=.&submit-button=SUMMARY (British Council) (LEARNERS)
http://orb.britishcouncil.org/ixbin/hixclient.exe?_IXDB_=orb&%24rec+resource+and+((ix_uniq+with+res_admin_subject_th_h+from+1.b.E.5+to+1.b.E.5.~))=.&_IXSPFX_=y&_IXthbterm=Games+and+Quizzes&_IXrthbterm=%3cregion%3e&_IXthhcode=1%2eb%2eE%2e5&_IXrthhcode=2&%24+sort+res_name=.&submit-button=SUMMARY (BritishCouncil. GAMES & QUIZZES)
http://orb.britishcouncil.org/ixbin/hixclient.exe?_IXDB_=orb&%24rec+resource+and+((ix_uniq+with+res_admin_subject_th_h+from+1.b.E.P+to+1.b.E.P.~))=.&_IXSPFX_=y&_IXthbterm=Words&_IXrthbterm=%3cregion%3e&_IXthhcode=1%2eb%2eE%2eP&_IXrthhcode=2&%24+sort+res_name=.&submit-button=SUMMARY (every available Dictionary ON-LINE)
http://orb.britishcouncil.org/ixbin/hixclient.exe?_IXDB_=orb&%24rec+resource+and+((ix_uniq+with+res_admin_subject_th_h+from+1.b.E.U+to+1.b.E.U.~))=.&_IXSPFX_=y&_IXthbterm=Writing&_IXrthbterm=%3cregion%3e&_IXthhcode=1%2eb%2eE%2eU&_IXrthhcode=2&%24+sort+res_name=.&submit-button=SUMMARY (academic WRITING)
http://orb.britishcouncil.org/ixbin/hixclient.exe?_IXDB_=orb&%24rec+resource+and+((ix_uniq+with+res_admin_subject_th_h+from+1.b.E.B+to+1.b.E.B.~))=.&_IXSPFX_=y&_IXthbterm=Stories+and+Poems&_IXrthbterm=%3cregion%3e&_IXthhcode=1%2eb%2eE%2eB&_IXrthhcode=2&%24+sort+res_name=.&submit-button=SUMMARY (stories and poems)
20- edunet
http://deil.lang.uiuc.edu/web.pages/grammarsafari.html (Grammar Safari)
http://www.eduweb.co.uk/ (educational Webpages)
http://www.edunet.com/english/grammar/index.cfm (On-line English Grammar)
http://www.edunet.com/learning/index.cfm (The English Learning Centre)
http://www.edunet.com/nec/index.html (Introduction to TEFL Language & Learning Awareness)
http://www.edunet.com/english/practice/test-ces.html (Test your English)
http://www.edunet.com/english/grammar/fram-gr.html (Edunet GRAMMAR HOMEPAGE and table of contents)
http://www.edunet.com/english/practice/test-ces.html (Test yourself – Do you know your level of English? Wanna know it?, then just click)
http://www.linguist.org/ (events as grammatical objects )
http://www.actfl.org/ (Homepage) (American Council on the Teaching of foreign Languages, from this homepage go to resources and you’ll find a wide rage of interesting sites.
21- newspapers and magazines
http://www.ipl.org/reading/news/ newspapers online
http://www.refdesk.com/paper.html newspapers online all over the world
http://www.gt.kth.se/publishing/news.html newspapers on the web all over the world
http://www.n-net.com/ United States newspapers online
http://dnie.com/ newspapers in education
http://ihr.sas.ac.uk/ihr/newspapers/uk.html Newspapers from the United Kingdom
http://www.ipl.org/cgi-bin/reading/news.out.pl?co=United%20Kingdom United Kingdom Newspapers Online
http://www.pcworld.com/ (PC World)
http://www.cnn.com/ (CNN )
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/home.htm (USNews)
http://abc.go.com/ (ABC)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ (WashingtonPost)
http://www.nytimes.com/ (New York Times)
http://www.usatoday.com/ ( USA Today)
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/ (The Times)
http://www.tes.co.uk/tp/900000/PRN/teshome.html (The Times à Educational Supplement)
http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/ (The Sunday Times)
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/news/pages/Sunday-Times/frontpage.html (The Sunday Times)
http://www.time.com/time/index.html (Time Magazine)
http://www.msnbc.com/news/NW-front_Front.asp (Newsweek Magazine)
http://www.individual.com/ (LATEST news)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ The Daily Telegraph
http://www.elpais.es/ (El País)
http://www.elpais.es/c/d/20000817/ocio/portada.htm esto sólo amodo de ejemplo es( Ciberpaisdel JUE 8 AGOSTO ’00. Para entrar en Ciberpais, entras en http://www.elpais.es/ y bajo el título SUPLEMENTOS está Ciberpaís (renueva los JUEVES)
http://www.elmundo.es/ (El Mundo) (you’ll find the dN 2.0 icon (greenish) (Diario del Navegante) on the right side (scroll side)
http://www.elmundo.es/navegante/diario/ (DIARIO DEL NAVEGANTE 2.0 ) DEL MUNDO you’ll find many and VERY interesting international websites here, which you can save on your “yellow web page list” again and again)
http://www.abc.es/ (ABC)
http://www.lavanguardia.es/ (La Vanguardia)
http://www.independent.co.uk/www/ (The Independent)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/ (BBC News)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/ (The Guardian)
http://www.newscientist.com/ ( New Scientist)
http://www.nature.com/nature ( international weekly journal of science)

FOR STUDENTS IN DUNBOA

Dear students, this is the task for today:
1. Visit this blog and write a comment on it, in english of course.
2. click on the following link and listen to a chapter of THE FLATMATES and do the exercises.http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/flatmates/
3. Write ESL on the google search, visit any of the english learning pages and write a comment on the blog about it. Don't forget to write the title the page!
4. If you know any interesting page that could be helpful to learn english, please write the address on the blog.

Blogspot Progress check

Visit this blog and write a comment about it. The click on the following link http://www.englishlearner.com/tests/index.shtml and do the consitionals tests. Good luck!