Level 1 USB

Describing places

Talking about cities
Adjectives for describing cities
Writing descriptions about cities

Video: describing cities

Level 1 USB

Class 2:

Let's practice some Countries and nationalities
Where are you from?

Let's practice the numbers
Numbers song: count
More songs

Homework: do the following vocabulary exercises
Do crosswords with numbers
Do crosswords with countries

Grammar:

Possessive adjectives and personal pronouns
Do the following exercises
Possessive adjectives and family relationships

Games:
Interactive games with possessive adjectives

LEVEL 1 USB

Dear students, these are the videos we saw in class to practice introductions and greetings. Take a look at them and be prepared for the next class.

1. Greetings
2. Introductions
3.Introducing people

Level 1

Review:  Simple past

Video: What did you do yesterday?
Childhood memories: vocabulary
Movie segements to practice past simple

Level 4

Past perfect use and form
How to use past perfect
Past perfect form
Recognize the past perfect tense in The Canterville Ghost story
Some exercises
More exercises

Level 4

Project work: Writing the report.

Some common problems we have with writing:
- Run on sentences
- Exercises on run on sentences
- Use of conjunctions
- Conjunctions and clauses

Level 1

Learn how to use the simple past

Form and use of simple past

Past simple cartoon

Video: Did you have a nice vacation
Video: List of irregular verbs
Irregular verbs songs

Past simple Regular verb endings

Sherlock Holmes

HOMEWORK

Do the following activities.

1. Video: What did you do yesterday?

2. Reading comprehension: who is J.k. Rowling

3.Listen to the song and do the activity: Viva la vida, Coldplay

4. Regular and irregular verbs

Level 4

Second conditional:
The second conditional (also called conditional type 2) is a structure used for talking about unreal situations in the present or in the future. Look at the following explanations and examples.

Structure
Exercises
Matching exercise
Summary - Chart

Videos about the second conditional

Song: If you had a million dollars...

Level 1

The Mid-Term Exam will be tomorrow

Dear students,
Thanks to all of you that have written asking for my health. I'm still recovering from this virus, but I feel better.

Remember we'll have our mid-term exam tomorrow. 
The written section includes the topics we have seen about personal information, daily routines, jobs and occupations, and people's descriptions.
The oral section is a report about the book we chose to read (Ocean Animals), or a different book from the list that interest you. This is the link 

I'll see you tomorrow. Have a nice day!

Level 4

Oral report for the Mid-term exam:
This is the link of the book we chose for the oral report
Mysteries: Believe it or not

Inventions that changed the world

Review: passive voice
Watch the movie segments to practice the passive voice structure

Watch the following segments about inventions that changed the world

Steve Jobs: 4 inventions that changed the world

Top 10 inventions of the 20th century

Level 1

Describing People

Vocabulary: physical appearance
Exercise: Describing famous people

Describing people and their characteristics
Describing my dad
Game
Describing your loved ones

Level 4

Review
PASSIVE VOICE
How to use passive voice
Passive voice in context: The history of snowboarding
Exercises: Active or passive

Level 1

Let's review:
First job: watch the movie segment and do the activities.

Daily Family life around the world:
Watch the video segments  about daily life of families around the world. 
What activities or routines called your attention?
What similar activities do Colombian families have?
How is the life of a Colombian family like?

Level 4

When I was young I used to...

How to use "to be used to"

Listen to the song: This used to be my playground

Let's talk about Childhood

Toys and games vocabulary wordlist
Watch the movie Hook starring Robin Williams, this is based on the book Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie. It is about a boy who didn't grow up.

Level 1

The world of work

Vocabulary: descriptions of professions and occupations

Listen to the song and do the exercises to review jobs and occupations

Watch the following video and recognize the jobs.

Level 1

Let's check the topic we started last class about daily activities and time expressions

Daitly routines exercises
Any's daily routine
Frequency adverbs: I usually practice English

Let's play
Let's sing: this is one of the traditional songs in English: Lemon Tree

Reading activity:
Healthy me

Reading project

for the first part of the semester we are going to read a book. In this site you will find intetrsting books to read

Level 4

The first conditional: 

If you don't study, you won't pass the course.

Look at the following explanation about how to use the first conditional and do the exercises.
Watch more examples on how to use the first conditonal
Do the following exercises
More practice

Life in the 21rst century
Watch the following video about an android mannequin that attracts attention

Homework:
Listen and read the story of Incas at the big myth. Be prepared to retell the story of how their culture began. Read the information you have on this site about their culture.

Level 4

Our reading project
Read the book Believe it or not. Be prepared for an oral report.

Some interesting videos to talk about

Look at the following videos. What do you think about these issues?
Davis Guggenheim: It Starts with Great Teachers
The power of words
The purpose of getting good grades at school

Level 1

Myself

As we practiced in the previous class how to introduce yourself and somebody else, we will continue talking about daily activities you usually do.

My routines: Vocabulary
My routines: watch the following video segment and recognize the activities we usually do every day. What's your routine?
Vocabulary: Chores

Watch the movie segment about "Saturday night fever" and do the ativities.

Present simple tense

Simple present form and use

When do we use simple present? watch the segment

Practice: simple present sentences
Simple present and plural

Let's play hangman with present simple tense
Let's paly click and match

Time Expressions

Telling the time in English

Look at some prepositions we use to express time
Clockers: games to learn the time in english

Level 4: giving advice

Vocabulary: health problems
Health problems and treatments
Should or shouldn't: giving advice
Read about different problems and advice

Level 1

Introducing myself and introducing someone

Introductions: here you will find different possibilities to know how to introduce yourself and other people.

1. How to introduce yourself
2. How to introduce someone
3. Introducing people: video segment taken form tv serie Friends
4. Scenes from different series showing how people can introduce themselves and each other in English.

Greetings
Look how to greet someone in different contexts

PERSONAL INFORMATION: Knowing countries and nationalities
Memorizing the countries
Where are you from?

Level 4: Expressing obligation and giving advice

Grammar explanation: Expressing obligation
Giving advice using Should
Video: inquiring about health
Some expressions to use at the doctor's
Movie segment: giving advice

Welcome Level 4

Dear students,
Today we'll have a class with a variety of activities. I want to check how your English level is now. So We'll have a diagnosis of it.

1. Listening activity: try to get the main ideas of this segment. Then we will listen and read at the same time.
Listen

2. Reading and listening: Mysteries. Believe it or not. Let's read and listen at the same time.
What do you think about these mysteries?

3. Watch the following funny videos. Let's talk about some of them
Watch

Level 1: Simple past practice

Simple past form and use
Regular verbs pronunciation
Songs to practice past tense:
Because you loved me (Celine Dion)
Yesterday (The Beatles)

LEVEL 2: Prepare your oral exam

Dear students, the topic for the oral exam is a report about famous people. You will describe your favorite actor, actress, singer, artist, or writer. In the description include his/her physical characteristics and personality, and his/her most remarkable works.

Here you will find a link with different famous people's descriptions that can be useful to prepare your oral report. This site also includes MP3 listening and online exercises. You could chose one of these people for the report.

Link: Famous People lessons

Level 2

Be going to

Look at some examples

How to use it
Movie segment to understand the use of be going to

USING THE BLOG

Has this blog been useful for your Englis learning? How? Why?

USING THE BLOG

Has this blog been useful for your English learning? How? Why?

Project Work: writing a report on my topic

The next step we will continue working on for the project is writing reports.
For level 1 and 2. you just have to express your ideas in a simple way.
Take a look at this site: here you will find strategies to and samples to write reports.

Level 1: Using CAN to express ability

• Take a look at the following video segment: What can you do?
• Watch the following movie segment from "Blindness" and do the activity
• How to use CAN
• Can - Can't (Pronunciation Part 1) (Pronunciation part 2)

Level 2: Describing people

1. Take a look at the different ways to describe a person physically
2. Matching vocabulary exercise about people
3. Describing appeareance exercises
4. Describing personality vocabulary
5. Clothes: vocabulary
6. Clothes: crossword
7. The clothing song
8. The talking flashcards: clothes
9. Video: describing personalities
10. Speaking activity: describe what your friends, family and teachers are like

Adjectives to describe

Here you will find explanations and examples on how to describe and compare people and objects. Take a look at the order adjectives should follow when describing

Watch a segment about Avatar and practice the order of adjectives

Level 2: Present continuos

1. Look at the folllowing explanation about present continuos. Click here
2. Watch the following video segement and listen "what are they doing?" Click here
3. Video: listen and watch what people are doing. How to use present continuos Click here

LEVEL 1: DESCRIBING PLACES

How to describe places
THERE IS - THERE ARE
LOCATIONS AND DIRECTIONS
GIVING DIRECTIONS
Watch the video
Video: describing your house.

Level 2: Describing places

Watch the following segment: World's most beautiful cities

LEVEL 1: LISTENING ACTIVITIES ABOUT LIKES AND DISLIKES

Listen to some people talking about movies. Do the exercises and check the answers Watch and listen to the following segment about Claudia's likes and dislikes. Do the activities. Watch the video. Some people are talking about what they like to do for fun. WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE?...

LEVEL 2

Food

Delicious food: vocabulary building

Food around the world

Food and religion

Countable and uncountable nouns
Exercises
Food: how to use some and any
Make a recipe: use much, many, some, any, a, an

LEVEL 1

INTRODUCING FAMILY

Family relationships
The family song (for kids like you!)

SAXON POSSESSIVE 'S: Theory and practice

JOBS AND OCCUPATIONS

Watch the video about some jobs and occupations

Song: She's not just a pretty face

Video: Sesame Street: Who are the people in your neighborhood

Jobs exercises

Telling the time

English numbers

The Time

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Time and daily routines

LEVEL 2

DESCRIBING AND COMPARING PLACES

Talking about cities
Describing my city (sample)

USING COMPARATIVES AND SUPERLATIVES

Watch the video on how to use comparatives and superlatives

Writing emails

Email structure and expressions
Formal letter and semi-formal email
Email etiquette
Email openings and endings
How to write an Email (exercise)

DAILY ACTIVITIES

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Exercises

PROJECT WORK

The following sites will help you to recognize different types of genres in English. You can find the textual cahracteristics of each genre and samples that will guide your own writing process.

The Learning place (Australian Curriculum)

INFORMATION REPORTS
Some of you are going to write information reports. This site will be meaningful for you.

GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS
This is a very useful strategy for reading and writing. Find logical relationships among ideas when you read or organize your text in a coherent way befor you write.
EDUPLACE GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS

LEVEL 1

SIMPLE PRESENT PRACTICE

Simple present and plural

Simple present form and use

Present simple use

My routine

Watch a movie segment from "The Princess frog" to practice simple present

LEVEL 2

Narrating in English

1. Review simple past form

2. Regular verbs pronunciation

3. Voiced and unvoiced sounds

4. What did you do yesterday?

5. Victoria's last weekend

6. Movie segement to practice simple past

LEVEL 1

Introductions: here you will find different possibilities to know how to introduce yourself and other people.

1. Introducing someone
2. Introducing yourself
3.Introducing people: video segment from tv series "Friends"
4. Scenes from different series showing how people can introduce themselves and each other in English.
5. Greetings and introductions

PERSONAL INFORMATION
Knowing countries and nationalities

1. Memorizing the countries

2. Where are you from?