How to Make Christmas Cake

Dear Students,

Please visit the following link to watch a very nice video about how to make Christmas Cake:

http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-make-christmas-cake

This webpage is very interesting and I think we are going to use it quite often. In the meantime you may want to have a look at it...

http://www.videojug.com

Have a nice weekend!
Leticia.

English Idioms

Dear Students,

Here you are some links to learn English idioms. Copy the links and paste them in a new window.

Have a nice weekend!

http://www.mailxmail.com/curso-ingles-para-espanoles-pronunciacion-1/dichos-refranes-proverbios-modismos-ingles

http://www.tamiu.edu/engl4347/grp9/dichos2.html

Happy Christmas Karaoke

Dear Students,

Here you are a karaoke to practice our Christmas song this week.



This are our next rehearsals:

Thursday 17th from 6:30 to 7:30 (this one is really important!)
Monday 21st from 5:30 to 6:30

Kind regards!
Leticia

World March at the EOI

Dear Students,

You were W O N D E R F U L this evening! Congratulations!

I've had a very special and nice time with you and I've really enjoyed the experience.

Are you ready for the next one...?

Cheers,
Leticia.

PS: A gift by David from Básico 2D... (thank you very much David!)



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cpfVrtXnm0

WORLD MACH CONCERT IN MADRID

Dear Students,

Here you are information about a concert next weekend. If you are interested, just let me know:

Hola a todos

Miguel Rios, Cómplices, Antonio Carmona, Pitingo, Asfalto, Coti, Pastora Soler, Cristina del Valle y más artistas, recibirán a la Marcha Mundial por la Paz y la No-violencia a su llegada a Madrid este próximo 14 de noviembre con un Concierto en la Sala Penélope a partir de las 21:00 horas.

“Artistas por la Paz en Concierto” Dará el punto final a una jornada festiva en Madrid para recibir al Equipo Base de la Marcha Mundial por la Paz y la No-violencia.

El Concierto será el aporte desinteresado de los artistas al deseo común de un mundo en paz y sin violencia que ya están expresando millones de personas de los cinco continentes a través de esta gran iniciativa de Mundo Sin Guerras y Sin Violencia.

OS INVITO A ASISTIR AL CONCIERTO.
Finalmente será en Madrid, Sala Penélope (C/ Hilarión Eslava, 36) a las 21,00 h.

Si queréis ir, por favor confirmármelo, tengo en este momento 25 entradas que voy a llevar a la presentación del día 11 en la EOI para todos los alumnos que quieran asistir.

ENTRADA 10 EUROS
Por favor, pasad este mensaje a las personas que puedan estar interesadas.
Muchas gracias
Un abrazo

Nacho

IMAGINE KARAOKE

Just for you to practice...
... just one week left...

Mariluz's blog

Dear Students,

I'd like to show you a really good blog you can also use as follow-up and extension.

Her author is Mariluz. She's a Básico 2 teacher at EOI Aranjuez. You can find the link to her wonderful blog under the heading "INTERESTING BLOGS" (see down right)

http://www.mindyourb2english.blogspot.com/

Enjoy!

BOOKS

Dear Students,

Here you are this year's readers for B1 and B2. You only have to choose one of them!

You may find cheaper second hand books in this webpage:
www.eoipinto.com/alumnos.

BÁSICO 1: 2 books
- January
'Survive!' , Helen Broke, Oxford Bookworms Starter
OR
‘The Fifteenth Character’, Rosemary Border, Oxford Bookworms Starter.

- April
'Five Short Plays', Martyn Ford, Oxford Bookworms Stage 1.
OR
‘Christmas in Prague’, Joyce Hannah, Oxford Bookworms Stage 1.

BÁSICO 2: 3 books
- December
‘One Way Ticket. Short Stories’, Jennifer Basset, Oxford Bookworms stage 1
OR
‘The President’s Murderer’, Jennifer Basset, Oxford Bookworms stage 1

- March
‘Death in the Freeze’, Tim Vicary, Oxford Bookworms stage 2
OR
‘New Yorkers Short Stories’, O. Henry Oxford Bookworms stage 2

- April
‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’, Oscar Wilde, Oxford Bookworms stage 3
OR
‘Love Story’, Erich Segal, Oxford Bookworms stage 3

Learning Types

Dear Students,

Here you are a funny video about the types of learners we discussed in our last session:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6XAiTSLW5g&feature=fvw

Enjoy!

Click and pronounce

Dear Students,

You can download a pronuciation chart from this webpage:

http://www.macmillanenglish.com/methodology/phonetic-chart.htm

There is another one here:

http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/download/pron_chart/pron_chart.shtml

Enjoy!

start...

"Although she has been teaching now for some eight years, on and off, although she enjoys it, feels she's good at it, and would like to go on doing it for the rest of her life if possible, she always feels a twinge of anxiety at the beginning of a new term.

This does not disturb her self-confidence; a good teacher, like a good actress, should not be immune from stage fright."

Nice Work by David Lodge

New Listening Link

Dear Students

Conchi from B2A (our scribe, remember?) has found a great page to practice listening:

http://www.eslpod.com/website/index_new.html

It's somehow similar to www.elllo.org in its approach, but there's an introduction to each listening (or podcast) and there are vocabulary explanations at the end. It also seems people speak more slowly...

It's also a good practice for American English!

I'll add this link to our right-hand menu for you to find it whenever you need to.

Thank you very much Conchi! I think this is a very interesting website! I'm sure your partners will be thankful!

New Link

Dear Students

Sergio from B1 has found an interesting web page:
http://www.english-area.com/index.htm

I'll add it to our menu on the right and I hope it'll be useful for you!

Regards
Leticia

TOP ACTIVITIES IN NYC

Miriam and David prefer NYC... read their comment below

TOP ACTIVITIES IN SPANISH CITIES

Hello everybody!

Our Básico 1 classmates have some top activities to do in Spanish cities...

Do you like their ideas?

Dear Students

This post is specially addressed to B2 students since we're currently looking at clothing vocabulary. But B1 students can also follow it easily due to the subtitles...

The video you're going to see was recorded last year during a school performance in EOI Villalba, featuring Intermedio 1 students. It was great fun!

I hope you like it!

The Oldest Words

Dear Students

Our classroom blog is back after its holiday with an interesting article about words in English. It's in Spanish, so it won't be difficult!

See you soon

Identificadas las palabras más antiguas del inglés
Un programa informático de la Universidad de Reading cataloga 'I', 'We', 'Two' y 'Three', como los vocablos más tempranos históricamente


For more information, go to:
http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cultura/Identificadas/palabras/antiguas/ingles/elpepucul/20090226elpepucul_6/Tes