Don't forget: Today we have a class. It's our last lesson for the course!

It's the summer and we are ready for a vacation. You all did a very good job with the play. Congratulations!

Today we'll be watching stories and playing games.

What's your favorite fairy tale?  My favorite fairy tale is Pinocchio.  What's Pinocchio about?

It's about a wooden puppet.
There is an old man in the story.
The wooden puppet has many adventures.

Those are clues: they tell you a little bit about the story so you can guess the story.


HOMEWORK

Choose your own story and write 3 clues. 

There are many stories you can choose from: Little Red Riding Hood, Snow White and the 7 dwarfs, Hansel and Gretel, The Princess and the Pea, The Three Little Pigs, The Beauty and the Beast, and so on.

Here is a link to a video with fragments of fairy tales: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPc05lcrkdQ

Last Tuesday students had a test, which was hard work.

Next week we´ll be doing the play. So here I want to remind everybody what they need to bring.

First, everybody needs to wear a costume:

For the girls it is eady because they can look just like regular girls. But we need a basket for the picnic.

Rubén and Gonzalo,the Alien Vampires need to brink some face crayons (colors to paint their faces). For clothes bring anything you think is good for an alien vampire. Do you have any other costumes: A cape? Something shiny? And you need to bring a weapon: a gun or something.
Same thing for Sergio, the Police Officer, see if you can find a hat and something that can be similar to a uniform: black trousers, leather jacket? And, of course, a gun.


HOMEWORK

Listen to the song. Then, write 5 professions and say what they do. Example: A dentist keeps your teeth clean and white. http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/es/songs/people-work

Hi!

Yesterday re were going over vocabulary, Here is a list of words you must learn  and know how to spell:

Verbs:

brush
cook
do
have
make
paint
read
tidy
watch

Adjectives
big
curly
friendly
naughty 
smart
straight
strong
tall
short

House tasks or chores
make the bed
wash up the dishes
do the laundry
take out the rubbish
vacuum the floor

At the end of the lesson we were playing a board game. We have played many times. And yet, some students cannot distinguish between Present Simple and Present continuous. I know it is a bit difficult but you are young and clever and only have to pay a little attention.

Present Simple ( it is simple, it is only 1 word) We use it for actions we repeat in time: we do them usually, always, never, everyday, etc.
Example:

I make my bed everyday

or

My mother doesn't cook at the weekends

Present Continuous: (2 words: am, are or is + verb+ing) We use it for actions we are doing now, today, at this moment, this morning, tonight, etc.)

Example

Now, I am writing the blog for C5.

Today, the C5 children are not coming to the English School  because it is Wednesday.

HOMEWORK

1. Study the words.

2. Go to the link and do the exercises. By the way, this is the Present Simple, we use for routines.http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=6234

Yesterday we spent the first part of the class preparing activities for the younger children. The activities were about summer holidays. A good opportunity for everybody to learn vocabulary that we can use to talk about the summer. Here are some of the words we learned:

beach
sand
sand castles
sea
waves
swimsuit
sunglasses
ice cream
juice
beach umbrella
beach chair

Students in my group did a good job as teachers and the little ones had a good time.

We also started, very roughly, a new unit about jobs. So for your homework you are going to start studying some jobs and professions and that way you'll be ready for next week.

HOMEWORK
Watch the video and write 10 jobs mentioned in it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mw6RBvUmayA

2. To review the Present Continuous.

Answer the question: when do we use the verb in the Present Continuous?

Now complete the questions. Remember: the Pr. Continuous has 2 parts: the present of to be: I am, you are, he/she/it is, we are, you are, they are    +      the verb  -ing.

Example: I am writing

For questions we change the order of the words: Am I writing? Are you reading? Is Maria listening?

Use the verb at the end of the question, in the -ing form, of course.

1.__  she _____________ a  good time? (have)

2. ________ they______________  that stupid song again? (sing)

3._______  I __________ a good job? (do)

4. _______ we ________  to the cinema tonight? (go)

5. _______ John and Jake ______________ television? (watch)

6. Or______  they_________________  to the radio? (listen)

7. _____ Mario ________________  a video game? (play)

8. ________ Joanna and Kayleigh_______________  the dog? (walk)

9._______  Mister Sebel____________  Mike with his homework? (help)

10.______  you______________  a book? (read)

Hello guys!

You have to make sure you understand the blog and the homework. If you can't get any help from an older person who knows more than you and can explain something when you have a doubt you can use the translator,

I think, though, that your homework is usually very clear and all you have to do is read it carefully and pay attention. I always give you very clear examples. The examples come after the word Examples  which is underlined, that is, with a line under the word: ___________. OK?

Yesterday, besides completing and repeating your homework we reviewed the vocabulary we use to describe people.

We rehearsed our play. Most students already know all their lines. We must start thinking and planning costumes and props.
Costumes: clothes you wear to look like your character. Example: clothes you wear to look like an alien (maybe green clothes, a mask, etc.)
Props: things we use in the play, such as a spaceship, a gun, a basket for the girls' picnic.

Later we practiced asking each other question. First using the second person, Have you got short dark hair?, then, asking about a classmate: Has Nuria got blond curly hair?

I repeat:
When we talk about hair, eyes, nose, ears, etc. we use the verb have got/has got. When we use adjectives about the whole person, like tall, short, strong, slow, etc. we use are/is.
Example: Gonzalo has got short curly hair.
                 Sergio is tall and thin.

HOMEWORK

Talk about a best friend. Answer the questions:

1.What's his/her name?
2.How old is he/she?
3.What does he look like? (tall, blond hair, brown eyes?)
4.What is he/she like as a person? (friendly, clever, fast?)
5.What things does he like? ( sports, music, painting?)
6.Where does he/she live? ( town, near you or far from you, on your street or neighborhood?)
7.What do you do with your best friend?

Example:  1.My best friend's name is Erika. 2. She is 8 years old. 3. She is medium height and thin. She has got long wavy brown hair and brown eyes. 4. Erika is very friendly and playful. 5. She likes roller skating and reading stories. She also likes writing stories. 6. She lives near me, in the same neighborhood.7. We always play together in the afternoon. Some times we roller skate and sometimes we ride our bikes. And we invent stories.   

Hello!

Yesterday we continued practicing describing people. Everybody had done their homework and it was pretty well done. Only a couple of reminders. When we use more than one adjective for something, as we usually do to describe hair, we put them one after the other before the noun.

Example:  My brother has got short curly blond hair. We don't say: my brother has got short hair, he has got curly hair, he has got blond hair.

We don't use the article a before the word hair or the word eyes. Remember, we have 2 eyes and lots of hair.

We say: I have got blond hair and blue eyes. We don't say I have got a blond hair and a blue eyes.

Later students asked each other questions about the characters on the book:

Is the woman tall? 

And they answered:

No, she isn't. She is medium height.

Or

Has the young man got red hair?

Answer:

Ne, he hasn't. He's got blond hair.

We listened to a recording and students had to pick the right choice on their worksheet to show their comprehension. They had to know who they were talking about and some information about their look.

We rehearsed our play. Most students already know their lines. And the interpretation is getting better all the time.

Finally, we listened to our song again and completed and exercise filling in the words that were missing from the song.

HOMEWORK

Do the exercises in this page. They are easy.  You need to click on the sentence before to get to the link.

Then, looking at the pictures; Ask 2 questions for each character:
Example: Has John got curly hair? Answer: No, he hasn't. He's got straight hair.

John	Bill	Ann	Sue
10 years old	11 years old	10 years old	12 years old

Hello Tuesday kids!


Last Tuesday we studied vocabulary to describe people. Here are the words we were studying:

tall
short
thin
fat or heavy
old
young
fast
slow
strong
week

We use these words with the verb to be: is or are when we describe a person or some people that are not here.

 Some people are tall and some people are short.


We also study words to describe people's hair: color, size, shape for hair on our head. And other types of hair, or having no hair. Or how we comb our hair.

blond hair
brown hair
red hair
black hair
gray hair
long hair
short hair
curly hair
wavy hair
straight hair
bold
pony tail
pig tails
beard
mustache

To talk about somebody's hair we use the verb have got:
My sister has got long straight hair.

We watched a video and practiced the song. Here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhWV4fzchq4
You can listen and practice at home.

HOMEWORK

Describe 4 people in your family. Example:

My sister is short and a little heavy. She has got short brown hair and brown eyes. She is young and strong.

Hello everybody!

Some of you have to show more interest when you do your homework. If you don´t understand the instructions please ask somebody for help - a brother, a sister, a mother or a father who know a little English - or use the translator.

Yesterday we started a new unit. Students looked at a picture of some boys and girls and they had to guess who were best friends and who hadn´t got a best friend.

This is an important word:

Guess

Guess what it means guess.

Anyway, after that we listened to a recording to find out if we were right or wrong. First we found out who was who. We had to listen to a description. Example:

My name is Jessica. I have got short black hair and a round face. My favorite color is green. 

Then we could find Jessica´s picture.

That´s what we study in this unit: how to describe people and talk about what they like.


HOMEWORK 

Go to the link:http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=5394

Read the email and do the next 3 exercises: Ex. 1: Yes or No exercise. Ex. 2: Find in the email. Ex. 3:
 Choose the correct answer.

Hello!

It seems  rather difficult for some of you to use the Present Continuous without forgetting something: either the verb to be or the -ing ending of the verb. So we need to keep practicing.

Yesterday we did an exercise in the book. It took quite a while, because we had to repeat and repeat the questions and the answers. It must be the spring.

The questions were like this one:

What's Mary doing in the living room?

And the the answers:

She is playing a game.

Later we reviewed the set of actions and learned a few new ones. The new actions are household chores:

Do the dishes, make a bed, do the laundry, hang the clothes, take the rubbish out, mop the floor, do the dusting, vacuum.

I underlined the verb itself, the part that you must use for the Present Continuous. Example:  My father is doing the dishes. My mother is mopping the floor. I am making my bed.

Other verbs that we studied are:

Shout, carry, bounce (the ball), argue.

We played Around the World. Children in this group tend to shout when they are playing this game. They think that if they shout they will win. But it doesn't work that way. You have to be faster and pronounce the words correctly. Shouting doesn't help.

HOMEWORK

What's the woman doing?

What's the girl doing?

Now, draw all the members of your family doing different house chores. You must include yourself. Say what everybody is doing.
Then answer the questions:

1. Is your father taking the rubbish out?

2. Is your mother making a bed?

3. Is your brother/sister cooking?

4. Are you doing the dusting?

Example:  Is your sister cooking? No, she isn't. She is doing the dishes.

Hello again!

Yesterday we continued practicing the Present Continuous.   Some students said that they had already studied the sheet I gave them in their Trinity class. But that was no problem, because it takes a lot of practice to master the Present Continuous. And we did it a little differently anyway. When we did the listening, for instance we practiced the question:

Who is Mike talking to?

Students had to listen carefully and answer:

Mike is talking to Bob.

We also practiced the questions:

What's he/she doing?

and 

Is she going to work?

For this last questions students could answer:
Yes, she is.
or 
No, she isn't. She is cooking dinner.

Later, students had to compare a picture they were given with their partner's picture, which was similar but different. For that, they had to ask each other questions.

We ended the lesson playing a  board game. students need to make a sentence either in the Present Simple or the Present Continuous. For instance, if they land on a box with the words play baseball this week, they have to make a sentence in the Present Concinuous: I am playing baseball this week, because of the words this week. But if the words on the box are get up early every day, then the sentence must be in the Present Simple, because that's the tense we use to talk about things we do everyday: my father gets up early everyday.

HOMEWORK

Go to this link and complete the exercises.http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=3438

Exercises 1 : copy 4 sentences in your notebook. Gonzalo, Irene and Olivia, the sentences on the left.
Sergio, Ruben and Nuria, the sentences on the right.
Exercise 3: Copy 2 sentences in your notebook. Gonzalo and Irene: the first 2 sentences. Olivia and Sergio: the next 2 sentences. Ruben and Nuria, the last 2 sentences.

I am glad you all enjoyed your vacation. Everybody in this group traveled somewhere. To the beach, to their village... You lucky ones!

We started the new term studying another verb tense: the Present Continuous. It was not really new for anybody but you need to practice it and compare it to the Present Simple, which we had studied last term.

We use the Present Continuous to talk about actions we are doing now, today, tonight, this week, this month, this year, etc.

Don't forget!

An example:

I am eating  

Question  

Am I eating?  

Negative    .

I am not eating

Why am I writing  am with big letters? Because many children forget to put that part of the verb.But we talked about it in class. And we practiced asking questions and giving answers.
We also learned some new verbs. Remember the song?

We had some pairs:

walk and run

eat and drink

cry and smile

hit and kick

climb and swing

throw and catch

Homework

1. Please, study the verbs above for next class.
2.

Write 7 sentences saying what the people in the picture are doing.

Example: Adela is playing the guitar. 

Verbs you can use: talk, throw, skateboard, play, ride, buy, swim, walk, drive, watch

Last week we did not have the chance to correct homework. We'll do it next Tuesday.

Next Tuesday is our last class this term. Then it's Easter Holidays or Spring Holidays. Spring started yesterday, so now, when we say the season at the beginning of the lesson you must say Spring.

I am happy we are in spring, although the weather is not very good yet.

Here is an easy quizz for you about the spring. Do the exercise and write the sentences on your notebook.

HOMEWORKhttp://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=12065


Don't forget about the Flea Market!

Hello boys and girls!

What did we do last Tuesday? We practiced talking about towns and cities and we learned some more adjectives:

Charming, fascinating, hectic, clean, dirty, safe, dangerous, romantic.

We used those adjectives to describe cities from all over the world: New York, Quebec City, Singapore, London, Bangkok, Ho Chi Ming City.

Then we listened to some people talk about those cities and say what they thought about them.

For HOMEWORK   choose 4 of our 6 cities New York, Quebec City, Singapore, London, Bangkok, Ho Chi Ming City. do a little research in the Internet about those cities. You must answer the questions:

1. Where is it ( New York, London, etc)?

2. How many people live in ____?  ( New York, London, etc)?

3. Are there skyscrapers in  ____?  ( New York, London, etc)?

4. What language do people speak in ____?  ( New York, London, etc)?

Example:

1. London is in the UK.

2. There are about 8 million people in London. (About means that it is not exact.)

3. Yes, there are. One skyscraper is the Shard.

4. People speak English in London.

1 of the cities is mandatory for each student, you can decide the other 3.
Olivia: Quebec City.
Sergio: Ho Chi Min City.
Irene: Singapore
Gonzalo: Bangkok
Nuria: Quebec City.
Ruben: Ho Chi Min City.

It is easy: just put the question in Google.

Hi children!

Yesterday we continued studying about cities, towns and villages. 

Remember the adjectives we had learned to describe them?

Industrial, beautiful, tourist, historic, old, modern, quiet, crowded?

You seem to have forgotten some of them, the ones in big and black letters.

I am saying this because yesterday, when you had to describe a city or a town you kept repeating the same ones: beautiful, tourist...

Yesterday we listened to a recording. In this recording  3 people from the UK talked about their cities or towns: one of them lived in Liverpool, another one in Brighton and the last one in Oxford. 

Students had to fill in some gaps in a text with the information they understood from the recording.


Later the class was divided into two teams and they competed against each other asking questions about some towns and cities we already know something about.

They had to ask the questions:

What's _______(name of a city or town) like?

Or say:

Tell me something about_________(name of a city or town) .

HOMEWORK
.
Do this exercise about London. Some of the answers you may not know, like how long is the River Thames, but it doesn't matter.
http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=4640
Write 5 adjectives used to describe London.

Most students in this group did a good job with their homework. So now, we know a know a lot of things about some cities, towns and villages.

In our last lesson students repeated the exercise we had done the week before - picking a picture of a city, town or village and the matching information - but this time they had a conversation with each one of their classmates. They asked each other the questions:

Where do you live?
and
What is _____(name of the place. Ex: London) like?

And answered:

It is an old historic city. (We use It is when we use adjectives or we say where they are).

There are long and wide streets.  (We use there is or there are when we talk about things the place has got).


There is for 1 thing. Singular. Ex: There is a park.
There are for 2 or more things. Plural. Ex: There are modern buildings.

We also study places in the city or town: post office, gas station, fire station, police station, hotel, restaurant, cafe, hairdresser's, bakery, pharmacy, fitness center, pet shop, ice cream shop, supermarket, bus stop. Do you remember any other places?

HOMEWORK
1. Write 3 sentences using there is about your street, neighborhood or town.

Ex: There is a pharmacy on my street.

2. Write 3 sentences using there are about your street, neighborhood or town.

Ex: There are 3 pet shops in Leganes.

3. Ask 2 questions. Ex: Is there a cinema in your village?

Yesterday we started a new unit. In this unit we learn how to talk about cities, towns, villages and also tourist resorts.

Madrid, London, New York and Paris are cities.

Leganes  is a town.

Most of the students go a to a village in the summer, usually their grandparents' village, which may be in Avila, Toledo, Guadalajara, Madrid, Caceres, etc.


Some adjectives we studies to talk about cities, towns or villages:

Beautiful, friendly, modern, old, historic, crowded, quiet, industrial, seaside.

We also talked about streets and said they could be wide, like Gran Via, or narrow, like San Jeronimo (near Puerta del Sol).

Other words we studied are: buildings, skyscrapers, lake. 

Students were given a photograph of a city, town or village and they had to find the information about it. Example: one students got a picture of Tokyo and then found some information about it:

Very crowded.
Many lights.
Many modern buildings.

Another students got a picture of San Sebastian, in the North of Spain. Then, he/ she gathered the following information:

On the seaside.
Beautiful and elegant buildings.
Tourist town.

HOMEWORK

Find photos of  places: cities, towns or villages.

Just as in the examples above, say  3 things about each one of them.

Link for Valentine's Day:

http://bogglesworldesl.com/valentines_day_worksheets.htm

There are some nice activities in that site. Check them. I liked Broken Hearts

Another link: http://www.anglomaniacy.pl/valentinesDayPrintables.htm

Hello, my very competitive students!

Yesterday we spent a lot of time practicing questions in the 3rd person singular of the Simple Present: asking questions:

What does Stanley cook on Thursday?

Does Stanley cook Italian food on Monday?

What does Irene do?

Some of you have already got the trick of it and ask question very well.


On Thursday he cooks Puerto Rican food.

Yes, he does. On Monday he cooks Italian food.

Irene watches TV.

We started to study the names of TV programs.

Cartoons, news, talk shows, game shows, reality shows, sitcoms, series.
We spent some time pronouncing those words.

Then we continued playing our frequency adverbs game. And it's incredible, but we haven't finished yet. I hope next day...

HOMEWORK

1.Ask the questions for these answers: Example: Yes, my brother walks to school every day. Question: Does your brother walk to school everyday?

No, Stanley doesn't cook Russian food.

He cooks Greek food on Tuesday.

After school I watch TV.

After lunch, my mother sleeps on the sofa.

No, my father doesn't play the piano.

2. Answer the questions:

What cartoons do you watch?

What series do you watch?

What game shows do you watch?

Hi C5 kids!

It was a nice class yesterday. There is a bunch of smart students in this group. I can't imagine how much you would learn if you didn't so much to say to each other in Spanish.

In our lesson students had to work with a partner and ask him/her:

What do you do?
What don't you do?

And they had to give to answers for each question. Example: 
I play the guitar and I read books.
I don't comb my hair and I don't eat fish.

Later, students had to report what their partner had told them. Example:
He/She plays the guitar and reads books.
He/She doesn't comb his/her hair and doesn't eat fish.

We also practiced the prepositions before and after. Before spring: winter. After spring: summer.

We reviewed all the actions we are studying and played Around the World. Then we continued with a board game in which we have to make sentences using the Simple Present and a frequency adverb: always, usually, often, sometimes, seldom and never.

HOMEWORK
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9QluYxyV00
Here is a fun video for you to watch: then, answer the questions.

1. What kind of food does Stanley cook on Tuesday?

2. What kind of food does Stanley cook on Friday?

3. What question does the first caller ( a man who phones the restaurant) ask?

4. When does Stanley cook Japanese food?

5. Why doesn't the Russian man go to Stanley's restaurant?

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

It was nice to see you all yesterday. And I'm glad you all got good presents from the Three Wise Men and from Santa.

We started a new unit. It is about what we do in our Free Time. First we listened to a recording of a girl saying what she usually does after school.

First, she listens to music, then she does her homework. After that, she has dinner with her family, and so on.

In these sentences, because they express actions that happen everyday, we use the Simple Present.

This form of the verb is very easy in English.

Example: verb to read:

I               read

You          read

He/She/It reads

We           read

You          read

They        read

As you can see, only the 3rd person singular is a bit different: it has an s.

To make questions we use an auxiliary: the Simple Present of to do.

I               do
You          do
He/She/It does

We           do
You          do
They        do

It's like this:

Do I                  read?

Do you             read?

Does he/she/it  read?

Do we               read?

Do you              read?

Do they             read?

And finally when we make a negative sentence:

I               don't     read

You          don't     read

He/She/It doesn't read

We           don't     read

You          don't     read

They        don't     read

We studied a number of actions which were not completely new for the students:

Wake up, get dressed, have breakfast or lunch or dinner, wash you face or your hands or your hair, brush your teeth, comb your hair, brush your hair, walk, run, do your homework, do exercise, play an instrument, play sports, play games, sing, cook, buy, sleep, go out, ride your bike.

In the last part of our class we played a board game. Students had to make sentences in the Simple Present using one of the following adverbs: Always,usually,  often,  sometimes,seldom, never.

Homework:

Answer the questions:

1. What do you after breakfast?

2. What do you do after the English class in Learn&Enjoy?

3. What does your mother do after breakfast? (Ask her, your mother)

4. What does your father do after breakfast? (Ask him, your father)

Play this game and write down 5 questions you hear and the answers.http://www.mes-games.com/dailyroutines.php