Feelings, Emotions and Mood

How do you feel about the way you express your feelings in English?



Willing to learn some more adjectives and expressions about feelings and emotions. This is your post to expand your vocabulary and what's more: you'll become more self-confident with your English emotions. 

What is the Reported Speech for?

Reading poems aloud

When do we use passive structures?

St. Patrick's Day

"Saint Patrick's Day is held on March, 17th.  It's a public holiday in the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, and the British Overseas Territory of Montserrat. It is also widely celebrated by the Irish diaspora around the world, especially in Great Britain,Canada, the United States, Argentina, Australia, and New Zealand. 

Saint Patrick's Day is celebrated in more countries than any other national festival. Modern celebrations have been greatly influenced by those of the Irish diaspora, particularly those that developed in North America. In recent years, there has been criticism of Saint Patrick's Day celebrations for having become too commercialized and for fostering negative stereotypes of the Irish". 

For more reading, please click on here.

English for Specific Purposes: Crime & Punishment

On today's post we'll talk about English for Specific Purposes, that is,
a sphere of teaching English language including Business English, Technical English, Scientific English, English for medical professionals, English for waiters, English for tourism, English for Art Purposes, etc. 

However, we'll only deal with Crime & Punishment or even some legal English.

Videos about Crime & Punishment

Teaching English for Specific purposes

Question Tags for agreement or confirmation.

Basically, Question Tags are used when asking for agreement and confirmation, but they can also be found in common situations when we need to check whether something is true or not. Sometimes we just need to check information, so we use Question tags for that too.

Notice that Question Tags can also be used to invite people politely to do things, or even to refer to nothing or everything.

Adverts, Commercials and Creativity

http://morethaneoi.blogspot.com.es/2011/12/being-creative.html

"Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence"

"Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.” , written by George F. Will 






And what about girls and sports?


Activyst: Help Girls Play Sports from activyst on Vimeo.

School & Education

What's the weather like today?

As stated by the newspaper: The Guardian,
"2015 smashed the record for hottest year since reporting began in 1850, according to the first full-year figures from the world’s three principal temperature estimates".

To read the whole article, please click on here. 

So, Climate Change is real and Natural Disasters are more likely to happen than before. However, please do not panic so quickly, 'cos this is just an ESL blog. Here we only learn about language, culture and sometimes what's on the News. Now let's go into a greater depth about Weather, Climate Change, Natural Disasters and Human Risks.

If I were you, I'd...

If I were you, I'd...


How would you complete the sentence above?


Conditionals are quite good for your imagination, aren't they?


So, if you're thinking about writing some more amusing couple dialogues like that one above, please feel free to leave us a comment below.


If I were you, I'd write a good if-comment right now.

Technology, inventions & Internet

TEA

Clothes

Trip to Scotland

Once again we're planning a Trip to somewhere. 


This time we're going to go to Edinburgh, Scotland. 

However, there's still much to be done. Maybe, we can get some ideas from this web, or maybe we only need to talk about it in the classroom. Whatever the case, please feel free to leave a comment or ask any question about our forthcoming trip to Scotland.


Enjoy our power point presentation about Scotland:



And here's more info about Scotland:
http://www.scotland.org/
http://www.scotlandinfo.eu/scottish-culture-and-traditions/


Reading about Scotland:

Sentence transformations

Are you able to paraphrase in English? 



Hey, what exactly do you mean by that? 



Sentence transformations are highly useful for you to say things differently, or better said, different ways of talking about the same thing, using other words. 



So, please avoid repetition. 

Here's your presentation about Transformations and now it's time for transformation practice.



In your own words...

Recycling and Pollution

Are you aware of the main considerations about the topic of Recycling and Pollution? How do you contribute to heal the world?

 And what about? Plastic pollution

Do you recycle?

 Here's a listening from the BBC Learning English:

Join Dan and Kate this week as they talk about pollution. How is plastic affecting the environment and what can we do to make the situation better?
This week's question:
How many pieces of plastic are there in each square kilometre of the world’s oceans? Is it:
a) 22,000 pieces of plastic
b) 38,000 pieces of plastic
c) 46,000 pieces of plastic
Listen out for the answer in the programme!

For further practice on the same topic, you could have a look at this vocabulary handout.

On the other hand, we could also read some about Pollution by the New York Times:

 Obama Seeks to Curb Auto Pollution

President Obama directed the Environmental Protection Agency to reconsider the Bush administration's past rejection of a California application to regulate auto pollution.

By the same token, today we were reading through a text about Organic food, however, we find it a bit complicated, so we'd better work on some vocabulary and words through this glossary, which is organised according to the words'order from the very first word until the last one. I hope you can find the glossary and the answer key useful for the better understanding of the whole text.