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.

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:

Hobbies, pastimes and sports

With this post, we will learn how to talk, listen, read and write about different free time activities, sports and hobbies.

We're also going to ask about likes and dislikes. At the same time, we'll spend some time expressing our own likes and preferences.

Going on a Holiday

Reading by the sea for Intermediate 2

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...

Learning languages by using them

"I hear and I forget
I listen and I remember
I do and I understand."
                (Chinese proverb)
As you can read through the proverb below, learning English is more like doing something: speaking, listening, writing, reading and so on, trying to use English in everyday situations as much as possible, and pretending that nothing is wrong. On the contrary, we learn by  mistakes, but I'd like to treat errors and mistakes as a part of our learning process, like something natural and normal of human beings. So, do not panic about your mistakes and please just learn through them all. Here're some common mistakes at EOI Basic.

Finally, as Luke Thompson says in his blog: Luke's English Blog: Are you a good learner of English?