Learning with Bobby

 

“People often say that motivation doesn’t last. 

Well, neither does bathing-that’s why we recommend it daily”

 – Zig Ziglar –

Step by Step

“Stairs to success are made of people.” 

Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

Grammar in a nutshell

Grammar in a nutshell

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World News for Students of English

News in English

If you read and listen to two articles every day, your reading and listening skills can improve fast. You can learn quickly and after some time you will not have to translate into your own language. You will simply understand. Why should you do this?

How to improve your English with News in Levels: 

Reading

1. Read two news articles every day.
2. Read the news articles from the day before and check if you remember all new words.

Listening

1. Listen to the news from today and read the text at the same time.
2. Listen to the news from today without reading the text.

Writing

1. Answer the questions under today’s news and write them in the comments.
2. Chat in our Facebook Group for 2 minutes. You can write about today’s news.

Speaking

1. Choose one person from the Skype section.
2. Talk with this person. You can answer questions from Speak in Levels.

How language shapes the way we think

"The limits of my language means the limits of my world."

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Travelling

"A great trip is the best start to a good story." @lovelystreets

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Happy Holiday!

Holiday Party

Thanksgiving 2017

2º ESO

What are you thankful for?

Halloween 🎃 2017

Open if you dare

One Way Ticket

ONE WAY TICKET

“Inspect the unexpected!”

Company: Moving On

Audience: 12 y 18 years

Language: English

Duration: 50 minutes

Date: 19 May 2016

In an atmosphere of economic crisis and budget austerity, the government is sending inspectors to all the public transport stations in the country to evaluate their efficiency and profitability. Harry is going crazy, convinced that any one of the passengers that occasionally pass through his station may be the Government Inspector coming to close his station.

The show takes us on a vibrant, comical, musical, as well as educational journey through London, its history and its most emblematic places.

Easter Time

 

Easter is a time of springtime festivals. In Christian countries Easter is celebrated as the religious holiday commemorating the resurecction of Jesus Christ, the son of God.

But the celebrations of Easter have many customs and legends that are pagan in origin and have nothing to do with Christianity. Click here and do the tasks. Later, click here or look here in order to know more about Easter Time . Finally, let's play!

Website Activities

• Read and listen to this text about Easter in Britain.

• How much do you know about Easter?? Quiz-1 and Quiz-2.

• Do this Jigsaw puzzle.

• Watch the video and take part in this Interactive Easter Egg Hunt:

PS: Have a Happy Easter!!!

Happy Saint Patrick's Day!!

Shamrocks

May the road rise up to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face;
the rains fall soft upon your fields
and until we meet again,
may God hold you in the palm of His hand.

(traditional gaelic blessing)

ABOUT IRELAND.   SAINT PATRICK´S DAY....

How much do you know about Ireland?

Click here and watch the following video to find out.

And then try the quiz to check your knowledge!

Read about Saint Patrick's Day.

 Can you find the four-leaf clover? 

Phonetics 3

Here it is. Another Interactive Phonemic Chart. Our thanks to Adrian Underhill. This excellent teaching tool can be played full-screen and gives clear audio examples of the English phoneme set.

Click on this link to view the chart in full screen

Carnival

Phonetics 2

Pronunciation animations from Cambridge

There's a great Flash-based pronunciation resource on the Cambridge ELT site. The four sections cover the following areas:

• Diphthongs - mini movies to practise reading and saying all the diphthongs in English.

• Stress - word stress and sentence stress.

• Intonation.

• Phonemic chart - hear the English phonemes spoken by a male or female voice

I hope you like this site! It is very useful! Have a nice day!

Phonetics 1: Sheep or Ship?

Phonetic focus is a fantastic free resource for learning about phonetics from Cambridge English Online. Using a collection of Flash-based games (the hangman, pelmanisms, puzzles, quizzes, mazes...) you will improve your ability to recognize and produce the various sounds of English and associate them with their phonetic symbols. Click on the image below to see a full-size screenshot.

The BBC Learning English Pronunciation Tips site is another wonderful resource. The site features videos on all the sounds of English as well as Flash-based interactive activities and quizzes. All the videos can be downloaded along with posters giving examples of each sound. You can also listen to three radio programmes from 2005 on the topic of pronunciation. The full script and audio examples are available to download.

Open your mind!!

Yes, come in, we're open!

Library Day

 School Library Day 2014 

Don't forget that October is International School Library Month, an event in which Schools and school libraries are encouraged to plan events for their students and teachers to celebrate and promote school libraries. What are you planning to do for International School Library Month?

Our Bilingual and Library coordinators met last week for their regular meeting.  As part of the meeting, we brainstormed ideas for our school and library to celebrate School Library Day on 24 October. Our preliminary ideas are below.  What can you add?  Let's keep this list of ideas going so that we have a list to use for years to come!

• Celebrate ‘new’ library
• Invite students to a guided tour around the library
• Teachers dress up as favourite book character and visit classes
• Ask older students to dress up as their favourite book characters and go to younger student classes
• Books in a gift bag
• Persuasive writing activity
• Participate in a book mark contest where you can exchange bookmarks
• Make podcasts/videos to introduce your favourite books(s) to students
• Read a book/Watch the Movie
• Host a debate from the viewpoint of a book character.
• Video podcast of an author reading or organize a skype call with an author after an all school read
• Make READ TODAY T-shirts
• Why I love my library student campaign AND parent campaign
• Coffee/Tea Club in the library for students with sessions on information literacy, web safety, new resources,  etc.
• Invite locals to read or visit the library

Now here's a GREAT IDEA for School Library DAY....in a big way...

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